Sunday, April 29, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

OCC Student Architecture and Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Country Folk Art Craft Show

Price: $6
New York State Fairgrounds
581 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse

Enter grounds at Gate 2 on State Fair Blvd.

For more information, visit CountryFolkArt.com.

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

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

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.

Kala Stein: Form & Plenty
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Kala Stein's exhibition Form and Plenty showcases her innovative ceramics based on archetypal utilitarian forms, like vases, bottles, and cups. By manipulating clay primarily though the slip casting of molds, she creates sculptural silhouettes, which merge multiple forms and planes into a single vessel. Stein says of her work, "Filtering the forms through abstraction, simplification and a limited color palette allows me to make compositional arrangements that depart from the symbol of the object itself."

Stein received her Master of Fine Arts at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where she currently is a visiting instructor. She shows her work nationally and maintains her home and studio in Canadice, NY.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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

Academic Art...Teachers that Do Series
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Featuring the art work of Liverpool art teachers.
Deb Dahlin: Pastels and hand dyed scarves
Stacey Pope: Landscapes of the Adirondacks and the Finger Lakes in soft pastel and glicee prints

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 adults, $8 students/seniors, $30 family pack (2 adults, 4 children))
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

April Show and Sale
Onondaga Art Guild

Emmanuel Episcopal Church
400 Yates St., East Syracuse

For more information, visit onondagaartguild.blogspot.com.

Hidden in Plain Site: Urban Sculpture and the Work of the Syracuse Public Artist in Residence

Price: Free
SPAR Space
State Tower Building, 109 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Syracuse's public sculpture, and the current work of Brendan Rose, the city's public artist in residence, is the subject of a new photographic survey. The exhibit was researched, organized, designed and installed by first-year graduate museum studies students in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

The "Gnome Show"
XL Projects

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

Each fall, Department of Design faculty members review student projects on display in the department's home at The Warehouse and place a gnome statue next to the most deserving work in a variety of categories. The "Gnome Show" is an exhibition of last fall's gnome-winning projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

Organ Crawl

Price: $10
Park Central Presbyterian Church
504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Onondaga Historical Association's Executive Director Gregg Tripoli will guide a behind-the-scenes musical walking tour of the historic churches of the Cathedral Square Neighborhood of downtown Syracuse.

Stops for the Organ Crawl include the Park Central Presbyterian Church, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and Plymouth Congregational Church. As part of the program, each church on the tour will provide a short organ recital with performances by some of central New York's most notable musical directors, including Will Headlee, Professor Emeritus at Syracuse University; Timothy Davenport, Director of Music for the Syracuse Diocese; Jim Potts of St. Paul's Episcopal Church; and Joseph Downing, Director of Music at Plymouth Congregational Church and currently Associate Professor and Past Director of the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University.

The Organ Crawl will begin at Park Central Presbyterian Church on Fayette Square. The organ housed here was built in 1967 by M.P. Möeller Co. and is an Opus 10313. It has 2,999 pipes in 55 ranks. Will Headlee, organist at Park Presbyterian since 1990, is Professor Emeritus at Syracuse University where he began teaching organ in 1956. Mr. Headlee was organist-choir director at three Lutheran churches and at Hendricks Chapel prior to joining the staff of Park Central.

The next stop will be St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, on the southwest corner of Fayette and Montgomery Streets. In this beautiful church, those attending will hear another M.P. Möller organ, which was completely redesigned and rebuilt in 2002. This 74-rank organ has a total of 4,327 pipes. Jim Potts will be the organist in this space that is notable for its excellent acoustics.

One block south on Montgomery Street is Columbus Circle, the site of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and the third stop on the Organ Crawl. Here listeners will hear Timothy Davenport, the Director of Music for the Diocese of Syracuse and the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, playing the Roosevelt Organ, installed at the Cathedral in 1892. This organ was totally refurbished in 1974 by the Schantz Organ Company.

The final stop is Plymouth Congregational Church, 232 E. Onondaga Street off Columbus Circle. Joe Downing, the Director of Music for Plymouth Congregational, will play a 1930 Möeller Organ with 2600 pipes in 40 ranks. This model reflected the taste of the time for organs that imitated the sound of an orchestra.

This event benefits the initiatives of the Cathedral Square Neighborhood Association. For reservations and information, call Karen at 315-428-1864, ext. 312.

Men of Note: The Oasis Chorus
Fayetteville Free Library
Karen Retchless, conductor

Price: $5 suggested donation
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

All-Mozart Stained Glass Concert
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Rimma Bergeron-Langlois, violin

Price: $20 regular, $17 seniors, $10 students
Inspiration Hall (formerly St. Peter's Church)
709 James St., Syracuse

Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major
Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G Minor

The tickets are available from the Syracuse Opera box office, 315-476-7372 or online.

Ukulele Sing-In
Greater Syracuse School of Music

First Baptist Church of Jamesville
5833 E. Seneca Tpke., Jamesville

Ukuleles will be available for people to try.

