Friday, October 30, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Mary Giehl
Onondaga Community College

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

Mary Giehl's work has taken on themes that she had encountered through her work experience as a registered nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit. She had often cared for children after they had been abused. Much of her work focuses around this theme. There are hints of darkness and confinement in her installations along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness.

Slow Scandal: Works of Marco Maggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery and The Warehouse Gallery are pleased to announce the opening of a twofold exhibition by renowned artist Marco Maggi. "Slow Scandal" is the title of the exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery, while The Warehouse Gallery presents "American Ream."

The fundamental nature of this dual experiment, according to Maggi, is perception, the idea of difficult perception, "a precise confusion," Maggi comments during a recent conversation with the show's curators, Anja Chávez of The Warehouse Gallery, and Pedro Cuperman of The Point of Contact Gallery. "The aim is to slow down the viewer, and not make a text. There's no complete message, only a second reality to ponder, to start a dialogue of the viewer with the viewer, not with the work." The experience is more about intimacy than about information, or the vacuum of information, and our necessity to fill the vacuum.

Chilton & Johnson
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Chilton & Johnson features recent digital illustrations by Kelly Chilton and abstract paintings by Melissa Johnson. The exhibition is an explosion of color in a mix of fantasy worlds and formal discussions.

Onondaga Lake Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring over two dozen images drawn primarily from the Onondaga Historical Association collection exploring the evolution of Onondaga Lake over the last 500 years.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Memories in Paint: Works by Michael Lynne
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Artist Statement by Michael Lynne:
My work and my interests are eclectic and are reflected throughout the work I have selected for this show. You can see the work meander between realism, social commentary, narrative and even some abstract paintings. The changes in interest, direction and use of mediums are evident. One "stage" is not necessarily better than another but rather reflects either a change in interest by the artist or the arrival of a particularly inspiring idea. This evolving path has been my own road to self-discovery as an artist and is a path that I continue to travel.

Celebrating 20 Years
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

A diverse show of 56 creative artists who have previously exhibited at Edgewood Gallery.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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Works by Betsy Andrus Smith
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of paintings, jewelry and slumped glass plates by Seneca Falls artist Betsy Andrus Smith. Smith, an award-winning painter, has exhibited at the Salon du Vieux Colombier Paris; Musee D'Art Moderne in Tonneins, France; and Agora Gallery and Abney Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in Manhattan Arts International magazine.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A complementary exhibit to the Everson Museum of Art's "From Turner To Cezanne", OHA's exhibit will look at what was happening in Syracuse at the time of the European Impressionist painters, 1880-1916. The exhibit will feature artwork, clothing, products, archival material, and other items that will interpret the Syracuse scene during this time impressionist painters were viewed by their contemporaries as "outrageously modern."

Fired Experience: Recent Work by Jack Troy
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jack Troy, teacher, potter, and writer once wrote, ",I have picked up, moved, shaped and lightened myself of many tons of clay, and those tons lifted, moved and shaped me...". He has taught more than 200 workshops in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Great Britain. He has worked at the Institute of Ceramic Studies, Jingdezhen, China; and was an invited artist at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, in Japan. His education in ceramics has included trips to 13 countries. Having published over 70 articles in ceramics publications, he also wrote Salt Glazed Ceramics, Woodfired Stoneware and Porcelain, and Calling the Planet Home, [poems]. His work has been exhibited widely, and is in numerous collections, public and private. Troy will bring this wealth of knowledge and experience to Syracuse University for a 2-week intensive workshop and kiln firing. The exhibition of his work at the Gandee Gallery is in conjunction with his visit to the Syracuse University Ceramics Program and will feature his most recent work.

Silent Auction for St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Art donated to a silent auction to support the St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach.

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition highlights the work of mixed media photography pioneer John Wood. Over 100 works that chronicle the artist's work from the 1960s to the present will be on display in his first major retrospective exhibition.

Well known as a photographer who routinely broke the barriers of "pure photography," Wood's work is credited as being the foundation for the mixed media and digital imagery processes of the last two decades. A master of processes from straight photography, collage, cliché verre, solarization, mixed media, offset lithography to drawing, he has a unique ability to work decisively across a variety of media with ease.

Wood's early influences as a photographer stem from his time served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot, as seen in his multiple frame landscapes and time-lapse collages. After the war, Wood trained as a visual designer and photographer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wood spent 35 years teaching photography and printmaking at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Like the work of Jasper Johns, John Wood is relentless in pushing the boundaries of traditional media. His work has laid the groundwork for the multi process, cross disciplinary artwork being created for years.

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

Wild Card Exhibition: George F. Earle Retrospective
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

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Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibition of work by faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. For more information, phone 315-443-5889.

Window Project: This is Not Site-Specific by Nathan Cordero
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based, self-taught Nathan Cordero moved recently from Sacramento, CA, where he worked primarily in public art. For the Window Projects, Cordero has covered the wall with paintings that refer to urban art while also creating an assemblage (through the inclusion of everyday objects into the artwork). An excellent draftsman, his art is about self-expression, protest and the desire to take street art into the galleries.

For this exhibition, Cordero used found objects such as plywood and photographs. He covered a person's face in the photographs to make her/him look like a thief or terrorist, and to reflect upon specific events in his personal life that also refer to issues in today's society. Engraved into the plywood, the paintings manifest the artist's ease in the medium. He uses masking tape or paint to refer to common television talk shows, personal events or books that are part of pop culture. Cordero's work, which was for the most part created within the last few months, demonstrates the artist's capacity of turning daily, banal or threatening events into art. This is his first solo museum exhibition.

American Ream: Works of Marco Maggi
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition features the installation HOTBED (ORANGE), the drawing PLEXI LINE, and the video D-REAMS. The exhibition is intended for audiences of all ages.

Uruguayan-born, New Paltz-based Marco Maggi is best known for his use of everyday materials on which he inscribes a vocabulary that evokes Aztec culture and the art of Joaquín Torres-García. By focusing on visual codes (such as repeated visual symbols that only suggest objects), spatiality, and the political connotations of maps, Maggi's work also reflects Latin American traditions and concerns expressed by many contemporary artists. American Ream (The Warehouse Gallery) and Slow Scandal (The Point of Contact Gallery) are the result of a partnership between both organizations and feature media that the artist chose as a means of responding to both spaces.

Let My People Go: Songs of Hope and Courage
Syracuse Community Choir
Karen Mihalyi, conductor
Featuring Kim and Reggie Harris and children of Levy K-8 School

Price: $3-$5 sliding scale
Levy K-8 School
111 Fellows Ave., Syracuse

Legends of Upstate New York I
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Steve Brown and Joe Riposo with the CNY Jazz Orchestra

Price: $19.50, $24.50, $27.50 ($5 discount for students and donors)
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

To residents of the Big Apple, Upstate starts in Westchester, right? We thought we'd correct this peculiar myopia by showing off the finest exponents of jazz who just happen to live across our region, home and birthplace of many of the finest practitioners of the art in the world—the ones tough enough to take a little snow and laugh it off. We've paired Syracuse's own Dean of Jazz and Syracuse University prof Joe Riposo with Ithaca's signature musician and educator Steve Brown in a powerhouse "twofer" that will feature them and their original writing, individually and together. Double the trouble for a single price! Such a deal.

Classics Series: Beethoven's Emperor Concerto
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Jon Kimura Parker, piano

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

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor"
Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2

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The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.

Any Wednesday
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $35 includes dinner, show, tax, and tip
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

A light and bouncy comedy by Muriel Resnik.

For reservations, phone 315-673-2255.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The respected Dr. Jekyll has begun to display alarmingly erratic behavior toward his friends. At the same time, a brutal figure has begun to haunt the city's streets. In Jeffrey Hatcher's intense new version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, Dr. Jekyll confronts the many faces of the monstrous Mr. Hyde in a maze of interlocking scenes that attempt to answer the puzzles at the heart of a tortured soul. On the fog-bound streets of Victorian-era London, Henry Jekyll's experiments with exotic "powders and tinctures" have brought forth his other self -- Edward Hyde, a sensualist and villain free to commit the sins Jekyll is too civilized to comprehend. When Hyde meets a woman who stirs his interest, Jekyll fears for her life and decides to end his experiments. But Hyde has other ideas, and so the two sides battle each other in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse to determine who shall be the master and who his slave.

