Sunday, March 30, 2008

CNY Pride Families Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people and their families in the Central New York region. The exhibit aims to provide true-to-life representation of LGBT families that are often missing from the mainstream media. The exhibit welcomes members of the campus and the Central New York community to come and learn about these families and their experiences through the visual photographs and the print stories that accompany them.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

New Paintings of Melissa Johnson: Spaces Between
LeMoyne College

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

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Opening reception will be held from 2:00 - 4:00 PM

Q-and-A with Taye Diggs and Andrew Palermo
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

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

Taye Diggs, well-known actor and alumnus of the Department of Drama in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will return to the SU campus March 29-30 to offer dance and acting workshops to more than 200 drama students, and he will also take part in a question-and-answer session Sunday morning.

Diggs will be joined in the workshops and Q&A by New York City-based performer and choreographer Andrew Palermo, his childhood friend. The Rochester, NY, natives formed the contemporary dance company dre.dance in 2004, which provides master classes in contemporary dance, musical theater, hip-hop, jazz and acting/audition techniques, in addition to performance.

The pair's dre.dance recently completed a residency at Wichita State University, teaching classes and setting the first section of their new work "beyond.words." This new piece centers on the autistic spectrum and will continue to be developed as part of the company's current residency at Joyce SoHo in New York City. In addition, dre.dance is in its second year as artist in residence at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (PAC) in New York City. This residency will culminate in fall 2008, at which time the company will present a collaborative evening-length work with composer Rob Reddy, also a Tribeca PAC artist in residence.

Diggs and Palermo have also conducted residencies, workshops and classes at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (UCC-CM); the University of Michigan; Pepperdine University; the SUNY College at Potsdam; the School of the Arts in Rochester; Broadway Dance Center in New York City; EDGE Performing Arts Center and Millennium Dance Complex, both in Los Angeles; and numerous national conventions, studios and performing arts camps. As performers, Diggs and Palermo have appeared on Broadway, off-Broadway and in touring productions of Carousel, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Rent, Annie Get Your Gun, West Side Story, The Wild Party, Little Fish, Chicago, A Soldier's Play and Wicked.

Diggs graduated from VPA in 1993 with a BFA in musical theater. He has numerous television credits to his name, including Kevin Hill, Ally McBeal, Day Break and, most recently, Private Practice. His feature film credits include How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Brown Sugar, Chicago and Rent.

Palermo graduated from UCC-CM with a BFA in musical theater. His stage choreography has been seen at the New Amsterdam Theatre, Carnegie Hall, the Hudson Theatre, 37 Arts, the Douglas Fairbanks Theatre, the New York City Festival of Dance 2005, the Old Globe, Prince Music Theater, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Music Theatre of Wichita and Sacramento Music Circus. For the camera, he has choreographed for Comedy Central's Stella and the film Holey Habits, as well as commercials for G-Shock and Showtime/Apple.

Spirituality and Medicine
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Terry Culbertson

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

Rev. Terry Culbertson was appointed University Hospital's first spiritual care manager in 2003. She provides spiritual care to patients and spiritual education for SUNY Upstate's staff and medical students. Rev. Culbertson is Central New York's only board certified chaplain in the Association for Professional Chaplains. She previously directed pastoral and spiritual care at the Interreligious Council of CNY, Loretto Geriatric Center, and The Hospice of CNY. She has received awards from Eckerd Drugs, Association of Professional Chaplains, College of Chaplains, Women's Day magazine, and the Syracuse Herald America.

Michael Harms Theater Festival
CNY Arts

Price: Free
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A Midsummer Night's Dream by Indian River Central School
Angels with Broken Wings: The Awakening by The Media Unit
Speak by Nottingham High School
Cards, Sure Thing, and Playwriting 101: The Rooftop Lesson by Sherburne-Earlville High School

The Michael Harms Theater Festival is a showcase for the theatrical performance and technical skills of students and teachers in secondary schools. It provides a learning experience in a professional setting as well as career direction for high school students. A variety of awards and scholarships are also given out during the festival to individuals and groups for achievement and support in pursuing theater education.