The Master's Touch Chorale

Price: Freewill offering
Marcellus Methodist Church
1 Slocome Ave., Marcellus

For more information, phone 315-673-3239.

Voices of Faith Choir

Price: $5
Holy Family Church
127 Chapel Dr., Syracuse

An evening of pops, classical, and sacred music to benefit the Holy Family School Scholarship Fund. Guest artists include the Seneca String Quartet, Holy Family Choir, soprano Monica Merante, and the John Spillett Duo.

For more information, phone 315-487-8515.

*CANCELLED* Human Nature: The Motown Show

Price: $56.50, $31.50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tickets can be refunded at their point of purchase.

The Brothers Size
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an exciting new voice in American Theatre and his award-winning The Brothers Size proves why. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

Read a Review!

As You Like It
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ralph Zito, director

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

At the heart of this joyful play is perhaps Shakespeare's greatest comic heroine, Rosalind. As a woman disguised as a man, she exists not fully as either but in between, where she can relish the privilege of speaking with a man's authority informed by a woman's heart, a combination she needs in guiding the varied denizens of the Forest of Arden in the hey-nonny-no of love. As the great sage writes: "To be in love, and yet to see and feel the absurdity of it, one needs to go school with Rosalind." And school is rarely, if ever, this much fun. Sweet lovers love the spring!

Read a Review!

The Brothers Size
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an exciting new voice in American Theatre and his award-winning The Brothers Size proves why. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

Read a Review!

Monday, April 30, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

OCC Student Architecture and Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

The Ballerina Project
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Photography. Dance. Central New York.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Tsao and McKown Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

Academic Art...Teachers that Do Series
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Featuring the art work of Liverpool art teachers.
Deb Dahlin: Pastels and hand dyed scarves
Stacey Pope: Landscapes of the Adirondacks and the Finger Lakes in soft pastel and glicee prints

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Stickley Furniture: the Evolution of a Design
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

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

L. & J.G. Stickley Inc., one of America's most legendary furniture companies, recently introduced its Finger Lakes Collection, which features solid cherry pieces with a distressed, rustic finish. In this exhibition, patrons can follow the design process from inspiration to finished product through the Bristol Chair, a chair that was inspired by a piece in the Stickley Museum Collection.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3.50 non-members, $3 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Directed by George Marshall. Cast includes Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jacquie Lyn, James Finlayson, Charles Middleton, Billy Gilbert, Grady Sutton.

Laurel and Hardy's second feature film was their first to be designed as a feature from the outset, and the improvement in story development is evident. This fun comedy has Stan and Ollie as WWI vets in charge of their deceased war buddy's young daughter, and there are plenty of mishaps and laughs as the boys try to deliver the little girl to her grandfather.

Plus: Comedy short The Pip From Pittsburgh (1931)
Cast includes Charley Chase, Thelma Todd.
One of Chase's best shorts finds Charley and Thelma on a wild blind date.

Plan B: The Benefit
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

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

Join us for an evening of song, dance and laughs with your favorite Syracuse personalities and superstars of Salt City, while supporting the area's longest-running theater group, the Salt City Center for the Performing Arts.

Featuring Bob Brown, Richard Koons, Cathleen O'Brien Brown, Bill Ali, Henry Wilson, Jason Vaughn, Elizabeth Abriola Fern, Becky Bottrill, and many more.

Cash bar and auctions start at 6:30 pm; show starts at 7:30 pm.

For more information, contact Karen Procopio at 315-479-7469 or la24kvoce@gmail.com. Tickets available here.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

OCC Student Architecture and Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

The Ballerina Project
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Photography. Dance. Central New York.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Tsao and McKown Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse are invited to exhibit at Edgewood Gallery and be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Academic Art...Teachers that Do Series
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Featuring the art work of Liverpool art teachers.
Deb Dahlin: Pastels and hand dyed scarves
Stacey Pope: Landscapes of the Adirondacks and the Finger Lakes in soft pastel and glicee prints

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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

Stickley Furniture: the Evolution of a Design
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

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

L. & J.G. Stickley Inc., one of America's most legendary furniture companies, recently introduced its Finger Lakes Collection, which features solid cherry pieces with a distressed, rustic finish. In this exhibition, patrons can follow the design process from inspiration to finished product through the Bristol Chair, a chair that was inspired by a piece in the Stickley Museum Collection.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 adults, $8 students/seniors, $30 family pack (2 adults, 4 children))
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

Read a review!

The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

LeMoyne Chamber Orchestra Classics on Film
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, free to students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

"I've heard that somewhere!" The Le Moyne College Chamber Orchestra will perform well-known classical pieces often featured in film and on television, including excerpts from the Overture to William Tell, Adagio from Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, and many more.

For more information and to purchase tickets, call 315-445-4523.

DrFameus, with Zoogma, Vapor Eyes
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Brothers Size
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an exciting new voice in American Theatre and his award-winning The Brothers Size proves why. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

Read a Review!

