Sunday, November 28, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

Archipelago: Works by Yolanda del Amo
Light Work Gallery

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

Powerful forces deep below the surface of the earth form archipelagos, which are chains or clusters of individual islands. In her series Archipelago, artist Yolanda del Amo depicts the powerful forces between people—their conflicting needs for intimacy and connection, independence and individuality. In Archipelago, these competing needs seem to have reached a peaceful if temporary stasis. These beautiful images show people who, although in the presence of another, appear surrounded on all sides not by water but by silence.

Del Amo leaves the relationships of her subjects to each other deliberately vague, which makes her images all the more universal and compelling. Each photograph represents a fragile time in any relationship when two people—whether they are mother and son, husband and wife, or simply friends—momentarily live alone, together.

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First Continuing Group Show
Szozda Gallery

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

Among area artists included in this show are Lauren Bristol, Sue Canizares, Vincent Fitches, Phil Parsons and James Skvarch.

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

Works of Michael DiGiorgio
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Nationally recognized nature artist Michael DiGiorgio is known for bird paintings that emphasize the character of the bird and its relationship to the environment. DiGiorgio, of Madison, CT, has been painting birds since the age of 5. His paintings and drawings have appeared in a variety of nature books and journals, including "Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil," "The Breeding Bird Atlas of Connecticut and of New York," "“Master's Guide to Birding," "Audubon Field Guide to Birds (Eastern and Western Regions)," Audubon Magazine, and Audubon Nature Yearbook.

He also has painted numerous covers for Bird Watcher's Digest and has been featured in Sanctuary magazine, a Massachusetts Audubon publication. Currently, he is illustrating bird plates for "The Birds of South America, Vol. III," with Robert Ridgely and Guy Tudor.

DiGiorgio won the first-ever endowment award from the Academy of Natural Sciences, in 2004, in recognition of his bird illustration work. The award was given in memory of Don Eckelberry, under whom he studied. DiGiorgio, whose style reflects his keen observations in the field, is committed to painting from life. He has traveled extensively to create field sketches of birds, plants and habitat from Central America, the West Indies, Trinidad and the Outer Islands of Britain. In addition, numerous trips to the western United States and national parks have allowed him to record a full range of American birdlife.

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.

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

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From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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.

Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

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Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

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Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

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Christopher & Richard Williams: "Art as Catharsis: Watch Out I Need to Purge"
LeMoyne College

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

Join us for an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sketches by brothers Christopher and Richards Williams. The brothers share a conviction that art is a representation of ideas that reflect and comment on our social disorder. Creating images that are disturbing, allegorical, and provocative, the artists challenge the viewer to see the world through their eyes.

Christopher Williams has exhibited his work throughout the U.S. Richard Williams is a professional illustrator and portrait artist. His work is in the private collections of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Howard Stern.

VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition featuring work by faculty in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

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

Off the Wall Sale and Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Cliff Evans: Untitled (Sketch for a monument to J.G. Ballard) #3, 2009
Urban Video Project

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

(1-minute loop) This composite of video footage is the first in a series of three "sketches," from which elements will later be taken to create a much larger virtual monument to the author J.G. Ballard. Within the video, disparate shots of an array of motorway overpasses and exchanges are stitched together in order to create a complex landscape of concrete, smoke, and automobiles. The images hurtle through a dense arterial chaos of constructed time and sibilance, dissolving into a column of smoke and revealing their destination as circular and contained.

Evans is a multimedia artist whose work focuses primarily on political, popular, and internet culture using appropriation and photomontage animation. His multi-channel installations and video objects have been shown internationally, including at the Chelsea Art Museum, Luxe Gallery, and Scope NY in New York City; the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Scope Miami in Miami; and the Chinese International Gallery Exposition in Beijing, China; among many others. He has also been an artist-in-residence at Boston Symphony Orchestra Tanglewood, Lenox, MA; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA; and Location One International Residency Program, New York, NY.

Eva Davidova: Location One & Two, 2005
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

(Digital animation loop, 2:12 minutes) These very short videos are photography-based animation loops, where movement, time, and spatial relationship are defined by the deliberate distortions in the process of blending a photo sequence. The pixels from one image are smoothly dragged and melted into those of the next one. Buildings and objects acquire impossible organic qualities, and the animations become almost sculptural. The affordances of spaces and structures are only dependent on the emotional state of the subject, and on the inner logic, or absurdity of each piece. Through invented and artificial, yet extremely realistic-looking movements, as well as by changing the perception of time, Davidova searches for hidden patterns and looks into states of mind unconditioned by the "possible".

Davidova's work has been exhibited internationally, including at Magnan Projects Gallery, New York; Instituto Cervantes, Sofia, Bulgaria; Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain; N2 Gallery in Barcelona, Spain; and many others. She received a 2006 BANCAJA International Contest Award for Digital Art, the 2008 M-tel Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, and the 2009 Djerassi Honorary Fellowship. In 2009 she participated in the Moscow Biennale and in the Living and Dreaming exhibition at the Bronx Museum, NY.

Monday, November 29, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Christopher & Richard Williams: "Art as Catharsis: Watch Out I Need to Purge"
LeMoyne College

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

Join us for an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sketches by brothers Christopher and Richards Williams. The brothers share a conviction that art is a representation of ideas that reflect and comment on our social disorder. Creating images that are disturbing, allegorical, and provocative, the artists challenge the viewer to see the world through their eyes.

Christopher Williams has exhibited his work throughout the U.S. Richard Williams is a professional illustrator and portrait artist. His work is in the private collections of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Howard Stern.

Silk: Photographs by Courtney Rile
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Marcus Acevedo Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist's Statement: The duality of man, the potential to be both divine and carnal beings, has always interested me. There is a struggle with the expectations associated with these opposing forces: the potential for greatness always present on one hand, and weaknesses inescapable on the other. My work exists to inspire the question of what is the nature of heroes, legends and Gods, and how different is that from the nature of man. My work goes beyond self-analysis and introspection. I use myself as the archetype for the experiences that connect us. I want to explore not only the greatness of man, but the weakness as well. My work demonstrates that we are powerful and that there is no contradiction that this great power can manifest itself in a person that is inadequate, fearful and weak. In my work I am actor and director, puppet and puppet master, mortal and God. I am free to explore all of these relationships, to be whomever and what ever I desire.

La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 3
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A special program to commemorate Point of Contact's 35th anniversary and The Point of Contact Gallery's 5th -- a show of the entire permanent collection in five exhibitions starting in September 2010.

Exhibit 3: Works of Marta Chilindrón, Lisa Kalomeris, Sarah Kipp, Panayotis Michael, Liliana Porter, Ana Tiscornia

The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has always had a keen interest in all forms of book illustration, and not surprisingly, novels without words became a significant collecting area. Over time, we have amassed a considerable number of the classic specimens in the genre, and the main practitioners of the art form are well represented within our holdings. We developed this exhibition in keeping with the Syracuse Symposium theme for the coming year, "conflict." The artists upon whom we focused are William Gropper, Laurence Hyde, Frans Masereel, Giacomo Patri, John Vassos, and Lynd Ward.

In addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest on the part of the individual. This may assume the form of a journey or a saga about the search for self-fulfillment in artistic or purely personal terms, or the quest may have as its primary objective achieving social justice in a particular context. Because of the historical period in which many of these wordless novels were born, they often depict a struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Industrialization and, by extension, capitalism, may be seen as forces that are fundamentally antagonistic to the interests of the individual and of society in general. Similarly, the law, the police, and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in novels without words.

The creators of novels without words also tend to scrutinize the brutal forms of war and tyranny that are made possible by industrialization. In truth, any injustice may become the subject of such works, and perhaps just the cruel nature of our existential struggle to survive in an inherently hostile environment is all the background that is needed to provide the inspiration for the creation of a novel without words.