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Rabbit Hole
Black Box Players
David Julian Melendez, director

Price: Free, but seating is limited
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Rabbit Hole has nothing to do with Alice In Wonderland. The truth of the show is anything but a fairy tale. Eight months ago, a tragedy tore this family apart and unexpected news brings them all together to deal with it once again. We follow the Corbett family as they fight, work and struggle to keep things together or at the very least keep it from completely falling apart. The ultimate question is not what happened, but whether or not they will survive the aftermath. Is the weight of the tragedy too much for them or will they find a way to come together and be a stronger family in spite (or perhaps because) of it? David Lindsay-Abaire takes us on an emotional ride with both pain and humor, with his naturally written dialogue and his incredibly storytelling takes us on a tumultuous ride down the Rabbit Hole.

Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is an American playwright and lyricist. He received the Puiltzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for Rabbit Hole. Lindsay-Abaire describes his plays as centering around "outsiders in search of clarity." Lindsay-Abaire's most recent project is the book for the musical High Fidelity. He was also nominated for two Tony Awards for the book and lyrics of Shrek the Musical.

Director David Julian Melendez is a senior Acting major at Syracuse University. His directing credits include Keep Your Eyes On Your Own Paper (an original work by Jake Keefe) and Where's My Money? (winner of Black Box Awards for Best Production, Best Director, Best Leading Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Featured Actress)

To make reservations, email blackboxtickets@gmail.com. Request for tickets will receive a follow-up phone call from the box office. Please arrive a half hour prior to performance to assure seating.

As You Like It
LeMoyne College
Steve Braddock, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Shakespeare's astutely funny pastoral comedy, As You Like It, runs the gamut of the comedic canon, combining cross-dressing and slapstick with gentle satire and sparkling, witty conversation.

As You Like It follows the lively exploits of banished Rosalind and her quest for true love amid the schemes of two warring brothers. In the untarnished and idyllic Forest of Arden, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, stumbles upon an extraordinary assemblage of characters, including a fool, a malcontent traveler, her own exiled father, and the cast-out young man she loves.

The play, which contains some of Shakespeare's loveliest poetry, including "All the world's a stage," provides a glimpse into the contrasts between the courtbristling with envy and rivalryand the compassionate harmony of the forest, allowing us to recognize our own human foibles by considering the romantic versus the realistic, and by laughing at the excesses of love.

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Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Syracuse Stage

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

Set in the real-life Parisian cafe Le Lapin Agile (Nimble Rabbit), Picasso at the Lapin Agile wonders what if contemporaries Picasso and Einstein accidentally met while in their 20s, just before the famous scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. Laughter, comedy, absurdity and some delightfully zany musings on the nature of art, science and the 20th century, as only Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin) could render them. Plus a royal visit.

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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

Read a review!

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Wild Card Exhibition: George F. Earle Retrospective
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works by Betsy Andrus Smith
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of paintings, jewelry and slumped glass plates by Seneca Falls artist Betsy Andrus Smith. Smith, an award-winning painter, has exhibited at the Salon du Vieux Colombier Paris; Musee D'Art Moderne in Tonneins, France; and Agora Gallery and Abney Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in Manhattan Arts International magazine.

Silent Auction for St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Art donated to a silent auction to support the St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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Fired Experience: Recent Work by Jack Troy
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jack Troy, teacher, potter, and writer once wrote, ",I have picked up, moved, shaped and lightened myself of many tons of clay, and those tons lifted, moved and shaped me...". He has taught more than 200 workshops in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Great Britain. He has worked at the Institute of Ceramic Studies, Jingdezhen, China; and was an invited artist at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, in Japan. His education in ceramics has included trips to 13 countries. Having published over 70 articles in ceramics publications, he also wrote Salt Glazed Ceramics, Woodfired Stoneware and Porcelain, and Calling the Planet Home, [poems]. His work has been exhibited widely, and is in numerous collections, public and private. Troy will bring this wealth of knowledge and experience to Syracuse University for a 2-week intensive workshop and kiln firing. The exhibition of his work at the Gandee Gallery is in conjunction with his visit to the Syracuse University Ceramics Program and will feature his most recent work.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A complementary exhibit to the Everson Museum of Art's "From Turner To Cezanne", OHA's exhibit will look at what was happening in Syracuse at the time of the European Impressionist painters, 1880-1916. The exhibit will feature artwork, clothing, products, archival material, and other items that will interpret the Syracuse scene during this time impressionist painters were viewed by their contemporaries as "outrageously modern."

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition highlights the work of mixed media photography pioneer John Wood. Over 100 works that chronicle the artist's work from the 1960s to the present will be on display in his first major retrospective exhibition.

Well known as a photographer who routinely broke the barriers of "pure photography," Wood's work is credited as being the foundation for the mixed media and digital imagery processes of the last two decades. A master of processes from straight photography, collage, cliché verre, solarization, mixed media, offset lithography to drawing, he has a unique ability to work decisively across a variety of media with ease.

Wood's early influences as a photographer stem from his time served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot, as seen in his multiple frame landscapes and time-lapse collages. After the war, Wood trained as a visual designer and photographer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wood spent 35 years teaching photography and printmaking at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Like the work of Jasper Johns, John Wood is relentless in pushing the boundaries of traditional media. His work has laid the groundwork for the multi process, cross disciplinary artwork being created for years.

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

VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibition of work by faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. For more information, phone 315-443-5889.

American Ream: Works of Marco Maggi
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition features the installation HOTBED (ORANGE), the drawing PLEXI LINE, and the video D-REAMS. The exhibition is intended for audiences of all ages.

Uruguayan-born, New Paltz-based Marco Maggi is best known for his use of everyday materials on which he inscribes a vocabulary that evokes Aztec culture and the art of Joaquín Torres-García. By focusing on visual codes (such as repeated visual symbols that only suggest objects), spatiality, and the political connotations of maps, Maggi's work also reflects Latin American traditions and concerns expressed by many contemporary artists. American Ream (The Warehouse Gallery) and Slow Scandal (The Point of Contact Gallery) are the result of a partnership between both organizations and feature media that the artist chose as a means of responding to both spaces.

Window Project: This is Not Site-Specific by Nathan Cordero
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based, self-taught Nathan Cordero moved recently from Sacramento, CA, where he worked primarily in public art. For the Window Projects, Cordero has covered the wall with paintings that refer to urban art while also creating an assemblage (through the inclusion of everyday objects into the artwork). An excellent draftsman, his art is about self-expression, protest and the desire to take street art into the galleries.

For this exhibition, Cordero used found objects such as plywood and photographs. He covered a person's face in the photographs to make her/him look like a thief or terrorist, and to reflect upon specific events in his personal life that also refer to issues in today's society. Engraved into the plywood, the paintings manifest the artist's ease in the medium. He uses masking tape or paint to refer to common television talk shows, personal events or books that are part of pop culture. Cordero's work, which was for the most part created within the last few months, demonstrates the artist's capacity of turning daily, banal or threatening events into art. This is his first solo museum exhibition.

Turner to Cézanne
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free with same-day exhibition admission
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Two Welsh sisters, Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, amassed an amazing collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings at a time when modern French art was largely ignored in Britain. The collection, which was bequeathed to the National Museum Wales, includes such artists as Turner, Monet, and van Gogh. The works in this exhibition chronicle the evolution of modern art, from the mid-1800s to the early 20th century and were assembled as a traveling exhibition, visiting five museums in the United States. This film examines the lives of the sisters and explores select masterpieces from the exhibition.

Halloween Movie Marathon
ArtRage Gallery

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

All horror, all night! Five films to scare you silly! Come for one or stay for them all. Costumes encouraged.

6:30 pm: Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Bela Lugosi as Dracula, Boris Karloff as Frankenstein, Lon Chaney as the Wolf Man! A pair of nitwit freight handlers meet three horror icons in one funny fright fest. A blast from the past for all ages.

8:15 pm: House on Haunted Hill
With Vincent Price. This old house has a reputation for murder. Would you stay the night?

9:30 pm: An American Werewolf in London
Two tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf—with strange consequences.

11:15 pm: F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922)
The Granddaddy of all vampire movies! "Unforgettable...inspired dozens of other Dracula films, none as artistic"—Roger Ebert

12:45 am: The original, one-and-only John Carpenter's Halloween
Jamie Lee Curtis. "The trick was to stay alive...if you could."

Family Series: Halloween Spooktacular
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Jeffrey Meyer, conductor

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

Come dressed in your Halloween costume and hear the SSO perform music from The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Harry Potter and Ride of the Valkyries. Local dance students will join the SSO, showing their spookiest steps, as we have some Halloween fun.

Classics Series: Beethoven's Emperor Concerto
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Jon Kimura Parker, piano

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

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor"
Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2

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The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.

The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interaction adaptation of this children's favorite. The audience helps the Mermaid foil the Seawitch and get her voice back.