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

OCC Student Architecture and Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

The Ballerina Project
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Photography. Dance. Central New York.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Tsao and McKown Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

There will be an awards reception this evening 6:00-7:00 pm.

High school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse are invited to exhibit at Edgewood Gallery and be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Academic Art...Teachers that Do Series
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Featuring the art work of Liverpool art teachers.
Deb Dahlin: Pastels and hand dyed scarves
Stacey Pope: Landscapes of the Adirondacks and the Finger Lakes in soft pastel and glicee prints

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

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

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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

Stickley Furniture: the Evolution of a Design
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

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

L. & J.G. Stickley Inc., one of America's most legendary furniture companies, recently introduced its Finger Lakes Collection, which features solid cherry pieces with a distressed, rustic finish. In this exhibition, patrons can follow the design process from inspiration to finished product through the Bristol Chair, a chair that was inspired by a piece in the Stickley Museum Collection.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 adults, $8 students/seniors, $30 family pack (2 adults, 4 children))
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

Read a review!

BFA Thesis Exhibit
XL Projects

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

An exhibition of thesis work by bachelor of fine arts degree candidates from SU's Department of Art, featuring work from graduating seniors in art education, ceramics, fiber arts, illustration, jewelry and metalsmithing, painting, printmaking and sculpture.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

RESOURCED/response: The Art of the Justseeds Artists Cooperative and SU Fiber Arts
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is a look into the environmental devastation that plagues the earth and its beings. It is also a look into the environmental justice movement that works to correct and heal the destruction. RESOURCED is a portfolio of hand-produced prints organized and created by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative in 2010, focusing on resource extraction and climate issues, which will be used to help ask important questions about our environment. At the beginning of the spring semester 2012, students from the introduction to fibers course at Syracuse University viewed images from RESOURCED.

Students selected the poster that held most significance to them, either for the visual content of the work or the environmental issue it addressed. Then each student created a hand-dyed textile in response to the original work, using a variety of dye techniques, relief printing techniques and methods of stitching. These were both applied traditionally and adapted to suit the students' intentions and individual visual language.

Film Talk Series: God Bless America
Syracuse International Film Festival
Featuring Bobcat Goldthwait, director

Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Frank (Joel Murray) has had enough of the downward spiral of American culture, which he sees as overrun with cruelty, stupidity and intolerance. Divorced, recently fired, and possibly terminally ill, Frank truly has nothing left to live for. But instead of taking his own life, he buys a gun and decides to take out his frustration on the cruelest, stupidest, most intolerant people he can imagine -- starting with some particularly odious reality television stars. Frank finds an unusual accomplice in a high-school student named Roxy (Tara Lynne Barr), who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement, and together they embark on a nation-wide assault on our country's dumbest, most irritating celebrities.

Written and directed by taboo-busting filmmaker and comedian Bobcat Goldthwait (Shakes the Clown, Sleeping Dogs Lie, World's Greatest Dad), God Bless America is a truly dark and very funny comedy for anyone who's had enough of the dumbing down of our society.

There will be a Q&A session with the director.

The Age of Pompeii in the Italian Style
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Anthony Crain, piano

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

Works by Crain, Rachmaninov, and Beethoven.

Parking available in the OnCenter Garage: maximum $2.50 with CMM stamped ticket.

Opus
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Cantus Novus

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

Cantus Novus is a student-run contemporary music ensemble dedicated to the music of Syracuse University student composers. Opus is its final concert of the semester.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

Shpongle presents The Masquerade, with Phutureprimitive
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Shpongle is an English psychedelic downtempo/psybient music project formed in 1996. The group includes Simon Posford (aka Hallucinogen) and Raja Ram (one third of The Infinity Project). Their musical style combines traditional music from all over the globe and vocals with contemporary western synthesizer-based psychedelic music. When asked to describe Shpongle's music, Posford has responded that it is "like nothing you've ever heard before". Shpongle's first track, "Vapour Rumours", was released on TIP Records' Infinite Excursions compilation in 1996. Their debut album, "Are You Shpongled?," was released in 1998 on Twisted Records. Shpongle's music is heavily influenced by psychedelic experiences and frequently makes use of sonic textures that approximate psychedelic states as well as vocal samples relating to consciousness expansion, hallucinations, and altered states of awareness. Shpongle has played at events such as Ozora Festival, Camp Bisco, The Rainbow Serpent Festival, and The Hammerstein Ballroom. As of September 2011, the group has begun recording its fifth album.

The Brothers Size
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an exciting new voice in American Theatre and his award-winning The Brothers Size proves why. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

Read a Review!