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Off the Wall Sale and Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

Works of Michael DiGiorgio
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Nationally recognized nature artist Michael DiGiorgio is known for bird paintings that emphasize the character of the bird and its relationship to the environment. DiGiorgio, of Madison, CT, has been painting birds since the age of 5. His paintings and drawings have appeared in a variety of nature books and journals, including "Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil," "The Breeding Bird Atlas of Connecticut and of New York," "“Master's Guide to Birding," "Audubon Field Guide to Birds (Eastern and Western Regions)," Audubon Magazine, and Audubon Nature Yearbook.

He also has painted numerous covers for Bird Watcher's Digest and has been featured in Sanctuary magazine, a Massachusetts Audubon publication. Currently, he is illustrating bird plates for "The Birds of South America, Vol. III," with Robert Ridgely and Guy Tudor.

DiGiorgio won the first-ever endowment award from the Academy of Natural Sciences, in 2004, in recognition of his bird illustration work. The award was given in memory of Don Eckelberry, under whom he studied. DiGiorgio, whose style reflects his keen observations in the field, is committed to painting from life. He has traveled extensively to create field sketches of birds, plants and habitat from Central America, the West Indies, Trinidad and the Outer Islands of Britain. In addition, numerous trips to the western United States and national parks have allowed him to record a full range of American birdlife.

Archipelago: Works by Yolanda del Amo
Light Work Gallery

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

Powerful forces deep below the surface of the earth form archipelagos, which are chains or clusters of individual islands. In her series Archipelago, artist Yolanda del Amo depicts the powerful forces between people—their conflicting needs for intimacy and connection, independence and individuality. In Archipelago, these competing needs seem to have reached a peaceful if temporary stasis. These beautiful images show people who, although in the presence of another, appear surrounded on all sides not by water but by silence.

Del Amo leaves the relationships of her subjects to each other deliberately vague, which makes her images all the more universal and compelling. Each photograph represents a fragile time in any relationship when two people—whether they are mother and son, husband and wife, or simply friends—momentarily live alone, together.

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Diane Banks and Adam Francey Recent Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Diane Banks' specimen series sculptures and drawings are inspired by the fragileness of nature and the delicate balance between vulnerability and strength. Her sculptures are created through the combination of organic and found plastic materials. Through the use of these materials, Banks reveals her fascination how nature protects itself from physical harm caused by man's intrusion, and the many ways it contorts itself to survive.

Working with related and unrelated imagery, Adam Francey layers and edits his paintings until an abstracted composition emerges. These are not works about a concrete idea; rather they provide an opportunity for unlimited readings, depending on point-of-view or frame of reference. Snippets from overheard conversations are peppered in the compositions. These works alternate between toughness and humor, with vibrant colors that appear at any moment, ready to leap off of the surface.

Emerging Women of CNY #1
Redhouse

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

Artwork by Taye Wright-hirry, Maria Janina Rizzo, Alexandara Crosby, and Kristie Hayes.

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56nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3 regular, $2.50 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

A boxer (Max Baer) falls for a high-class gangster's moll (Myrna Loy). Although this film features an exciting prize-fight finale, you don't have to be a boxing fan to enjoy this well-done drama. Directed by W. S. VanDyke. Cast also includes Walter Huston, Otto Kruger, Jack Dempsey, and Primo Carnera.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Christopher & Richard Williams: "Art as Catharsis: Watch Out I Need to Purge"
LeMoyne College

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

Join us for an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sketches by brothers Christopher and Richards Williams. The brothers share a conviction that art is a representation of ideas that reflect and comment on our social disorder. Creating images that are disturbing, allegorical, and provocative, the artists challenge the viewer to see the world through their eyes.

Christopher Williams has exhibited his work throughout the U.S. Richard Williams is a professional illustrator and portrait artist. His work is in the private collections of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Howard Stern.

Silk: Photographs by Courtney Rile
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Marcus Acevedo Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist's Statement: The duality of man, the potential to be both divine and carnal beings, has always interested me. There is a struggle with the expectations associated with these opposing forces: the potential for greatness always present on one hand, and weaknesses inescapable on the other. My work exists to inspire the question of what is the nature of heroes, legends and Gods, and how different is that from the nature of man. My work goes beyond self-analysis and introspection. I use myself as the archetype for the experiences that connect us. I want to explore not only the greatness of man, but the weakness as well. My work demonstrates that we are powerful and that there is no contradiction that this great power can manifest itself in a person that is inadequate, fearful and weak. In my work I am actor and director, puppet and puppet master, mortal and God. I am free to explore all of these relationships, to be whomever and what ever I desire.

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The exhibit showcases a series of mixed media works.

The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has always had a keen interest in all forms of book illustration, and not surprisingly, novels without words became a significant collecting area. Over time, we have amassed a considerable number of the classic specimens in the genre, and the main practitioners of the art form are well represented within our holdings. We developed this exhibition in keeping with the Syracuse Symposium theme for the coming year, "conflict." The artists upon whom we focused are William Gropper, Laurence Hyde, Frans Masereel, Giacomo Patri, John Vassos, and Lynd Ward.

In addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest on the part of the individual. This may assume the form of a journey or a saga about the search for self-fulfillment in artistic or purely personal terms, or the quest may have as its primary objective achieving social justice in a particular context. Because of the historical period in which many of these wordless novels were born, they often depict a struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Industrialization and, by extension, capitalism, may be seen as forces that are fundamentally antagonistic to the interests of the individual and of society in general. Similarly, the law, the police, and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in novels without words.

The creators of novels without words also tend to scrutinize the brutal forms of war and tyranny that are made possible by industrialization. In truth, any injustice may become the subject of such works, and perhaps just the cruel nature of our existential struggle to survive in an inherently hostile environment is all the background that is needed to provide the inspiration for the creation of a novel without words.

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Resin*ating Metal: Arlene Abend Retrospective
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

The sculpture of Arlene Abend, representing over 30 years of creating in resin, bronze, and steel

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Off the Wall Sale and Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls and Mill Dogs
Community Folk Art Center

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

Cyrus Mejia's art focuses on activism and reflects the ideals of kindness and compassion while shining a light on "speciesism, ignorance and cruelty." Mejia is also co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society, which operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals near the town of Kanab, Utah. Best Friends is especially known for rehabilitating 22 of the pit bulls rescued from NFL quarterback Michael Vick.

"Pits and Perception" is the first series on view, which portrays pit bulls in a manner that challenges modern-day perceptions of the breed. With increased attention toward dog fighting in the media, many view the pit bull as a vicious and aggressive dog. Through his paintings, Mejia challenges these beliefs by forcing the observer to take a closer look and question public perception.

The second collection, "Mill Dogs Revenge," features dogs rescued from commercial breeding facilities, colloquially known as "puppy mills." Victims of physical abuse, emotional trauma and neglect, these dogs are often subjected to cruel conditions because of human greed for profit. Mejia hopes to raise awareness of the cruelty of puppy mills through his art.

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

Works of Michael DiGiorgio
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Nationally recognized nature artist Michael DiGiorgio is known for bird paintings that emphasize the character of the bird and its relationship to the environment. DiGiorgio, of Madison, CT, has been painting birds since the age of 5. His paintings and drawings have appeared in a variety of nature books and journals, including "Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil," "The Breeding Bird Atlas of Connecticut and of New York," "“Master's Guide to Birding," "Audubon Field Guide to Birds (Eastern and Western Regions)," Audubon Magazine, and Audubon Nature Yearbook.

