Monday, September 10, 2018

Picture 81 Juried Exhibition
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Artists and photographers document Route 81 as it intersects with our community.

Woods: Oil Paintings by Robert Niedzwiecki
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The End of the World
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Cranky Cat Collection: Paintings by Cindy Schmidt
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Whimsical, humorous original acrylic paintings.

Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is guest-curated by For Freedoms, a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States, co-founded in 2016 by former Light Work artists-in-residence Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas.

"Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul" features over 40 photographs from the Light Work Collection. The list of artists includes Laura Aguilar, George Awde, Karl Baden, Lois Barden and Harry Littell, Claire Beckett, Charles Biasing-Rivera, Samantha Box, Deborah Bright, Chan Chao, Renee Cox, Rose Marie Cromwell, Jen Davis, Jess Dugan, John Edmonds, Amy Elkins, Nereyda Garcia Ferraz, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Antony Gleaton, Jim Goldberg, David Graham, Mahtab Hussain, Osamu James Nakagawa, Tommy Kha, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Deana Lawson, Mary Mattingly, Jackie Nickerson, Shelley Niro, Suzanne Opton, Kristine Potter, Ernesto Pujol, Irina Rozovsky, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kanako Sasaki, Pacifico Silano, Clarissa Sligh, Beuford Smith, Amy Stein, Mila Teshaieva, Brian Ulrich, Ted Wathen, Carrie Mae Weems, Carla Williams, Hank Willis Thomas, Pixy Yijun Liao.

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Gallery Exhibit: Power of Love
Onondaga Community College

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

Recent watercolors by Chinese artist Zhinan Jiang.

Sueños: Celebrating the Surreal
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Titled after the Spanish translation for "dreams" and in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Sueños: Celebrating the Surreal highlights works by contemporary Latin American artists in Syracuse University's permanent collections that share in the characteristics of dream-like imagery.

Featuring works by Salvador Dalí, Mauricio Lasansky, Joseph Kugielsky, Adàl Maldonado, Pedro Roth, and more. This exhibition is a collaborative project between Community Folk Art Center, Light Work, Point of Contact Gallery, and Syracuse University Art Galleries. Curated by Point of Contact's Assistant Director and Art History graduate student, Natalie McGrath, with exhibition design consultation from Professor Juan Juarez of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Picture 81 Juried Exhibition
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Artists and photographers document Route 81 as it intersects with our community.

Woods: Oil Paintings by Robert Niedzwiecki
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The End of the World
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Disregard the Facts
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Charlie Golden: small ink drawings
Melissa Montgomery: bronze "footed" bowls
Mike Sickler: mixed media collage
Esperanza Tielbaard: semi-precious stone necklaces

Cranky Cat Collection: Paintings by Cindy Schmidt
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Whimsical, humorous original acrylic paintings.

Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is guest-curated by For Freedoms, a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States, co-founded in 2016 by former Light Work artists-in-residence Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas.

"Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul" features over 40 photographs from the Light Work Collection. The list of artists includes Laura Aguilar, George Awde, Karl Baden, Lois Barden and Harry Littell, Claire Beckett, Charles Biasing-Rivera, Samantha Box, Deborah Bright, Chan Chao, Renee Cox, Rose Marie Cromwell, Jen Davis, Jess Dugan, John Edmonds, Amy Elkins, Nereyda Garcia Ferraz, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Antony Gleaton, Jim Goldberg, David Graham, Mahtab Hussain, Osamu James Nakagawa, Tommy Kha, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Deana Lawson, Mary Mattingly, Jackie Nickerson, Shelley Niro, Suzanne Opton, Kristine Potter, Ernesto Pujol, Irina Rozovsky, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kanako Sasaki, Pacifico Silano, Clarissa Sligh, Beuford Smith, Amy Stein, Mila Teshaieva, Brian Ulrich, Ted Wathen, Carrie Mae Weems, Carla Williams, Hank Willis Thomas, Pixy Yijun Liao.

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Gallery Exhibit: Power of Love
Onondaga Community College

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

Recent watercolors by Chinese artist Zhinan Jiang.

Rodin: The Human Experience
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Rodin: The Human Experience (Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections) presents 32 figures in bronze by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), the French sculptor who left behind 19th century academic traditions to focus on conveying the passion and vitality of the human spirit. Considered in his lifetime to be the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo, Rodin exerted a tremendous influence on artists of subsequent generations, such as Matisse, Brancusi, and Maillol. His vigorous modeling emphasized his personal response to the subject, and he captured movement and emotion by altering traditional poses and gestures. Rodin's sculpture is often considered a crucial link between traditional and modern art.

Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America" explores the life and career of the noted 20th century Japanese American artist through the lens of Forbidden Fruit, 1950. This eerie and confounding late painting from Syracuse University's permanent collection ultimately reveals Kuniyoshi's tortured state of mind close to his untimely passing in 1953.

Paintings, drawings, and prints from lenders including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University develop an engrossing visual narrative explaining the life and work of this unique artist.

The 2018 Members Exhibition of the Society of American Graphic Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition displays the prints of 66 SAGA members with a variety of statements and techniques that reflect their individual approaches to printmaking. All the prints in this exhibition were done in the 21st century and include traditional and contemporary approaches to printmaking. In their prints, members continue to show a wide variety of imagery, mediums and mastery of techniques, demonstrating the highest standards of excellence. SAGA members continually push the medium and contribute to the growth of printmaking.

Sueños: Celebrating the Surreal
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Titled after the Spanish translation for "dreams" and in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Sueños: Celebrating the Surreal highlights works by contemporary Latin American artists in Syracuse University's permanent collections that share in the characteristics of dream-like imagery.

Featuring works by Salvador Dalí, Mauricio Lasansky, Joseph Kugielsky, Adàl Maldonado, Pedro Roth, and more. This exhibition is a collaborative project between Community Folk Art Center, Light Work, Point of Contact Gallery, and Syracuse University Art Galleries. Curated by Point of Contact's Assistant Director and Art History graduate student, Natalie McGrath, with exhibition design consultation from Professor Juan Juarez of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Gallery Talk: Invisible People with Neil Shigley, artist
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Neil Shigley is a San Diego artist, painter, printmaker and educator. His work explores the subject of homelessness by giving visibility to homeless individuals through large-scale portraits. He grew up the son of a military officer living in Europe, the Far East as well as several parts of the U.S. His father and his travels fostered his interest of art.

Much of his fine art has focused on the human condition and the human figure. His most recent work consists of large-scale portraits of homeless people near his studio in San Diego. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most notably at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian. Along with his fine art, he currently teaches art at San Diego State University.

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Picture 81 Juried Exhibition
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Artists and photographers document Route 81 as it intersects with our community.

Woods: Oil Paintings by Robert Niedzwiecki
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The End of the World
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Disregard the Facts
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Charlie Golden: small ink drawings
Melissa Montgomery: bronze "footed" bowls
Mike Sickler: mixed media collage
Esperanza Tielbaard: semi-precious stone necklaces

Cranky Cat Collection: Paintings by Cindy Schmidt
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Whimsical, humorous original acrylic paintings.

Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is guest-curated by For Freedoms, a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States, co-founded in 2016 by former Light Work artists-in-residence Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas.

"Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul" features over 40 photographs from the Light Work Collection. The list of artists includes Laura Aguilar, George Awde, Karl Baden, Lois Barden and Harry Littell, Claire Beckett, Charles Biasing-Rivera, Samantha Box, Deborah Bright, Chan Chao, Renee Cox, Rose Marie Cromwell, Jen Davis, Jess Dugan, John Edmonds, Amy Elkins, Nereyda Garcia Ferraz, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Antony Gleaton, Jim Goldberg, David Graham, Mahtab Hussain, Osamu James Nakagawa, Tommy Kha, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Deana Lawson, Mary Mattingly, Jackie Nickerson, Shelley Niro, Suzanne Opton, Kristine Potter, Ernesto Pujol, Irina Rozovsky, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kanako Sasaki, Pacifico Silano, Clarissa Sligh, Beuford Smith, Amy Stein, Mila Teshaieva, Brian Ulrich, Ted Wathen, Carrie Mae Weems, Carla Williams, Hank Willis Thomas, Pixy Yijun Liao.

