Friday, September 28, 2007

Species Unknown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Species Unknown, mixed media work by Diane Worth Doty, is a personal creation of false science using simple or modest materials such as needle and thread, cotton cloth, paper, coffee, tea, hair, and a manual typewriter. The artist explores the quiet rhythm of stitching with her interest in ornithology, combining women's craft through creative writing and choice of theoretical and scientific depiction of migratory patterns of birds and humans as the driving force.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: John Dargan
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Focusing on the iconic, mundane or the banal, John Dargan's paintings delineate every discrete object within them with equal emphasis. This allows the eye to move around the image in a time-based way. The viewer can focus on every single 'moment' within an image and explore the relationship between objects. The implications of the symbolic content of these objects bring us to new realizations about the way we, as a group of individuals, have ended up creating the spaces we inhabit. This intense looking builds a portrait of a place, space, culture or society. John Dargan is visiting from London England.

Collage
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Collage: described in stylistic terms as the art of recycling, as a sub-genre of modernism. It could also be described, as proven by Marcel Duchamp, as its demise: a bridge, or an itch. The Point of Contact Gallery presents an assemblage of rare collages from private collections that include works by Pérez Celis, Jane Hammond, Nam June Paik and Liliana Porter.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

A Faith Ringgold Retrospective: Story Quilts and Children's Books
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An icon of American art and activism, Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York. From a young age, she was encouraged in her creative endeavors by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, who was a fashion designer and seamstress. Ringgold received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Education and her Master's degree in Art at City College of New York. From 1955-1973, she taught art in the New York City public schools. In the mid-to late 1960s, Ringgold began portraying political and Civil Rights themes in her paintings. She abandoned traditional painting in the early 1970's, and began creating large unstretched paintings with elaborate fabric borders, similar to Tibetan tankas. She also began making fabric dolls, masks and soft sculptures, some of which were used in performance pieces. In the early 1980s, she began creating large story quilts, featuring painted images along with handwritten text. She adapted her story quilt Tar Beach into a children's book in 1990, and has since written and illustrated several children's books, and has also published her memoirs.

From 1984 to 2002, Ringgold was a Professor of Art at University of California San Diego. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1960s. She has received many honors and awards for her achievements, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and more than 15 honorary doctorates.

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring works of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman

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

This bold new exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze, focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity and -- pleasure.

COME ON presents an array of ideas, imagery and experiences on the topic of sexuality from the perspective of women in their 20s through mid 30s. The artists in this exhibition employ diverse media, including large-scale drawing, video installation, text work and ephemeral sculpture. COME ON reveals what is not represented in popular culture and provides a counterbalance to the ubiquitous imagery of sexualized female bodies created for mainstream heterosexual male sensibilities.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Real Places, Imagined Spaces
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring abstract paintings by Michael Berman, mixed media by Sandy Clift, photography by John Dowling, Finger Lakes photography by John Francis McCarthy, and metal sculptures by Michael Moberg.

Alterity
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

A group show of art drawn from alternative art movements. The 20 works included in the exhibition represent a range of so-called "outsider" art made by those who do not work within the sphere of the traditional art world: prisoners, people with various compulsive agendas (the evils of taxes, for instance), and individuals with such significant disabilities as schizophrenia and autism. Dan Miller, currently featured at White Columns Gallery in New York, and one of whose drawings was recently purchased by The Museum of Modern Art in New York, is one of the artists whose art those who visit the exhibition will be able to enjoy; he is represented by several works in ThINC's exhibition. Also on view are drawings and objects produced by prisoners and former prison inmates who participated in programs at the Center for Community Alternatives in Syracuse. In addition, there are three sculptures by Edward Nagrodzki, a self-appointed 'tax rebel'. The sculptures are representative of the wide array of creative forms he used to protest the imposition of taxes.

Under One Roof Reprise Opening Night Lecture
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring Andrea Inselmann

Price: Members free, non-members $10
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Opening Night Lecture for Under One Roof Reprise will feature Andrea Inselmann, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca. She will present an overview of the exhibition, which will also include the various common threads which connect the very diverse subject matter and media used by the nine participating artists. The lecture begins promptly at 5:30 pm. Afterwards, from 6:00-8:00 pm, enjoy light hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar as you preview the exhibition.