He also has painted numerous covers for Bird Watcher's Digest and has been featured in Sanctuary magazine, a Massachusetts Audubon publication. Currently, he is illustrating bird plates for "The Birds of South America, Vol. III," with Robert Ridgely and Guy Tudor.

DiGiorgio won the first-ever endowment award from the Academy of Natural Sciences, in 2004, in recognition of his bird illustration work. The award was given in memory of Don Eckelberry, under whom he studied. DiGiorgio, whose style reflects his keen observations in the field, is committed to painting from life. He has traveled extensively to create field sketches of birds, plants and habitat from Central America, the West Indies, Trinidad and the Outer Islands of Britain. In addition, numerous trips to the western United States and national parks have allowed him to record a full range of American birdlife.

Archipelago: Works by Yolanda del Amo
Light Work Gallery

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

Powerful forces deep below the surface of the earth form archipelagos, which are chains or clusters of individual islands. In her series Archipelago, artist Yolanda del Amo depicts the powerful forces between people—their conflicting needs for intimacy and connection, independence and individuality. In Archipelago, these competing needs seem to have reached a peaceful if temporary stasis. These beautiful images show people who, although in the presence of another, appear surrounded on all sides not by water but by silence.

Del Amo leaves the relationships of her subjects to each other deliberately vague, which makes her images all the more universal and compelling. Each photograph represents a fragile time in any relationship when two people—whether they are mother and son, husband and wife, or simply friends—momentarily live alone, together.

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Diane Banks and Adam Francey Recent Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Diane Banks' specimen series sculptures and drawings are inspired by the fragileness of nature and the delicate balance between vulnerability and strength. Her sculptures are created through the combination of organic and found plastic materials. Through the use of these materials, Banks reveals her fascination how nature protects itself from physical harm caused by man's intrusion, and the many ways it contorts itself to survive.

Working with related and unrelated imagery, Adam Francey layers and edits his paintings until an abstracted composition emerges. These are not works about a concrete idea; rather they provide an opportunity for unlimited readings, depending on point-of-view or frame of reference. Snippets from overheard conversations are peppered in the compositions. These works alternate between toughness and humor, with vibrant colors that appear at any moment, ready to leap off of the surface.

Emerging Women of CNY #1
Redhouse

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

Artwork by Taye Wright-hirry, Maria Janina Rizzo, Alexandara Crosby, and Kristie Hayes.

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56nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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.

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

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Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

Read a review!

Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

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Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

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Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

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Julia Marshall, visiting artist
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Julia Marshall explores the way in which art education addresses contemporary art and theory, particularly in relation to science and cultural studies. She studies how and what is learned through the creation of artwork, as well as the construction of meaning and knowledge through imagination and metaphor. Her scholarship also extends to curriculum development and arts integration. She has given presentations on these topics at symposia around the world, including in Korea, Hong Kong, and Greece.

Marshall received a doctor of education at the University of San Francisco. She has an M.F.A. in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin and a B.A. from George Washington University. She was formerly an artist-in-the-schools in California and an artist-in-the-museum at the Oakland Museum and the Bay Area Children's Museum, both in California. Currently, she teaches art education at San Francisco State University while pursuing her own studio work.

For more information, phone the Department of Art at 315-443-4613

Preview: A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage
Seth Gordon, director

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

A smoking furnace, a bully named Farkus, a pack of thieving-baying hounds, a dingblang-fuzzle-whizzin-mouthed old man, a prized leg lamp that's more leg than lamp—and a bunny suit: Is this the stuff of Christmas? It is for Ralphie, and all he really wants is a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock. Brighten the holidays with this hilarious and critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd's wry and witty tale of a special Christmas past and journey back to a time when we all had less and it felt like more. Based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; adapted by Philip Grecian.

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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Christopher & Richard Williams: "Art as Catharsis: Watch Out I Need to Purge"
LeMoyne College

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

Join us for an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sketches by brothers Christopher and Richards Williams. The brothers share a conviction that art is a representation of ideas that reflect and comment on our social disorder. Creating images that are disturbing, allegorical, and provocative, the artists challenge the viewer to see the world through their eyes.

Christopher Williams has exhibited his work throughout the U.S. Richard Williams is a professional illustrator and portrait artist. His work is in the private collections of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Howard Stern.

Silk: Photographs by Courtney Rile
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Marcus Acevedo Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist's Statement: The duality of man, the potential to be both divine and carnal beings, has always interested me. There is a struggle with the expectations associated with these opposing forces: the potential for greatness always present on one hand, and weaknesses inescapable on the other. My work exists to inspire the question of what is the nature of heroes, legends and Gods, and how different is that from the nature of man. My work goes beyond self-analysis and introspection. I use myself as the archetype for the experiences that connect us. I want to explore not only the greatness of man, but the weakness as well. My work demonstrates that we are powerful and that there is no contradiction that this great power can manifest itself in a person that is inadequate, fearful and weak. In my work I am actor and director, puppet and puppet master, mortal and God. I am free to explore all of these relationships, to be whomever and what ever I desire.

La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 3
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A special program to commemorate Point of Contact's 35th anniversary and The Point of Contact Gallery's 5th -- a show of the entire permanent collection in five exhibitions starting in September 2010.

Exhibit 3: Works of Marta Chilindrón, Lisa Kalomeris, Sarah Kipp, Panayotis Michael, Liliana Porter, Ana Tiscornia

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The exhibit showcases a series of mixed media works.

The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has always had a keen interest in all forms of book illustration, and not surprisingly, novels without words became a significant collecting area. Over time, we have amassed a considerable number of the classic specimens in the genre, and the main practitioners of the art form are well represented within our holdings. We developed this exhibition in keeping with the Syracuse Symposium theme for the coming year, "conflict." The artists upon whom we focused are William Gropper, Laurence Hyde, Frans Masereel, Giacomo Patri, John Vassos, and Lynd Ward.

In addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest on the part of the individual. This may assume the form of a journey or a saga about the search for self-fulfillment in artistic or purely personal terms, or the quest may have as its primary objective achieving social justice in a particular context. Because of the historical period in which many of these wordless novels were born, they often depict a struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Industrialization and, by extension, capitalism, may be seen as forces that are fundamentally antagonistic to the interests of the individual and of society in general. Similarly, the law, the police, and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in novels without words.

The creators of novels without words also tend to scrutinize the brutal forms of war and tyranny that are made possible by industrialization. In truth, any injustice may become the subject of such works, and perhaps just the cruel nature of our existential struggle to survive in an inherently hostile environment is all the background that is needed to provide the inspiration for the creation of a novel without words.

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Resin*ating Metal: Arlene Abend Retrospective
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

The sculpture of Arlene Abend, representing over 30 years of creating in resin, bronze, and steel

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Off the Wall Sale and Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls and Mill Dogs
Community Folk Art Center

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

Cyrus Mejia's art focuses on activism and reflects the ideals of kindness and compassion while shining a light on "speciesism, ignorance and cruelty." Mejia is also co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society, which operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals near the town of Kanab, Utah. Best Friends is especially known for rehabilitating 22 of the pit bulls rescued from NFL quarterback Michael Vick.

"Pits and Perception" is the first series on view, which portrays pit bulls in a manner that challenges modern-day perceptions of the breed. With increased attention toward dog fighting in the media, many view the pit bull as a vicious and aggressive dog. Through his paintings, Mejia challenges these beliefs by forcing the observer to take a closer look and question public perception.

The second collection, "Mill Dogs Revenge," features dogs rescued from commercial breeding facilities, colloquially known as "puppy mills." Victims of physical abuse, emotional trauma and neglect, these dogs are often subjected to cruel conditions because of human greed for profit. Mejia hopes to raise awareness of the cruelty of puppy mills through his art.