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Donald R. Waful: The Remarkable Life Story of a Local Syracusan
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Donald R. Waful has been a dedicated Syracuse citizen for nearly a century. As a young adult, he attended Syracuse University where he earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees. He enlisted in the United States army in 1941 and served overseas when the U.S. entered World War II. He met his future wife, army nurse Olga "Cassie" Casciolini, while stationed in Northern Ireland. He then served in the North African campaign where he was taken as a prisoner of war in 1942. He would remain a POW first in Italy, then in Poland, for the duration of the war. He was reunited with Cassie at the end of World War II, afterward settling in Syracuse. Don went on to have a career in insurance and served as President of the Syracuse Chiefs baseball team for 35 years. Waful has remained active in the Syracuse community, both with Syracuse University and the Chiefs baseball team.

This exhibit, designed and installed by SUNY Potsdam undergraduate student Mahala Nyberg, examinies the life of Don Waful, who is nearing 102 years old, and details his experiences during World War II as well as his experiences before and after the war in Syracuse.

The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I, Onondaga Historical Association will present an exhibit on Onondaga County's role in the Great War.

The exhibit will feature photographs, posters, uniforms, gas masks, helmets and other military accoutrements, war souvenirs, home-front conservation items, letters, diaries, and other archival material and objects. These items will illustrate the impact World War I had on Onondaga County and the world at large. The exhibit will focus on the people, places, and events at home and abroad including military personnel and units, the nurse corps, Camp Syracuse, food conservation, the Split Rock munitions explosion, and the Spanish Influenza epidemic.

Gallery Exhibit: Power of Love
Onondaga Community College

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

Recent watercolors by Chinese artist Zhinan Jiang.

Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America" explores the life and career of the noted 20th century Japanese American artist through the lens of Forbidden Fruit, 1950. This eerie and confounding late painting from Syracuse University's permanent collection ultimately reveals Kuniyoshi's tortured state of mind close to his untimely passing in 1953.

Paintings, drawings, and prints from lenders including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University develop an engrossing visual narrative explaining the life and work of this unique artist.

Rodin: The Human Experience
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Rodin: The Human Experience (Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections) presents 32 figures in bronze by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), the French sculptor who left behind 19th century academic traditions to focus on conveying the passion and vitality of the human spirit. Considered in his lifetime to be the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo, Rodin exerted a tremendous influence on artists of subsequent generations, such as Matisse, Brancusi, and Maillol. His vigorous modeling emphasized his personal response to the subject, and he captured movement and emotion by altering traditional poses and gestures. Rodin's sculpture is often considered a crucial link between traditional and modern art.

The 2018 Members Exhibition of the Society of American Graphic Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition displays the prints of 66 SAGA members with a variety of statements and techniques that reflect their individual approaches to printmaking. All the prints in this exhibition were done in the 21st century and include traditional and contemporary approaches to printmaking. In their prints, members continue to show a wide variety of imagery, mediums and mastery of techniques, demonstrating the highest standards of excellence. SAGA members continually push the medium and contribute to the growth of printmaking.

Art Conservation on Display
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Join us in the gallery to view art conservators at work! A team of conservators from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation will be examining, documenting, cleaning, inpainting, waxing and preparing the Rodin sculptures.

The Art of the Tile
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ceramic tiles are one of the world's oldest decorative art forms, dating back to at least the fourth millennium BCE. Tiles served both an ornamental and functional purpose, covering interior and exterior building surfaces as well as tabletops and other pieces of furniture.

The Everson's expansive ceramics collection includes over 500 tiles made in countries around the world between the 17th and 20th centuries. This exhibition presents a selection of these tiles, many of which have never before been on view.

Visions of America
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Everson building, "Visions of America" showcases the depth of the Everson's collection of American art. In 1911, the Everson (then known as the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts) made history as the first museum in the country to declare that it would collect only work made by American artists, a decision which led to the acquisition of many important works that are today beloved by Everson visitors. This exhibition features many of these visitor favorites, including work by Edward Hicks, Eastman Johnson, Frederick Remington, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, and Gilbert Stuart.

Unique
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Coordinated by ARISE, a non-profit agency based in Syracuse, "Unique" celebrates the artistic talents of Central New Yorkers living with disabilities. The works included in this exhibition eloquently speak to the myriad thoughts, ideas, and feelings that all humans share, regardless of individual ability or circumstance. The annual competition invites submissions of art and literature which are then selected for display by a panel of judges, and the works are exhibited in several venues throughout CNY.

The Very Mirror of Life: Ceramics at the Everson 1968-2018
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

I.M. Pei believed that "Architecture is the very mirror of life." This exhibition uses work from the permanent collection to explore the harmony between art and architecture in Pei's building over the past half century.

Time Capsule
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Time Capsule" presents five decades of the Everson's history in its I.M. Pei-designed building with a look back at the significant acquisitions, groundbreaking exhibitions, and pioneering public programs sponsored by the Museum in the last 50 years. Featuring archival material including photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera as well as work from the Museum's collection, "Time Capsule" highlights the important role the Everson has played in both the art world and the Central New York community.

A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Handmaid's Tale, written by Margaret Atwood, is Onondaga Community College's Common Read for the 2018-2019 academic year. The Everson has partnered with OCC to present an exhibition of works from the Museum's collection that address the themes and rich visual symbolism found within Atwood's novel. "A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale" draws connections between the visual and literary world as a means to deepen our experience of both art forms and to sharpen our thinking about the world we live in today.

Sueños: Celebrating the Surreal
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Titled after the Spanish translation for "dreams" and in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Sueños: Celebrating the Surreal highlights works by contemporary Latin American artists in Syracuse University's permanent collections that share in the characteristics of dream-like imagery.

Featuring works by Salvador Dalí, Mauricio Lasansky, Joseph Kugielsky, Adàl Maldonado, Pedro Roth, and more. This exhibition is a collaborative project between Community Folk Art Center, Light Work, Point of Contact Gallery, and Syracuse University Art Galleries. Curated by Point of Contact's Assistant Director and Art History graduate student, Natalie McGrath, with exhibition design consultation from Professor Juan Juarez of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Invisible People: Portraits of the Homeless by Neil Shigley
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

San Diego based artist Neil Shigley's work explores the subject of homelessness by giving visibility to homeless individuals through large-scale portraits.

Lunchtime Lecture: Forbidden Fruit
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Join David Prince, associate director and curator of collections, for a tour of Forbidden Fruit and look at artwork in the exhibition, as well as learn the importance of the work to the collection.

John Cusack LIVE with a Screening of Say Anything

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

The 1989 comedy/drama Say Anything brought popular culture the love story of Lloyd Dobler (actor John Cusack) and Diane Court (actress Ione Skye). An eternal optimist seeks the heart of a "brain trapped in the body of a game show hostess." Ranked by Entertainment Weekly as one of the greatest modern movie romances (and #11 on the list of 50 best high-school movies), Say Anything made a star out of John Cusack who went on to success in multiple films including High Fidelity, Grosse Point Blank, and Being John Malkovich, among others.

Now, join John Cusack for a screening of Say Anything followed by a LIVE conversation regarding his career and the making of Say Anything. Roger Ebert called the movie "one of the best films of the year" when it was released. Fans will now get the opportunity to experience a moderated discussion, with John answering audience questions as well.

Tickets available online at Ticketmaster.

Jazz at the Plaza: Dave Solazzo Duo
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
LeMoyne Plaza
1135 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

David Byrne
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Legendary artist David Byrne plays the Landmark Theatre as part of an acclaimed extensive world tour. A 12-piece band will join Byrne on stage for a choreographed concert as he performs songs from his recently released solo album, American Utopia, classics from his solo career, and favorites from his days with Talking Heads.

Tickets available online at Ticketmaster.com.

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Preview: Noises Off
Syracuse Stage
Bob Hupp, director

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

Hailed as the "funniest farce ever written" and a "festival of delirium," Noises Off is legendary in the annals of laughter. As a company of actors attempts to deliver a comedy onstage, playwright Michael Frayn takes us behind the scenes where the real farce explodes. Slamming doors, wayward fish, and comic chaos delivered with impeccable precision make Noises Off the most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy.

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Thursday, September 13, 2018

Picture 81 Juried Exhibition
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

There will be a reception this evening 5:30-7:30 pm.

Artists and photographers document Route 81 as it intersects with our community.