Sugarglass
Armory Square Playwrights

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

Armory Square Playhouse will present the third annual full production of a new play selected from the SU Drama Department's New Playwrights Festival of Student Plays. Sugarglass by Danielle Von Gal was selected as The Best of The Best of the 2008 festival. Syracuse University student Alex Kantor will direct the original student cast.

Sugarglass is a short full-length dramatic comedy that asks: Can your siblings be your friends? Can your friends be your lovers? And can you really be all washed up at age 20? (Sugarglass is a theater and film prop that looks like real glass. It can be molded into any shape and can shatter into millions of pieces.)

Playwright Danielle von Gal is a junior acting major from Miami, FL. Her credits with the Drama Department include Maggie in this year's highly acclaimed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Samantha in Uncommon Women and Others; and Aleena in 101, part of last year's New Playwrights Festival at SU.

This performance, as with most Armory Square presentations, is a presentation of a work in progress. A talkback discussion with the playwright will follow the performance.

Safe Sex
Simply New Theatre

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A comedy by Harvey Fierstein.

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The Bomb-itty of Errors
Syracuse Stage
Andy Goldberg, director

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

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors has its origins in ancient Rome in Plautus's wild comedy The Menaechmi. Two sets of identical twins and multiple cases of mistaken identity make for a riotous comic event. This latest incarnation is a hip-hop, rap romp retelling of the famous comedy. Four gifted performers hit the street to launch an assault of non-stop, lightning-paced, side-splitting comedy. After all, the Bard was a master of "word."

Servant of Two Masters
Syracuse University Drama Department
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Carlo Goldoni's classic farce, adapted by Tom Cone, tells the story of a man who tries to make his way in life by hiring himself simultaneously to two employers, keeping each unaware of the other. His attempts at keeping this secret leads him into a life of disguises, broken marriage contracts, duels, and incorrectly delivered letters. Originally written in 1745 and revised in 1753, the "man-versus-society" conflict at the core of this play is just as valid as it was more than two centuries ago.

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The Bomb-itty of Errors
Syracuse Stage
Andy Goldberg, director

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

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors has its origins in ancient Rome in Plautus's wild comedy The Menaechmi. Two sets of identical twins and multiple cases of mistaken identity make for a riotous comic event. This latest incarnation is a hip-hop, rap romp retelling of the famous comedy. Four gifted performers hit the street to launch an assault of non-stop, lightning-paced, side-splitting comedy. After all, the Bard was a master of "word."

Monday, March 31, 2008

CNY Pride Families Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people and their families in the Central New York region. The exhibit aims to provide true-to-life representation of LGBT families that are often missing from the mainstream media. The exhibit welcomes members of the campus and the Central New York community to come and learn about these families and their experiences through the visual photographs and the print stories that accompany them.

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

New Paintings of Melissa Johnson: Spaces Between
LeMoyne College

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

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Karen Tashkovski: Mixed Media Paintings
Westcott Community Center

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

The mixed-media paintings are from a series created in 2000. Titled "Dream Time," they depict the explosive dreams of the artist through the eyes of a cat. Tashkovski, a graduate of Syracuse University and an art teacher with the Chittenango Central School district, paints with oils and then attaches items to the canvas including more canvas, game pieces, playing cards, and sea-shells, which add texture to the work. The layers of texture represent the depth of a person's character.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Works of Scott Bennett
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

CNY Pride Families Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people and their families in the Central New York region. The exhibit aims to provide true-to-life representation of LGBT families that are often missing from the mainstream media. The exhibit welcomes members of the campus and the Central New York community to come and learn about these families and their experiences through the visual photographs and the print stories that accompany them.

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

New Paintings of Melissa Johnson: Spaces Between
LeMoyne College

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

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

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

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Works of Scott Bennett
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried show of works created by upstate New York artists.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Self, House, Self
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of drawings and sculptures by Marion Wilson and Michael Burkard. Both Wilson and Burkard utilize the metaphor of "house" and "home" in the artwork.