Opening Night Lecture and Reception: Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring Andrea Inselmann

Price: $10 non-members; free for members
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The opening night lecture for Under One Roof Reprise will feature Andrea Inselmann, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. She will present an overview of the exhibition, which will also include the various common threads which connect the very diverse subject matter and media used by the nine participating artists. The lecture begins promptly at 5:30 pm. Afterwards, from 6:00-8:00 pm, enjoy light hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar as you preview the exhibition.

George Sand & ...Chopin?
Onondaga Community College
Society for New Music

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Persis Vehar's chamber opera.

Oedipus Rex
Black Box Players
Nick Pescosolido, director

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

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 - $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

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Rounding Third
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $20
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Sure, Little League is about the kids, but what about the coaches? Two mismatched dads battle to get through a season of snacks, strikeouts and shoelaces. Can life's lessons be found on the ball-field? Can Don and his new Assistant Coach, Michael, guide their team to victory, and win something for themselves in the process? Can Frankie ever catch a flyball? Find out in this hilarious hit comedy. Starring Steve Braddock, Artistic Director of Gifford Family Theatre, and Mike Barbour, Assistant Director of Theatre.

This performance is a benefit for the Gifford Family Theatre

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

The opulence and elegance of French society in the 1780s (think Versailles) provide the backdrop for this drama of sexual intrigue. Betrayal and cruelty are the favorite pastimes of La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont. Together they plot their conquests and revenges. But when the real thing, love, intrudes, the games turn suddenly deadly.

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Michael and Elizabeth, Vivian and Pete
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20, $15
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

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Saturday, September 29, 2007

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

Real Places, Imagined Spaces
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring abstract paintings by Michael Berman, mixed media by Sandy Clift, photography by John Dowling, Finger Lakes photography by John Francis McCarthy, and metal sculptures by Michael Moberg.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Species Unknown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Species Unknown, mixed media work by Diane Worth Doty, is a personal creation of false science using simple or modest materials such as needle and thread, cotton cloth, paper, coffee, tea, hair, and a manual typewriter. The artist explores the quiet rhythm of stitching with her interest in ornithology, combining women's craft through creative writing and choice of theoretical and scientific depiction of migratory patterns of birds and humans as the driving force.

A Faith Ringgold Retrospective: Story Quilts and Children's Books
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An icon of American art and activism, Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York. From a young age, she was encouraged in her creative endeavors by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, who was a fashion designer and seamstress. Ringgold received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Education and her Master's degree in Art at City College of New York. From 1955-1973, she taught art in the New York City public schools. In the mid-to late 1960s, Ringgold began portraying political and Civil Rights themes in her paintings. She abandoned traditional painting in the early 1970's, and began creating large unstretched paintings with elaborate fabric borders, similar to Tibetan tankas. She also began making fabric dolls, masks and soft sculptures, some of which were used in performance pieces. In the early 1980s, she began creating large story quilts, featuring painted images along with handwritten text. She adapted her story quilt Tar Beach into a children's book in 1990, and has since written and illustrated several children's books, and has also published her memoirs.

From 1984 to 2002, Ringgold was a Professor of Art at University of California San Diego. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1960s. She has received many honors and awards for her achievements, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and more than 15 honorary doctorates.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring works of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman

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

This bold new exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze, focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity and -- pleasure.

COME ON presents an array of ideas, imagery and experiences on the topic of sexuality from the perspective of women in their 20s through mid 30s. The artists in this exhibition employ diverse media, including large-scale drawing, video installation, text work and ephemeral sculpture. COME ON reveals what is not represented in popular culture and provides a counterbalance to the ubiquitous imagery of sexualized female bodies created for mainstream heterosexual male sensibilities.

Hansel and Gretel
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive version of the children's classic.

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 - $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

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Rounding Third
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $20
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Sure, Little League is about the kids, but what about the coaches? Two mismatched dads battle to get through a season of snacks, strikeouts and shoelaces. Can life's lessons be found on the ball-field? Can Don and his new Assistant Coach, Michael, guide their team to victory, and win something for themselves in the process? Can Frankie ever catch a flyball? Find out in this hilarious hit comedy. Starring Steve Braddock, Artistic Director of Gifford Family Theatre, and Mike Barbour, Assistant Director of Theatre.