Woods: Oil Paintings by Robert Niedzwiecki
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The End of the World
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988 claimed the lives of 270 individuals from 21 nations. Among those lost were 35 students returning home from a semester abroad through Syracuse University. This exhibition of materials donated to the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster by the victims' families, friends, advocates, and affected communities commemorates the 30th anniversary of the tragedy through an exploration of the ways in which the lives of the victims have been remembered. Whether through scholarship, public advocacy, art, or physical memorials, we ensure their lives and the lessons learned from their deaths are not forgotten.

Disregard the Facts
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Charlie Golden: small ink drawings
Melissa Montgomery: bronze "footed" bowls
Mike Sickler: mixed media collage
Esperanza Tielbaard: semi-precious stone necklaces

Cranky Cat Collection: Paintings by Cindy Schmidt
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Whimsical, humorous original acrylic paintings.

Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is guest-curated by For Freedoms, a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States, co-founded in 2016 by former Light Work artists-in-residence Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas.

"Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul" features over 40 photographs from the Light Work Collection. The list of artists includes Laura Aguilar, George Awde, Karl Baden, Lois Barden and Harry Littell, Claire Beckett, Charles Biasing-Rivera, Samantha Box, Deborah Bright, Chan Chao, Renee Cox, Rose Marie Cromwell, Jen Davis, Jess Dugan, John Edmonds, Amy Elkins, Nereyda Garcia Ferraz, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Antony Gleaton, Jim Goldberg, David Graham, Mahtab Hussain, Osamu James Nakagawa, Tommy Kha, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Deana Lawson, Mary Mattingly, Jackie Nickerson, Shelley Niro, Suzanne Opton, Kristine Potter, Ernesto Pujol, Irina Rozovsky, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kanako Sasaki, Pacifico Silano, Clarissa Sligh, Beuford Smith, Amy Stein, Mila Teshaieva, Brian Ulrich, Ted Wathen, Carrie Mae Weems, Carla Williams, Hank Willis Thomas, Pixy Yijun Liao.

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The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I, Onondaga Historical Association will present an exhibit on Onondaga County's role in the Great War.

The exhibit will feature photographs, posters, uniforms, gas masks, helmets and other military accoutrements, war souvenirs, home-front conservation items, letters, diaries, and other archival material and objects. These items will illustrate the impact World War I had on Onondaga County and the world at large. The exhibit will focus on the people, places, and events at home and abroad including military personnel and units, the nurse corps, Camp Syracuse, food conservation, the Split Rock munitions explosion, and the Spanish Influenza epidemic.

Donald R. Waful: The Remarkable Life Story of a Local Syracusan
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Donald R. Waful has been a dedicated Syracuse citizen for nearly a century. As a young adult, he attended Syracuse University where he earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees. He enlisted in the United States army in 1941 and served overseas when the U.S. entered World War II. He met his future wife, army nurse Olga "Cassie" Casciolini, while stationed in Northern Ireland. He then served in the North African campaign where he was taken as a prisoner of war in 1942. He would remain a POW first in Italy, then in Poland, for the duration of the war. He was reunited with Cassie at the end of World War II, afterward settling in Syracuse. Don went on to have a career in insurance and served as President of the Syracuse Chiefs baseball team for 35 years. Waful has remained active in the Syracuse community, both with Syracuse University and the Chiefs baseball team.

This exhibit, designed and installed by SUNY Potsdam undergraduate student Mahala Nyberg, examinies the life of Don Waful, who is nearing 102 years old, and details his experiences during World War II as well as his experiences before and after the war in Syracuse.

Gallery Exhibit: Power of Love
Onondaga Community College

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

Recent watercolors by Chinese artist Zhinan Jiang.

Rodin: The Human Experience
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Rodin: The Human Experience (Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections) presents 32 figures in bronze by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), the French sculptor who left behind 19th century academic traditions to focus on conveying the passion and vitality of the human spirit. Considered in his lifetime to be the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo, Rodin exerted a tremendous influence on artists of subsequent generations, such as Matisse, Brancusi, and Maillol. His vigorous modeling emphasized his personal response to the subject, and he captured movement and emotion by altering traditional poses and gestures. Rodin's sculpture is often considered a crucial link between traditional and modern art.

Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America" explores the life and career of the noted 20th century Japanese American artist through the lens of Forbidden Fruit, 1950. This eerie and confounding late painting from Syracuse University's permanent collection ultimately reveals Kuniyoshi's tortured state of mind close to his untimely passing in 1953.

Paintings, drawings, and prints from lenders including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University develop an engrossing visual narrative explaining the life and work of this unique artist.

The 2018 Members Exhibition of the Society of American Graphic Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition displays the prints of 66 SAGA members with a variety of statements and techniques that reflect their individual approaches to printmaking. All the prints in this exhibition were done in the 21st century and include traditional and contemporary approaches to printmaking. In their prints, members continue to show a wide variety of imagery, mediums and mastery of techniques, demonstrating the highest standards of excellence. SAGA members continually push the medium and contribute to the growth of printmaking.

Visions of America
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Everson building, "Visions of America" showcases the depth of the Everson's collection of American art. In 1911, the Everson (then known as the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts) made history as the first museum in the country to declare that it would collect only work made by American artists, a decision which led to the acquisition of many important works that are today beloved by Everson visitors. This exhibition features many of these visitor favorites, including work by Edward Hicks, Eastman Johnson, Frederick Remington, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, and Gilbert Stuart.

The Art of the Tile
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ceramic tiles are one of the world's oldest decorative art forms, dating back to at least the fourth millennium BCE. Tiles served both an ornamental and functional purpose, covering interior and exterior building surfaces as well as tabletops and other pieces of furniture.

The Everson's expansive ceramics collection includes over 500 tiles made in countries around the world between the 17th and 20th centuries. This exhibition presents a selection of these tiles, many of which have never before been on view.

A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Handmaid's Tale, written by Margaret Atwood, is Onondaga Community College's Common Read for the 2018-2019 academic year. The Everson has partnered with OCC to present an exhibition of works from the Museum's collection that address the themes and rich visual symbolism found within Atwood's novel. "A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale" draws connections between the visual and literary world as a means to deepen our experience of both art forms and to sharpen our thinking about the world we live in today.

Time Capsule
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Time Capsule" presents five decades of the Everson's history in its I.M. Pei-designed building with a look back at the significant acquisitions, groundbreaking exhibitions, and pioneering public programs sponsored by the Museum in the last 50 years. Featuring archival material including photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera as well as work from the Museum's collection, "Time Capsule" highlights the important role the Everson has played in both the art world and the Central New York community.

The Very Mirror of Life: Ceramics at the Everson 1968-2018
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

I.M. Pei believed that "Architecture is the very mirror of life." This exhibition uses work from the permanent collection to explore the harmony between art and architecture in Pei's building over the past half century.

Unique
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Coordinated by ARISE, a non-profit agency based in Syracuse, "Unique" celebrates the artistic talents of Central New Yorkers living with disabilities. The works included in this exhibition eloquently speak to the myriad thoughts, ideas, and feelings that all humans share, regardless of individual ability or circumstance. The annual competition invites submissions of art and literature which are then selected for display by a panel of judges, and the works are exhibited in several venues throughout CNY.

Sueños: Celebrating the Surreal
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Titled after the Spanish translation for "dreams" and in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Sueños: Celebrating the Surreal highlights works by contemporary Latin American artists in Syracuse University's permanent collections that share in the characteristics of dream-like imagery.

Featuring works by Salvador Dalí, Mauricio Lasansky, Joseph Kugielsky, Adàl Maldonado, Pedro Roth, and more. This exhibition is a collaborative project between Community Folk Art Center, Light Work, Point of Contact Gallery, and Syracuse University Art Galleries. Curated by Point of Contact's Assistant Director and Art History graduate student, Natalie McGrath, with exhibition design consultation from Professor Juan Juarez of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Invisible People: Portraits of the Homeless by Neil Shigley
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

San Diego based artist Neil Shigley's work explores the subject of homelessness by giving visibility to homeless individuals through large-scale portraits.

Summer Review 2018
Urban Video Project

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

Urban Video Project's Summer Review 2018 features works from UVP 2017-2018 programming year which explored ideas of community, intimacy, alienation, and belonging. Exhibitions begin at dusk.