Marion Wilson is the Director of Community Initiatives in the Visual Arts at Syracuse University's College of Visual & Performing Arts and teaches in the Sculpture Department. Wilson started MLAB, a collaborative design team of art and architecture students throughout Syracuse University, as part of her belief in the revitalization of urban life through the arts. Wilson regularly exhibits artwork both nationally and internationally including Art Basel: Miami, Exit Art, and New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Michael Burkard is an Associate Professor of English in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. He has published ten poetry collections. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and many other magazines.

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

Gamelan Lila Muni
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Gamelan Lila Muni is an ensemble from the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. A gamelan is made up largely of percussion instruments such as metallophones, gongs, and drums, but can also include flutes, string instruments, and voices. The word gamelan, derived from a Javanese term for striking a percussion instrument, refers collectively to a set of musical instruments and, by extension, to the people who play them. Dating back to the Southeast Asian Hindu Majapahit empire (ca. AD 800), gamelan orchestras are now found in various forms throughout the Indonesian islands of Bali, Java, and Lombok and also in nearby Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

CNY Pride Families Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people and their families in the Central New York region. The exhibit aims to provide true-to-life representation of LGBT families that are often missing from the mainstream media. The exhibit welcomes members of the campus and the Central New York community to come and learn about these families and their experiences through the visual photographs and the print stories that accompany them.

New Paintings of Melissa Johnson: Spaces Between
LeMoyne College

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

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

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

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Works of Scott Bennett
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried show of works created by upstate New York artists.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Self, House, Self
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of drawings and sculptures by Marion Wilson and Michael Burkard. Both Wilson and Burkard utilize the metaphor of "house" and "home" in the artwork.

Marion Wilson is the Director of Community Initiatives in the Visual Arts at Syracuse University's College of Visual & Performing Arts and teaches in the Sculpture Department. Wilson started MLAB, a collaborative design team of art and architecture students throughout Syracuse University, as part of her belief in the revitalization of urban life through the arts. Wilson regularly exhibits artwork both nationally and internationally including Art Basel: Miami, Exit Art, and New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Michael Burkard is an Associate Professor of English in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. He has published ten poetry collections. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and many other magazines.

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Gregory Mather, piano; Stephen Pikarsky, piano

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

Duo/Solo recital including Liszt, Milhaud, others.

The Bomb-itty of Errors
Syracuse Stage
Andy Goldberg, director

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

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors has its origins in ancient Rome in Plautus's wild comedy The Menaechmi. Two sets of identical twins and multiple cases of mistaken identity make for a riotous comic event. This latest incarnation is a hip-hop, rap romp retelling of the famous comedy. Four gifted performers hit the street to launch an assault of non-stop, lightning-paced, side-splitting comedy. After all, the Bard was a master of "word."

Thursday, April 3, 2008

CNY Pride Families Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people and their families in the Central New York region. The exhibit aims to provide true-to-life representation of LGBT families that are often missing from the mainstream media. The exhibit welcomes members of the campus and the Central New York community to come and learn about these families and their experiences through the visual photographs and the print stories that accompany them.

New Paintings of Melissa Johnson: Spaces Between
LeMoyne College

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

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

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

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Works of Scott Bennett
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried show of works created by upstate New York artists.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

Read a review!

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Self, House, Self
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of drawings and sculptures by Marion Wilson and Michael Burkard. Both Wilson and Burkard utilize the metaphor of "house" and "home" in the artwork.

Marion Wilson is the Director of Community Initiatives in the Visual Arts at Syracuse University's College of Visual & Performing Arts and teaches in the Sculpture Department. Wilson started MLAB, a collaborative design team of art and architecture students throughout Syracuse University, as part of her belief in the revitalization of urban life through the arts. Wilson regularly exhibits artwork both nationally and internationally including Art Basel: Miami, Exit Art, and New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Michael Burkard is an Associate Professor of English in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. He has published ten poetry collections. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and many other magazines.