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Syracuse Stage

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

Set in the real-life Parisian cafe Le Lapin Agile (Nimble Rabbit), Picasso at the Lapin Agile wonders what if contemporaries Picasso and Einstein accidentally met while in their 20s, just before the famous scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. Laughter, comedy, absurdity and some delightfully zany musings on the nature of art, science and the 20th century, as only Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin) could render them. Plus a royal visit.

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Any Wednesday
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $35 includes dinner, show, tax, and tip
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

A light and bouncy comedy by Muriel Resnik.

For reservations, phone 315-673-2255.

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Death by Disco
Without a Cue Productions

Price: $39.50, includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

Welcome to the Land of Oz Discoteria and the "3rd Annual World Championship of Disco Championship." Contestants are ready to show their moves, but they don't know that tonight some competition will definitely be stiff. Join us for "Death by Disco." a murderous evening of theater, dancing, and great food!

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The respected Dr. Jekyll has begun to display alarmingly erratic behavior toward his friends. At the same time, a brutal figure has begun to haunt the city's streets. In Jeffrey Hatcher's intense new version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, Dr. Jekyll confronts the many faces of the monstrous Mr. Hyde in a maze of interlocking scenes that attempt to answer the puzzles at the heart of a tortured soul. On the fog-bound streets of Victorian-era London, Henry Jekyll's experiments with exotic "powders and tinctures" have brought forth his other self -- Edward Hyde, a sensualist and villain free to commit the sins Jekyll is too civilized to comprehend. When Hyde meets a woman who stirs his interest, Jekyll fears for her life and decides to end his experiments. But Hyde has other ideas, and so the two sides battle each other in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse to determine who shall be the master and who his slave.

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Rabbit Hole
Black Box Players
David Julian Melendez, director

Price: Free, but seating is limited
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Rabbit Hole has nothing to do with Alice In Wonderland. The truth of the show is anything but a fairy tale. Eight months ago, a tragedy tore this family apart and unexpected news brings them all together to deal with it once again. We follow the Corbett family as they fight, work and struggle to keep things together or at the very least keep it from completely falling apart. The ultimate question is not what happened, but whether or not they will survive the aftermath. Is the weight of the tragedy too much for them or will they find a way to come together and be a stronger family in spite (or perhaps because) of it? David Lindsay-Abaire takes us on an emotional ride with both pain and humor, with his naturally written dialogue and his incredibly storytelling takes us on a tumultuous ride down the Rabbit Hole.

Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is an American playwright and lyricist. He received the Puiltzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for Rabbit Hole. Lindsay-Abaire describes his plays as centering around "outsiders in search of clarity." Lindsay-Abaire's most recent project is the book for the musical High Fidelity. He was also nominated for two Tony Awards for the book and lyrics of Shrek the Musical.

Director David Julian Melendez is a senior Acting major at Syracuse University. His directing credits include Keep Your Eyes On Your Own Paper (an original work by Jake Keefe) and Where's My Money? (winner of Black Box Awards for Best Production, Best Director, Best Leading Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Featured Actress)

To make reservations, email blackboxtickets@gmail.com. Request for tickets will receive a follow-up phone call from the box office. Please arrive a half hour prior to performance to assure seating.

As You Like It
LeMoyne College
Steve Braddock, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Shakespeare's astutely funny pastoral comedy, As You Like It, runs the gamut of the comedic canon, combining cross-dressing and slapstick with gentle satire and sparkling, witty conversation.

As You Like It follows the lively exploits of banished Rosalind and her quest for true love amid the schemes of two warring brothers. In the untarnished and idyllic Forest of Arden, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, stumbles upon an extraordinary assemblage of characters, including a fool, a malcontent traveler, her own exiled father, and the cast-out young man she loves.

The play, which contains some of Shakespeare's loveliest poetry, including "All the world's a stage," provides a glimpse into the contrasts between the courtbristling with envy and rivalryand the compassionate harmony of the forest, allowing us to recognize our own human foibles by considering the romantic versus the realistic, and by laughing at the excesses of love.

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Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Syracuse Stage

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

Set in the real-life Parisian cafe Le Lapin Agile (Nimble Rabbit), Picasso at the Lapin Agile wonders what if contemporaries Picasso and Einstein accidentally met while in their 20s, just before the famous scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. Laughter, comedy, absurdity and some delightfully zany musings on the nature of art, science and the 20th century, as only Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin) could render them. Plus a royal visit.

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Sunday, November 1, 2009

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

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Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Fired Experience: Recent Work by Jack Troy
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jack Troy, teacher, potter, and writer once wrote, ",I have picked up, moved, shaped and lightened myself of many tons of clay, and those tons lifted, moved and shaped me...". He has taught more than 200 workshops in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Great Britain. He has worked at the Institute of Ceramic Studies, Jingdezhen, China; and was an invited artist at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, in Japan. His education in ceramics has included trips to 13 countries. Having published over 70 articles in ceramics publications, he also wrote Salt Glazed Ceramics, Woodfired Stoneware and Porcelain, and Calling the Planet Home, [poems]. His work has been exhibited widely, and is in numerous collections, public and private. Troy will bring this wealth of knowledge and experience to Syracuse University for a 2-week intensive workshop and kiln firing. The exhibition of his work at the Gandee Gallery is in conjunction with his visit to the Syracuse University Ceramics Program and will feature his most recent work.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A complementary exhibit to the Everson Museum of Art's "From Turner To Cezanne", OHA's exhibit will look at what was happening in Syracuse at the time of the European Impressionist painters, 1880-1916. The exhibit will feature artwork, clothing, products, archival material, and other items that will interpret the Syracuse scene during this time impressionist painters were viewed by their contemporaries as "outrageously modern."

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition highlights the work of mixed media photography pioneer John Wood. Over 100 works that chronicle the artist's work from the 1960s to the present will be on display in his first major retrospective exhibition.

Well known as a photographer who routinely broke the barriers of "pure photography," Wood's work is credited as being the foundation for the mixed media and digital imagery processes of the last two decades. A master of processes from straight photography, collage, cliché verre, solarization, mixed media, offset lithography to drawing, he has a unique ability to work decisively across a variety of media with ease.

Wood's early influences as a photographer stem from his time served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot, as seen in his multiple frame landscapes and time-lapse collages. After the war, Wood trained as a visual designer and photographer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wood spent 35 years teaching photography and printmaking at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Like the work of Jasper Johns, John Wood is relentless in pushing the boundaries of traditional media. His work has laid the groundwork for the multi process, cross disciplinary artwork being created for years.

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

VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibition of work by faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. For more information, phone 315-443-5889.

Latin Jazz by Da Flo Jo Tette
Arts Alive in Liverpool

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

Jazz Vespers
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

The service is a combination of inspirational and meditative readings, homily, and jazz played by members of the CNY Jazz Orchestra and various guest vocalists. The jazz selections are drawn from secular and sacred sources, representing a wide range of composers as varied as Duke Ellington, Chick Corea, Cole Porter, and Stephen Foster, and well-known hymns in jazz settings for all to enjoy, singing as they wish. The service is open to those of all faiths.

The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.

Any Wednesday
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $35 includes dinner, show, tax, and tip
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

A light and bouncy comedy by Muriel Resnik.

For reservations, phone 315-673-2255.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The respected Dr. Jekyll has begun to display alarmingly erratic behavior toward his friends. At the same time, a brutal figure has begun to haunt the city's streets. In Jeffrey Hatcher's intense new version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, Dr. Jekyll confronts the many faces of the monstrous Mr. Hyde in a maze of interlocking scenes that attempt to answer the puzzles at the heart of a tortured soul. On the fog-bound streets of Victorian-era London, Henry Jekyll's experiments with exotic "powders and tinctures" have brought forth his other self -- Edward Hyde, a sensualist and villain free to commit the sins Jekyll is too civilized to comprehend. When Hyde meets a woman who stirs his interest, Jekyll fears for her life and decides to end his experiments. But Hyde has other ideas, and so the two sides battle each other in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse to determine who shall be the master and who his slave.

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As You Like It
LeMoyne College
Steve Braddock, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Shakespeare's astutely funny pastoral comedy, As You Like It, runs the gamut of the comedic canon, combining cross-dressing and slapstick with gentle satire and sparkling, witty conversation.

As You Like It follows the lively exploits of banished Rosalind and her quest for true love amid the schemes of two warring brothers. In the untarnished and idyllic Forest of Arden, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, stumbles upon an extraordinary assemblage of characters, including a fool, a malcontent traveler, her own exiled father, and the cast-out young man she loves.

The play, which contains some of Shakespeare's loveliest poetry, including "All the world's a stage," provides a glimpse into the contrasts between the courtbristling with envy and rivalryand the compassionate harmony of the forest, allowing us to recognize our own human foibles by considering the romantic versus the realistic, and by laughing at the excesses of love.

Read a Review!