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

Archipelago: Works by Yolanda del Amo
Light Work Gallery

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

Powerful forces deep below the surface of the earth form archipelagos, which are chains or clusters of individual islands. In her series Archipelago, artist Yolanda del Amo depicts the powerful forces between people—their conflicting needs for intimacy and connection, independence and individuality. In Archipelago, these competing needs seem to have reached a peaceful if temporary stasis. These beautiful images show people who, although in the presence of another, appear surrounded on all sides not by water but by silence.

Del Amo leaves the relationships of her subjects to each other deliberately vague, which makes her images all the more universal and compelling. Each photograph represents a fragile time in any relationship when two people—whether they are mother and son, husband and wife, or simply friends—momentarily live alone, together.

Read a review!

Diane Banks and Adam Francey Recent Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Diane Banks' specimen series sculptures and drawings are inspired by the fragileness of nature and the delicate balance between vulnerability and strength. Her sculptures are created through the combination of organic and found plastic materials. Through the use of these materials, Banks reveals her fascination how nature protects itself from physical harm caused by man's intrusion, and the many ways it contorts itself to survive.

Working with related and unrelated imagery, Adam Francey layers and edits his paintings until an abstracted composition emerges. These are not works about a concrete idea; rather they provide an opportunity for unlimited readings, depending on point-of-view or frame of reference. Snippets from overheard conversations are peppered in the compositions. These works alternate between toughness and humor, with vibrant colors that appear at any moment, ready to leap off of the surface.

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.

Emerging Women of CNY #1
Redhouse

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

Artwork by Taye Wright-hirry, Maria Janina Rizzo, Alexandara Crosby, and Kristie Hayes.

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Second Continuing Group Show
Szozda Gallery

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

Among the area artists included in this show are photographers Robert Carroll and John Dowling; painters John Fitzsimmons, Robert Glisson, Diana Godfrey, Joyce Day Homan, Diane Menzies, Bob Niedzwiecki, Karen Thomas-Lillie and Deborah Walsh; printmaker Ruth Wynn; and glass artist Carmel Nicoletti.

56nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

Read a review!

From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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.

Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

Read a review!

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

Read a review!

Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

Read a review!

Who is Aldous Rose?
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

“Who is Aldous Rose?” is an exhibition exploring the life of Rose, a poet and circus performer.

Patrons are strongly encouraged to attend a performance at 7:00 pm on Dec. 3-5 to more fully experience the exhibition.

Rose was a young poet living in Sylver City, NV, at the start of the 20th century. In 1908, when Rose was six years old, the town's inhabitants burned his poetry out of fear of his creativity and questionable moral value. Rose ran away and joined a circus that traveled across the United States for many years. He then traveled the world and imprinted his ideas and poems on world citizens spanning more than 437 countries.

In addition to serving as designer and director, Blane also served as Rose's assistant and friend, gathering information for the performances and exhibition through interviews.

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

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Pop 66: Pop Can Pinhole Photos of Route 66
Echo

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

A meditation by Wes Pope 1998-2010.

Using 33 pinhole cameras made out of 66 pop cans, Wes Pope photographed the people and places along Route 66 since 1998. The resulting black and white images look distorted and old -- while portraying a contemporary portrait of life in the American West and Midwest.

The pinhole pop can cameras will also be on display.

Tonto Revisited: Native American Stereotypes
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

What do Land 'o Lakes, Argo Cornstarch and Syracuse minor league baseball have in common? Stereotyped images of Native Americans. This exhibit is curated by Tom Huff, a Seneca/Cayuga artist living and working in his sculpture studio on the Onondaga Nation. It exposes the cultural mythology surrounding Native Americans. The images and objects associated with "Indians" are dictated and defined by the dominant non-Indian culture. Many of the resulting representations are culturally and socially incorrect, even racist, with exaggerated misrepresentations of Native Americans.

Huff's collection of portrayals of menacing warriors wielding tomahawks, knives, and bows and arrows found in posters, advertisements, toys, sports logos and more will be on display. He has been collecting "Indian Kitsch" for over 25 years. While many may not think of them individually as destructive, this exhibit helps to illustrate how these pervasive negative preconceptions trivialize the tragedy wrought on indigenous peoples everywhere. We hope to both dispel the myths surrounding Native Americans and to encourage a new understanding of native peoples.

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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Concert Choir
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Parking is available in the Irving Garage.

One Rock Against AIDS
Westcott Theater
Gracious Sakes Alive, Secret Secret Dino Club, Rosedale, ONE, and DJ4thFloor

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Odysseus DOA Reading
Redhouse

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

A free reading of Odysseus DOA, in recognition of World AIDS Day. This poetic, hilarious and heartfelt drama charts one man's journey through illness to live a life worth being remembered.

Playwright Stephen Svoboda's inspiration for writing this play came from his personal experience and a desire to capture the humanity and power in all those who are coping with HIV/AIDS. He will lead a discussion with the audience and the cast following the reading.

A full production of Odysseus DOA will be presented in January.

Preview: A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage
Seth Gordon, director

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

A smoking furnace, a bully named Farkus, a pack of thieving-baying hounds, a dingblang-fuzzle-whizzin-mouthed old man, a prized leg lamp that's more leg than lamp—and a bunny suit: Is this the stuff of Christmas? It is for Ralphie, and all he really wants is a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock. Brighten the holidays with this hilarious and critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd's wry and witty tale of a special Christmas past and journey back to a time when we all had less and it felt like more. Based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; adapted by Philip Grecian.

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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Christopher & Richard Williams: "Art as Catharsis: Watch Out I Need to Purge"
LeMoyne College

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

Join us for an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sketches by brothers Christopher and Richards Williams. The brothers share a conviction that art is a representation of ideas that reflect and comment on our social disorder. Creating images that are disturbing, allegorical, and provocative, the artists challenge the viewer to see the world through their eyes.

Christopher Williams has exhibited his work throughout the U.S. Richard Williams is a professional illustrator and portrait artist. His work is in the private collections of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Howard Stern.

Silk: Photographs by Courtney Rile
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Marcus Acevedo Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist's Statement: The duality of man, the potential to be both divine and carnal beings, has always interested me. There is a struggle with the expectations associated with these opposing forces: the potential for greatness always present on one hand, and weaknesses inescapable on the other. My work exists to inspire the question of what is the nature of heroes, legends and Gods, and how different is that from the nature of man. My work goes beyond self-analysis and introspection. I use myself as the archetype for the experiences that connect us. I want to explore not only the greatness of man, but the weakness as well. My work demonstrates that we are powerful and that there is no contradiction that this great power can manifest itself in a person that is inadequate, fearful and weak. In my work I am actor and director, puppet and puppet master, mortal and God. I am free to explore all of these relationships, to be whomever and what ever I desire.

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The exhibit showcases a series of mixed media works.

The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has always had a keen interest in all forms of book illustration, and not surprisingly, novels without words became a significant collecting area. Over time, we have amassed a considerable number of the classic specimens in the genre, and the main practitioners of the art form are well represented within our holdings. We developed this exhibition in keeping with the Syracuse Symposium theme for the coming year, "conflict." The artists upon whom we focused are William Gropper, Laurence Hyde, Frans Masereel, Giacomo Patri, John Vassos, and Lynd Ward.

In addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest on the part of the individual. This may assume the form of a journey or a saga about the search for self-fulfillment in artistic or purely personal terms, or the quest may have as its primary objective achieving social justice in a particular context. Because of the historical period in which many of these wordless novels were born, they often depict a struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Industrialization and, by extension, capitalism, may be seen as forces that are fundamentally antagonistic to the interests of the individual and of society in general. Similarly, the law, the police, and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in novels without words.