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Opening reception.

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

Jewmongous
Hillel Jewish Student Union
Featuring Sean Altman

Price: $7 regular, $5 with SU ID
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Jewmongous, a solo comedy song concert with occasional guests, is the colicky, uncircumcised brain child of Sean Altman, the golden-voiced song-writing wiz behind the pioneering comedy act What I Like About Jew and the founder and former leader of Rockapella. Sean was featured in Time Out New York's cover story "The New Super Jews," (with Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman) and in the New York Times feature about "the Jewish Hipster Movement." He debuted Jewmongous in December 2006 and has garnered press accolades coast to coast. The "Taller Than Jesus" tour hit 16 cities in December 2007.

Annual Prism Concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The Prism concert is a unique 360-degree panoramic concert experience, where darkness and light intertwine, offering music of all genres and performances by student soloists and ensembles.

Florence of Moravia
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery/comedy dinner theater.

Little Shop of Horrors
Liverpool High School

Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

The Bomb-itty of Errors
Syracuse Stage
Andy Goldberg, director

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

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors has its origins in ancient Rome in Plautus's wild comedy The Menaechmi. Two sets of identical twins and multiple cases of mistaken identity make for a riotous comic event. This latest incarnation is a hip-hop, rap romp retelling of the famous comedy. Four gifted performers hit the street to launch an assault of non-stop, lightning-paced, side-splitting comedy. After all, the Bard was a master of "word."

Fame! The Musical
First Year Players

Price: $7 general public; $4 with SU ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The musical Fame brings us to the New York High School of Performing Arts in New York City, where a group of actors, dancers, and singers are trying to learn all they can in order to become famous. These characters, of various backgrounds, explore themes that are still as relevant today as they were more than 20 years ago. Laughter and tears await you in musical numbers like Hard Work, Bring On Tomorrow, and Fame, which tackle difficult themes including race, drugs, love, death, and surviving in a competitive educational environment.

Parking is available in the Lehman and Harrison parking lots at no charge.

Preview: Romance
Rarely Done Productions
Judith Harris, director

Price: Pay-what-you-can preview ($5 minimum)
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A screwball look at political correctness, jurisprudence, and hilariously misquoted Shakespeare. The characters reveal to us their bigotry -- against religion, against race, against national origin, against sexual orientation -- all in rhythm with David Mamet's unique storytelling style. Be prepared to be offended and yet laugh through this 2005 comedy sometimes referred to as "Kafka Meets Monty Python." Mature audiences only.

Seating for each show is limited. To reserve tickets, phone the box office at 315-546-3224.

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Friday, April 4, 2008

CNY Pride Families Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people and their families in the Central New York region. The exhibit aims to provide true-to-life representation of LGBT families that are often missing from the mainstream media. The exhibit welcomes members of the campus and the Central New York community to come and learn about these families and their experiences through the visual photographs and the print stories that accompany them.

New Paintings of Melissa Johnson: Spaces Between
LeMoyne College

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

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

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

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Works of Scott Bennett
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

There will be an opening reception 6:00  9:00pm, with live jazz by the Mark Filsinger Trio, and refreshments.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried show of works created by upstate New York artists.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Self, House, Self
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of drawings and sculptures by Marion Wilson and Michael Burkard. Both Wilson and Burkard utilize the metaphor of "house" and "home" in the artwork.

Marion Wilson is the Director of Community Initiatives in the Visual Arts at Syracuse University's College of Visual & Performing Arts and teaches in the Sculpture Department. Wilson started MLAB, a collaborative design team of art and architecture students throughout Syracuse University, as part of her belief in the revitalization of urban life through the arts. Wilson regularly exhibits artwork both nationally and internationally including Art Basel: Miami, Exit Art, and New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Michael Burkard is an Associate Professor of English in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. He has published ten poetry collections. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and many other magazines.