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Syracuse Stage

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

Set in the real-life Parisian cafe Le Lapin Agile (Nimble Rabbit), Picasso at the Lapin Agile wonders what if contemporaries Picasso and Einstein accidentally met while in their 20s, just before the famous scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. Laughter, comedy, absurdity and some delightfully zany musings on the nature of art, science and the 20th century, as only Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin) could render them. Plus a royal visit.

Read a Review!

The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.

The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Mary Giehl
Onondaga Community College

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

Mary Giehl's work has taken on themes that she had encountered through her work experience as a registered nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit. She had often cared for children after they had been abused. Much of her work focuses around this theme. There are hints of darkness and confinement in her installations along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Memories in Paint: Works by Michael Lynne
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Artist Statement by Michael Lynne:
My work and my interests are eclectic and are reflected throughout the work I have selected for this show. You can see the work meander between realism, social commentary, narrative and even some abstract paintings. The changes in interest, direction and use of mediums are evident. One "stage" is not necessarily better than another but rather reflects either a change in interest by the artist or the arrival of a particularly inspiring idea. This evolving path has been my own road to self-discovery as an artist and is a path that I continue to travel.

Corporeal: Works by Deana Lawson
Light Work Gallery

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

Deana Lawson's photographs examine how the body informs personal, political, and historical identities. Her psychological portraits seem to start out in one shape before morphing into something unexpected. Their apparent transparency at first glance dissolves into a complex set of questions about the people who are imaged and the nature of photographing, questions that will never have clear and finite answers, no matter how hard and long we look.

Lawson calls the people she photographs her family, whether they are in fact related or whether they met as friends in church, at the grocery store, or in a club. The ties that bind her images together are not in the blood but rather in the shared experience of representation.

If the personal is political, then the portrait may present the most intense form in which to control the message of the self. In viewing Lawson's portraits, as we come to terms with the body and the sometimes uncomfortable intimacy of a stranger's personal truth, we see flesh, beauty, pain, salvation, life, and death all performed within the context of the frame. As bare identities emerge from these photographs, we may reassess the often easily avoided questions of what we are willing to look at and why.

The rooms and faces in the photographs may change, but the gaze and gesture of Lawson's subjects consistently telegraph a unified refrain: The beauty of this moment in front of the lens belongs to them. The people in her photographs offer an unrelenting intention to be seen as they want to be seen. Just as important, they possess an unbridled courage to reveal that fleeting truth to others. Although Lawson is a collaborator and co-adventurer in the making of each picture, her subjects make the key contributions that give the photographs in Corporeal their power.

Artists at Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty
Light Work Gallery

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

For many years Light Work has enjoyed a close affiliation with the art photography department in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The faculty and students of art photo interact with Light Work's roster of international artists through lectures, internships, and classroom visits. In addition, they utilize the Community Darkrooms facilities and take full advantage of the expertise of the Light Work staff. Together we share an energy, passion, and commitment to contemporary art and photography. The exhibition "Artists At Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty" highlights this relationship by featuring work by Doug Dubois, Laura Heyman, Yasser Aggour, John Wesley Mannion, Aaron Hraba, Jennifer Wilkey, Sara Zamecnik, Kelli Pennington, Jeffrey Einhorn, and Shimpei Shirafuji.

There's Always Tomorrow (1934)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Touching drama of a hard-working husband and father who feels neglected until his old flame re-enters his life. Directed by Edward Sloman. Cast includes Frank Morgan, Binnie Barnes, Lois Wilson, Robert Taylor, Alan Hale, Margaret Hamilton.

The Rat Pack is Back!
Broadway in Syracuse

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

This spirited tribute recreates one of the famous Summit at the Sands hotel shows, when the swingin', ring-a-ding group known as the Rat Pack was creating hipster legend with a free-wheeling, no-holds-barred nightclub act starring Vegas' four favorite sons: Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, and Joey Bishop.

Written and produced by Sandy Hackett, son of legendary comedian Buddy Hackett, The Rat Pack is Back! features uncanny vocal recreations, unbridled humor, and a hot, live big band that sends audiences straight back to the coolest time in history. Hits include That's Amore, Fly Me to the Moon, Mr. Bojangles, and many more. See why The Las Vegas Sun writes, "This is as close as anyone has come to capturing the feeling of the real thing," and the Chicago Tribune raves, "Excellent!"

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Mary Giehl
Onondaga Community College

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

Mary Giehl's work has taken on themes that she had encountered through her work experience as a registered nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit. She had often cared for children after they had been abused. Much of her work focuses around this theme. There are hints of darkness and confinement in her installations along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Memories in Paint: Works by Michael Lynne
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Artist Statement by Michael Lynne:
My work and my interests are eclectic and are reflected throughout the work I have selected for this show. You can see the work meander between realism, social commentary, narrative and even some abstract paintings. The changes in interest, direction and use of mediums are evident. One "stage" is not necessarily better than another but rather reflects either a change in interest by the artist or the arrival of a particularly inspiring idea. This evolving path has been my own road to self-discovery as an artist and is a path that I continue to travel.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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Corporeal: Works by Deana Lawson
Light Work Gallery

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

Deana Lawson's photographs examine how the body informs personal, political, and historical identities. Her psychological portraits seem to start out in one shape before morphing into something unexpected. Their apparent transparency at first glance dissolves into a complex set of questions about the people who are imaged and the nature of photographing, questions that will never have clear and finite answers, no matter how hard and long we look.

Lawson calls the people she photographs her family, whether they are in fact related or whether they met as friends in church, at the grocery store, or in a club. The ties that bind her images together are not in the blood but rather in the shared experience of representation.

If the personal is political, then the portrait may present the most intense form in which to control the message of the self. In viewing Lawson's portraits, as we come to terms with the body and the sometimes uncomfortable intimacy of a stranger's personal truth, we see flesh, beauty, pain, salvation, life, and death all performed within the context of the frame. As bare identities emerge from these photographs, we may reassess the often easily avoided questions of what we are willing to look at and why.

The rooms and faces in the photographs may change, but the gaze and gesture of Lawson's subjects consistently telegraph a unified refrain: The beauty of this moment in front of the lens belongs to them. The people in her photographs offer an unrelenting intention to be seen as they want to be seen. Just as important, they possess an unbridled courage to reveal that fleeting truth to others. Although Lawson is a collaborator and co-adventurer in the making of each picture, her subjects make the key contributions that give the photographs in Corporeal their power.

Artists at Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty
Light Work Gallery

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

For many years Light Work has enjoyed a close affiliation with the art photography department in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The faculty and students of art photo interact with Light Work's roster of international artists through lectures, internships, and classroom visits. In addition, they utilize the Community Darkrooms facilities and take full advantage of the expertise of the Light Work staff. Together we share an energy, passion, and commitment to contemporary art and photography. The exhibition "Artists At Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty" highlights this relationship by featuring work by Doug Dubois, Laura Heyman, Yasser Aggour, John Wesley Mannion, Aaron Hraba, Jennifer Wilkey, Sara Zamecnik, Kelli Pennington, Jeffrey Einhorn, and Shimpei Shirafuji.

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition highlights the work of mixed media photography pioneer John Wood. Over 100 works that chronicle the artist's work from the 1960s to the present will be on display in his first major retrospective exhibition.

Well known as a photographer who routinely broke the barriers of "pure photography," Wood's work is credited as being the foundation for the mixed media and digital imagery processes of the last two decades. A master of processes from straight photography, collage, cliché verre, solarization, mixed media, offset lithography to drawing, he has a unique ability to work decisively across a variety of media with ease.

Wood's early influences as a photographer stem from his time served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot, as seen in his multiple frame landscapes and time-lapse collages. After the war, Wood trained as a visual designer and photographer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wood spent 35 years teaching photography and printmaking at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Like the work of Jasper Johns, John Wood is relentless in pushing the boundaries of traditional media. His work has laid the groundwork for the multi process, cross disciplinary artwork being created for years.

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

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

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Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Window Project: This is Not Site-Specific by Nathan Cordero
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based, self-taught Nathan Cordero moved recently from Sacramento, CA, where he worked primarily in public art. For the Window Projects, Cordero has covered the wall with paintings that refer to urban art while also creating an assemblage (through the inclusion of everyday objects into the artwork). An excellent draftsman, his art is about self-expression, protest and the desire to take street art into the galleries.

For this exhibition, Cordero used found objects such as plywood and photographs. He covered a person's face in the photographs to make her/him look like a thief or terrorist, and to reflect upon specific events in his personal life that also refer to issues in today's society. Engraved into the plywood, the paintings manifest the artist's ease in the medium. He uses masking tape or paint to refer to common television talk shows, personal events or books that are part of pop culture. Cordero's work, which was for the most part created within the last few months, demonstrates the artist's capacity of turning daily, banal or threatening events into art. This is his first solo museum exhibition.