The creators of novels without words also tend to scrutinize the brutal forms of war and tyranny that are made possible by industrialization. In truth, any injustice may become the subject of such works, and perhaps just the cruel nature of our existential struggle to survive in an inherently hostile environment is all the background that is needed to provide the inspiration for the creation of a novel without words.

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Resin*ating Metal: Arlene Abend Retrospective
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

The sculpture of Arlene Abend, representing over 30 years of creating in resin, bronze, and steel

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Off the Wall Sale and Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls and Mill Dogs
Community Folk Art Center

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

Cyrus Mejia's art focuses on activism and reflects the ideals of kindness and compassion while shining a light on "speciesism, ignorance and cruelty." Mejia is also co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society, which operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals near the town of Kanab, Utah. Best Friends is especially known for rehabilitating 22 of the pit bulls rescued from NFL quarterback Michael Vick.

"Pits and Perception" is the first series on view, which portrays pit bulls in a manner that challenges modern-day perceptions of the breed. With increased attention toward dog fighting in the media, many view the pit bull as a vicious and aggressive dog. Through his paintings, Mejia challenges these beliefs by forcing the observer to take a closer look and question public perception.

The second collection, "Mill Dogs Revenge," features dogs rescued from commercial breeding facilities, colloquially known as "puppy mills." Victims of physical abuse, emotional trauma and neglect, these dogs are often subjected to cruel conditions because of human greed for profit. Mejia hopes to raise awareness of the cruelty of puppy mills through his art.

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

Archipelago: Works by Yolanda del Amo
Light Work Gallery

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

Powerful forces deep below the surface of the earth form archipelagos, which are chains or clusters of individual islands. In her series Archipelago, artist Yolanda del Amo depicts the powerful forces between people—their conflicting needs for intimacy and connection, independence and individuality. In Archipelago, these competing needs seem to have reached a peaceful if temporary stasis. These beautiful images show people who, although in the presence of another, appear surrounded on all sides not by water but by silence.

Del Amo leaves the relationships of her subjects to each other deliberately vague, which makes her images all the more universal and compelling. Each photograph represents a fragile time in any relationship when two people—whether they are mother and son, husband and wife, or simply friends—momentarily live alone, together.

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Diane Banks and Adam Francey Recent Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Diane Banks' specimen series sculptures and drawings are inspired by the fragileness of nature and the delicate balance between vulnerability and strength. Her sculptures are created through the combination of organic and found plastic materials. Through the use of these materials, Banks reveals her fascination how nature protects itself from physical harm caused by man's intrusion, and the many ways it contorts itself to survive.

Working with related and unrelated imagery, Adam Francey layers and edits his paintings until an abstracted composition emerges. These are not works about a concrete idea; rather they provide an opportunity for unlimited readings, depending on point-of-view or frame of reference. Snippets from overheard conversations are peppered in the compositions. These works alternate between toughness and humor, with vibrant colors that appear at any moment, ready to leap off of the surface.

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.

Emerging Women of CNY #1
Redhouse

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

Artwork by Taye Wright-hirry, Maria Janina Rizzo, Alexandara Crosby, and Kristie Hayes.

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Second Continuing Group Show
Szozda Gallery

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

Among the area artists included in this show are photographers Robert Carroll and John Dowling; painters John Fitzsimmons, Robert Glisson, Diana Godfrey, Joyce Day Homan, Diane Menzies, Bob Niedzwiecki, Karen Thomas-Lillie and Deborah Walsh; printmaker Ruth Wynn; and glass artist Carmel Nicoletti.

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

56nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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.

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

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Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

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Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

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Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

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Betty Munro Retrospective Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

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

A major retrospective art exhibition featuring the watercolor paintings of local artist Betty Munro, now 91 years old and living in Madison, WI, who became well-known for setting up her easel across the street from the construction site of the Civic Center as it was being built, and documenting in watercolor the construction of the building.

In addition, Munro painted local area landmarks such as Clinton Square, lower Fayetteville, City Hall, area churches, and many other buildings and landscapes that are easily recognizable through her whimsical, semi-expressionistic watercolor paintings. Throughout her life, well into her early 80s, Munro painted tirelessly, offering the Syracuse area a legacy of beauty.

All of her available watercolor paintings -- a total of over 200 paintings, both framed and unframed -- will be on view. All are for sale. The 27 Civic Center paintings will be shown as a unit in The Spring's Conference Room, and will only be sold as a unit. Over 40 framed watercolors of a variety of local scenes will be exhibited in the Gathering Room at The Spring. The remaining art will be displayed in plastic sleeves in racks and may be purchased individually.

The exhibition is made possible through the generosity and collaboration of Munro's former neighbor Joan Gardner, David Rudd of Dalton Antiques, The Spring, and Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. Proceeds of art sales will go to Munro, to The Spring, and to Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. For more information, contact Patsy Scala, Program Director at The Spring, at 315-382-0444, or email her at patsy7154@aol.com.

Who is Aldous Rose?
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

“Who is Aldous Rose?” is an exhibition exploring the life of Rose, a poet and circus performer.

Patrons are strongly encouraged to attend a performance at 7:00 pm on Dec. 3-5 to more fully experience the exhibition.

Rose was a young poet living in Sylver City, NV, at the start of the 20th century. In 1908, when Rose was six years old, the town's inhabitants burned his poetry out of fear of his creativity and questionable moral value. Rose ran away and joined a circus that traveled across the United States for many years. He then traveled the world and imprinted his ideas and poems on world citizens spanning more than 437 countries.

In addition to serving as designer and director, Blane also served as Rose's assistant and friend, gathering information for the performances and exhibition through interviews.

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

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Pop 66: Pop Can Pinhole Photos of Route 66
Echo

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

A meditation by Wes Pope 1998-2010.

Using 33 pinhole cameras made out of 66 pop cans, Wes Pope photographed the people and places along Route 66 since 1998. The resulting black and white images look distorted and old -- while portraying a contemporary portrait of life in the American West and Midwest.

The pinhole pop can cameras will also be on display.

Tonto Revisited: Native American Stereotypes
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

What do Land 'o Lakes, Argo Cornstarch and Syracuse minor league baseball have in common? Stereotyped images of Native Americans. This exhibit is curated by Tom Huff, a Seneca/Cayuga artist living and working in his sculpture studio on the Onondaga Nation. It exposes the cultural mythology surrounding Native Americans. The images and objects associated with "Indians" are dictated and defined by the dominant non-Indian culture. Many of the resulting representations are culturally and socially incorrect, even racist, with exaggerated misrepresentations of Native Americans.

Huff's collection of portrayals of menacing warriors wielding tomahawks, knives, and bows and arrows found in posters, advertisements, toys, sports logos and more will be on display. He has been collecting "Indian Kitsch" for over 25 years. While many may not think of them individually as destructive, this exhibit helps to illustrate how these pervasive negative preconceptions trivialize the tragedy wrought on indigenous peoples everywhere. We hope to both dispel the myths surrounding Native Americans and to encourage a new understanding of native peoples.

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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Syracuse University Women's Choir
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Barbara M. Tagg, conductor
Featuring Deette Bunn, harp; Steven Heyman, piano

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

Benjamin Britten A Ceremony of Carols
Debussy Noël des enfants n'ont plus de maison
Bach Ich steh' an diner Krippen hier from the Christmas Oratorio
Eric Whitacre Kalla, Kalla from "Five Hebrew Love Songs"
Works by Craig Hella Johnson, Robert Lowry, Joan Szymko, and an arrangement of My Favorite Things

For more information, contact Tagg at 315-443-5750 or btagg@syr.edu.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage.