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

transparent; 100% Woman
Reel Queer Film Festival

Price: Free
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

transparent
In a world that sees only pink or blue, transparent presents the extraordinary stories of 19 transgendered men from 14 different states who have given birth to children. The film focuses on its subjects' lives as parents, revealing the diverse ways in which each person reconciles giving birth and being a biological mother, now that they identify and are perceived as men.

100% Woman
As the first transgendered athlete ever named to a national team, Canadian downhill mountain biker Michelle Dumaresq is testing all the limits. But from her very first race she faces active protest from the other racers, some of whom challenge her very identity as a woman. As Michelle struggles for acceptance -- as an athlete and a woman -- we're forced to ask our own questions, not just about fairness in sport, but also about the nature and definition of gender.

Additional selected short films will be screened.

Kristin Bacchiocchi-Stewart Flute Ensemble
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Flutist Kristin Bacchiocchi-Stewart is a Faculty Associate at Peabody Conservatory of Music.

Jamie Anderson
Folkus Project

Price: $10
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Warm, witty, offbeat songs and a heavenly voice.

Known for her expressive voice, solid songwriting and engaging stage presence, this feminist and outspoken songwriter dabbles in many musical genres, journeying from country to harmony to rocking blues. Her songs span a wide range of contemporary themes as well, dealing frankly with families, divorce, cancer, and gay and lesbian issues. But laughter is a big part of Anderson's live show, too, with her offbeat song intros and amusing stories helping to keep the performance fun. Some audiences have been treated to baton twirling and belly dancing. But when she delves into more serious issues, there's a lot of love behind her writing, illuminating her subjects with hope and optimism.

Classics Series: The Song of the Earth
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Nancy Maultsby, mezzo-soprano; John Mac Master, tenor; Laurence Kaptain, cimbalom

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

Kodaly Hary Janos Suite
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth)

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Terry Blackhawk, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Terry Blackhawk's poetry collections include Trio: Voices from the Myths (Ridgeway Press); Body & Field, (MSU Press); Escape Artist (BkMk Press), winner of the 2002 John Ciardi Prize; and a Greatest Hits chapbook from Pudding House Press. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Michigan Quarterly Review, Rattle, Borderlands, Nimrod and many others. In 1995 she founded InsideOut Literary Arts Project, a writers-in-schools organization which has grown to serve over 2,500 Detroit students of all ages in over 100 classrooms annually. She lives in Detroit and was named the 2007 "Book Woman of the Year" by the Detroit chapter of the WNBA (Women's National Book Association).

Alice in Wonderland
East Syracuse-Minoa High School

Price: $7
East Syracuse-Minoa High School
6400 Freemont Rd., East Syracuse

This production is directed by students in the school's inaugural Directing I class.

Disney's High School Musical
Christian Brothers Academy

Price: $7
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Little Shop of Horrors
Liverpool High School

Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

Fame! The Musical
First Year Players

Price: $7 general public; $4 with SU ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The musical Fame brings us to the New York High School of Performing Arts in New York City, where a group of actors, dancers, and singers are trying to learn all they can in order to become famous. These characters, of various backgrounds, explore themes that are still as relevant today as they were more than 20 years ago. Laughter and tears await you in musical numbers like Hard Work, Bring On Tomorrow, and Fame, which tackle difficult themes including race, drugs, love, death, and surviving in a competitive educational environment.

Parking is available in the Lehman and Harrison parking lots at no charge.

The Mystery at Twickenham Vicarage and Other Oddities by David Ives
LeMoyne College

Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Brain candy of the first order and offering laughs from many angles, the plays tweak everything from highbrow English Mysteries (Prime Suspect meets Miss Marple), to simultaneous translations ("well..." says a customer. "A deep hole in the ground" the interpreter interprets), psycho-analysis meets Stephen Hawking. Fun for the well read and thinly read alike. The titles of the individual plays are The Mystery at Twickenham Vicarage, Arabian Nights, Enigma Variations and The Philadelphia. Not for the faint of heart or humor impaired.