This performance is a benefit for the Gifford Family Theatre

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

The opulence and elegance of French society in the 1780s (think Versailles) provide the backdrop for this drama of sexual intrigue. Betrayal and cruelty are the favorite pastimes of La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont. Together they plot their conquests and revenges. But when the real thing, love, intrudes, the games turn suddenly deadly.

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Oedipus Rex
Black Box Players
Nick Pescosolido, director

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

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 - $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

Read a Review!

Rounding Third
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $20
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Sure, Little League is about the kids, but what about the coaches? Two mismatched dads battle to get through a season of snacks, strikeouts and shoelaces. Can life's lessons be found on the ball-field? Can Don and his new Assistant Coach, Michael, guide their team to victory, and win something for themselves in the process? Can Frankie ever catch a flyball? Find out in this hilarious hit comedy. Starring Steve Braddock, Artistic Director of Gifford Family Theatre, and Mike Barbour, Assistant Director of Theatre.

This performance is a benefit for the Gifford Family Theatre

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

The opulence and elegance of French society in the 1780s (think Versailles) provide the backdrop for this drama of sexual intrigue. Betrayal and cruelty are the favorite pastimes of La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont. Together they plot their conquests and revenges. But when the real thing, love, intrudes, the games turn suddenly deadly.

Read a Review!

Michael and Elizabeth, Vivian and Pete
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20, $15
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

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Sunday, September 30, 2007

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

New Music in Syracuse: 35 Years and Counting
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Neva Pilgrim

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

Soprano Neva Pilgrim has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Canada with orchestras, opera companies, and at festivals. She has recorded over 20 records and CDs. In November 2001, Ms. Pilgrim accepted a New York State Governor's Arts Award on behalf of the Society for New Music. She is a founding member of the Society, which is now celebrating its 36th season. Located in Syracuse, the Society is the only year-round new music organization in upstate New York. Ms. Pilgrim has been an artist-in-residence at Colgate since 1976 and has maintained a private studio in New York.

The Chookasian Armenian Concert Ensemble
St. Paul Armenian Apostolic Church

Price: $20
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For tickets, mail a check, payable to St. Paul Armenian Church, to Nevart Apikian, 125 Parkway Dr., Syracuse, NY 13207

Stained Glass Series: Quint Plays Bach
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Philippe Quint, violin

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Handel Royal Fireworks Music, HWV 351
Bach Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041
Haydn Symphony No. 88 in G major

Beat Kaestli Live at Jazz Central

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

After returning from his third tour and two major Festivals in Europe, internationally acclaimed New York City based vocalist Beat Kaestli introduces his renowned CD Happy, Sad and Satisfied at Jazz Central. He is backed by his stellar New York/Toronto band. His unmistakable blend of jazz, classical and contemporary vibes will also include new songs from his upcoming release Far From Home, dedicated to European composers, like Weill, Bizet, Purcell, and Legrand, and his original collaborations with contemporary European composers.

Beat Kaestli moved to New York from his native Switzerland and received a scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music. While honing his craft alongside noteworthy Jazz performers, such as Jane Monheit, Jason Moran and Stefon Harris, he immersed himself in Manhattan's fiercely competitive music scene, emerging as a seasoned performer. He now appears in clubs such as Birdland, The Bitter End, The Jazz Standard, 55Bar and B.B. King's. In 2005, Beat was the chosen vocalist for the Glenn Miller Orchestra, thrilling audiences in concert halls across the USA and since 2006 he is touring the world with his own project and showcasing his music in renowned clubs across the US and Canada.

A Rojimusic Production: Kingsbury + Knife Crazy + Know Nothing
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

New Play Reading
Armory Square Playwrights

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

Script-in-hand presentation of a new work.

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 - $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

Read a Review!

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

The opulence and elegance of French society in the 1780s (think Versailles) provide the backdrop for this drama of sexual intrigue. Betrayal and cruelty are the favorite pastimes of La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont. Together they plot their conquests and revenges. But when the real thing, love, intrudes, the games turn suddenly deadly.

Read a Review!

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

The opulence and elegance of French society in the 1780s (think Versailles) provide the backdrop for this drama of sexual intrigue. Betrayal and cruelty are the favorite pastimes of La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont. Together they plot their conquests and revenges. But when the real thing, love, intrudes, the games turn suddenly deadly.