Films include:
A Feeling Like Chaos: Sune Woods
Grand Finale: Kevin Jerome Everson
Tropistic Creatures: Eva Marie Rodbro
Rabbits: Keren Shavit
Good Luck (Portraits): Ben Russell

"What If...?" Film Series: Project Wild Thing
The Gifford Foundation

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Wild Time. There is a growing understanding that our children need more of it in their lives and that if we design family life, our communities, and our schools so that we provide more of it, then we can all thrive.

The screening will be followed by a discussion about how we can bring the wild back into our children's and our own lives.

Presented in partnership with Alchemical Nursery and Creatures in the Wild.

Syracuse Contemporary Irish Film Festival: Patrick's Day (2014)

Price: $10 in advance, $12.50 at the door
Wildflowers Armory at McCarthy Mercantile
217 S. Salina St., Syracuse

When a young man with mental health issues becomes intimate with a suicidal flight attendant, his obsessive mother enlists a dysfunctional cop to separate them. Written and directed by Terry McMahon.

Winner of ECU European Independent Film Festival 2016 for Best Actor. Winner of Galway Film Fleadh 2014 for Best Irish Feature Film. Winner of Irish Film and Television Awards 2015 for Best Actor in a Lead Role in Film and for Best Script in Film.

For tickets or more information, visit syririshfilmfest.com.

My Dead Lady
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Professor Barry Biggins has a problem. Azalia Dimwittle has completely failed every attempt to elevate her from Cockney flower girl to aristocratic lady. She simply hasn't gotten it, never will get it, and now everyone has just about had it. To make matters worse, she's invited you and the rest of her conniving family over to the Professor's house for her father's birthday party. By George, I think she's going to get it (if she doesn't get them first).

Preview: Noises Off
Syracuse Stage
Bob Hupp, director

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

Hailed as the "funniest farce ever written" and a "festival of delirium," Noises Off is legendary in the annals of laughter. As a company of actors attempts to deliver a comedy onstage, playwright Michael Frayn takes us behind the scenes where the real farce explodes. Slamming doors, wayward fish, and comic chaos delivered with impeccable precision make Noises Off the most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy.

Read a Review!

The Mousetrap
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $18
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

A group of strangers, one of whom is a murderer, is stranded in a boarding house during a snowstorm. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, and the suspicions in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Others are a spinster with a curious background, an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. He no sooner arrives when the jurist is killed. Two down, and one to go. To get to the rationale of the murderer's pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons. Another famous Agatha Christie switch finish! Chalk up another superb intrigue for the foremost mystery writer of her time.

Read a Review!

Friday, September 14, 2018

Picture 81 Juried Exhibition
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Artists and photographers document Route 81 as it intersects with our community.

Woods: Oil Paintings by Robert Niedzwiecki
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The End of the World
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988 claimed the lives of 270 individuals from 21 nations. Among those lost were 35 students returning home from a semester abroad through Syracuse University. This exhibition of materials donated to the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster by the victims' families, friends, advocates, and affected communities commemorates the 30th anniversary of the tragedy through an exploration of the ways in which the lives of the victims have been remembered. Whether through scholarship, public advocacy, art, or physical memorials, we ensure their lives and the lessons learned from their deaths are not forgotten.

Disregard the Facts
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Charlie Golden: small ink drawings
Melissa Montgomery: bronze "footed" bowls
Mike Sickler: mixed media collage
Esperanza Tielbaard: semi-precious stone necklaces

Cranky Cat Collection: Paintings by Cindy Schmidt
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Whimsical, humorous original acrylic paintings.

Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is guest-curated by For Freedoms, a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States, co-founded in 2016 by former Light Work artists-in-residence Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas.

"Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul" features over 40 photographs from the Light Work Collection. The list of artists includes Laura Aguilar, George Awde, Karl Baden, Lois Barden and Harry Littell, Claire Beckett, Charles Biasing-Rivera, Samantha Box, Deborah Bright, Chan Chao, Renee Cox, Rose Marie Cromwell, Jen Davis, Jess Dugan, John Edmonds, Amy Elkins, Nereyda Garcia Ferraz, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Antony Gleaton, Jim Goldberg, David Graham, Mahtab Hussain, Osamu James Nakagawa, Tommy Kha, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Deana Lawson, Mary Mattingly, Jackie Nickerson, Shelley Niro, Suzanne Opton, Kristine Potter, Ernesto Pujol, Irina Rozovsky, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kanako Sasaki, Pacifico Silano, Clarissa Sligh, Beuford Smith, Amy Stein, Mila Teshaieva, Brian Ulrich, Ted Wathen, Carrie Mae Weems, Carla Williams, Hank Willis Thomas, Pixy Yijun Liao.

Read a review!

The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I, Onondaga Historical Association will present an exhibit on Onondaga County's role in the Great War.

The exhibit will feature photographs, posters, uniforms, gas masks, helmets and other military accoutrements, war souvenirs, home-front conservation items, letters, diaries, and other archival material and objects. These items will illustrate the impact World War I had on Onondaga County and the world at large. The exhibit will focus on the people, places, and events at home and abroad including military personnel and units, the nurse corps, Camp Syracuse, food conservation, the Split Rock munitions explosion, and the Spanish Influenza epidemic.

Donald R. Waful: The Remarkable Life Story of a Local Syracusan
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Donald R. Waful has been a dedicated Syracuse citizen for nearly a century. As a young adult, he attended Syracuse University where he earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees. He enlisted in the United States army in 1941 and served overseas when the U.S. entered World War II. He met his future wife, army nurse Olga "Cassie" Casciolini, while stationed in Northern Ireland. He then served in the North African campaign where he was taken as a prisoner of war in 1942. He would remain a POW first in Italy, then in Poland, for the duration of the war. He was reunited with Cassie at the end of World War II, afterward settling in Syracuse. Don went on to have a career in insurance and served as President of the Syracuse Chiefs baseball team for 35 years. Waful has remained active in the Syracuse community, both with Syracuse University and the Chiefs baseball team.

This exhibit, designed and installed by SUNY Potsdam undergraduate student Mahala Nyberg, examinies the life of Don Waful, who is nearing 102 years old, and details his experiences during World War II as well as his experiences before and after the war in Syracuse.

The 2018 Members Exhibition of the Society of American Graphic Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition displays the prints of 66 SAGA members with a variety of statements and techniques that reflect their individual approaches to printmaking. All the prints in this exhibition were done in the 21st century and include traditional and contemporary approaches to printmaking. In their prints, members continue to show a wide variety of imagery, mediums and mastery of techniques, demonstrating the highest standards of excellence. SAGA members continually push the medium and contribute to the growth of printmaking.

Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America" explores the life and career of the noted 20th century Japanese American artist through the lens of Forbidden Fruit, 1950. This eerie and confounding late painting from Syracuse University's permanent collection ultimately reveals Kuniyoshi's tortured state of mind close to his untimely passing in 1953.

Paintings, drawings, and prints from lenders including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University develop an engrossing visual narrative explaining the life and work of this unique artist.

Rodin: The Human Experience
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Rodin: The Human Experience (Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections) presents 32 figures in bronze by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), the French sculptor who left behind 19th century academic traditions to focus on conveying the passion and vitality of the human spirit. Considered in his lifetime to be the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo, Rodin exerted a tremendous influence on artists of subsequent generations, such as Matisse, Brancusi, and Maillol. His vigorous modeling emphasized his personal response to the subject, and he captured movement and emotion by altering traditional poses and gestures. Rodin's sculpture is often considered a crucial link between traditional and modern art.

The Art of the Tile
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ceramic tiles are one of the world's oldest decorative art forms, dating back to at least the fourth millennium BCE. Tiles served both an ornamental and functional purpose, covering interior and exterior building surfaces as well as tabletops and other pieces of furniture.

The Everson's expansive ceramics collection includes over 500 tiles made in countries around the world between the 17th and 20th centuries. This exhibition presents a selection of these tiles, many of which have never before been on view.

Visions of America
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Everson building, "Visions of America" showcases the depth of the Everson's collection of American art. In 1911, the Everson (then known as the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts) made history as the first museum in the country to declare that it would collect only work made by American artists, a decision which led to the acquisition of many important works that are today beloved by Everson visitors. This exhibition features many of these visitor favorites, including work by Edward Hicks, Eastman Johnson, Frederick Remington, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, and Gilbert Stuart.