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Romance
Rarely Done Productions
Judith Harris, director

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

A screwball look at political correctness, jurisprudence, and hilariously misquoted Shakespeare. The characters reveal to us their bigotry -- against religion, against race, against national origin, against sexual orientation -- all in rhythm with David Mamet's unique storytelling style. Be prepared to be offended and yet laugh through this 2005 comedy sometimes referred to as "Kafka Meets Monty Python." Mature audiences only.

Seating for each show is limited. To reserve tickets, phone the box office at 315-546-3224.

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Safe Sex
Simply New Theatre

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A comedy by Harvey Fierstein.

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The Bomb-itty of Errors
Syracuse Stage
Andy Goldberg, director

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

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors has its origins in ancient Rome in Plautus's wild comedy The Menaechmi. Two sets of identical twins and multiple cases of mistaken identity make for a riotous comic event. This latest incarnation is a hip-hop, rap romp retelling of the famous comedy. Four gifted performers hit the street to launch an assault of non-stop, lightning-paced, side-splitting comedy. After all, the Bard was a master of "word."

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Wit's End Players

Price: $20
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Famed comedian and former Saturday Night Live alum Steve Martin's Off-Broadway comedy finds Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and a time-traveling Elvis meeting in a Paris café (The Nimble Rabbit) in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with Cubism. Martin's brilliant script plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these three geniuses, and a zany cast of characters, muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious hilarity!

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Saturday, April 5, 2008

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Fine Art & Flowers 2008
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $7 regular; $5 students ages 6-18/seniors; free for children under 6
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This annual event features floral arrangements inspired by art from the Everson's permanent collection.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

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

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried show of works created by upstate New York artists.

New Paintings of Melissa Johnson: Spaces Between
LeMoyne College

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

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

The Bubble
Reel Queer Film Festival

Price: Free
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

The Bubble
This contemporary, queer Romeo And Juliet is the story of the love between two young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, and the forces that conspire to drive them apart. The two men celebrate a peaceful coexistence, and call for an end to the occupation of Palestinian territories. But ultimately, their carefully constructed bubble is shattered by the political and social realities of the Middle East, and the constant outbursts of violence.

Additional selected short films will be screened.

Classics Series: The Song of the Earth
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Nancy Maultsby, mezzo-soprano; John Mac Master, tenor; Laurence Kaptain, cimbalom

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

Kodaly Hary Janos Suite
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth)

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The Reluctant Dragons
Open Hand Theater
Puppets with Pizazz

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

Meet Dragonia, a poetry spouting dragon and old St. George in this modern twist on the traditional dragon story. Nancy Sanders produces lots of giggles with her hilarious puppets.

Alice in Wonderland
East Syracuse-Minoa High School

Price: $7
East Syracuse-Minoa High School
6400 Freemont Rd., East Syracuse

This production is directed by students in the school's inaugural Directing I class.

Alice in Wonderland
East Syracuse-Minoa High School

Price: $7
East Syracuse-Minoa High School
6400 Freemont Rd., East Syracuse

This production is directed by students in the school's inaugural Directing I class.

Disney's High School Musical
Christian Brothers Academy

Price: $7
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Romeo and Juliet
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Price: $20 regular, $18 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Little Shop of Horrors
Liverpool High School

Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

Fame! The Musical
First Year Players

Price: $7 general public; $4 with SU ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The musical Fame brings us to the New York High School of Performing Arts in New York City, where a group of actors, dancers, and singers are trying to learn all they can in order to become famous. These characters, of various backgrounds, explore themes that are still as relevant today as they were more than 20 years ago. Laughter and tears await you in musical numbers like Hard Work, Bring On Tomorrow, and Fame, which tackle difficult themes including race, drugs, love, death, and surviving in a competitive educational environment.

Parking is available in the Lehman and Harrison parking lots at no charge.