American Ream: Works of Marco Maggi
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition features the installation HOTBED (ORANGE), the drawing PLEXI LINE, and the video D-REAMS. The exhibition is intended for audiences of all ages.

Uruguayan-born, New Paltz-based Marco Maggi is best known for his use of everyday materials on which he inscribes a vocabulary that evokes Aztec culture and the art of Joaquín Torres-García. By focusing on visual codes (such as repeated visual symbols that only suggest objects), spatiality, and the political connotations of maps, Maggi's work also reflects Latin American traditions and concerns expressed by many contemporary artists. American Ream (The Warehouse Gallery) and Slow Scandal (The Point of Contact Gallery) are the result of a partnership between both organizations and feature media that the artist chose as a means of responding to both spaces.

Architecture and Context
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Annabelle Selldorf

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Annabelle Selldorf, FAIA, an AD 100 Top Designer and member of the Interior Design Hall of Fame, is principal of Selldorf Architects, which she established in 1988. Born and raised in Germany, Selldorf received her architecture degree from Pratt Institute and her M.Arch. degree from Syracuse Architecture. Book signing will follow.

**POSTPONED** A Voice for Children
University Lectures
Featuring Marian Wright Edelman

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Ms. Edelman's appearance has been postponed until April 6, 2010 due to a conflict that has arisen with her schedule.

Marian Wright Edelman has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. Under her leadership, Children's Defense Fund has become the nation's strongest voice for children and families. The Leave No Child Behind mission of the CDFund is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. Edelman began her career in the mid-'60s when, as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, MS. She served as counsel for the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, DC, founded the Washington Research Project, and served as the director of the Center for Law and Education at Harvard University for two years. Her work has earned her numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. A prolific author, her latest book, The Sea is So Wide and My Boat is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation, was released last fall.

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

Windjammer Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Bill DiCosimo, conductor

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

The ensemble will feature arrangements of jazz standards from Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, Thomas "Fats" Waller, and Bob Thiele, as well as a number of featured solo numbers and a premier of DiCosimo's original bossa-jazz piece "Tomorrow Brings The Rain.

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact DiCosimo at 315-443-6145 or wjdicosi@syr.edu.

The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.

The Rat Pack is Back!
Broadway in Syracuse

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

This spirited tribute recreates one of the famous Summit at the Sands hotel shows, when the swingin', ring-a-ding group known as the Rat Pack was creating hipster legend with a free-wheeling, no-holds-barred nightclub act starring Vegas' four favorite sons: Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, and Joey Bishop.

Written and produced by Sandy Hackett, son of legendary comedian Buddy Hackett, The Rat Pack is Back! features uncanny vocal recreations, unbridled humor, and a hot, live big band that sends audiences straight back to the coolest time in history. Hits include That's Amore, Fly Me to the Moon, Mr. Bojangles, and many more. See why The Las Vegas Sun writes, "This is as close as anyone has come to capturing the feeling of the real thing," and the Chicago Tribune raves, "Excellent!"

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Laugh to Keep from Crying

Price: $42
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-475-7979.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Mary Giehl
Onondaga Community College

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

Mary Giehl's work has taken on themes that she had encountered through her work experience as a registered nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit. She had often cared for children after they had been abused. Much of her work focuses around this theme. There are hints of darkness and confinement in her installations along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Memories in Paint: Works by Michael Lynne
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Artist Statement by Michael Lynne:
My work and my interests are eclectic and are reflected throughout the work I have selected for this show. You can see the work meander between realism, social commentary, narrative and even some abstract paintings. The changes in interest, direction and use of mediums are evident. One "stage" is not necessarily better than another but rather reflects either a change in interest by the artist or the arrival of a particularly inspiring idea. This evolving path has been my own road to self-discovery as an artist and is a path that I continue to travel.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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Corporeal: Works by Deana Lawson
Light Work Gallery

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

Deana Lawson's photographs examine how the body informs personal, political, and historical identities. Her psychological portraits seem to start out in one shape before morphing into something unexpected. Their apparent transparency at first glance dissolves into a complex set of questions about the people who are imaged and the nature of photographing, questions that will never have clear and finite answers, no matter how hard and long we look.

Lawson calls the people she photographs her family, whether they are in fact related or whether they met as friends in church, at the grocery store, or in a club. The ties that bind her images together are not in the blood but rather in the shared experience of representation.

If the personal is political, then the portrait may present the most intense form in which to control the message of the self. In viewing Lawson's portraits, as we come to terms with the body and the sometimes uncomfortable intimacy of a stranger's personal truth, we see flesh, beauty, pain, salvation, life, and death all performed within the context of the frame. As bare identities emerge from these photographs, we may reassess the often easily avoided questions of what we are willing to look at and why.

The rooms and faces in the photographs may change, but the gaze and gesture of Lawson's subjects consistently telegraph a unified refrain: The beauty of this moment in front of the lens belongs to them. The people in her photographs offer an unrelenting intention to be seen as they want to be seen. Just as important, they possess an unbridled courage to reveal that fleeting truth to others. Although Lawson is a collaborator and co-adventurer in the making of each picture, her subjects make the key contributions that give the photographs in Corporeal their power.

Artists at Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty
Light Work Gallery

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

For many years Light Work has enjoyed a close affiliation with the art photography department in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The faculty and students of art photo interact with Light Work's roster of international artists through lectures, internships, and classroom visits. In addition, they utilize the Community Darkrooms facilities and take full advantage of the expertise of the Light Work staff. Together we share an energy, passion, and commitment to contemporary art and photography. The exhibition "Artists At Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty" highlights this relationship by featuring work by Doug Dubois, Laura Heyman, Yasser Aggour, John Wesley Mannion, Aaron Hraba, Jennifer Wilkey, Sara Zamecnik, Kelli Pennington, Jeffrey Einhorn, and Shimpei Shirafuji.

Annual Group Show
Open Figure Drawing

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

More than a dozen members of the weekly drawing group exhibit diverse interpretations of the human figure in a variety of media: pen, pencil, pastel, charcoal, scratch board, oil, acrylic, and watercolor. For more information, visit www.openfiguredrawing.com or call Iver Johnson, 315-475-3400.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A complementary exhibit to the Everson Museum of Art's "From Turner To Cezanne", OHA's exhibit will look at what was happening in Syracuse at the time of the European Impressionist painters, 1880-1916. The exhibit will feature artwork, clothing, products, archival material, and other items that will interpret the Syracuse scene during this time impressionist painters were viewed by their contemporaries as "outrageously modern."

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition highlights the work of mixed media photography pioneer John Wood. Over 100 works that chronicle the artist's work from the 1960s to the present will be on display in his first major retrospective exhibition.

Well known as a photographer who routinely broke the barriers of "pure photography," Wood's work is credited as being the foundation for the mixed media and digital imagery processes of the last two decades. A master of processes from straight photography, collage, cliché verre, solarization, mixed media, offset lithography to drawing, he has a unique ability to work decisively across a variety of media with ease.

Wood's early influences as a photographer stem from his time served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot, as seen in his multiple frame landscapes and time-lapse collages. After the war, Wood trained as a visual designer and photographer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wood spent 35 years teaching photography and printmaking at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Like the work of Jasper Johns, John Wood is relentless in pushing the boundaries of traditional media. His work has laid the groundwork for the multi process, cross disciplinary artwork being created for years.

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

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

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VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibition of work by faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. For more information, phone 315-443-5889.

American Ream: Works of Marco Maggi
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition features the installation HOTBED (ORANGE), the drawing PLEXI LINE, and the video D-REAMS. The exhibition is intended for audiences of all ages.

Uruguayan-born, New Paltz-based Marco Maggi is best known for his use of everyday materials on which he inscribes a vocabulary that evokes Aztec culture and the art of Joaquín Torres-García. By focusing on visual codes (such as repeated visual symbols that only suggest objects), spatiality, and the political connotations of maps, Maggi's work also reflects Latin American traditions and concerns expressed by many contemporary artists. American Ream (The Warehouse Gallery) and Slow Scandal (The Point of Contact Gallery) are the result of a partnership between both organizations and feature media that the artist chose as a means of responding to both spaces.

Window Project: This is Not Site-Specific by Nathan Cordero
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based, self-taught Nathan Cordero moved recently from Sacramento, CA, where he worked primarily in public art. For the Window Projects, Cordero has covered the wall with paintings that refer to urban art while also creating an assemblage (through the inclusion of everyday objects into the artwork). An excellent draftsman, his art is about self-expression, protest and the desire to take street art into the galleries.