Unique
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Coordinated by ARISE, a non-profit agency based in Syracuse, "Unique" celebrates the artistic talents of Central New Yorkers living with disabilities. The works included in this exhibition eloquently speak to the myriad thoughts, ideas, and feelings that all humans share, regardless of individual ability or circumstance. The annual competition invites submissions of art and literature which are then selected for display by a panel of judges, and the works are exhibited in several venues throughout CNY.

The Very Mirror of Life: Ceramics at the Everson 1968-2018
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

I.M. Pei believed that "Architecture is the very mirror of life." This exhibition uses work from the permanent collection to explore the harmony between art and architecture in Pei's building over the past half century.

Time Capsule
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Time Capsule" presents five decades of the Everson's history in its I.M. Pei-designed building with a look back at the significant acquisitions, groundbreaking exhibitions, and pioneering public programs sponsored by the Museum in the last 50 years. Featuring archival material including photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera as well as work from the Museum's collection, "Time Capsule" highlights the important role the Everson has played in both the art world and the Central New York community.

A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Handmaid's Tale, written by Margaret Atwood, is Onondaga Community College's Common Read for the 2018-2019 academic year. The Everson has partnered with OCC to present an exhibition of works from the Museum's collection that address the themes and rich visual symbolism found within Atwood's novel. "A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale" draws connections between the visual and literary world as a means to deepen our experience of both art forms and to sharpen our thinking about the world we live in today.

Sueños: Celebrating the Surreal
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Titled after the Spanish translation for "dreams" and in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Sueños: Celebrating the Surreal highlights works by contemporary Latin American artists in Syracuse University's permanent collections that share in the characteristics of dream-like imagery.

Featuring works by Salvador Dalí, Mauricio Lasansky, Joseph Kugielsky, Adàl Maldonado, Pedro Roth, and more. This exhibition is a collaborative project between Community Folk Art Center, Light Work, Point of Contact Gallery, and Syracuse University Art Galleries. Curated by Point of Contact's Assistant Director and Art History graduate student, Natalie McGrath, with exhibition design consultation from Professor Juan Juarez of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Invisible People: Portraits of the Homeless by Neil Shigley
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

San Diego based artist Neil Shigley's work explores the subject of homelessness by giving visibility to homeless individuals through large-scale portraits.

Cuba
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

CUBA: the stories, the music and dance, the art and cuisine. Join us for a grand opening event to kick-off a new season at La Casita.

CUBA is a collection of paintings, photography, video, memorabilia, and cultural relics. La Casita's opening event will also showcase great music, dancing, and a delicious tasting of traditional Caribbean cuisine. Directly from the margins, six Cuban Syracuse-based artists and scholars, examine life in Cuba and the refugee experience within our own community through visual and personal narratives.

GUEST ARTISTS:
Richell Castellón, visual artist, painting
Dashel Hernández, visual artist, video
Danisley Pérez Bravo, architect, photographer
Roberto Luis Pérez, dance choreographer, performance
Dalgis Viera Alarcón, industrial engineer, photographer
Sanlly Viera, visual artist, painting

Each year, La Casita presents its inaugural event commemorating Hispanic Heritage Month with a new exhibition that invites community participation, an assembly of meaningful artifacts that honor our traditions, our struggles and resilience. The 2018 program examines life in Cuba, working with an amazing group of artists that we are proud to have in our Syracuse community. Their stories reveal parallels, a universal character among Latin American and Caribbean migrant populations. The project fosters intercultural communication and understanding through dialogue.

Summer Review 2018
Urban Video Project

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

Urban Video Project's Summer Review 2018 features works from UVP 2017-2018 programming year which explored ideas of community, intimacy, alienation, and belonging. Exhibitions begin at dusk.

Films include:
A Feeling Like Chaos: Sune Woods
Grand Finale: Kevin Jerome Everson
Tropistic Creatures: Eva Marie Rodbro
Rabbits: Keren Shavit
Good Luck (Portraits): Ben Russell

Festa Italiana

Price: Free
Washington St. (in front of City Hall)
Syracuse

A celebration of Italian food, music, and culture.

For more information, visit festaitaliana.bizland.com.

Small Stage
12:00 pm: Just Joe
2:00 pm: Scro Brothers
4:00 pm: The Strangers
6:00 pm: Howie Bartolo
8:00 pm: Tommy Rozzano and Ashley Cox

Main Stage
5:30 pm: Vanessa Racci
7:00 pm: Atlas
9:00 pm: Prime Time

Syracuse Contemporary Irish Film Festival: Sanctuary (2016)

Price: $10 in advance, $12.50 at the door
Wildflowers Armory at McCarthy Mercantile
217 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Larry has Down's, Sophie has epilepsy. Two people with intellectual disabilities live in a world that conspires to keep them apart. With a clever plan and the enlisting of help from a friend, will love triumph for Larry and Sophie? Written by Christian O'Reilly and directed by Len Collin

Winner of Dublin International Film Festival 2017 Michael Dwyer Discovery Award for Best Ensemble Cast. Winner of Galway Film Fleadh 2016 for Best First Feature. Winner of Newport Beach Film Festival 2017 for Best Director.

For tickets or more information, visit syririshfilmfest.com.

Red-Blooded Rock 'n' Roll Redneck Extravaganza: Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Wheeler Walker Jr.
Lakeview St. Joseph's Amphitheater

Lakeview Amphitheater
490 Restoration Way, Syracuse

Glenn Miller Orchestra

Price: $30, $35
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra makes its return to Syracuse for an evening of big-band swing music that you don't want to miss! With hits such as In The Mood, String of Pearls, Pennsylvania 6-5000, and Moonlight Serenade, The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra has been an icon of the swing and big band sounds of the war era, entertaining audiences around the globe.

The two-hour show will feature historic hits from the Glenn Miller library along with vocal and instrumental favorites from the Great American Songbook.

Refreshments will be available for purchase in the Carrier Theater lobby both before the show and during intermission.

Tickets available online at ticketmaster.com.

Celebration!
NYS Baroque

Price: $35 regular, $30 seniors, $10 college students, children free
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Our 30th season begins with an array of chamber music performed by our best musical friends. Music by familiar composers, such as Telemann and Marais, and unfamiliar composers, such as Pfeiffe — and more!

Steven Zohn, flute; Julie Andrijeski and Boel Gidholm, violins; Dan Elyar, viola; David Morris, cello and viola da gamba; Leon Schelhase, harpsichord; Deborah Fox, theorbo.

There will be a pre-concert talk at 6:45 pm.

Preview: Prognosis: Poor
Building Company Theater

Price: Pay what you can
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

One doctor's personal account of the beauty and the perils of modern medical training, based on the book by Dr. Frances Southwick.

The Mousetrap
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

A group of strangers, one of whom is a murderer, is stranded in a boarding house during a snowstorm. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, and the suspicions in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Others are a spinster with a curious background, an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. He no sooner arrives when the jurist is killed. Two down, and one to go. To get to the rationale of the murderer's pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons. Another famous Agatha Christie switch finish! Chalk up another superb intrigue for the foremost mystery writer of her time.

Read a Review!

Opening: Noises Off
Syracuse Stage
Bob Hupp, director

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

Hailed as the "funniest farce ever written" and a "festival of delirium," Noises Off is legendary in the annals of laughter. As a company of actors attempts to deliver a comedy onstage, playwright Michael Frayn takes us behind the scenes where the real farce explodes. Slamming doors, wayward fish, and comic chaos delivered with impeccable precision make Noises Off the most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy.

Read a Review!

Saturday, September 15, 2018

Woods: Oil Paintings by Robert Niedzwiecki
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Disregard the Facts
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Charlie Golden: small ink drawings
Melissa Montgomery: bronze "footed" bowls
Mike Sickler: mixed media collage
Esperanza Tielbaard: semi-precious stone necklaces

Visions of America
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Everson building, "Visions of America" showcases the depth of the Everson's collection of American art. In 1911, the Everson (then known as the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts) made history as the first museum in the country to declare that it would collect only work made by American artists, a decision which led to the acquisition of many important works that are today beloved by Everson visitors. This exhibition features many of these visitor favorites, including work by Edward Hicks, Eastman Johnson, Frederick Remington, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, and Gilbert Stuart.