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

OCC Student Architecture and Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

The Ballerina Project
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Photography. Dance. Central New York.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Tsao and McKown Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse are invited to exhibit at Edgewood Gallery and be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Academic Art...Teachers that Do Series
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Featuring the art work of Liverpool art teachers.
Deb Dahlin: Pastels and hand dyed scarves
Stacey Pope: Landscapes of the Adirondacks and the Finger Lakes in soft pastel and glicee prints

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

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

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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

Stickley Furniture: the Evolution of a Design
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

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

L. & J.G. Stickley Inc., one of America's most legendary furniture companies, recently introduced its Finger Lakes Collection, which features solid cherry pieces with a distressed, rustic finish. In this exhibition, patrons can follow the design process from inspiration to finished product through the Bristol Chair, a chair that was inspired by a piece in the Stickley Museum Collection.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 adults, $8 students/seniors, $30 family pack (2 adults, 4 children))
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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BFA Thesis Exhibit
XL Projects

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

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

An exhibition of thesis work by bachelor of fine arts degree candidates from SU's Department of Art, featuring work from graduating seniors in art education, ceramics, fiber arts, illustration, jewelry and metalsmithing, painting, printmaking and sculpture.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

RESOURCED/response: The Art of the Justseeds Artists Cooperative and SU Fiber Arts
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is a look into the environmental devastation that plagues the earth and its beings. It is also a look into the environmental justice movement that works to correct and heal the destruction. RESOURCED is a portfolio of hand-produced prints organized and created by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative in 2010, focusing on resource extraction and climate issues, which will be used to help ask important questions about our environment. At the beginning of the spring semester 2012, students from the introduction to fibers course at Syracuse University viewed images from RESOURCED.

Students selected the poster that held most significance to them, either for the visual content of the work or the environmental issue it addressed. Then each student created a hand-dyed textile in response to the original work, using a variety of dye techniques, relief printing techniques and methods of stitching. These were both applied traditionally and adapted to suit the students' intentions and individual visual language.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

Silverwood Clarinet Choir
Temple Society of Concord

Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Edward Cansino The Great Clarinet Circus
Rossini (arr. Guido Six) Italian in Algiers
Gustav Holst (arr. Matt Johnston) Second Suite in F
Leonard Bernstein (arr. Reinier van der Wal) Selections from "West Side Story"

SU Contemporary Music Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Daniel Hege, conductor

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

The concert will include Daniel Godfrey's Numina, Jennifer Higdon's Soliloquy, Andrew Waggoner's One Kindness, Bela Bartok's Vivace from his Piano Quintet, Cody Forrest's Savage Light Celestial, and Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring for 13 instruments.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

Red Elvises, with Surfer R Cool
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

A Tomb With a View
Acme Mystery Company

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

The mega-corporation Arrested Developments has come to the old Possum Estate, site of the tragic mining disaster oh, so many years ago, with the desire to turn it into a shopping mall. This has caused great concern among those living on (and below) the estate. In fact, the zombie descendants of the miners trapped in the disaster have hired a lawyer and are planning a class-action lawsuit. The local newspaper is going to have a field day with this one. Gather around, good townsfolk (and walking dead) you don't want to be ate, er, late.

The Three Sisters
CNY Shakespeare
Matt Chiorini, director

Price: Pay what you can
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Anton Chekhov's classic play in a condensed, one-hour adaptation.

Seating is limited. To reserve, phone 315-445-4523.

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The Brothers Size
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an exciting new voice in American Theatre and his award-winning The Brothers Size proves why. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

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Preview: Vigil
Redhouse
Bill Morris, director

Price: $12.50 regular, $7.50 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This hysterical and deliciously dark comedy by Canadian playwright Morris Panych explores what happens when an embittered, self-involved bachelor arrives to care for the dying aunt he hasn't seen since childhood. Vigil offers an uncanny balance of humor, ruminations on family, identity, and the human condition. Starring John Bixler and Caroline Fitzgerald.

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As You Like It
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ralph Zito, director

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

At the heart of this joyful play is perhaps Shakespeare's greatest comic heroine, Rosalind. As a woman disguised as a man, she exists not fully as either but in between, where she can relish the privilege of speaking with a man's authority informed by a woman's heart, a combination she needs in guiding the varied denizens of the Forest of Arden in the hey-nonny-no of love. As the great sage writes: "To be in love, and yet to see and feel the absurdity of it, one needs to go school with Rosalind." And school is rarely, if ever, this much fun. Sweet lovers love the spring!

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Friday, May 4, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

OCC Student Architecture and Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

The Ballerina Project
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Photography. Dance. Central New York.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Tsao and McKown Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse are invited to exhibit at Edgewood Gallery and be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Academic Art...Teachers that Do Series
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Featuring the art work of Liverpool art teachers.
Deb Dahlin: Pastels and hand dyed scarves
Stacey Pope: Landscapes of the Adirondacks and the Finger Lakes in soft pastel and glicee prints

Opening: For the Child in All of Us
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-9:00 pm, with refreshments and musical entertainment by the Usual Suspects. Skaneateles merchants will be welcoming the return of First Friday with art openings, entertainment and specials, and a celebration of Charles Dickens' 200th birthday.