For this exhibition, Cordero used found objects such as plywood and photographs. He covered a person's face in the photographs to make her/him look like a thief or terrorist, and to reflect upon specific events in his personal life that also refer to issues in today's society. Engraved into the plywood, the paintings manifest the artist's ease in the medium. He uses masking tape or paint to refer to common television talk shows, personal events or books that are part of pop culture. Cordero's work, which was for the most part created within the last few months, demonstrates the artist's capacity of turning daily, banal or threatening events into art. This is his first solo museum exhibition.

The Corporation
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Freewill offering
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Winner of 23 international awards, The Corporation is an acclaimed documentary film which explores the nature and spectacular rise of the most pervasive institution of our time. Few words have the baggage that the word "corporate" does. The majority of workers in the United States work for corporations. These days you're most likely to hear the word "corporate" bandied about as a rallying cry. It's leveled at artists who sell out, or "go corporate." Thrown like pies at politicians with "corporate interests." Corporate goons are the lynchpins of countless cuckold and old-boy jokes. And yet corporations are stronger now than ever, driven by favorable political winds, fed by a steady stream of willing workers, and nestled deep and safe inside the American psyche. The Corporation's directors, Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar, attempt to distill all this into a 145-minute film. They succeed brilliantly, providing both entertainment and intellect.

Sara Mastrangelo, violin; Lindsay Groves, cello; Susan Crocker, piano; Ben Weirich, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Mendelssohn Trio, Debussy Sonata for cello and piano and solo piano music.

American Boychoir in Concert

Price: Freewill offering
St. Joseph's Church of Camillus
5600 W. Genesee St., Camillus

Works by Brahms, Faure, Gershwin, and Randall Thompson, plus pieces by composers from Venezuela, Brazil, Korea, and Japan.

The Rat Pack is Back!
Broadway in Syracuse

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

This spirited tribute recreates one of the famous Summit at the Sands hotel shows, when the swingin', ring-a-ding group known as the Rat Pack was creating hipster legend with a free-wheeling, no-holds-barred nightclub act starring Vegas' four favorite sons: Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, and Joey Bishop.

Written and produced by Sandy Hackett, son of legendary comedian Buddy Hackett, The Rat Pack is Back! features uncanny vocal recreations, unbridled humor, and a hot, live big band that sends audiences straight back to the coolest time in history. Hits include That's Amore, Fly Me to the Moon, Mr. Bojangles, and many more. See why The Las Vegas Sun writes, "This is as close as anyone has come to capturing the feeling of the real thing," and the Chicago Tribune raves, "Excellent!"

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Mary Giehl
Onondaga Community College

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

Mary Giehl's work has taken on themes that she had encountered through her work experience as a registered nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit. She had often cared for children after they had been abused. Much of her work focuses around this theme. There are hints of darkness and confinement in her installations along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Memories in Paint: Works by Michael Lynne
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Artist Statement by Michael Lynne:
My work and my interests are eclectic and are reflected throughout the work I have selected for this show. You can see the work meander between realism, social commentary, narrative and even some abstract paintings. The changes in interest, direction and use of mediums are evident. One "stage" is not necessarily better than another but rather reflects either a change in interest by the artist or the arrival of a particularly inspiring idea. This evolving path has been my own road to self-discovery as an artist and is a path that I continue to travel.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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Corporeal: Works by Deana Lawson
Light Work Gallery

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

Opening reception 5:00-8:00 pm this evening.

Deana Lawson's photographs examine how the body informs personal, political, and historical identities. Her psychological portraits seem to start out in one shape before morphing into something unexpected. Their apparent transparency at first glance dissolves into a complex set of questions about the people who are imaged and the nature of photographing, questions that will never have clear and finite answers, no matter how hard and long we look.

Lawson calls the people she photographs her family, whether they are in fact related or whether they met as friends in church, at the grocery store, or in a club. The ties that bind her images together are not in the blood but rather in the shared experience of representation.

If the personal is political, then the portrait may present the most intense form in which to control the message of the self. In viewing Lawson's portraits, as we come to terms with the body and the sometimes uncomfortable intimacy of a stranger's personal truth, we see flesh, beauty, pain, salvation, life, and death all performed within the context of the frame. As bare identities emerge from these photographs, we may reassess the often easily avoided questions of what we are willing to look at and why.

The rooms and faces in the photographs may change, but the gaze and gesture of Lawson's subjects consistently telegraph a unified refrain: The beauty of this moment in front of the lens belongs to them. The people in her photographs offer an unrelenting intention to be seen as they want to be seen. Just as important, they possess an unbridled courage to reveal that fleeting truth to others. Although Lawson is a collaborator and co-adventurer in the making of each picture, her subjects make the key contributions that give the photographs in Corporeal their power.

Artists at Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty
Light Work Gallery

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

For many years Light Work has enjoyed a close affiliation with the art photography department in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The faculty and students of art photo interact with Light Work's roster of international artists through lectures, internships, and classroom visits. In addition, they utilize the Community Darkrooms facilities and take full advantage of the expertise of the Light Work staff. Together we share an energy, passion, and commitment to contemporary art and photography. The exhibition "Artists At Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty" highlights this relationship by featuring work by Doug Dubois, Laura Heyman, Yasser Aggour, John Wesley Mannion, Aaron Hraba, Jennifer Wilkey, Sara Zamecnik, Kelli Pennington, Jeffrey Einhorn, and Shimpei Shirafuji.

Annual Group Show
Open Figure Drawing

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

More than a dozen members of the weekly drawing group exhibit diverse interpretations of the human figure in a variety of media: pen, pencil, pastel, charcoal, scratch board, oil, acrylic, and watercolor. For more information, visit www.openfiguredrawing.com or call Iver Johnson, 315-475-3400.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A complementary exhibit to the Everson Museum of Art's "From Turner To Cezanne", OHA's exhibit will look at what was happening in Syracuse at the time of the European Impressionist painters, 1880-1916. The exhibit will feature artwork, clothing, products, archival material, and other items that will interpret the Syracuse scene during this time impressionist painters were viewed by their contemporaries as "outrageously modern."

Fired Experience: Recent Work by Jack Troy
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jack Troy, teacher, potter, and writer once wrote, ",I have picked up, moved, shaped and lightened myself of many tons of clay, and those tons lifted, moved and shaped me...". He has taught more than 200 workshops in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Great Britain. He has worked at the Institute of Ceramic Studies, Jingdezhen, China; and was an invited artist at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, in Japan. His education in ceramics has included trips to 13 countries. Having published over 70 articles in ceramics publications, he also wrote Salt Glazed Ceramics, Woodfired Stoneware and Porcelain, and Calling the Planet Home, [poems]. His work has been exhibited widely, and is in numerous collections, public and private. Troy will bring this wealth of knowledge and experience to Syracuse University for a 2-week intensive workshop and kiln firing. The exhibition of his work at the Gandee Gallery is in conjunction with his visit to the Syracuse University Ceramics Program and will feature his most recent work.

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition highlights the work of mixed media photography pioneer John Wood. Over 100 works that chronicle the artist's work from the 1960s to the present will be on display in his first major retrospective exhibition.

Well known as a photographer who routinely broke the barriers of "pure photography," Wood's work is credited as being the foundation for the mixed media and digital imagery processes of the last two decades. A master of processes from straight photography, collage, cliché verre, solarization, mixed media, offset lithography to drawing, he has a unique ability to work decisively across a variety of media with ease.

Wood's early influences as a photographer stem from his time served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot, as seen in his multiple frame landscapes and time-lapse collages. After the war, Wood trained as a visual designer and photographer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wood spent 35 years teaching photography and printmaking at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Like the work of Jasper Johns, John Wood is relentless in pushing the boundaries of traditional media. His work has laid the groundwork for the multi process, cross disciplinary artwork being created for years.

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

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

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Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibition of work by faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. For more information, phone 315-443-5889.

Window Project: This is Not Site-Specific by Nathan Cordero
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based, self-taught Nathan Cordero moved recently from Sacramento, CA, where he worked primarily in public art. For the Window Projects, Cordero has covered the wall with paintings that refer to urban art while also creating an assemblage (through the inclusion of everyday objects into the artwork). An excellent draftsman, his art is about self-expression, protest and the desire to take street art into the galleries.

For this exhibition, Cordero used found objects such as plywood and photographs. He covered a person's face in the photographs to make her/him look like a thief or terrorist, and to reflect upon specific events in his personal life that also refer to issues in today's society. Engraved into the plywood, the paintings manifest the artist's ease in the medium. He uses masking tape or paint to refer to common television talk shows, personal events or books that are part of pop culture. Cordero's work, which was for the most part created within the last few months, demonstrates the artist's capacity of turning daily, banal or threatening events into art. This is his first solo museum exhibition.