Read a Review!

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 - $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

Read a Review!

Monday, October 1, 2007

Species Unknown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Species Unknown, mixed media work by Diane Worth Doty, is a personal creation of false science using simple or modest materials such as needle and thread, cotton cloth, paper, coffee, tea, hair, and a manual typewriter. The artist explores the quiet rhythm of stitching with her interest in ornithology, combining women's craft through creative writing and choice of theoretical and scientific depiction of migratory patterns of birds and humans as the driving force.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: John Dargan
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Focusing on the iconic, mundane or the banal, John Dargan's paintings delineate every discrete object within them with equal emphasis. This allows the eye to move around the image in a time-based way. The viewer can focus on every single 'moment' within an image and explore the relationship between objects. The implications of the symbolic content of these objects bring us to new realizations about the way we, as a group of individuals, have ended up creating the spaces we inhabit. This intense looking builds a portrait of a place, space, culture or society. John Dargan is visiting from London England.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Philippe Quint, violin

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

Henryk Wieniawski Concerto No. 2 in D Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 22
Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 39
Joseph Downing Morning at Ten-Mile Point

Downing is associate professor of theory and composition in the Setnor School of Music in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA).

Public parking is available in SU pay lots.

Reading to Benefit Vera House
Downtown Writer's Center
Featuring Rachel McKibbens

YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Species Unknown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Species Unknown, mixed media work by Diane Worth Doty, is a personal creation of false science using simple or modest materials such as needle and thread, cotton cloth, paper, coffee, tea, hair, and a manual typewriter. The artist explores the quiet rhythm of stitching with her interest in ornithology, combining women's craft through creative writing and choice of theoretical and scientific depiction of migratory patterns of birds and humans as the driving force.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: John Dargan
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Focusing on the iconic, mundane or the banal, John Dargan's paintings delineate every discrete object within them with equal emphasis. This allows the eye to move around the image in a time-based way. The viewer can focus on every single 'moment' within an image and explore the relationship between objects. The implications of the symbolic content of these objects bring us to new realizations about the way we, as a group of individuals, have ended up creating the spaces we inhabit. This intense looking builds a portrait of a place, space, culture or society. John Dargan is visiting from London England.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

A Faith Ringgold Retrospective: Story Quilts and Children's Books
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An icon of American art and activism, Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York. From a young age, she was encouraged in her creative endeavors by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, who was a fashion designer and seamstress. Ringgold received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Education and her Master's degree in Art at City College of New York. From 1955-1973, she taught art in the New York City public schools. In the mid-to late 1960s, Ringgold began portraying political and Civil Rights themes in her paintings. She abandoned traditional painting in the early 1970's, and began creating large unstretched paintings with elaborate fabric borders, similar to Tibetan tankas. She also began making fabric dolls, masks and soft sculptures, some of which were used in performance pieces. In the early 1980s, she began creating large story quilts, featuring painted images along with handwritten text. She adapted her story quilt Tar Beach into a children's book in 1990, and has since written and illustrated several children's books, and has also published her memoirs.

From 1984 to 2002, Ringgold was a Professor of Art at University of California San Diego. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1960s. She has received many honors and awards for her achievements, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and more than 15 honorary doctorates.

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring works of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman

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

This bold new exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze, focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity and -- pleasure.

COME ON presents an array of ideas, imagery and experiences on the topic of sexuality from the perspective of women in their 20s through mid 30s. The artists in this exhibition employ diverse media, including large-scale drawing, video installation, text work and ephemeral sculpture. COME ON reveals what is not represented in popular culture and provides a counterbalance to the ubiquitous imagery of sexualized female bodies created for mainstream heterosexual male sensibilities.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

The Entrepreneurial Imperative
University Lectures
Featuring Carl Schramm, economist, lawyer, and entrepreneur

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Carl J. Schramm is president and chief executive officer of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a private, nonpartisan foundation that works with partners to advance entrepreneurship in America and improve the education of children and youth.