The Art of the Tile
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ceramic tiles are one of the world's oldest decorative art forms, dating back to at least the fourth millennium BCE. Tiles served both an ornamental and functional purpose, covering interior and exterior building surfaces as well as tabletops and other pieces of furniture.

The Everson's expansive ceramics collection includes over 500 tiles made in countries around the world between the 17th and 20th centuries. This exhibition presents a selection of these tiles, many of which have never before been on view.

A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Handmaid's Tale, written by Margaret Atwood, is Onondaga Community College's Common Read for the 2018-2019 academic year. The Everson has partnered with OCC to present an exhibition of works from the Museum's collection that address the themes and rich visual symbolism found within Atwood's novel. "A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale" draws connections between the visual and literary world as a means to deepen our experience of both art forms and to sharpen our thinking about the world we live in today.

Time Capsule
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Time Capsule" presents five decades of the Everson's history in its I.M. Pei-designed building with a look back at the significant acquisitions, groundbreaking exhibitions, and pioneering public programs sponsored by the Museum in the last 50 years. Featuring archival material including photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera as well as work from the Museum's collection, "Time Capsule" highlights the important role the Everson has played in both the art world and the Central New York community.

The Very Mirror of Life: Ceramics at the Everson 1968-2018
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

I.M. Pei believed that "Architecture is the very mirror of life." This exhibition uses work from the permanent collection to explore the harmony between art and architecture in Pei's building over the past half century.

Unique
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Coordinated by ARISE, a non-profit agency based in Syracuse, "Unique" celebrates the artistic talents of Central New Yorkers living with disabilities. The works included in this exhibition eloquently speak to the myriad thoughts, ideas, and feelings that all humans share, regardless of individual ability or circumstance. The annual competition invites submissions of art and literature which are then selected for display by a panel of judges, and the works are exhibited in several venues throughout CNY.

Cranky Cat Collection: Paintings by Cindy Schmidt
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Whimsical, humorous original acrylic paintings.

The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I, Onondaga Historical Association will present an exhibit on Onondaga County's role in the Great War.

The exhibit will feature photographs, posters, uniforms, gas masks, helmets and other military accoutrements, war souvenirs, home-front conservation items, letters, diaries, and other archival material and objects. These items will illustrate the impact World War I had on Onondaga County and the world at large. The exhibit will focus on the people, places, and events at home and abroad including military personnel and units, the nurse corps, Camp Syracuse, food conservation, the Split Rock munitions explosion, and the Spanish Influenza epidemic.

Donald R. Waful: The Remarkable Life Story of a Local Syracusan
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Donald R. Waful has been a dedicated Syracuse citizen for nearly a century. As a young adult, he attended Syracuse University where he earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees. He enlisted in the United States army in 1941 and served overseas when the U.S. entered World War II. He met his future wife, army nurse Olga "Cassie" Casciolini, while stationed in Northern Ireland. He then served in the North African campaign where he was taken as a prisoner of war in 1942. He would remain a POW first in Italy, then in Poland, for the duration of the war. He was reunited with Cassie at the end of World War II, afterward settling in Syracuse. Don went on to have a career in insurance and served as President of the Syracuse Chiefs baseball team for 35 years. Waful has remained active in the Syracuse community, both with Syracuse University and the Chiefs baseball team.

This exhibit, designed and installed by SUNY Potsdam undergraduate student Mahala Nyberg, examinies the life of Don Waful, who is nearing 102 years old, and details his experiences during World War II as well as his experiences before and after the war in Syracuse.

The 2018 Members Exhibition of the Society of American Graphic Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition displays the prints of 66 SAGA members with a variety of statements and techniques that reflect their individual approaches to printmaking. All the prints in this exhibition were done in the 21st century and include traditional and contemporary approaches to printmaking. In their prints, members continue to show a wide variety of imagery, mediums and mastery of techniques, demonstrating the highest standards of excellence. SAGA members continually push the medium and contribute to the growth of printmaking.

Rodin: The Human Experience
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Rodin: The Human Experience (Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections) presents 32 figures in bronze by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), the French sculptor who left behind 19th century academic traditions to focus on conveying the passion and vitality of the human spirit. Considered in his lifetime to be the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo, Rodin exerted a tremendous influence on artists of subsequent generations, such as Matisse, Brancusi, and Maillol. His vigorous modeling emphasized his personal response to the subject, and he captured movement and emotion by altering traditional poses and gestures. Rodin's sculpture is often considered a crucial link between traditional and modern art.

Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America" explores the life and career of the noted 20th century Japanese American artist through the lens of Forbidden Fruit, 1950. This eerie and confounding late painting from Syracuse University's permanent collection ultimately reveals Kuniyoshi's tortured state of mind close to his untimely passing in 1953.

Paintings, drawings, and prints from lenders including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University develop an engrossing visual narrative explaining the life and work of this unique artist.

Invisible People: Portraits of the Homeless by Neil Shigley
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

San Diego based artist Neil Shigley's work explores the subject of homelessness by giving visibility to homeless individuals through large-scale portraits.

Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is guest-curated by For Freedoms, a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States, co-founded in 2016 by former Light Work artists-in-residence Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas.

"Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul" features over 40 photographs from the Light Work Collection. The list of artists includes Laura Aguilar, George Awde, Karl Baden, Lois Barden and Harry Littell, Claire Beckett, Charles Biasing-Rivera, Samantha Box, Deborah Bright, Chan Chao, Renee Cox, Rose Marie Cromwell, Jen Davis, Jess Dugan, John Edmonds, Amy Elkins, Nereyda Garcia Ferraz, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Antony Gleaton, Jim Goldberg, David Graham, Mahtab Hussain, Osamu James Nakagawa, Tommy Kha, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Deana Lawson, Mary Mattingly, Jackie Nickerson, Shelley Niro, Suzanne Opton, Kristine Potter, Ernesto Pujol, Irina Rozovsky, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kanako Sasaki, Pacifico Silano, Clarissa Sligh, Beuford Smith, Amy Stein, Mila Teshaieva, Brian Ulrich, Ted Wathen, Carrie Mae Weems, Carla Williams, Hank Willis Thomas, Pixy Yijun Liao.

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Summer Review 2018
Urban Video Project

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

Urban Video Project's Summer Review 2018 features works from UVP 2017-2018 programming year which explored ideas of community, intimacy, alienation, and belonging. Exhibitions begin at dusk.

Films include:
A Feeling Like Chaos: Sune Woods
Grand Finale: Kevin Jerome Everson
Tropistic Creatures: Eva Marie Rodbro
Rabbits: Keren Shavit
Good Luck (Portraits): Ben Russell

Pork Pie Hat
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $10 (cash only)
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

Join us for some hilarious improv comedy! Headlining will be Salt City Improv's house team, Pork Pie Hat (short-form improv comedy, in the style of the hit TV show, "Whose Line Is It, Anyway.") Opening the show is Pillow Fight Club.

Festa Italiana

Price: Free
Washington St. (in front of City Hall)
Syracuse

A celebration of Italian food, music, and culture.

For more information, visit festaitaliana.bizland.com.

Small Stage
12:00 pm: Salt City Chill
2:00 pm: Just Joe
4:00 pm: Mickey Vendetti
6:00 pm: Joey Nigro
8:30 pm: Bad Husbands Club

Main Stage
11:30 pm: Phoenix Community Band
2:00 pm: Ener-G R&B Showband
4:00 pm: Stan Colella Orchestra and Joe Whiting
6:00 pm: Natalie Pinto
7:00 pm: Infinity
9:00 pm: Under The Gun

Living Dead Film Fest
Palace Theatre

Price: $35 in advance
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Celebrating 50 years of the Living Dead.

Films begin at noon.

In order of screening:
Night of the Living Dead (4K Restoration)
The Return of the Living Dead (35mm)
Return of the Living Dead Part 2 (35mm)
My Uncle John is a Zombie (Digital)
Cemetery Man (35mm)
Shaun of the Dead (35mm)
Tombs of the Blind Dead (35mm)
Bloodshock (Digital)

Special guests include:
John Russo (screenwriter Night of the Living Dead, Return of the Living Dead, My Uncle John is a Zombie), Linnea Quigley (actress Return of the Living Dead), Gary Vincent (actor My Uncle John is a Zombie, Marcus Koch (special effects artist), and more.