A new collection of crafts made for children.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

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

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

Opening: Garden Art in Glass & Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-9:00 pm. Meet the artists and enjoy refreshments, as part of the village's First Friday event.

Stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho
Carved stoneware lanterns by Lauren Ritchie

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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

Stickley Furniture: the Evolution of a Design
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

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

L. & J.G. Stickley Inc., one of America's most legendary furniture companies, recently introduced its Finger Lakes Collection, which features solid cherry pieces with a distressed, rustic finish. In this exhibition, patrons can follow the design process from inspiration to finished product through the Bristol Chair, a chair that was inspired by a piece in the Stickley Museum Collection.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 adults, $8 students/seniors, $30 family pack (2 adults, 4 children))
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

Hidden in Plain Site: Urban Sculpture and the Work of the Syracuse Public Artist in Residence

Price: Free
SPAR Space
State Tower Building, 109 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Syracuse's public sculpture, and the current work of Brendan Rose, the city's public artist in residence, is the subject of a new photographic survey. The exhibit was researched, organized, designed and installed by first-year graduate museum studies students in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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BFA Thesis Exhibit
XL Projects

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

An exhibition of thesis work by bachelor of fine arts degree candidates from SU's Department of Art, featuring work from graduating seniors in art education, ceramics, fiber arts, illustration, jewelry and metalsmithing, painting, printmaking and sculpture.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

RESOURCED/response: The Art of the Justseeds Artists Cooperative and SU Fiber Arts
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is a look into the environmental devastation that plagues the earth and its beings. It is also a look into the environmental justice movement that works to correct and heal the destruction. RESOURCED is a portfolio of hand-produced prints organized and created by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative in 2010, focusing on resource extraction and climate issues, which will be used to help ask important questions about our environment. At the beginning of the spring semester 2012, students from the introduction to fibers course at Syracuse University viewed images from RESOURCED.

Students selected the poster that held most significance to them, either for the visual content of the work or the environmental issue it addressed. Then each student created a hand-dyed textile in response to the original work, using a variety of dye techniques, relief printing techniques and methods of stitching. These were both applied traditionally and adapted to suit the students' intentions and individual visual language.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

Land of Destiny
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Land of Destiny (2010, 78 min, documentary). Directed by Brett Story who will be present for a Q & A following the screening.

A hard-working petrochemical town is rocked by revelations that its workers suffer an epidemic of cancers. But even more terrifying is the looming spectre of deindustrialization and joblessness. In the rich fabric of the city’s landscape -- rows of boarded storefronts, the bright sprawl of petrochemical plants and the swollen rooms of hospital wards and crowded bars -- one finds a microcosm of the 21st century. A portrait of a working-class city in paralysis and a mediation on work and place in the modern economy, Land of Destiny offers a poignant and universal story about work, community, and struggle in an era of globalization.

2011: Best Documentary, Canadian Environmental Media Award (EMA); 2010: Honourable Mention, Planet in Focus, Toronto; 2010: Official Selection, Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal (RIDM)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
LeMoyne College
Film Talk Series: Charlie Kaufman "Thinking at the Movies"

Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Screening of film, followed by talk on "Remembering Remarriage in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", with William Day, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Le Moyne College

Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Michel Gondry's bittersweet, time-hopping romantic comedy stars Jim Carrey as a man who, upon learning that free-spirited girlfriend Kate Winslet has undergone an experimental procedure to have all memories of their time together erased from her mind, agrees to the same treatment ... only to regret his decision. Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Wilkinson, and Elijah Wood also star. Academy Award winner for Best Original Screenplay (2005).

Charlie Kaufman has won wide acclaim for creating inventive, elaborately surreal scenarios in which he composes unexpectedly nuanced portraits of the emotional lives of his characters -- people who are deeply flawed and also profoundly compelling. Our Charlie Kaufman mini-fest, celebrating in part the recent publication of The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman, edited by David LaRocca, will explore Kaufman's unique combination of fabulation and emotional realism.

An Evening With John Michael Talbot

Price: $15-$35
Assumption Church
812 N. Salina St., Syracuse

Popular Christian music artist John Michael Talbot has published 24 books and produced 53 CDs in his 37 years of Christian music ministry. This special event is a fundraiser to support the Outreach Ministries of Assumption church including its food pantry, medical and legal clinics.

For tickets or more information, contact Rosemary Costa at 315-288-5395.

Jazzuits with Jazz Ensemble and Young Lions
LeMoyne College
Featuring Joe Magnarelli, trumpet

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, free to students and the LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Join the Jazzuits and Jazz Ensemble with guest trumpeter Joe Magnarelli for a concert featuring the music of Duke Ellington Band and much more. Selections will include "Bye Bye Blackbird," "Route 66," and Duke Ellington favorite "Satin Doll" featuring the combined ensembles.