An Evening with The Felice Brothers
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Hijacked Holiday
Acme Mystery Company

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

Millie the copy girl has packed her favorite portfolio of copies and headed for the North Pole with hopes of marrying the big guy. Things go South fast, however, when she finds she's stepped into a crime scene. Someone has stolen all the Christmas toys right before they were to be packed into Santa's sleigh and now everyone is a suspect. It's going to be one heck of a Christmas Eve figuring out who's been naughty or nice.

Preview: A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage
Seth Gordon, director

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

A smoking furnace, a bully named Farkus, a pack of thieving-baying hounds, a dingblang-fuzzle-whizzin-mouthed old man, a prized leg lamp that's more leg than lamp—and a bunny suit: Is this the stuff of Christmas? It is for Ralphie, and all he really wants is a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock. Brighten the holidays with this hilarious and critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd's wry and witty tale of a special Christmas past and journey back to a time when we all had less and it felt like more. Based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; adapted by Philip Grecian.

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Preview Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Instead of performing Charles Dickens' beloved holiday classic for the umpteenth time, three actors decide to perform every Christmas story ever told—plus Christmas traditions from around the world, seasonal icons from ancient times to topical pop-culture—and every carol ever sung. A madcap romp through the holiday season!

Written by Michael Carleton, James FitzGerald, and John K. Alvarez. Cast includes Lou Leonardo, Josh Mele, and Jordan Glaski.

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Friday, December 3, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Christopher & Richard Williams: "Art as Catharsis: Watch Out I Need to Purge"
LeMoyne College

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

Join us for an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sketches by brothers Christopher and Richards Williams. The brothers share a conviction that art is a representation of ideas that reflect and comment on our social disorder. Creating images that are disturbing, allegorical, and provocative, the artists challenge the viewer to see the world through their eyes.

Christopher Williams has exhibited his work throughout the U.S. Richard Williams is a professional illustrator and portrait artist. His work is in the private collections of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Howard Stern.

Silk: Photographs by Courtney Rile
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Marcus Acevedo Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist's Statement: The duality of man, the potential to be both divine and carnal beings, has always interested me. There is a struggle with the expectations associated with these opposing forces: the potential for greatness always present on one hand, and weaknesses inescapable on the other. My work exists to inspire the question of what is the nature of heroes, legends and Gods, and how different is that from the nature of man. My work goes beyond self-analysis and introspection. I use myself as the archetype for the experiences that connect us. I want to explore not only the greatness of man, but the weakness as well. My work demonstrates that we are powerful and that there is no contradiction that this great power can manifest itself in a person that is inadequate, fearful and weak. In my work I am actor and director, puppet and puppet master, mortal and God. I am free to explore all of these relationships, to be whomever and what ever I desire.

La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 3
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A special program to commemorate Point of Contact's 35th anniversary and The Point of Contact Gallery's 5th -- a show of the entire permanent collection in five exhibitions starting in September 2010.

Exhibit 3: Works of Marta Chilindrón, Lisa Kalomeris, Sarah Kipp, Panayotis Michael, Liliana Porter, Ana Tiscornia

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The exhibit showcases a series of mixed media works.

The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has always had a keen interest in all forms of book illustration, and not surprisingly, novels without words became a significant collecting area. Over time, we have amassed a considerable number of the classic specimens in the genre, and the main practitioners of the art form are well represented within our holdings. We developed this exhibition in keeping with the Syracuse Symposium theme for the coming year, "conflict." The artists upon whom we focused are William Gropper, Laurence Hyde, Frans Masereel, Giacomo Patri, John Vassos, and Lynd Ward.

In addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest on the part of the individual. This may assume the form of a journey or a saga about the search for self-fulfillment in artistic or purely personal terms, or the quest may have as its primary objective achieving social justice in a particular context. Because of the historical period in which many of these wordless novels were born, they often depict a struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Industrialization and, by extension, capitalism, may be seen as forces that are fundamentally antagonistic to the interests of the individual and of society in general. Similarly, the law, the police, and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in novels without words.

The creators of novels without words also tend to scrutinize the brutal forms of war and tyranny that are made possible by industrialization. In truth, any injustice may become the subject of such works, and perhaps just the cruel nature of our existential struggle to survive in an inherently hostile environment is all the background that is needed to provide the inspiration for the creation of a novel without words.

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Resin*ating Metal: Arlene Abend Retrospective
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

The sculpture of Arlene Abend, representing over 30 years of creating in resin, bronze, and steel

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Off the Wall Sale and Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls and Mill Dogs
Community Folk Art Center

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

Cyrus Mejia's art focuses on activism and reflects the ideals of kindness and compassion while shining a light on "speciesism, ignorance and cruelty." Mejia is also co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society, which operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals near the town of Kanab, Utah. Best Friends is especially known for rehabilitating 22 of the pit bulls rescued from NFL quarterback Michael Vick.

"Pits and Perception" is the first series on view, which portrays pit bulls in a manner that challenges modern-day perceptions of the breed. With increased attention toward dog fighting in the media, many view the pit bull as a vicious and aggressive dog. Through his paintings, Mejia challenges these beliefs by forcing the observer to take a closer look and question public perception.

The second collection, "Mill Dogs Revenge," features dogs rescued from commercial breeding facilities, colloquially known as "puppy mills." Victims of physical abuse, emotional trauma and neglect, these dogs are often subjected to cruel conditions because of human greed for profit. Mejia hopes to raise awareness of the cruelty of puppy mills through his art.

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

25th Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $6 at door, $5 in advance at everson.org
Former Bon-Ton store, lower level
Shoppingtown Mall, Dewitt

This Syracuse tradition features more than 100 artfully decorated trees, wreaths and special displays creating a magical holiday wonderland. The decorations and displays are all for sale, proceeds benefit the Everson Museum of Art. Enjoy live entertainment provided by local school and musical groups. Stop by the Holiday Shop where you're sure to find the perfect gift.

A Sip
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-9:00 pm, with refreshments -- including a sampling of wines from Anyela's -- and musical entertainment. The event is part of the village's First Friday art night.

A Sip, a celebration of the drinking vessel featuring works by 18 artists from across the country, features cups, mugs and glasses, along with teapots, decanters and flasks.

A Sip features the work of regional artists David MacDonald, a ceramics artist from Syracuse; Jason Howard, a glass artist from Skaneateles; Jen Gandee, a ceramics artist from Fabius; Jeremy Randall, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; Sarah Panzarella, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; and Snake Oil Glassworks of Skaneateles; as well as artists from Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, and Vermont.

Archipelago: Works by Yolanda del Amo
Light Work Gallery

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

Powerful forces deep below the surface of the earth form archipelagos, which are chains or clusters of individual islands. In her series Archipelago, artist Yolanda del Amo depicts the powerful forces between people—their conflicting needs for intimacy and connection, independence and individuality. In Archipelago, these competing needs seem to have reached a peaceful if temporary stasis. These beautiful images show people who, although in the presence of another, appear surrounded on all sides not by water but by silence.

Del Amo leaves the relationships of her subjects to each other deliberately vague, which makes her images all the more universal and compelling. Each photograph represents a fragile time in any relationship when two people—whether they are mother and son, husband and wife, or simply friends—momentarily live alone, together.

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Diane Banks and Adam Francey Recent Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Diane Banks' specimen series sculptures and drawings are inspired by the fragileness of nature and the delicate balance between vulnerability and strength. Her sculptures are created through the combination of organic and found plastic materials. Through the use of these materials, Banks reveals her fascination how nature protects itself from physical harm caused by man's intrusion, and the many ways it contorts itself to survive.