The Mystery at Twickenham Vicarage and Other Oddities by David Ives
LeMoyne College

Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Brain candy of the first order and offering laughs from many angles, the plays tweak everything from highbrow English Mysteries (Prime Suspect meets Miss Marple), to simultaneous translations ("well..." says a customer. "A deep hole in the ground" the interpreter interprets), psycho-analysis meets Stephen Hawking. Fun for the well read and thinly read alike. The titles of the individual plays are The Mystery at Twickenham Vicarage, Arabian Nights, Enigma Variations and The Philadelphia. Not for the faint of heart or humor impaired.

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Romance
Rarely Done Productions
Judith Harris, director

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

A screwball look at political correctness, jurisprudence, and hilariously misquoted Shakespeare. The characters reveal to us their bigotry -- against religion, against race, against national origin, against sexual orientation -- all in rhythm with David Mamet's unique storytelling style. Be prepared to be offended and yet laugh through this 2005 comedy sometimes referred to as "Kafka Meets Monty Python." Mature audiences only.

Seating for each show is limited. To reserve tickets, phone the box office at 315-546-3224.

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Safe Sex
Simply New Theatre

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A comedy by Harvey Fierstein.

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Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Wit's End Players

Price: $20
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Famed comedian and former Saturday Night Live alum Steve Martin's Off-Broadway comedy finds Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and a time-traveling Elvis meeting in a Paris café (The Nimble Rabbit) in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with Cubism. Martin's brilliant script plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these three geniuses, and a zany cast of characters, muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious hilarity!

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Sunday, April 6, 2008

Fine Art & Flowers 2008
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $7 regular; $5 students ages 6-18/seniors; free for children under 6
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This annual event features floral arrangements inspired by art from the Everson's permanent collection.

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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New Paintings of Melissa Johnson: Spaces Between
LeMoyne College

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

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Vision of Sound
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors, 18 and under free
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

New music with dance, choreographed by the dance faculties at SUNY Brockport and the University at Buffalo.

Ping Jin Three Chinese Folksoongs, choreographer Melanie Aceto
Mark Olivieri String Trio, choreographer Anne Burnidge
Marc Mellits Tapas, choreographer Heather Roffe
Bernadette Speach My Fuchsia is small, like me, choreographer Leslie Wexler
Sam Pellman Dancing in the Dark, choreographer Ginny Skinner
Cort Lippe Music for Tap Dance and Computer, choreographer Bill Evans

Musicians include Alyssa Blount, violin; Amy Diefes, viola; Elinor Frey, cello; and Sar Shalom Strong, piano.

Film Series: The Court Jester
Everson Museum of Art

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

Watch as The Court Jester makes many surprising discoveries and stumbles through adventures along the way. Starring Danny Kaye, and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, this hilarious film was the most expensive comedy ever produced. (1956, 101 minutes)

SU Saxophone Ensemble
Arts Alive in Liverpool

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

Soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones.

Searching for Light
Norma Tippett, soprano; Sandra Murphy, piano

Price: Free
Bellevue Heights United Methodist Church
2112 S. Geddes St., Syracuse

With cameo appearances by Annie Preston, trumpet and Doug Dowty, violin.

For more information, phone 315-469-3379.

Mozart Requiem
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor
Featuring Nora Fleming, soprano; Jean Loftus, mezzo-soprano; Robert Allen, tenor; Jimi James, bass-baritone; and members of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra

Price: $15 regular, $12 students/seniors, $8 children 15 and under. $3 discount for tickets purchased before March 21
Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Mozart's last and unfinished work will be performed with its recent completion by Harvard professor and internationally renowned Baroque specialist and concert pianist Robert Levin.