Triumphant Tchaikovsky
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
David Alan Miller, conductor
Featuring Julie Albers, cello

Price: $15-$50 adults, $10 students
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Bernstein Overture to Candide
Elgar Cello Concerto
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

Tickets are available from the Syracuse Opera Box Office, 315-476-7372, www.syracuseopera.com.

J. Rabbit & Vaski, with Direktor, Kayo
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Mary Gauthier
Folkus Project

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

Mary Gauthier's voice rings hard and true with stories of a Louisiana orphan, drug- and crime-addicted adolescent, diner cook and manager, and eventual celebrated songwriter. Hitting the stage in her mid-30s, she earned almost instant recognition, earning Best New Contemporary Folk Artist at the Boston Music Awards. Her album Drag Queens in Limousines (1999) drew a four-star rating in Rolling Stone and broke her career wide open. Other honors include Best Country Music Artist at the GLAMA’s (Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards) and best Indy CD of the Year (Filth & Fire) by Jon Pareles of the New York Times.

Beethoven's Last Night 2012
Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Price: $56, $46, $28.50
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Trans-Siberian Orchestra is back for one night only! Be part of the 7 million people who have enjoyed the unique sound of TSO. TSO has sold over 7 million albums and have played in over 80 cities since taking the road in 1999. TSO Creator/Writer/Producer Paul O'Neill...created a theatrical experience that combined with arena rock takes this new genre to unprecedented levels.

Songs of Love and War
NYS Baroque
Featuring Laura Heimes, soprano; Sumner Thompson and Aaron Sheehan, tenors; Steven Hrycelak, bass

Price: $25 regular, $20 seniors, $10 college students, children free
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Love in war. War in love. Love as war. Monteverdi's music hurts so good. Featuring Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and the Lamento della Ninfa, with dramatic instrumental works of the early Italian baroque.

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Pride in Who We Are
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Glenn Kime, conductor

Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Senior Violin Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Alexa Rose Johnson, violin

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

The program includes works by Barber, Saint-Saëns, Bach, and Marc Mellits. Carmen Carbonell will accompany on piano. Guest artists include Ali Verderber, violin; Sarah Turbett, viola; and Moriah Dohner, cello.

Poet Jay Rogoff
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Jay Rogoff's books of poetry include The Art of Gravity and The Long Fault, both from LSU Press; How We Came to Stand on That Shore (River City, 2003); and The Cutoff (WordWorks, 1995). His many honors include a 2010 Pushcart Prize. Rogoff's poetry and criticism have been published in many journals, including Agni, Field, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, Ploughshares, Salmagundi, and The Southern Review. He also writes dance criticism for The Hopkins Review and contributes to Ballet Review and The Saratogian. Rogoff lives in Saratoga Springs, NY, where he teaches at Skidmore College.

The Three Sisters
CNY Shakespeare
Matt Chiorini, director

Price: Pay what you can
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Anton Chekhov's classic play in a condensed, one-hour adaptation.

Seating is limited. To reserve, phone 315-445-4523.

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Just Another High School Musical
Bishop Grimes Prep

Price: $8
Bishop Grimes Junior/Senior High School
6653 Kirkville Rd., East Syracuse

Eight high school actors, abandoned by their drama teacher for good reason, have to fend for themselves opening night in front of a live audience. The student assistant director and the stage manager find a box of scripts, which they pass out to the cast and try to throw something together. Written by Bryan Starchman and Stephen Murray.

Cinderella
Onondaga Junior/Senior High School

Price: $7 adult, $4 students
Onondaga Central Junior/Senior High School
4479 S. Onondaga Rd., Nedrow

Cinderella is the touchstone story of how dreams really do come true. The story is about a sweet young woman who is treated poorly by her family and dreams of a better life. With the help of her Fairy Godmother, impossible dreams become reality. Music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Patty Cormier, director; Anna Lysiuk, music director; Rob Cormier, technical director

The Glass Menagerie
Appleseed Productions
Linda Lance, director

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

A faded southern belle, with dreams of lost glory; a harried son with dreams of escape; a beautiful dreamer, whose collection of glass figurines is almost as fragile as she -- and a gentleman caller who could change everything for them all. These are the players in Tennessee Williams' classic drama about hope, loss and memories.

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Vigil
Redhouse
Bill Morris, director

Price: $25 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This hysterical and deliciously dark comedy by Canadian playwright Morris Panych explores what happens when an embittered, self-involved bachelor arrives to care for the dying aunt he hasn't seen since childhood. Vigil offers an uncanny balance of humor, ruminations on family, identity, and the human condition. Starring John Bixler and Caroline Fitzgerald.

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The Brothers Size
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an exciting new voice in American Theatre and his award-winning The Brothers Size proves why. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

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As You Like It
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ralph Zito, director

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

At the heart of this joyful play is perhaps Shakespeare's greatest comic heroine, Rosalind. As a woman disguised as a man, she exists not fully as either but in between, where she can relish the privilege of speaking with a man's authority informed by a woman's heart, a combination she needs in guiding the varied denizens of the Forest of Arden in the hey-nonny-no of love. As the great sage writes: "To be in love, and yet to see and feel the absurdity of it, one needs to go school with Rosalind." And school is rarely, if ever, this much fun. Sweet lovers love the spring!