Tickets available at www.livingdeadfestival.com and at The Sound Garden in Armory Square.

Syracuse Contemporary Irish Film Festival: My Name is Emily

Price: $10 in advance, $12.50 at the door
Wildflowers Armory at McCarthy Mercantile
217 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Emily has been living in a foster home ever since her father was institutionalized after her mother's death. Still, she keeps in touch with him through the birthday cards he sends her every year. As Emily starts at a new school, she catches the attention of her shy classmate Arden. When her father doesn't send a birthday card on her 16th birthday, Emily decides to take matters into her own hands. Enlisting Arden's help, she runs away, and the pair set out on a road trip to break her father out of the psych ward. As their journey progresses, Emily and Arden must depend on each other as they learn about life, love, loss, and letting go. Written and directed by Simon Fitzmaurice.

Winner of Dublin International Film Festival 2016 for Discovery Award. Winner of Galway Film Fleadh 2015 for Best Cinematography in an Irish Feature and Bingham Ray New Talent Award. Winner of Newport Beach Film Festival 2016 for Achievement Award in Acting.

For tickets or more information, visit syririshfilmfest.com.

Syracuse Contemporary Irish Film Festival: It's Not Yet Dark

Price: $10 in advance, $12.50 at the door
Wildflowers Armory at McCarthy Mercantile
217 S. Salina St., Syracuse

It's Not Yet Dark tells the ground-breaking story of Simon Fitzmaurice (writer and director of My Name is Emily), a talented young Irish film maker with ALS (MND), as he embarks on directing his first feature film through the use of his eyes and eye-gaze technology. Directed by Frankie Fenton.

Winner of Galway Film Fleadh 2016 for Best Irish Feature Documentary. Winner of Irish Film and Television Awards 2017 for Best Feature Documentary.

For tickets or more information, visit syririshfilmfest.com.

Parties in the Plaza: Mark Hoffman Duo
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
LeMoyne Plaza
1135 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Masterworks Series: 1,001 Nights
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Featuring Lisa Pegher, percussion

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

Rachmaninoff The Rock, Fantasy, Op. 7
Richard Danielpour The Wounded Healer
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

World of Puppets: Lion Legends
Open Hand Theater

Open Hand Theater
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 1 (formerly Dick's entrance), Dewitt

A collection of African stories starring the King of Beasts.

The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $6
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Preview: Prognosis: Poor
Building Company Theater

Price: Pay what you can
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

One doctor's personal account of the beauty and the perils of modern medical training, based on the book by Dr. Frances Southwick.

Noises Off
Syracuse Stage
Bob Hupp, director

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

Hailed as the "funniest farce ever written" and a "festival of delirium," Noises Off is legendary in the annals of laughter. As a company of actors attempts to deliver a comedy onstage, playwright Michael Frayn takes us behind the scenes where the real farce explodes. Slamming doors, wayward fish, and comic chaos delivered with impeccable precision make Noises Off the most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy.

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Gaither Vocal Band
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Gaither Vocal Band will share timeless gospel classics, as well as refreshing, inspiring new favorites embraced by audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Joining The Gaither Vocal Band for this special evening will be talented female vocalist Charlotte Ritchie and powerful male vocalist Gene McDonald, as well as guitarist and comedian Kevin Williams.

Tickets available online at Ticketmaster.com.

Prognosis: Poor
Building Company Theater

Price: $5-$15 sliding scale
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

One doctor's personal account of the beauty and the perils of modern medical training, based on the book by Dr. Frances Southwick.

The Mousetrap
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

A group of strangers, one of whom is a murderer, is stranded in a boarding house during a snowstorm. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, and the suspicions in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Others are a spinster with a curious background, an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. He no sooner arrives when the jurist is killed. Two down, and one to go. To get to the rationale of the murderer's pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons. Another famous Agatha Christie switch finish! Chalk up another superb intrigue for the foremost mystery writer of her time.

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Noises Off
Syracuse Stage
Bob Hupp, director

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

Hailed as the "funniest farce ever written" and a "festival of delirium," Noises Off is legendary in the annals of laughter. As a company of actors attempts to deliver a comedy onstage, playwright Michael Frayn takes us behind the scenes where the real farce explodes. Slamming doors, wayward fish, and comic chaos delivered with impeccable precision make Noises Off the most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy.

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Sunday, September 16, 2018

Cranky Cat Collection: Paintings by Cindy Schmidt
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Whimsical, humorous original acrylic paintings.

The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I, Onondaga Historical Association will present an exhibit on Onondaga County's role in the Great War.

The exhibit will feature photographs, posters, uniforms, gas masks, helmets and other military accoutrements, war souvenirs, home-front conservation items, letters, diaries, and other archival material and objects. These items will illustrate the impact World War I had on Onondaga County and the world at large. The exhibit will focus on the people, places, and events at home and abroad including military personnel and units, the nurse corps, Camp Syracuse, food conservation, the Split Rock munitions explosion, and the Spanish Influenza epidemic.

Donald R. Waful: The Remarkable Life Story of a Local Syracusan
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Donald R. Waful has been a dedicated Syracuse citizen for nearly a century. As a young adult, he attended Syracuse University where he earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees. He enlisted in the United States army in 1941 and served overseas when the U.S. entered World War II. He met his future wife, army nurse Olga "Cassie" Casciolini, while stationed in Northern Ireland. He then served in the North African campaign where he was taken as a prisoner of war in 1942. He would remain a POW first in Italy, then in Poland, for the duration of the war. He was reunited with Cassie at the end of World War II, afterward settling in Syracuse. Don went on to have a career in insurance and served as President of the Syracuse Chiefs baseball team for 35 years. Waful has remained active in the Syracuse community, both with Syracuse University and the Chiefs baseball team.

This exhibit, designed and installed by SUNY Potsdam undergraduate student Mahala Nyberg, examinies the life of Don Waful, who is nearing 102 years old, and details his experiences during World War II as well as his experiences before and after the war in Syracuse.

The 2018 Members Exhibition of the Society of American Graphic Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition displays the prints of 66 SAGA members with a variety of statements and techniques that reflect their individual approaches to printmaking. All the prints in this exhibition were done in the 21st century and include traditional and contemporary approaches to printmaking. In their prints, members continue to show a wide variety of imagery, mediums and mastery of techniques, demonstrating the highest standards of excellence. SAGA members continually push the medium and contribute to the growth of printmaking.

Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America" explores the life and career of the noted 20th century Japanese American artist through the lens of Forbidden Fruit, 1950. This eerie and confounding late painting from Syracuse University's permanent collection ultimately reveals Kuniyoshi's tortured state of mind close to his untimely passing in 1953.

Paintings, drawings, and prints from lenders including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University develop an engrossing visual narrative explaining the life and work of this unique artist.

Rodin: The Human Experience
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Rodin: The Human Experience (Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections) presents 32 figures in bronze by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), the French sculptor who left behind 19th century academic traditions to focus on conveying the passion and vitality of the human spirit. Considered in his lifetime to be the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo, Rodin exerted a tremendous influence on artists of subsequent generations, such as Matisse, Brancusi, and Maillol. His vigorous modeling emphasized his personal response to the subject, and he captured movement and emotion by altering traditional poses and gestures. Rodin's sculpture is often considered a crucial link between traditional and modern art.

The Art of the Tile
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ceramic tiles are one of the world's oldest decorative art forms, dating back to at least the fourth millennium BCE. Tiles served both an ornamental and functional purpose, covering interior and exterior building surfaces as well as tabletops and other pieces of furniture.

The Everson's expansive ceramics collection includes over 500 tiles made in countries around the world between the 17th and 20th centuries. This exhibition presents a selection of these tiles, many of which have never before been on view.

Visions of America
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Everson building, "Visions of America" showcases the depth of the Everson's collection of American art. In 1911, the Everson (then known as the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts) made history as the first museum in the country to declare that it would collect only work made by American artists, a decision which led to the acquisition of many important works that are today beloved by Everson visitors. This exhibition features many of these visitor favorites, including work by Edward Hicks, Eastman Johnson, Frederick Remington, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, and Gilbert Stuart.