Trained both as an economist and lawyer, Schramm began his career on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University and emerged as a respected thinker in health care finance, regulation, and insurance. He founded the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Care Finance and Management in 1980, the first such research center in the nation. While at Hopkins, he led the country's only post-doctoral training program in health finance, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In 1987, he chaired the American Assembly on Health Care Costs and edited its volume, Health Care and Its Costs.
Schramm left the university to head the Health Insurance Association of America where many industry-wide innovations in health insurance were developed. He later became executive vice president of Fortis (now Assurant) and president of its health insurance operations. He developed several innovations at Fortis, including transition coverage for recent college graduates. He has served as a board member of other U.S. and foreign insurance and reinsurance companies.
An active entrepreneur, Schramm was a cofounder of HCIA, Inc. and Patient Choice Health Care. He founded Greenspring Advisors, a consulting and merchant banking firm in the health information and risk management industries. Among the firm's clients were insurance and reinsurance companies including Blue Cross plans, industrial firms such as Ford and Johnson & Johnson, and venture capital funds.

Besides many leading academic journals, Schramm's work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal and the New England Journal of Medicine. He is the author of The Entrepreneurial Imperative (Harper Collins, Oct. 2006) and is working on a second book, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism (Yale 2007), with Will Baumol and Robert Litan. He is a contributing editor of Inc. magazine.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Symphony Band and Wind Ensemble

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

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 - $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

The opulence and elegance of French society in the 1780s (think Versailles) provide the backdrop for this drama of sexual intrigue. Betrayal and cruelty are the favorite pastimes of La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont. Together they plot their conquests and revenges. But when the real thing, love, intrudes, the games turn suddenly deadly.

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Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Species Unknown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Species Unknown, mixed media work by Diane Worth Doty, is a personal creation of false science using simple or modest materials such as needle and thread, cotton cloth, paper, coffee, tea, hair, and a manual typewriter. The artist explores the quiet rhythm of stitching with her interest in ornithology, combining women's craft through creative writing and choice of theoretical and scientific depiction of migratory patterns of birds and humans as the driving force.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: John Dargan
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Focusing on the iconic, mundane or the banal, John Dargan's paintings delineate every discrete object within them with equal emphasis. This allows the eye to move around the image in a time-based way. The viewer can focus on every single 'moment' within an image and explore the relationship between objects. The implications of the symbolic content of these objects bring us to new realizations about the way we, as a group of individuals, have ended up creating the spaces we inhabit. This intense looking builds a portrait of a place, space, culture or society. John Dargan is visiting from London England.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

A Faith Ringgold Retrospective: Story Quilts and Children's Books
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An icon of American art and activism, Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York. From a young age, she was encouraged in her creative endeavors by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, who was a fashion designer and seamstress. Ringgold received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Education and her Master's degree in Art at City College of New York. From 1955-1973, she taught art in the New York City public schools. In the mid-to late 1960s, Ringgold began portraying political and Civil Rights themes in her paintings. She abandoned traditional painting in the early 1970's, and began creating large unstretched paintings with elaborate fabric borders, similar to Tibetan tankas. She also began making fabric dolls, masks and soft sculptures, some of which were used in performance pieces. In the early 1980s, she began creating large story quilts, featuring painted images along with handwritten text. She adapted her story quilt Tar Beach into a children's book in 1990, and has since written and illustrated several children's books, and has also published her memoirs.

From 1984 to 2002, Ringgold was a Professor of Art at University of California San Diego. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1960s. She has received many honors and awards for her achievements, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and more than 15 honorary doctorates.

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring works of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman

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

This bold new exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze, focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity and -- pleasure.

COME ON presents an array of ideas, imagery and experiences on the topic of sexuality from the perspective of women in their 20s through mid 30s. The artists in this exhibition employ diverse media, including large-scale drawing, video installation, text work and ephemeral sculpture. COME ON reveals what is not represented in popular culture and provides a counterbalance to the ubiquitous imagery of sexualized female bodies created for mainstream heterosexual male sensibilities.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

I.M. Pei's Everson Museum
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Barry Bergdoll

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

Barry Bergdoll is the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art and professor of modern architectural history at Columbia University. Holding a B.A. from Columbia, an M.A. from King's College, Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from Columbia, his broad interests center on modern architectural history with a particular emphasis on France and Germany since 1800. The Frances E. Hares Preservation Lecture.

Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring The Highland Winds, clarinet quartet

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

Clare Grundman Bagatelle
Elliott Carter Canonic Suite
Arr. Tom McKay Three Neapolitan Songs
Pasquale Mario Costa Scétate! (Wake up!)
Saverio Mercadante La Sposa de lo Marenaro (The fisherman's bride)
Eduardo di Capua 'O Sole Mio! (My sun!)
Alan Hovhaness Divertimento

This promises to be a delightful concert by an unusual ensemble, made up of John Flaver, clarinet, Ed ORourke, clarinet, Tom Soccocio, clarinet, and Tom McKay, clarinet and bass clarinet.

Jeff Parker, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

The opulence and elegance of French society in the 1780s (think Versailles) provide the backdrop for this drama of sexual intrigue. Betrayal and cruelty are the favorite pastimes of La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont. Together they plot their conquests and revenges. But when the real thing, love, intrudes, the games turn suddenly deadly.

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The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 - $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

The opulence and elegance of French society in the 1780s (think Versailles) provide the backdrop for this drama of sexual intrigue. Betrayal and cruelty are the favorite pastimes of La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont. Together they plot their conquests and revenges. But when the real thing, love, intrudes, the games turn suddenly deadly.

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Thursday, October 4, 2007

Species Unknown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Species Unknown, mixed media work by Diane Worth Doty, is a personal creation of false science using simple or modest materials such as needle and thread, cotton cloth, paper, coffee, tea, hair, and a manual typewriter. The artist explores the quiet rhythm of stitching with her interest in ornithology, combining women's craft through creative writing and choice of theoretical and scientific depiction of migratory patterns of birds and humans as the driving force.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

A Faith Ringgold Retrospective: Story Quilts and Children's Books
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An icon of American art and activism, Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York. From a young age, she was encouraged in her creative endeavors by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, who was a fashion designer and seamstress. Ringgold received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Education and her Master's degree in Art at City College of New York. From 1955-1973, she taught art in the New York City public schools. In the mid-to late 1960s, Ringgold began portraying political and Civil Rights themes in her paintings. She abandoned traditional painting in the early 1970's, and began creating large unstretched paintings with elaborate fabric borders, similar to Tibetan tankas. She also began making fabric dolls, masks and soft sculptures, some of which were used in performance pieces. In the early 1980s, she began creating large story quilts, featuring painted images along with handwritten text. She adapted her story quilt Tar Beach into a children's book in 1990, and has since written and illustrated several children's books, and has also published her memoirs.

From 1984 to 2002, Ringgold was a Professor of Art at University of California San Diego. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1960s. She has received many honors and awards for her achievements, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and more than 15 honorary doctorates.

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring works of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman

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

This bold new exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze, focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity and -- pleasure.

COME ON presents an array of ideas, imagery and experiences on the topic of sexuality from the perspective of women in their 20s through mid 30s. The artists in this exhibition employ diverse media, including large-scale drawing, video installation, text work and ephemeral sculpture. COME ON reveals what is not represented in popular culture and provides a counterbalance to the ubiquitous imagery of sexualized female bodies created for mainstream heterosexual male sensibilities.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Real Places, Imagined Spaces
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring abstract paintings by Michael Berman, mixed media by Sandy Clift, photography by John Dowling, Finger Lakes photography by John Francis McCarthy, and metal sculptures by Michael Moberg.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Alterity
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

A group show of art drawn from alternative art movements. The 20 works included in the exhibition represent a range of so-called "outsider" art made by those who do not work within the sphere of the traditional art world: prisoners, people with various compulsive agendas (the evils of taxes, for instance), and individuals with such significant disabilities as schizophrenia and autism. Dan Miller, currently featured at White Columns Gallery in New York, and one of whose drawings was recently purchased by The Museum of Modern Art in New York, is one of the artists whose art those who visit the exhibition will be able to enjoy; he is represented by several works in ThINC's exhibition. Also on view are drawings and objects produced by prisoners and former prison inmates who participated in programs at the Center for Community Alternatives in Syracuse. In addition, there are three sculptures by Edward Nagrodzki, a self-appointed 'tax rebel'. The sculptures are representative of the wide array of creative forms he used to protest the imposition of taxes.