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Saturday, May 5, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

OCC Student Architecture and Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

Academic Art...Teachers that Do Series
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Featuring the art work of Liverpool art teachers.
Deb Dahlin: Pastels and hand dyed scarves
Stacey Pope: Landscapes of the Adirondacks and the Finger Lakes in soft pastel and glicee prints

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 adults, $8 students/seniors, $30 family pack (2 adults, 4 children))
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

Garden Art in Glass & Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho
Carved stoneware lanterns by Lauren Ritchie

For the Child in All of Us
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A new collection of crafts made for children.

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

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

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

Opening: 40th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

There will be an opening reception this afternoon 1:00-3:00 pm.

The exhibition features artwork from local high school students, providing students from diverse and underrepresented groups the opportunity to showcase their talents.

The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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

RESOURCED/response: The Art of the Justseeds Artists Cooperative and SU Fiber Arts
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is a look into the environmental devastation that plagues the earth and its beings. It is also a look into the environmental justice movement that works to correct and heal the destruction. RESOURCED is a portfolio of hand-produced prints organized and created by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative in 2010, focusing on resource extraction and climate issues, which will be used to help ask important questions about our environment. At the beginning of the spring semester 2012, students from the introduction to fibers course at Syracuse University viewed images from RESOURCED.

Students selected the poster that held most significance to them, either for the visual content of the work or the environmental issue it addressed. Then each student created a hand-dyed textile in response to the original work, using a variety of dye techniques, relief printing techniques and methods of stitching. These were both applied traditionally and adapted to suit the students' intentions and individual visual language.

Hidden in Plain Site: Urban Sculpture and the Work of the Syracuse Public Artist in Residence

Price: Free
SPAR Space
State Tower Building, 109 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Syracuse's public sculpture, and the current work of Brendan Rose, the city's public artist in residence, is the subject of a new photographic survey. The exhibit was researched, organized, designed and installed by first-year graduate museum studies students in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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BFA Thesis Exhibit
XL Projects

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

An exhibition of thesis work by bachelor of fine arts degree candidates from SU's Department of Art, featuring work from graduating seniors in art education, ceramics, fiber arts, illustration, jewelry and metalsmithing, painting, printmaking and sculpture.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Creek Art Float Parade
Public Arts Task Force and the Creek Rats

Price: Free
Creekwalk Park, adjacent to Sound Garden
310 W. Jefferson St., Syracuse

You've seen art in galleries, on city street, in museums, universities, in books, online, and many other places. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see art on water! Join us to view the second annual Creek Float, a floating art parade. Watch as specially-created art is floated down Onondaga Creek. Best spots for viewing are on the newly completed Creek Walk in Armory Square.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

Synecdoche, New York (2008)
LeMoyne College
Film Talk Series: Charlie Kaufman "Thinking at the Movies"

Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Screening of the film, followed by a talk on "The Anxiety of Autobiography: Names, Narratives, and the Invention of 'Something Big and True and Tough' in Synecdoche, New York" by David LaRocca, Writer-in-Residence, The New York Public Library and Fellow, The Moving Picture Institute of New York.

Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut twists and subverts form and language as he delves into the mind of a man who, obsessed with his own mortality, sets out to construct a massive artistic enterprise that could give some meaning to his life. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, and Dianne Wiest. Nominated for Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival (2008).

Screenwriter of the Academy Award-winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and the Oscar-nominated Adaptation (2002) and Being John Malkovich (1999), Charlie Kaufman has won wide acclaim for creating inventive, elaborately surreal scenarios in which he composes unexpectedly nuanced portraits of the emotional lives of his characters -- people who are deeply flawed and also profoundly compelling. Our Charlie Kaufman mini-fest, celebrating in part the recent publication of The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman, edited by David LaRocca, will explore Kaufman's unique combination of fabulation and emotional realism.

Architecture Lecture on Werner Seligmann
Preservation Association of Central New York
Featuring Bruce Coleman

Price: $15 regular, $10 PACNY members
Mansion on James (Barnes Hiscock Mansion)
930 James St., Syracuse

A lecture about the famous Syracuse Architect Werner Seligmann.

Vocal Jazz Jam Coaching Sessions
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Nancy Kelly

Price: $3 students; $6 all others
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Professional jazz vocalist Nancy Kelly will be on hand to work with vocalists in a friendly, supportive master-class environment with professional musical accompaniment.

Participants are coached on all elements of song delivery, such as posture, tone, key placement, deportment, and interaction with the audience. School-age participants usually are recommended by their choral director, but the event is open to anyone, including college-age and older adults.

Vocalists are encouraged to prepare songs from the Great American Songbook. For students, the New York State School Music Association has a recommended list of songs (and this event complements the annual NYSSMA solo competition as a benefit to students).

