Sunday, May 28, 2017

Peaceful Valley: Photography by Tom Dwyer
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 1999, artist Eric Gottesman began making portraits in Ethiopia of people with HIV. Because great stigma surrounds this disease, subjects did not allow him to photograph their faces. Over the next five years, Gottesman made these portraits of people with HIV anonymous by hiding and obscuring their faces and changing each sitter's name to protect their identity. A transcribed text from each sitter describing life with HIV in Ethiopia accompanies each image. In 2004, a woman with HIV allowed him to photograph her face for the first time and he knew the project was completed.

George Awde: Scale Without Measure
Light Work Gallery

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

George Awde's photographic work explores themes of contemporary masculinity, the male body, homosociality, and notions of physical and psychological strength, as seen through young men with whom he identifies. The men and boys whom Awde has photographed over the last 10 years include migrants to Beirut from Syria. Many are now his close friends. Through years of contact, Awde has established close relationships allowing for an intimate portrayal of the everyday. His pictures explore the way that people interact with one another, and in them one senses a longing to belong. Awde's parents fled Lebanon in the conflicts leading to the 1970s Civil War in order to pursue their futures by coming to America. This informed Awde's perspective on the world and his place in it while growing up, and now informs his practice as an artist and teacher. As the global refugee crisis escalates, and the early executive orders of a new and contentious president attempt to aggressively block refugees from entering the United States, the themes of Awde's work are evermore present.

Fields and Meadows: New Work by Robert Colley and Lucie Wellner
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The exhibition features photographs by Robert Colley and watercolor paintings by Lucie Wellner. Colley's photos are part of a series of landscapes from Scotland, Germany, Monterey, CA, and upstate New York, with an emphasis on the color yellow. He is a writer, editor, and photographer currently based in Fabius, NY. Wellner's plein air watercolors were painted during a recent trip to Kalymnos, Greece, and record a profusion of spring blooms. She lives in Pompey, NY.

Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Resembling the clothing styles portrayed in the critically acclaimed PBS series, Downton Abbey, "Downton Comes Downtown" features men's, women's, and children's clothing worn by citizens of Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930.

Highlights include a maroon evening coat with a mink collar worn by Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes Hiscock to a State Dinner during the presidential administration of Herbert Hoover (1929-1933); a boy's brown wool suit with a vest and knickers purchased from the Peck-Vinney Company, a clothier located on South Salina Street, worn by young Milton Jones in the 1920s; and a black kimono with Japanese images worn by Mrs. Laura Crouse Durston aboard the Graf Zeppelin in 1930.

The exhibit is augmented by fashion accessories such as hats, shoes, and purses as well as period furniture from OHA's collection.

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.

All That Jazz: 35 Years of Syracuse Jazz Fest
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Recognizing 35 successful years of Syracuse Jazz Fest, OHA offers a visual exhibit on the history of Jazz Fest. OHA's visual exhibit will feature highlights of the musical festival, from the different venues, to music industry superstars and jazz legends, as well as some of our own homegrown musical talent.

With help from Jazz Fest founder and executive director, Frank Malfitano, the exhibit will be a walk down memory lane for some die-hard local music fans: Dizzy Gillespie's bulging cheeks while playing trumpet, Jean Luc Ponty's electrifying violin, B.B. King's guitar Lucille, Buckwheat Zydeco's accordion, Wynton Marsalis' big band style orchestra, or Kenny G's saxophone; or maybe singing to the songs of Aretha Franklin, the Doobie Brothers, Boz Scaggs, Natalie Cole, or Smokey Robinson. Whatever musical tastes exist in Central New York, Syracuse Jazz Fest has touched almost all of them.

A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The first exhibition in the Everson's new ceramics gallery, "A Century of Collecting" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Museum's first purchase of ceramics for the permanent collection in 1916. From that initial purchase of 32 works by distinguished Arts & Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the Everson has amassed a premier collection of more than 5000 ceramic pieces, dating from ancient times to the present day. This exhibition presents a survey of works made by key figures in modern and contemporary studio ceramics, tracing the Everson's role as a driving force in shaping attitudes about ceramics as a fine art medium.