Working with related and unrelated imagery, Adam Francey layers and edits his paintings until an abstracted composition emerges. These are not works about a concrete idea; rather they provide an opportunity for unlimited readings, depending on point-of-view or frame of reference. Snippets from overheard conversations are peppered in the compositions. These works alternate between toughness and humor, with vibrant colors that appear at any moment, ready to leap off of the surface.

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.

Emerging Women of CNY #1
Redhouse

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

Artwork by Taye Wright-hirry, Maria Janina Rizzo, Alexandara Crosby, and Kristie Hayes.

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Opening: Second Continuing Group Show
Szozda Gallery

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

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

Among the area artists included in this show are photographers Robert Carroll and John Dowling; painters John Fitzsimmons, Robert Glisson, Diana Godfrey, Joyce Day Homan, Diane Menzies, Bob Niedzwiecki, Karen Thomas-Lillie and Deborah Walsh; printmaker Ruth Wynn; and glass artist Carmel Nicoletti.

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

56nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

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From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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.

Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

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Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

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Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

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Betty Munro Retrospective Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

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

A major retrospective art exhibition featuring the watercolor paintings of local artist Betty Munro, now 91 years old and living in Madison, WI, who became well-known for setting up her easel across the street from the construction site of the Civic Center as it was being built, and documenting in watercolor the construction of the building.

In addition, Munro painted local area landmarks such as Clinton Square, lower Fayetteville, City Hall, area churches, and many other buildings and landscapes that are easily recognizable through her whimsical, semi-expressionistic watercolor paintings. Throughout her life, well into her early 80s, Munro painted tirelessly, offering the Syracuse area a legacy of beauty.

All of her available watercolor paintings -- a total of over 200 paintings, both framed and unframed -- will be on view. All are for sale. The 27 Civic Center paintings will be shown as a unit in The Spring's Conference Room, and will only be sold as a unit. Over 40 framed watercolors of a variety of local scenes will be exhibited in the Gathering Room at The Spring. The remaining art will be displayed in plastic sleeves in racks and may be purchased individually.

The exhibition is made possible through the generosity and collaboration of Munro's former neighbor Joan Gardner, David Rudd of Dalton Antiques, The Spring, and Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. Proceeds of art sales will go to Munro, to The Spring, and to Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. For more information, contact Patsy Scala, Program Director at The Spring, at 315-382-0444, or email her at patsy7154@aol.com.

28th Annual Syracuse Holiday Crafts Spectacular

Price: $5 adults, children free
New York State Fairgrounds
581 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse

125 artists will be showcasing their works.

Who is Aldous Rose?
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

“Who is Aldous Rose?” is an exhibition exploring the life of Rose, a poet and circus performer.

Patrons are strongly encouraged to attend a performance at 7:00 pm on Dec. 3-5 to more fully experience the exhibition.

Rose was a young poet living in Sylver City, NV, at the start of the 20th century. In 1908, when Rose was six years old, the town's inhabitants burned his poetry out of fear of his creativity and questionable moral value. Rose ran away and joined a circus that traveled across the United States for many years. He then traveled the world and imprinted his ideas and poems on world citizens spanning more than 437 countries.

In addition to serving as designer and director, Blane also served as Rose's assistant and friend, gathering information for the performances and exhibition through interviews.

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

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Pop 66: Pop Can Pinhole Photos of Route 66
Echo

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

A meditation by Wes Pope 1998-2010.

Using 33 pinhole cameras made out of 66 pop cans, Wes Pope photographed the people and places along Route 66 since 1998. The resulting black and white images look distorted and old -- while portraying a contemporary portrait of life in the American West and Midwest.

The pinhole pop can cameras will also be on display.

Tonto Revisited: Native American Stereotypes
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

What do Land 'o Lakes, Argo Cornstarch and Syracuse minor league baseball have in common? Stereotyped images of Native Americans. This exhibit is curated by Tom Huff, a Seneca/Cayuga artist living and working in his sculpture studio on the Onondaga Nation. It exposes the cultural mythology surrounding Native Americans. The images and objects associated with "Indians" are dictated and defined by the dominant non-Indian culture. Many of the resulting representations are culturally and socially incorrect, even racist, with exaggerated misrepresentations of Native Americans.

Huff's collection of portrayals of menacing warriors wielding tomahawks, knives, and bows and arrows found in posters, advertisements, toys, sports logos and more will be on display. He has been collecting "Indian Kitsch" for over 25 years. While many may not think of them individually as destructive, this exhibit helps to illustrate how these pervasive negative preconceptions trivialize the tragedy wrought on indigenous peoples everywhere. We hope to both dispel the myths surrounding Native Americans and to encourage a new understanding of native peoples.

Spark Video, Unwinter Edition
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Red House Live Comedy Improv
Redhouse

Price: $15 regular, $12 students/seniors
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.

The cast this season includes Tim Mahar, Laura Austin, Stephen Peters and Rachelle Clavin, with musical director Emmett Van Slyke, and hosted by Glenn "Gomez" Adams of TK99's "Gomez & Dave Morning Show."

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.

Satan's Closet Improv Comedy
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $10 adults, $8 students
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

Like chocolate and peanut butter, Satan's Lemonade and Lazlo's Closet are two great tastes that taste great together. The two teams have joined forces to become one awesome improv juggernaut.

The Nutcracker
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
BalletMet Columbus
Ron Spigelman, conductor

Price: $40 adults, $10 children
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Central New York's favorite family holiday tradition adds a touch of magic to the holiday season! The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra collaborates with BalletMet Columbus and local dancers to bring you Tchaikovsky's beloved classic, The Nutcracker, in a glittering production choreographed by Gerard Charles.

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Annual Fall Dance Concert
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Student Dance Company

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Featuring both professional and student choreography, this concert covers all styles of dance, from ballet to jazz to hip-hop and step.

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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Dick McCullough's Vocal Rep Class Convo
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Christmas Around the World

Price: $1
Ste. Marie Among the Iroquois
106 Lake Dr., Liverpool

Celebrate the origins of the Christmas holiday and other winter holidays. Traditionally decorated trees, international Santas, games and hands-on crafts are all part of the festivities. Nightly musical entertainment, special appearances by St. Nick, and outside at the mission (weather permitting), our costumed interpreters and their holiday celebration.

Karen Savoca & Pete Heitzman
Folkus Project

Price: $18
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The music of Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman confounds even the staunchest pigeonholers. It's bravely nontraditional, yet completely accessible. The duo's live performances are uplifting and hypnotic, and they like to put some funk in the folk. From simple ballads built with subtle piano and guitar to complex textures of layered vocals and innovative guitar work, this is contemporary music at its best. It's an elusive mix; melodic, funky and spontaneous. Electrifying and unique, these improvisational performers possess the fearlessness of a high wire act working without a net.

I Came from Light!
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor
Featuring Greg Skipton, harpist

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors ($2 discount for advance purchase)
Erwin First United Methodist Church
920 Euclid Ave., Syracuse

Benjamin Britten Ceremony of Carols
G.F. Handel Messiah excerpts
Hector Berlioz L'Enfance du Christ excerpts
Felix Mendelssohn Christus excerpts

Plus, Christmas carol sing-along with the audience, and I Came from Light, a soundscape by Glenn Rudolph.

Making Spirits Bright
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Glenn Kime, conductor

Price: $18 regular, $15 seniors/students at door; $15/$12 in advance
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Plan for a fun-filled evening with group numbers, solos and our annual holiday raffles! Tickets can be purchased in advance online at www.syrglc.org or by contacting any chorus member.

SU Singer-Songwriter Showcase
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Schine Underground, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This stripped-down, intimate concert includes performances by Jason Steklof, Erica Scarano, Stephen Babcock, Jasmijn White, Luke Wygodny, Emmery Brakke, Marcus Belmore, and Alicia Zyburt.