American Ream: Works of Marco Maggi
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition features the installation HOTBED (ORANGE), the drawing PLEXI LINE, and the video D-REAMS. The exhibition is intended for audiences of all ages.

Uruguayan-born, New Paltz-based Marco Maggi is best known for his use of everyday materials on which he inscribes a vocabulary that evokes Aztec culture and the art of Joaquín Torres-García. By focusing on visual codes (such as repeated visual symbols that only suggest objects), spatiality, and the political connotations of maps, Maggi's work also reflects Latin American traditions and concerns expressed by many contemporary artists. American Ream (The Warehouse Gallery) and Slow Scandal (The Point of Contact Gallery) are the result of a partnership between both organizations and feature media that the artist chose as a means of responding to both spaces.

Opening: Wild Card Exhibition: Transitional Living Services Art Exhibit
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Opening: Elements
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Paintings by Lynette Blake, ceramics by Amy Haven, and paintings by James Van Hoven

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Music Evening @ Artrage: Jesse Collins and John Heard
ArtRage Gallery

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

This monthly concert series consists of a two-set performance by Jesse Collins and John Heard and a third set, a "New York City-style jam session," that will be hosted by the band. It's a great way to support both the ArtRage Gallery and local musicians! The music-loving public is invited to bring their interest and instruments to the jam session or to just come to listen and enjoy!

Jesse Collins, saxophone, has performed and studied with a Who's Who list of the legends of jazz and is a 2003 JazzTimes Magazine "Critics-Pic Top Ten" award recipient for "Introducing Jesse Collins" (Lat Cat Records). John Heard, percussion, has been playing African-American percussion for 30 years, teaching an after-school program for the Syracuse City School District for seven years, has recorded with many CNY artists, and is also a visual artist.

Joanne Shenandoah in Concert
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A Grammy Award and 11 Time Native American Music award winning artist, and Wolf Clan member of the Iroquois Confederacy, Joanne Shenandoah has fulfilled the promise of her Native American name, Tekaliwah-kwa, (She Sings). "She's become one of the most acclaimed Native American recording artists of her time." Associated Press

Since emerging as an artist in 1990, she has performed at high-profile gigs at Carnegie Hall; the White House; Kennedy Center; Earth Day on the Mall; Woodstock '94; the Parliament of the Worlds Religions in South Africa; the famous Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain; Istanbul; Hwa Eom Temple, South Korea; and in thousands of venues in the U.S.

The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.

Tomb With a View
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. The zombies who inhabit the site of an old mine disaster bring a class-action lawsuit against an ambitious mall developer.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The respected Dr. Jekyll has begun to display alarmingly erratic behavior toward his friends. At the same time, a brutal figure has begun to haunt the city's streets. In Jeffrey Hatcher's intense new version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, Dr. Jekyll confronts the many faces of the monstrous Mr. Hyde in a maze of interlocking scenes that attempt to answer the puzzles at the heart of a tortured soul. On the fog-bound streets of Victorian-era London, Henry Jekyll's experiments with exotic "powders and tinctures" have brought forth his other self -- Edward Hyde, a sensualist and villain free to commit the sins Jekyll is too civilized to comprehend. When Hyde meets a woman who stirs his interest, Jekyll fears for her life and decides to end his experiments. But Hyde has other ideas, and so the two sides battle each other in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse to determine who shall be the master and who his slave.

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As You Like It
LeMoyne College
Steve Braddock, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Shakespeare's astutely funny pastoral comedy, As You Like It, runs the gamut of the comedic canon, combining cross-dressing and slapstick with gentle satire and sparkling, witty conversation.

As You Like It follows the lively exploits of banished Rosalind and her quest for true love amid the schemes of two warring brothers. In the untarnished and idyllic Forest of Arden, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, stumbles upon an extraordinary assemblage of characters, including a fool, a malcontent traveler, her own exiled father, and the cast-out young man she loves.

The play, which contains some of Shakespeare's loveliest poetry, including "All the world's a stage," provides a glimpse into the contrasts between the courtbristling with envy and rivalryand the compassionate harmony of the forest, allowing us to recognize our own human foibles by considering the romantic versus the realistic, and by laughing at the excesses of love.

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Friday, November 6, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Mary Giehl
Onondaga Community College

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

Mary Giehl's work has taken on themes that she had encountered through her work experience as a registered nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit. She had often cared for children after they had been abused. Much of her work focuses around this theme. There are hints of darkness and confinement in her installations along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Memories in Paint: Works by Michael Lynne
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Artist Statement by Michael Lynne:
My work and my interests are eclectic and are reflected throughout the work I have selected for this show. You can see the work meander between realism, social commentary, narrative and even some abstract paintings. The changes in interest, direction and use of mediums are evident. One "stage" is not necessarily better than another but rather reflects either a change in interest by the artist or the arrival of a particularly inspiring idea. This evolving path has been my own road to self-discovery as an artist and is a path that I continue to travel.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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Opening: Works by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

There will be an opening reception 6:00-9:00 PM, featuring entertainment by The Usual Suspects, an old-time string band.

Ceramic artist Jeremy Randall was recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009.

Randall, of Tully, is co-owner of the gallery. He also is a visiting professor of art and studio manager at Cazenovia College and an adjunct instructor of ceramics at Syracuse University.

Randall's work has been featured in some 40 exhibitions and is held in the collections of Southern Illinois University and the Myerhoff Collection in Baltimore. This year alone, he has shown at the Meredith Gallery in Baltimore, Baltimore Clayworks, Limestone Art Gallery in Fayetteville, the Art House Gallery in Atlanta, the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., and the Cazenovia College Art Gallery.

Corporeal: Works by Deana Lawson
Light Work Gallery

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

Deana Lawson's photographs examine how the body informs personal, political, and historical identities. Her psychological portraits seem to start out in one shape before morphing into something unexpected. Their apparent transparency at first glance dissolves into a complex set of questions about the people who are imaged and the nature of photographing, questions that will never have clear and finite answers, no matter how hard and long we look.

Lawson calls the people she photographs her family, whether they are in fact related or whether they met as friends in church, at the grocery store, or in a club. The ties that bind her images together are not in the blood but rather in the shared experience of representation.

If the personal is political, then the portrait may present the most intense form in which to control the message of the self. In viewing Lawson's portraits, as we come to terms with the body and the sometimes uncomfortable intimacy of a stranger's personal truth, we see flesh, beauty, pain, salvation, life, and death all performed within the context of the frame. As bare identities emerge from these photographs, we may reassess the often easily avoided questions of what we are willing to look at and why.

The rooms and faces in the photographs may change, but the gaze and gesture of Lawson's subjects consistently telegraph a unified refrain: The beauty of this moment in front of the lens belongs to them. The people in her photographs offer an unrelenting intention to be seen as they want to be seen. Just as important, they possess an unbridled courage to reveal that fleeting truth to others. Although Lawson is a collaborator and co-adventurer in the making of each picture, her subjects make the key contributions that give the photographs in Corporeal their power.

Artists at Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty
Light Work Gallery

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

For many years Light Work has enjoyed a close affiliation with the art photography department in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The faculty and students of art photo interact with Light Work's roster of international artists through lectures, internships, and classroom visits. In addition, they utilize the Community Darkrooms facilities and take full advantage of the expertise of the Light Work staff. Together we share an energy, passion, and commitment to contemporary art and photography. The exhibition "Artists At Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty" highlights this relationship by featuring work by Doug Dubois, Laura Heyman, Yasser Aggour, John Wesley Mannion, Aaron Hraba, Jennifer Wilkey, Sara Zamecnik, Kelli Pennington, Jeffrey Einhorn, and Shimpei Shirafuji.

Annual Group Show
Open Figure Drawing

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

More than a dozen members of the weekly drawing group exhibit diverse interpretations of the human figure in a variety of media: pen, pencil, pastel, charcoal, scratch board, oil, acrylic, and watercolor. For more information, visit www.openfiguredrawing.com or call Iver Johnson, 315-475-3400.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A complementary exhibit to the Everson Museum of Art's "From Turner To Cezanne", OHA's exhibit will look at what was happening in Syracuse at the time of the European Impressionist painters, 1880-1916. The exhibit will feature artwork, clothing, products, archival material, and other items that will interpret the Syracuse scene during this time impressionist painters were viewed by their contemporaries as "outrageously modern."