From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Haudenosaunee, a name referring to the alliance of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations, have rich artistic traditions. This exhibition features the work of five contemporary Haudenosaunee artists represented in the Everson's collection—Tom Huff, Ada Jacques, Peter B. Jones, Tammy Tarbell-Boehning, and Steve Smith—all of whom draw upon their cultural heritage and blend traditional artistic methods with modern techniques.

Seen and Heard PAL Project
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Photography and Literacy Project is an innovative program positioned under Syracuse University's Coalition of Museums and Art Centers (CMAC) that brings SU students into Syracuse City Schools to develop projects involving photography, video, audio recording, and writing. The objective is to improve students' writing and reading skills by linking these studies with photography, video, and poetry.

This exhibition features work by children selected from five groups that the PAL Project worked with over a nine week period: Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection, middle and high school students; North Side Leaning Center, middle and high school students; Edward Smith School, self-contained classroom, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students; Edward Smith School, 5th grade students; and Say Yes to Education.

Deathtrap
Syracuse Stage
Paul Barnes, director

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

Sidney Bruhl is a successful playwright lately plagued by a series of flops. When a sure-fired hit drops into his hands courtesy of a young student, Bruhl concocts a devilish plan that twists and turns its roller coaster course right through to the final moments. As spellbinding and entertaining as ever, Ira Levin's hit play is an ingeniously plotted theatrical thriller that excites screams and laughter.

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Monday, May 29, 2017

Peaceful Valley: Photography by Tom Dwyer
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 1999, artist Eric Gottesman began making portraits in Ethiopia of people with HIV. Because great stigma surrounds this disease, subjects did not allow him to photograph their faces. Over the next five years, Gottesman made these portraits of people with HIV anonymous by hiding and obscuring their faces and changing each sitter's name to protect their identity. A transcribed text from each sitter describing life with HIV in Ethiopia accompanies each image. In 2004, a woman with HIV allowed him to photograph her face for the first time and he knew the project was completed.

George Awde: Scale Without Measure
Light Work Gallery

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

George Awde's photographic work explores themes of contemporary masculinity, the male body, homosociality, and notions of physical and psychological strength, as seen through young men with whom he identifies. The men and boys whom Awde has photographed over the last 10 years include migrants to Beirut from Syria. Many are now his close friends. Through years of contact, Awde has established close relationships allowing for an intimate portrayal of the everyday. His pictures explore the way that people interact with one another, and in them one senses a longing to belong. Awde's parents fled Lebanon in the conflicts leading to the 1970s Civil War in order to pursue their futures by coming to America. This informed Awde's perspective on the world and his place in it while growing up, and now informs his practice as an artist and teacher. As the global refugee crisis escalates, and the early executive orders of a new and contentious president attempt to aggressively block refugees from entering the United States, the themes of Awde's work are evermore present.

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Spring Thaw
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Recent works by Cayetano Valenzuela, Casey Landerkin, Jamie Santos, Tim Rand, Toeny Morgan, Sofia Perez, Ashley Marie Bartlett, and Solon Quinn

Paint & Clay & Silver & Gold
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Roger DeMuth: watercolor and ink paintings
Naomi DeMuth: sculptural ceramic forms
Susan Machamer: hand crafted jewelry

Peaceful Valley: Photography by Tom Dwyer
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

George Awde: Scale Without Measure
Light Work Gallery

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

George Awde's photographic work explores themes of contemporary masculinity, the male body, homosociality, and notions of physical and psychological strength, as seen through young men with whom he identifies. The men and boys whom Awde has photographed over the last 10 years include migrants to Beirut from Syria. Many are now his close friends. Through years of contact, Awde has established close relationships allowing for an intimate portrayal of the everyday. His pictures explore the way that people interact with one another, and in them one senses a longing to belong. Awde's parents fled Lebanon in the conflicts leading to the 1970s Civil War in order to pursue their futures by coming to America. This informed Awde's perspective on the world and his place in it while growing up, and now informs his practice as an artist and teacher. As the global refugee crisis escalates, and the early executive orders of a new and contentious president attempt to aggressively block refugees from entering the United States, the themes of Awde's work are evermore present.

Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 1999, artist Eric Gottesman began making portraits in Ethiopia of people with HIV. Because great stigma surrounds this disease, subjects did not allow him to photograph their faces. Over the next five years, Gottesman made these portraits of people with HIV anonymous by hiding and obscuring their faces and changing each sitter's name to protect their identity. A transcribed text from each sitter describing life with HIV in Ethiopia accompanies each image. In 2004, a woman with HIV allowed him to photograph her face for the first time and he knew the project was completed.

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Spring Thaw
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Recent works by Cayetano Valenzuela, Casey Landerkin, Jamie Santos, Tim Rand, Toeny Morgan, Sofia Perez, Ashley Marie Bartlett, and Solon Quinn

Paint & Clay & Silver & Gold
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Roger DeMuth: watercolor and ink paintings
Naomi DeMuth: sculptural ceramic forms
Susan Machamer: hand crafted jewelry

Peaceful Valley: Photography by Tom Dwyer
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 1999, artist Eric Gottesman began making portraits in Ethiopia of people with HIV. Because great stigma surrounds this disease, subjects did not allow him to photograph their faces. Over the next five years, Gottesman made these portraits of people with HIV anonymous by hiding and obscuring their faces and changing each sitter's name to protect their identity. A transcribed text from each sitter describing life with HIV in Ethiopia accompanies each image. In 2004, a woman with HIV allowed him to photograph her face for the first time and he knew the project was completed.

George Awde: Scale Without Measure
Light Work Gallery

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

George Awde's photographic work explores themes of contemporary masculinity, the male body, homosociality, and notions of physical and psychological strength, as seen through young men with whom he identifies. The men and boys whom Awde has photographed over the last 10 years include migrants to Beirut from Syria. Many are now his close friends. Through years of contact, Awde has established close relationships allowing for an intimate portrayal of the everyday. His pictures explore the way that people interact with one another, and in them one senses a longing to belong. Awde's parents fled Lebanon in the conflicts leading to the 1970s Civil War in order to pursue their futures by coming to America. This informed Awde's perspective on the world and his place in it while growing up, and now informs his practice as an artist and teacher. As the global refugee crisis escalates, and the early executive orders of a new and contentious president attempt to aggressively block refugees from entering the United States, the themes of Awde's work are evermore present.

All That Jazz: 35 Years of Syracuse Jazz Fest
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Recognizing 35 successful years of Syracuse Jazz Fest, OHA offers a visual exhibit on the history of Jazz Fest. OHA's visual exhibit will feature highlights of the musical festival, from the different venues, to music industry superstars and jazz legends, as well as some of our own homegrown musical talent.

With help from Jazz Fest founder and executive director, Frank Malfitano, the exhibit will be a walk down memory lane for some die-hard local music fans: Dizzy Gillespie's bulging cheeks while playing trumpet, Jean Luc Ponty's electrifying violin, B.B. King's guitar Lucille, Buckwheat Zydeco's accordion, Wynton Marsalis' big band style orchestra, or Kenny G's saxophone; or maybe singing to the songs of Aretha Franklin, the Doobie Brothers, Boz Scaggs, Natalie Cole, or Smokey Robinson. Whatever musical tastes exist in Central New York, Syracuse Jazz Fest has touched almost all of them.

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.

Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Resembling the clothing styles portrayed in the critically acclaimed PBS series, Downton Abbey, "Downton Comes Downtown" features men's, women's, and children's clothing worn by citizens of Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930.

Highlights include a maroon evening coat with a mink collar worn by Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes Hiscock to a State Dinner during the presidential administration of Herbert Hoover (1929-1933); a boy's brown wool suit with a vest and knickers purchased from the Peck-Vinney Company, a clothier located on South Salina Street, worn by young Milton Jones in the 1920s; and a black kimono with Japanese images worn by Mrs. Laura Crouse Durston aboard the Graf Zeppelin in 1930.