For more information, e-mail info@cnyjazz.org or call 315-479-5299.

The Silver Nightingale in Concert
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $5 suggested donation
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Flutist, vocalist and composer Laura Sue, the Silver Nightingale, presents a gallery concert of environmentally-themed music and poetry. This evocative concert will represent works from throughout Laura Sue's eclectic musical career, as well as her long-term environmental activism.

Pride in Who We Are
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Glenn Kime, conductor

Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Rubblebucket, with Delicate Steve, Ryan Power
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Rubblebucket sounds like a kaleidoscope looks -- a continually changing pattern of ebullient drum beats, harmonies and horn exclamations, led by the buoyant vocals and saxophone of Kalmia Traver and the hyperkinetic energy of trumpet player Alex Toth. The musical couple formed Rubblebucket in 2007 after finding like-minded players at an art opening in a defunct milk bottling plant in Burlington, VT. By 2009 Rubblebucket had won a Boston Music Award for Best Live Act, while SPIN declared the group a "must-hear artist from the 2009 CMJs". Meanwhile, their studio recordings show characteristics "of what's been called the 'Yes' wave: an opposition to the '90s 'No' wave, mainly consisting of people who are virtuosic on their instruments and focus on harmonious creations." -Encore Magazine

SU Drama Senior Showcase
Syracuse University Drama Department

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

The Department of Drama's Senior Showcase features musical numbers and scenes presented by 24 graduating seniors majoring in acting and musical theater: Ross Baum, Farasha Baylock, Phil Blechman, Daniel Burns, LilyAnn Carlson, Kendall Cooper, Alliy Drago, Marie Eife, Aisling Halpin, Jenaha McLearn, Isaura Flores, Julie Wendy Grant, Mary Claire King, Charlo Kirk, Alani Kravitz, Toby Marks, Eric Meyers, Shawn Nabors, Marcelo Pereira, Emily Rice, Dawn Rother, Jasmine Thomas, Amos Vanderpoel and Caroline Wolfson.

In addition to the performance, portfolios by graduating seniors majoring in stage management and theater design and technology will be on display in the theater lobby.

The Syracuse performance of the showcase is designed as preparation for performances on May 7 at New York City's Peter Jay Sharp Theatre.

The showcase is directed by Ralph Zito, professor and chair of the Department of Drama, with song preparation by Brian Cimmet.

For more information, contact Timothy Davis-Reed.

The Brothers Size
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an exciting new voice in American Theatre and his award-winning The Brothers Size proves why. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

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Cinderella
Onondaga Junior/Senior High School

Price: $7 adult, $4 students
Onondaga Central Junior/Senior High School
4479 S. Onondaga Rd., Nedrow

Cinderella is the touchstone story of how dreams really do come true. The story is about a sweet young woman who is treated poorly by her family and dreams of a better life. With the help of her Fairy Godmother, impossible dreams become reality. Music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Patty Cormier, director; Anna Lysiuk, music director; Rob Cormier, technical director

Just Another High School Musical
Bishop Grimes Prep

Price: $8
Bishop Grimes Junior/Senior High School
6653 Kirkville Rd., East Syracuse

Eight high school actors, abandoned by their drama teacher for good reason, have to fend for themselves opening night in front of a live audience. The student assistant director and the stage manager find a box of scripts, which they pass out to the cast and try to throw something together. Written by Bryan Starchman and Stephen Murray.

The Glass Menagerie
Appleseed Productions
Linda Lance, director

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

A faded southern belle, with dreams of lost glory; a harried son with dreams of escape; a beautiful dreamer, whose collection of glass figurines is almost as fragile as she -- and a gentleman caller who could change everything for them all. These are the players in Tennessee Williams' classic drama about hope, loss and memories.

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Vigil
Redhouse
Bill Morris, director

Price: $25 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This hysterical and deliciously dark comedy by Canadian playwright Morris Panych explores what happens when an embittered, self-involved bachelor arrives to care for the dying aunt he hasn't seen since childhood. Vigil offers an uncanny balance of humor, ruminations on family, identity, and the human condition. Starring John Bixler and Caroline Fitzgerald.

Read a Review!

The Brothers Size
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an exciting new voice in American Theatre and his award-winning The Brothers Size proves why. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

Read a Review!

As You Like It
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ralph Zito, director

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

At the heart of this joyful play is perhaps Shakespeare's greatest comic heroine, Rosalind. As a woman disguised as a man, she exists not fully as either but in between, where she can relish the privilege of speaking with a man's authority informed by a woman's heart, a combination she needs in guiding the varied denizens of the Forest of Arden in the hey-nonny-no of love. As the great sage writes: "To be in love, and yet to see and feel the absurdity of it, one needs to go school with Rosalind." And school is rarely, if ever, this much fun. Sweet lovers love the spring!

Read a Review!

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

OCC Student Architecture and Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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