Cosmology: Works by Alan Singer
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Alan Singer utilizes traditional painting and drawing techniques combined with high-tech digital tools and printmaking techniques to create his abstract environments. William Zimmer, New York Times' art critic, commented that "Singer's art has the refreshing jauntiness found in the pioneering American abstractionists."

Alan Singer says: "My subjects are derived from visual and physical phenomena related to space (in the geometric sense), and our human interactions with nature. I think about how our environment interweaves things we can see and things which we can only feel, like the wind. I am very conscious of the elements in our natural world and the forces that are exerted on us, and how we adapt. I try to open my art to representations of physical and social forces that may draw upon literary, scientific or mathematical resources. Patterns in my painting find correlations to the textures and rhythms of music, dance, textile arts and more."

Death Joins the Club
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive dinner theater murder mystery.

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 - $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

The opulence and elegance of French society in the 1780s (think Versailles) provide the backdrop for this drama of sexual intrigue. Betrayal and cruelty are the favorite pastimes of La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont. Together they plot their conquests and revenges. But when the real thing, love, intrudes, the games turn suddenly deadly.

Read a Review!

Friday, October 5, 2007

Species Unknown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Species Unknown, mixed media work by Diane Worth Doty, is a personal creation of false science using simple or modest materials such as needle and thread, cotton cloth, paper, coffee, tea, hair, and a manual typewriter. The artist explores the quiet rhythm of stitching with her interest in ornithology, combining women's craft through creative writing and choice of theoretical and scientific depiction of migratory patterns of birds and humans as the driving force.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

A Faith Ringgold Retrospective: Story Quilts and Children's Books
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An icon of American art and activism, Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York. From a young age, she was encouraged in her creative endeavors by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, who was a fashion designer and seamstress. Ringgold received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Education and her Master's degree in Art at City College of New York. From 1955-1973, she taught art in the New York City public schools. In the mid-to late 1960s, Ringgold began portraying political and Civil Rights themes in her paintings. She abandoned traditional painting in the early 1970's, and began creating large unstretched paintings with elaborate fabric borders, similar to Tibetan tankas. She also began making fabric dolls, masks and soft sculptures, some of which were used in performance pieces. In the early 1980s, she began creating large story quilts, featuring painted images along with handwritten text. She adapted her story quilt Tar Beach into a children's book in 1990, and has since written and illustrated several children's books, and has also published her memoirs.

From 1984 to 2002, Ringgold was a Professor of Art at University of California San Diego. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1960s. She has received many honors and awards for her achievements, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and more than 15 honorary doctorates.

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring works of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman

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

This bold new exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze, focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity and -- pleasure.

COME ON presents an array of ideas, imagery and experiences on the topic of sexuality from the perspective of women in their 20s through mid 30s. The artists in this exhibition employ diverse media, including large-scale drawing, video installation, text work and ephemeral sculpture. COME ON reveals what is not represented in popular culture and provides a counterbalance to the ubiquitous imagery of sexualized female bodies created for mainstream heterosexual male sensibilities.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

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Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

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Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

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Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

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Real Places, Imagined Spaces
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring abstract paintings by Michael Berman, mixed media by Sandy Clift, photography by John Dowling, Finger Lakes photography by John Francis McCarthy, and metal sculptures by Michael Moberg.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Alterity
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

A group show of art drawn from alternative art movements. The 20 works included in the exhibition represent a range of so-called "outsider" art made by those who do not work within the sphere of the traditional art world: prisoners, people with various compulsive agendas (the evils of taxes, for instance), and individuals with such significant disabilities as schizophrenia and autism. Dan Miller, currently featured at White Columns Gallery in New York, and one of whose drawings was recently purchased by The Museum of Modern Art in New York, is one of the artists whose art those who visit the exhibition will be able to enjoy; he is represented by several works in ThINC's exhibition. Also on view are drawings and objects produced by prisoners and former prison inmates who participated in programs at the Center for Community Alternatives in Syracuse. In addition, there are three sculptures by Edward Nagrodzki, a self-appointed 'tax rebel'. The sculptures are representative of the wide array of creative forms he used to protest the imposition of taxes.

OCC Student Showcase
Onondaga Community College
Featuring OCC Percussion and Vocal Ensembles

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Folkus Project
Jay Ungar and Molly Mason

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

Celebrated folk duo delight the heart and feed the soul with warmth, wit and consummate
musicianship.