The exhibit is augmented by fashion accessories such as hats, shoes, and purses as well as period furniture from OHA's collection.

Seen and Heard PAL Project
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Photography and Literacy Project is an innovative program positioned under Syracuse University's Coalition of Museums and Art Centers (CMAC) that brings SU students into Syracuse City Schools to develop projects involving photography, video, audio recording, and writing. The objective is to improve students' writing and reading skills by linking these studies with photography, video, and poetry.

This exhibition features work by children selected from five groups that the PAL Project worked with over a nine week period: Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection, middle and high school students; North Side Leaning Center, middle and high school students; Edward Smith School, self-contained classroom, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students; Edward Smith School, 5th grade students; and Say Yes to Education.

From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Haudenosaunee, a name referring to the alliance of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations, have rich artistic traditions. This exhibition features the work of five contemporary Haudenosaunee artists represented in the Everson's collection—Tom Huff, Ada Jacques, Peter B. Jones, Tammy Tarbell-Boehning, and Steve Smith—all of whom draw upon their cultural heritage and blend traditional artistic methods with modern techniques.

A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The first exhibition in the Everson's new ceramics gallery, "A Century of Collecting" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Museum's first purchase of ceramics for the permanent collection in 1916. From that initial purchase of 32 works by distinguished Arts & Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the Everson has amassed a premier collection of more than 5000 ceramic pieces, dating from ancient times to the present day. This exhibition presents a survey of works made by key figures in modern and contemporary studio ceramics, tracing the Everson's role as a driving force in shaping attitudes about ceramics as a fine art medium.

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Spring Thaw
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Recent works by Cayetano Valenzuela, Casey Landerkin, Jamie Santos, Tim Rand, Toeny Morgan, Sofia Perez, Ashley Marie Bartlett, and Solon Quinn

Paint & Clay & Silver & Gold
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Roger DeMuth: watercolor and ink paintings
Naomi DeMuth: sculptural ceramic forms
Susan Machamer: hand crafted jewelry

George Awde: Scale Without Measure
Light Work Gallery

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

George Awde's photographic work explores themes of contemporary masculinity, the male body, homosociality, and notions of physical and psychological strength, as seen through young men with whom he identifies. The men and boys whom Awde has photographed over the last 10 years include migrants to Beirut from Syria. Many are now his close friends. Through years of contact, Awde has established close relationships allowing for an intimate portrayal of the everyday. His pictures explore the way that people interact with one another, and in them one senses a longing to belong. Awde's parents fled Lebanon in the conflicts leading to the 1970s Civil War in order to pursue their futures by coming to America. This informed Awde's perspective on the world and his place in it while growing up, and now informs his practice as an artist and teacher. As the global refugee crisis escalates, and the early executive orders of a new and contentious president attempt to aggressively block refugees from entering the United States, the themes of Awde's work are evermore present.

Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 1999, artist Eric Gottesman began making portraits in Ethiopia of people with HIV. Because great stigma surrounds this disease, subjects did not allow him to photograph their faces. Over the next five years, Gottesman made these portraits of people with HIV anonymous by hiding and obscuring their faces and changing each sitter's name to protect their identity. A transcribed text from each sitter describing life with HIV in Ethiopia accompanies each image. In 2004, a woman with HIV allowed him to photograph her face for the first time and he knew the project was completed.

Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Resembling the clothing styles portrayed in the critically acclaimed PBS series, Downton Abbey, "Downton Comes Downtown" features men's, women's, and children's clothing worn by citizens of Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930.

Highlights include a maroon evening coat with a mink collar worn by Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes Hiscock to a State Dinner during the presidential administration of Herbert Hoover (1929-1933); a boy's brown wool suit with a vest and knickers purchased from the Peck-Vinney Company, a clothier located on South Salina Street, worn by young Milton Jones in the 1920s; and a black kimono with Japanese images worn by Mrs. Laura Crouse Durston aboard the Graf Zeppelin in 1930.