Three Centuries of Songs
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring D'Anna Fortunato, mezzo-soprano; Mary Jane Rupert, piano

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

The concert will feature English and American songs spanning three centuries, including Purcell works in praise of music, the romantic songs of Amy Beach, a variety of modern American songs, work by Schubert and Manuel de Falla's Seven Spanish Songs. The American song set will highlight composers Lee Hoiby and Richard Hundley, both of whom write exclusively for the voice.

D'Anna Fortunato has appeared as a soloist with leading American orchestras, including the Philadelphia, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco, Houston, Cleveland, Boston, Dallas and Minnesota orchestras, as well as St. Luke's Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. She has performed major operatic roles with such companies as Glimmerglass, Kentucky Opera, Connecticut Grand Opera, Opera San José and Boston Lyric Opera.

In 2006, Fortunato was a Grammy Award nominee in three categories, including best classical vocal recording. She has recorded 40 CDs for Harmonia Mundi, London/Decca, Sony Classical, Nonesuch, Koch International, Naxos and Albany. A regional Met Winner, she also received the Naumburg Prize and the Jacopo Peri Award. She serves on the faculty of the New England Conservatory College Division.

Mary Jane Rupert began her piano studies at the age of 5 in Syracuse with Sister Eloise Emm, OSF, continued in high school with SU Professor Kirk Ridge and gave her first public recital in Setnor Auditorium. She continued piano studies at Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart; Oberlin College; Indiana University, from which she holds a doctoral degree in piano performance and literature; and the American School in Fontainebleau, France. Her teachers have included William Harms, Gyorgy Sebok and Lily Dumont.

Rupert has performed as a concert pianist and harpist with flutist Peter H. Bloom (as the duo "2"), appearing in venues from Boston to Bangkok. She has concertized from Carnegie Hall to Beijing Concert Hall and across the United States with such groups as the Record Players, the Griffin Ensemble, the Boston Classical Orchestra and the New Philharmonia. Her recordings of piano music from the Cornish Colony in New Hampshire can be found on the Harmony Hill label.

For more information, contact Janet Brown at 315-443-5899 or janbrown@syr.edu.

Parking is available in the Irving Garage.

Ryan Montbleau Band, with special guests
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Andrea Jacobs, director

Christian Brothers Academy auditorium
6245 Randall Rd., Dewitt

This day-in-the-life of Charlie Brown highlights the adventures of the Peanuts gang, from Valentine's Day to the end of baseball season. Snoopy has his own adventures with the dreaded Red Baron and counts the minutes until suppertime. Blanket-obsessed Linus, crabby Lucy, sweet Sally, the piano-playing Schroeder, and of course, Woodstock, are all along for the ride.

Don't Drink the Water
Corcoran Association of Student Theatre
Greg J. Hipius, director

Price: $8 at the door, $5 in advance
Corcoran High School
919 Glenwood Ave., Syracuse

Axel Magee, young U.S. diplomat, is a failure. He has been kicked out of several countries and often burned in effigy. These days, the only job he can land is as an assistant to his mother, the U.S. ambassador to a small communist country in Europe. When the ambassador returns to the United States to run for governor, Axel is left in charge of the embassy in Europe. Chaos erupts for Axel when a family of tourists from New Jersey arrives and is accused of being spies. The family, the Hollanders, are a crisis for the embassy, but as the story unfolds, Axel falls in love with the 19-year-old daughter, Susan. Can Axel bring the whole family, including Susan, to safety and ensure his own future happiness? By Woody Allen.

Who is Aldous Rose?
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

“Who is Aldous Rose?,” is an interactive exhibition and performance exploring the complete life of Rose, a poet and circus performer, designed and directed by Syracuse University drama major Mark Blane and featuring performances by SU undergraduates.

The exhibition may also be viewed without performers Dec. 1-5 from noon-6 p.m. Patrons are strongly encouraged to attend a performance to more fully experience the exhibition.

Rose was a young poet living in Sylver City, NV, at the start of the 20th century. In 1908, when Rose was six years old, the town's inhabitants burned his poetry out of fear of his creativity and questionable moral value. Rose ran away and joined a circus that traveled across the United States for many years. He then traveled the world and imprinted his ideas and poems on world citizens spanning more than 437 countries.

Patrons who attend a performance will be greeted, registered and directed through the exhibition by various characters, some of whom are based on real people Rose met throughout his world travels. The exhibition will include dioramas, collages, photos, poetry and memorabilia, as well as various stations where patrons will be encouraged to participate using secret instructions. Patrons exit the exhibition through the Guilty Gift Shop.

In addition to serving as designer and director, Blane also served as Rose's assistant and friend, gathering information for the performances and exhibition through interviews. Many of the actors Blane uses in the performances are students in SU's Department of Drama.

The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & Joseph, Herod the Nut & The Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols in a Pear Tree
Appleseed Productions
Sharee Lemos, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Dealing with the story of Mary and Joseph and the birth of Jesus from a fresh and richly creative point of view, the author combines a series of deftly constructed short scenes, traditional Christmas music, and often antic characterizations into a wholly original theatre piece. The flow of the action follows the Biblical recounting, but is enhanced by a tree, a sheep and a donkey who talk (and most amusingly); a beguiling Mary who had heretofore decided that men and marriage were not for her; a suddenly-cautious Joseph who now contends that he is too old for his intended (having earlier scoffed at Mary for expressing the same thought); and a flustered boy-angel who directs the action from a promptbook and manages to get only the most strangled, bleating sounds from his trumpet. But, through all the lively and resourceful happenings, the true significance of the occasion is never lost, and the underlying mood and spirit of reverence is, if anything, enhanced and made new by the distinctive approach of this joyful and unique retelling. By William Gibson.

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Amahl and the Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

Price: $15 in advance, $20 at the door
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

Open Hand Theater's acclaimed larger-than-life production of this beloved holiday operetta features fine vocal performances and exquisite grand scale puppetry.

Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $25
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Instead of performing Charles Dickens' beloved holiday classic for the umpteenth time, three actors decide to perform every Christmas story ever told—plus Christmas traditions from around the world, seasonal icons from ancient times to topical pop-culture—and every carol ever sung. A madcap romp through the holiday season!

Written by Michael Carleton, James FitzGerald, and John K. Alvarez. Cast includes Lou Leonardo, Josh Mele, and Jordan Glaski.

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A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage
Seth Gordon, director

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

A smoking furnace, a bully named Farkus, a pack of thieving-baying hounds, a dingblang-fuzzle-whizzin-mouthed old man, a prized leg lamp that's more leg than lamp—and a bunny suit: Is this the stuff of Christmas? It is for Ralphie, and all he really wants is a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock. Brighten the holidays with this hilarious and critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd's wry and witty tale of a special Christmas past and journey back to a time when we all had less and it felt like more. Based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; adapted by Philip Grecian.

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Saturday, December 4, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Christopher & Richard Williams: "Art as Catharsis: Watch Out I Need to Purge"
LeMoyne College

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

Join us for an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sketches by brothers Christopher and Richards Williams. The brothers share a conviction that art is a representation of ideas that reflect and comment on our social disorder. Creating images that are disturbing, allegorical, and provocative, the artists challenge the viewer to see the world through their eyes.

Christopher Williams has exhibited his work throughout the U.S. Richard Williams is a professional illustrator and portrait artist. His work is in the private collections of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Howard Stern.

Resin*ating Metal: Arlene Abend Retrospective
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

The sculpture of Arlene Abend, representing over 30 years of creating in resin, bronze, and steel

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Off the Wall Sale and Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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