Unique
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Coordinated by ARISE, a non-profit agency based in Syracuse, "Unique" celebrates the artistic talents of Central New Yorkers living with disabilities. The works included in this exhibition eloquently speak to the myriad thoughts, ideas, and feelings that all humans share, regardless of individual ability or circumstance. The annual competition invites submissions of art and literature which are then selected for display by a panel of judges, and the works are exhibited in several venues throughout CNY.

The Very Mirror of Life: Ceramics at the Everson 1968-2018
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

I.M. Pei believed that "Architecture is the very mirror of life." This exhibition uses work from the permanent collection to explore the harmony between art and architecture in Pei's building over the past half century.

Time Capsule
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Time Capsule" presents five decades of the Everson's history in its I.M. Pei-designed building with a look back at the significant acquisitions, groundbreaking exhibitions, and pioneering public programs sponsored by the Museum in the last 50 years. Featuring archival material including photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera as well as work from the Museum's collection, "Time Capsule" highlights the important role the Everson has played in both the art world and the Central New York community.

A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Handmaid's Tale, written by Margaret Atwood, is Onondaga Community College's Common Read for the 2018-2019 academic year. The Everson has partnered with OCC to present an exhibition of works from the Museum's collection that address the themes and rich visual symbolism found within Atwood's novel. "A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale" draws connections between the visual and literary world as a means to deepen our experience of both art forms and to sharpen our thinking about the world we live in today.

Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is guest-curated by For Freedoms, a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States, co-founded in 2016 by former Light Work artists-in-residence Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas.

"Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul" features over 40 photographs from the Light Work Collection. The list of artists includes Laura Aguilar, George Awde, Karl Baden, Lois Barden and Harry Littell, Claire Beckett, Charles Biasing-Rivera, Samantha Box, Deborah Bright, Chan Chao, Renee Cox, Rose Marie Cromwell, Jen Davis, Jess Dugan, John Edmonds, Amy Elkins, Nereyda Garcia Ferraz, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Antony Gleaton, Jim Goldberg, David Graham, Mahtab Hussain, Osamu James Nakagawa, Tommy Kha, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Deana Lawson, Mary Mattingly, Jackie Nickerson, Shelley Niro, Suzanne Opton, Kristine Potter, Ernesto Pujol, Irina Rozovsky, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kanako Sasaki, Pacifico Silano, Clarissa Sligh, Beuford Smith, Amy Stein, Mila Teshaieva, Brian Ulrich, Ted Wathen, Carrie Mae Weems, Carla Williams, Hank Willis Thomas, Pixy Yijun Liao.

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Festa Italiana

Price: Free
Washington St. (in front of City Hall)
Syracuse

A celebration of Italian food, music, and culture.

For more information, visit festaitaliana.bizland.com.

Small Stage
12:00 pm: Mark Macri
2:00 pm: TJ Sacco
4:00 pm: Mood Swing

Main Stage
12:25 pm: Josephine Federico School of Music
1:30 pm: Michael Amante
3:00 pm: Rocco Barbato
5:00 pm: The Billionaires

Syracuse Contemporary Irish Film Festival: Song of the Sea (Amhrán na Mara)

Price: Free
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Song of the Sea follows the story of a 10-year-old Irish boy named Ben who discovers that his mute sister Saoirse, whom he blames for the apparent death of his mother, is a selkie who has to free faerie creatures from the Celtic goddess Macha. Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan, and Lisa Hannigan star, with original score composed by Bruno Coulais, in collaboration with the Irish group Kíla. Directed by Tomm Moore.

Winner of 2015 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

For more information, visit syririshfilmfest.com.

Beneath the Surface: The Storied History of Onondaga Lake
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $7 regular, $5 OHA members
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Alex Jones
Syracuse Wurlitzer

Price: $15 adults, $2 children 16 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Alex Jones, an Eastman School of Music graduate and 2017 ATOS Organist of the Year, makes his Syracuse debut performing on the Mighty Wurlitzer

Prognosis: Poor
Building Company Theater

Price: $5-$15 sliding scale
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

One doctor's personal account of the beauty and the perils of modern medical training, based on the book by Dr. Frances Southwick.

The Mousetrap
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $18
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

A group of strangers, one of whom is a murderer, is stranded in a boarding house during a snowstorm. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, and the suspicions in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Others are a spinster with a curious background, an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. He no sooner arrives when the jurist is killed. Two down, and one to go. To get to the rationale of the murderer's pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons. Another famous Agatha Christie switch finish! Chalk up another superb intrigue for the foremost mystery writer of her time.

Read a Review!

Noises Off
Syracuse Stage
Bob Hupp, director

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

Hailed as the "funniest farce ever written" and a "festival of delirium," Noises Off is legendary in the annals of laughter. As a company of actors attempts to deliver a comedy onstage, playwright Michael Frayn takes us behind the scenes where the real farce explodes. Slamming doors, wayward fish, and comic chaos delivered with impeccable precision make Noises Off the most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy.

Read a Review!

Noises Off
Syracuse Stage
Bob Hupp, director

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

Hailed as the "funniest farce ever written" and a "festival of delirium," Noises Off is legendary in the annals of laughter. As a company of actors attempts to deliver a comedy onstage, playwright Michael Frayn takes us behind the scenes where the real farce explodes. Slamming doors, wayward fish, and comic chaos delivered with impeccable precision make Noises Off the most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy.

Read a Review!

Monday, September 17, 2018

Picture 81 Juried Exhibition
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Artists and photographers document Route 81 as it intersects with our community.

Woods: Oil Paintings by Robert Niedzwiecki
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The End of the World
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988 claimed the lives of 270 individuals from 21 nations. Among those lost were 35 students returning home from a semester abroad through Syracuse University. This exhibition of materials donated to the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster by the victims' families, friends, advocates, and affected communities commemorates the 30th anniversary of the tragedy through an exploration of the ways in which the lives of the victims have been remembered. Whether through scholarship, public advocacy, art, or physical memorials, we ensure their lives and the lessons learned from their deaths are not forgotten.

Cranky Cat Collection: Paintings by Cindy Schmidt
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Whimsical, humorous original acrylic paintings.

Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is guest-curated by For Freedoms, a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States, co-founded in 2016 by former Light Work artists-in-residence Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas.

"Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul" features over 40 photographs from the Light Work Collection. The list of artists includes Laura Aguilar, George Awde, Karl Baden, Lois Barden and Harry Littell, Claire Beckett, Charles Biasing-Rivera, Samantha Box, Deborah Bright, Chan Chao, Renee Cox, Rose Marie Cromwell, Jen Davis, Jess Dugan, John Edmonds, Amy Elkins, Nereyda Garcia Ferraz, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Antony Gleaton, Jim Goldberg, David Graham, Mahtab Hussain, Osamu James Nakagawa, Tommy Kha, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Deana Lawson, Mary Mattingly, Jackie Nickerson, Shelley Niro, Suzanne Opton, Kristine Potter, Ernesto Pujol, Irina Rozovsky, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kanako Sasaki, Pacifico Silano, Clarissa Sligh, Beuford Smith, Amy Stein, Mila Teshaieva, Brian Ulrich, Ted Wathen, Carrie Mae Weems, Carla Williams, Hank Willis Thomas, Pixy Yijun Liao.

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Gallery Exhibit: Power of Love
Onondaga Community College

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

Recent watercolors by Chinese artist Zhinan Jiang.

Sueños: Celebrating the Surreal
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Titled after the Spanish translation for "dreams" and in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Sueños: Celebrating the Surreal highlights works by contemporary Latin American artists in Syracuse University's permanent collections that share in the characteristics of dream-like imagery.

Featuring works by Salvador Dalí, Mauricio Lasansky, Joseph Kugielsky, Adàl Maldonado, Pedro Roth, and more. This exhibition is a collaborative project between Community Folk Art Center, Light Work, Point of Contact Gallery, and Syracuse University Art Galleries. Curated by Point of Contact's Assistant Director and Art History graduate student, Natalie McGrath, with exhibition design consultation from Professor Juan Juarez of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Without Love (1945)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Harold S. Bucquet
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn, Carl Esmond, Patricia Morison

Our season opens with this sharp comedy about an introverted inventor (Tracy) and a lonely widow (Hepburn) who get married for convenience, even though neither one has any desire for romance.