Redhouse Live!
Redhouse
Featuring The Lisa Gentile Band, Dusty Pascal and the Barrigar Brothers

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

Lisa Gentile is a Syracuse native and national recording artist who recently returned to her roots after living in NYC for many years. She has recorded and performed extensively throughout the country and released three CDs, her latest of which just won a SAMMY Award for Best Country Recording. Lisa also performs actively for many charities throughout Central New York and most recently founded her own charity organization "Music Heals CNY."

Dusty Pascal's earthy delivery blends folk, rock and Americana styles. In 2006, Pascal released his critically acclaimed CD entitled "Home: The Loren Barrigar Sessions", which was nominated for a SAMMY Award for Best Country Recording. Pascal, 30, lives in Skaneateles. He owns a roofing company and didn't begin making his music public until this past year.

The Barrigar Brothers (Loren and Kevin) are an accomplished acoustic duo whose concerts include favorite songs from seven decades, as well as appealing originals. Their work features exciting guitar work and memorable vocal styling. Loren and Kevin have toured from Nashville to Las Vegas, and have traveled with George Morgan and other established country stars. Loren Barrigar's finely honed songwriting skills have landed his original melodies on NBC's #1 rated hit "ER" and on a Christmas compilation CD with BB King and Patti Labelle. He has recently performed with Stephen Bennett, as well as his mentor, Tommy Emmanuel, the Australian guitar sensation. Loren was the youngest guitarist to appear on the legendary stage of the Grand Old Opry and studied with Jimmy Atkins (Chetýs brother), a long time member of the Les Paul Trio. The Barrigar Brothers reside in Skaneateles and perform extensively throughout the Central NY area.

Poet Minnie Bruce Pratt
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Minnie Bruce Pratt's most recent book of poetry, The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press), received a Lambda Literary Award. Her previous book, Walking Back Up Depot Street, was named Best Lesbian/Gay Book of the Year by ForeWord: The Magazine of Independent Bookstores and Booksellers.

A Party to Murder
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Deborah Taylor, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Six people have come in secret on Halloween to play a murder mystery game at a rustic island cottage. Invited by writer Charles Prince, they appear set for a weekend of fun until ghosts from the past begin to haunt the proceedings and it becomes clear that all is not as it seems. The game takes on a sinister dimension when guests begin to die and the remaining players realize that they are playing for their lives. Tension rises. Secret passageways, incriminating letters, hidden compartments, bodies in the window seat and a 25-year-old unsolved mystery twist and turn toward the unexpected and terrifying conclusion.

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 - $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

The opulence and elegance of French society in the 1780s (think Versailles) provide the backdrop for this drama of sexual intrigue. Betrayal and cruelty are the favorite pastimes of La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont. Together they plot their conquests and revenges. But when the real thing, love, intrudes, the games turn suddenly deadly.

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Lucky Stiff
Syracuse University Drama Department
Nathan Hurwitz, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Based on the 1983 novel The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Michael Butterworth, Lucky Stiff was first performed Off-Broadway in 1988. Lucky Stiff is about Harry Witherspoon, a British shoe salesman who is offered an inheritance from his recently deceased, very wealthy uncle, under one condition -- he takes his uncle's dead body on a week-long vacation to Monte Carlo. While in Monte Carlo, Harry comes in contact with a woman from a dog shelter who will take the inheritance herself if Harry does not meet the requirements of the will. If he doesn't pull through, all of the inheritance money goes to the Universal Dogs Home of Brooklyn, a fate that Harry will do anything to avoid, as he hates dogs. Book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty.

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The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue
Wit's End Players

Price: $25 adults; $20 seniors/students; $14 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Song, dance, humor, and wisdom highlight this spectacular family musical. With Syracuse's own Bob Brown in the title role, the life of that great entertainer, Will Rogers, unfolds on the Ziegfeld Follies stage. Between rope tricks to entertain the audience while the show girls are changing their costumes, Will soothes us with his old-fashioned common sense and introduces us to his family. The beautiful girls, in stunning costumes, return to entertain as Will takes us on a happy journey through some of America's most patriotic and nostalgic days.

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Michael and Elizabeth, Vivian and Pete
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20, $15
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

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