Fired Experience: Recent Work by Jack Troy
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jack Troy, teacher, potter, and writer once wrote, ",I have picked up, moved, shaped and lightened myself of many tons of clay, and those tons lifted, moved and shaped me...". He has taught more than 200 workshops in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Great Britain. He has worked at the Institute of Ceramic Studies, Jingdezhen, China; and was an invited artist at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, in Japan. His education in ceramics has included trips to 13 countries. Having published over 70 articles in ceramics publications, he also wrote Salt Glazed Ceramics, Woodfired Stoneware and Porcelain, and Calling the Planet Home, [poems]. His work has been exhibited widely, and is in numerous collections, public and private. Troy will bring this wealth of knowledge and experience to Syracuse University for a 2-week intensive workshop and kiln firing. The exhibition of his work at the Gandee Gallery is in conjunction with his visit to the Syracuse University Ceramics Program and will feature his most recent work.

Opening: 35th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Original crafts and fine arts by more than 50 artists and craftspeople from Central New York. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Opening: Works by Patricia Tucker, Sharon Terry, and David Lisi
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

There will be an opening reception from 6:00-9:00, with music by Steve Giacondo, guitarist.

A new exhibit featuring artists Patricia Tucker, painting; Sharon Terry, jewelry; and David Lisi, pottery.

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition highlights the work of mixed media photography pioneer John Wood. Over 100 works that chronicle the artist's work from the 1960s to the present will be on display in his first major retrospective exhibition.

Well known as a photographer who routinely broke the barriers of "pure photography," Wood's work is credited as being the foundation for the mixed media and digital imagery processes of the last two decades. A master of processes from straight photography, collage, cliché verre, solarization, mixed media, offset lithography to drawing, he has a unique ability to work decisively across a variety of media with ease.

Wood's early influences as a photographer stem from his time served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot, as seen in his multiple frame landscapes and time-lapse collages. After the war, Wood trained as a visual designer and photographer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wood spent 35 years teaching photography and printmaking at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Like the work of Jasper Johns, John Wood is relentless in pushing the boundaries of traditional media. His work has laid the groundwork for the multi process, cross disciplinary artwork being created for years.

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

Wild Card Exhibition: Transitional Living Services Art Exhibit
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Elements
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Paintings by Lynette Blake, ceramics by Amy Haven, and paintings by James Van Hoven

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Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

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Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibition of work by faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. For more information, phone 315-443-5889.

American Ream: Works of Marco Maggi
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition features the installation HOTBED (ORANGE), the drawing PLEXI LINE, and the video D-REAMS. The exhibition is intended for audiences of all ages.

Uruguayan-born, New Paltz-based Marco Maggi is best known for his use of everyday materials on which he inscribes a vocabulary that evokes Aztec culture and the art of Joaquín Torres-García. By focusing on visual codes (such as repeated visual symbols that only suggest objects), spatiality, and the political connotations of maps, Maggi's work also reflects Latin American traditions and concerns expressed by many contemporary artists. American Ream (The Warehouse Gallery) and Slow Scandal (The Point of Contact Gallery) are the result of a partnership between both organizations and feature media that the artist chose as a means of responding to both spaces.

Window Project: This is Not Site-Specific by Nathan Cordero
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based, self-taught Nathan Cordero moved recently from Sacramento, CA, where he worked primarily in public art. For the Window Projects, Cordero has covered the wall with paintings that refer to urban art while also creating an assemblage (through the inclusion of everyday objects into the artwork). An excellent draftsman, his art is about self-expression, protest and the desire to take street art into the galleries.

For this exhibition, Cordero used found objects such as plywood and photographs. He covered a person's face in the photographs to make her/him look like a thief or terrorist, and to reflect upon specific events in his personal life that also refer to issues in today's society. Engraved into the plywood, the paintings manifest the artist's ease in the medium. He uses masking tape or paint to refer to common television talk shows, personal events or books that are part of pop culture. Cordero's work, which was for the most part created within the last few months, demonstrates the artist's capacity of turning daily, banal or threatening events into art. This is his first solo museum exhibition.

Pottery Plus Show and Sale
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Price: Free
Syracuse Vineyard Church
312 Lakeside Rd., Syracuse

Exhibit and sale of ceramics, painting, jewelry, and fiber arts.

For more information, visit the website.

BTG Scholarship Fund Benefit
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors, $12 in advance
Pucello's Restaurant
1 Village Blvd., Baldwinsville

Don't Feed The Actors Improv Comedy troupe headlines a fundraiser for our friends in the Baldwinsville Theater Guild. Made up of heralded local actors, the DFtA crew puts on their unique blend of audience interactive improv where the audience can get involved.

An Evening of Improv
Lazlo's Closet

Price: $13
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Renegades perform in support of the Food Bank of Central New York. For every canned food item you bring, it's $1 off the $13.00 entrance fee!

Classics Series: Paul Taylor Dance Company
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
David LaMarche, conductor

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

Co-produced by Syracuse University and the SSO, the event features performances of "Also Playing" (set to the music of Donizetti), "Cascade" (set to the music of Bach), and the world premiere of the University-commissioned "Brief Encounters" (set to the music of Debussy), all choreographed by Paul Taylor.

B-Movie Festival
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $5
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The festival opens with a premiere screening of the locally produced feature Ms. Cannibal Holocaust (formerly titled ONE) staring Nicola Fiore, Kellyn Lindsay, and Wes Reid, and written and directed by Ron Bonk (CLAY).

Spark Video
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $3
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Please join us to celebrate the wonder that is video art. Featuring local and international works, this hour long program will be well worth it!

Author Mitch Albom

Price: $30 at the door, $25 in advance
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

Best-selling author of Tuesdays with Morrie and Five People You Meet in Heaven will sign books and speak about faith in the modern world. Tickets available at Ticketmaster or Naturtyme. For more information, phone 315-382-0541.

Red Line Sax Quartet
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

John Gorka
Folkus Project

May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

John Gorka is one of the premier songwriters in folk music and he's returning to Syracuse with a new CD, just released in October. Gorka is known for applying his unique songcraft to a wide range of forms; intimate confessional songs about love and loss, humorous commentaries about daily life in his neighborhood, poignant political opinions, and exuberant explosions of unmitigated joy. With provocative, soul-stirring sophistication, he turns his keen observations of troubled times and the rough roads we travel into musical gems that shine with hopefulness. Gorka's honest writing and ability to say it all with an economy of words has earned him accolades from the music industry and his peers. It is that same honesty that keeps his fans coming to his concerts again and again.

Meg Kearney, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Meg Kearney's first collection of poetry, An Unkindness of Ravens, was published by BOA Editions Ltd. in 2001. The Secret of Me, her novel in verse for teens, was released in hardcover by Persea Books in 2005; the paperback edition, along with a teacher's guide, came out in 2007. Four Way Books will publish her next collection of poems, Home By Now, in fall 2009. She has taught poetry at The New School University, and is the Director of the Solstice Creative Writing Programs of Pine Manor College in Massachusetts. Her poetry has been featured on Poetry Daily and Garrison Keillor's "A Writer's Almanac," and has been published in such publications as Poetry, Agni, and Ploughshares, and in many anthologies.

The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.

Any Wednesday
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $35 includes dinner, show, tax, and tip
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

A light and bouncy comedy by Muriel Resnik.

For reservations, phone 315-673-2255.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The respected Dr. Jekyll has begun to display alarmingly erratic behavior toward his friends. At the same time, a brutal figure has begun to haunt the city's streets. In Jeffrey Hatcher's intense new version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, Dr. Jekyll confronts the many faces of the monstrous Mr. Hyde in a maze of interlocking scenes that attempt to answer the puzzles at the heart of a tortured soul. On the fog-bound streets of Victorian-era London, Henry Jekyll's experiments with exotic "powders and tinctures" have brought forth his other self -- Edward Hyde, a sensualist and villain free to commit the sins Jekyll is too civilized to comprehend. When Hyde meets a woman who stirs his interest, Jekyll fears for her life and decides to end his experiments. But Hyde has other ideas, and so the two sides battle each other in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse to determine who shall be the master and who his slave.

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As You Like It
LeMoyne College
Steve Braddock, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Shakespeare's astutely funny pastoral comedy, As You Like It, runs the gamut of the comedic canon, combining cross-dressing and slapstick with gentle satire and sparkling, witty conversation.

As You Like It follows the lively exploits of banished Rosalind and her quest for true love amid the schemes of two warring brothers. In the untarnished and idyllic Forest of Arden, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, stumbles upon an extraordinary assemblage of characters, including a fool, a malcontent traveler, her own exiled father, and the cast-out young man she loves.

The play, which contains some of Shakespeare's loveliest poetry, including "All the world's a stage," provides a glimpse into the contrasts between the courtbristling with envy and rivalryand the compassionate harmony of the forest, allowing us to recognize our own human foibles by considering the romantic versus the realistic, and by laughing at the excesses of love.

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