In the 1960s, Mozart's sketch for an Amen fugue was discovered, and since the 1970s, several musicologists who were dissatisfied with the Franz Sussmayr completion have attempted alternative completions of the Requiem. The completion that has gained the most credibility and respect among musicologists and conductors alike is the one by Robert Levin. His completion of the Requiem was premiered by Helmuth Rilling in August of 1991 at the European Music Festival in Stuttgart, Germany. It has since been performed worldwide and recorded numerous times. In his completion, Levin respects the performance history of the Requiem, but expands and emphasizes the spiritual and dramatic power of the Mozart fragment in a thrilling manner. It is our privilege and pleasure to perform, for its premiere in Central New York, the Robert Levin completion of Mozart's Requiem. You will not want to miss it!

Phone 315-437-1995 to order tickets.

Sway: Music of Miami!
Malmgren Concert Series
Seraphic Fire Chamber Choir

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The concert celebrates Miami's musical roots. Under the direction of conductor and artistic director Patrick Dupré Quigley, the 16-member ensemble will perform a daring and eclectic program featuring early and contemporary choral music from Haiti, Colombia, Spain, Peru and the United States.

The program will feature the Northeast premieres of works of contemporary and early music from American, Caribbean and Latin American by composers Ingram Marshall (United States), Sydney Guillaume (Haiti) and Alvaro Bermudez (Colombia). Guillaume's Dominus Vobiscum interweaves Gregorian melodies with Creole texts and rhythms. Padre Nuestro, by Bermudez, re-envisions the pasillo (a traditional Colombian dance form) through a modern lens. The transcription of an acoustic version of Marshall's Hymnodic Delays was commissioned by Suzanne Hatcher, longtime member of Seraphic Fire and professor of vocal studies at William Jewel College in Kansas.

Free parking is available in the Quad 1 lot and adjacent lots.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Kristin Bacchiocchi-Stewart, flute; Michael Zell, marimba and percussion

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The program will feature works by Roshanne Etezady, Peter Klatzow, Gareth Farr, Toru Takemitsu, Dennis DeSantis and Astor Piazzolla.

Bacchiocchi-Stewart is pursuing her D.M.A. in flute performance at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she is also a flute faculty member and a chamber music coach. She is the flute professor at Frostburg State University, where she teaches woodwind methods classes and directs the flute ensemble. An active performer of contemporary music, she is also a dedicated chamber musician and a member of the group Tritonis. As an orchestral musician, she has played with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Catskill Symphony Orchestra and the Albany Pro Musica. She has given concerts, lectures and master classes throughout the United States and has also performed in several groups throughout Europe and Japan.

Bacchiocchi-Stewart holds an A.A.S. from Onondaga Community College, a B.M. from Ithaca College and an M.M. from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Her primary teachers have been Marina Piccinini, Bradley Garner, Wendy Mehne, Claudia Anderson and Selma Moore.

Zell serves as principal timpanist of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra and is currently pursuing an M.M. at the Yale University School of Music. As a freelance percussionist, he is active throughout Maryland, having performed with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra and the Baltimore Sinfonietta. He has participated in summer festivals in Aspen, Colo., where he received the Charles Owen Memorial Scholarship, and Norfolk, Conn., as part of the Yale University School of Music Summer Program. He holds a B.Mus. from the Peabody Conservatory of Music.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage.

Little Shop of Horrors
Liverpool High School

Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

Safe Sex
Simply New Theatre

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A comedy by Harvey Fierstein.

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The Bomb-itty of Errors
Syracuse Stage
Andy Goldberg, director

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

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors has its origins in ancient Rome in Plautus's wild comedy The Menaechmi. Two sets of identical twins and multiple cases of mistaken identity make for a riotous comic event. This latest incarnation is a hip-hop, rap romp retelling of the famous comedy. Four gifted performers hit the street to launch an assault of non-stop, lightning-paced, side-splitting comedy. After all, the Bard was a master of "word."

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Wit's End Players

Price: $20
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Famed comedian and former Saturday Night Live alum Steve Martin's Off-Broadway comedy finds Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and a time-traveling Elvis meeting in a Paris café (The Nimble Rabbit) in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with Cubism. Martin's brilliant script plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these three geniuses, and a zany cast of characters, muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious hilarity!

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