The exhibit is augmented by fashion accessories such as hats, shoes, and purses as well as period furniture from OHA's collection.

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.

All That Jazz: 35 Years of Syracuse Jazz Fest
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Recognizing 35 successful years of Syracuse Jazz Fest, OHA offers a visual exhibit on the history of Jazz Fest. OHA's visual exhibit will feature highlights of the musical festival, from the different venues, to music industry superstars and jazz legends, as well as some of our own homegrown musical talent.

With help from Jazz Fest founder and executive director, Frank Malfitano, the exhibit will be a walk down memory lane for some die-hard local music fans: Dizzy Gillespie's bulging cheeks while playing trumpet, Jean Luc Ponty's electrifying violin, B.B. King's guitar Lucille, Buckwheat Zydeco's accordion, Wynton Marsalis' big band style orchestra, or Kenny G's saxophone; or maybe singing to the songs of Aretha Franklin, the Doobie Brothers, Boz Scaggs, Natalie Cole, or Smokey Robinson. Whatever musical tastes exist in Central New York, Syracuse Jazz Fest has touched almost all of them.

Fields and Meadows: New Work by Robert Colley and Lucie Wellner
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The exhibition features photographs by Robert Colley and watercolor paintings by Lucie Wellner. Colley's photos are part of a series of landscapes from Scotland, Germany, Monterey, CA, and upstate New York, with an emphasis on the color yellow. He is a writer, editor, and photographer currently based in Fabius, NY. Wellner's plein air watercolors were painted during a recent trip to Kalymnos, Greece, and record a profusion of spring blooms. She lives in Pompey, NY.

Seen and Heard PAL Project
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Photography and Literacy Project is an innovative program positioned under Syracuse University's Coalition of Museums and Art Centers (CMAC) that brings SU students into Syracuse City Schools to develop projects involving photography, video, audio recording, and writing. The objective is to improve students' writing and reading skills by linking these studies with photography, video, and poetry.

This exhibition features work by children selected from five groups that the PAL Project worked with over a nine week period: Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection, middle and high school students; North Side Leaning Center, middle and high school students; Edward Smith School, self-contained classroom, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students; Edward Smith School, 5th grade students; and Say Yes to Education.

A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The first exhibition in the Everson's new ceramics gallery, "A Century of Collecting" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Museum's first purchase of ceramics for the permanent collection in 1916. From that initial purchase of 32 works by distinguished Arts & Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the Everson has amassed a premier collection of more than 5000 ceramic pieces, dating from ancient times to the present day. This exhibition presents a survey of works made by key figures in modern and contemporary studio ceramics, tracing the Everson's role as a driving force in shaping attitudes about ceramics as a fine art medium.

From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Haudenosaunee, a name referring to the alliance of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations, have rich artistic traditions. This exhibition features the work of five contemporary Haudenosaunee artists represented in the Everson's collection—Tom Huff, Ada Jacques, Peter B. Jones, Tammy Tarbell-Boehning, and Steve Smith—all of whom draw upon their cultural heritage and blend traditional artistic methods with modern techniques.

Deborah Stratman: Xenoi
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Deborah Stratman's short video Xenoi (2016), the Greek island of Syros is visited by a series of unexpected guests: immutable forms, outside of time, aloof observers of the human condition. These hovering guests are the Platonic Solids, named for the famed ancient Greek philosopher, Plato, who described them in the dialogue Timaeus as part of a higher level of reality.

Shot on location and featuring a hypnotic score, Xenoi scans the horizon of modern day Greece, a landscape at once timeless and jarringly contemporary. "Xenoi" is the plural of "xenos," an enigmatic word usually translated as "stranger" — but whether the stranger is friend or foe depends on context and interpretation. What do these geometric specters portend in a contemporary climate of consumerism and economic crisis?

Aound the World with Animated Films
Syracuse International Film Festival

Baldwinsville Library
33 E. Genesee St., Baldwinsville

Flat Love (USA), The Sexual Practices of Trees (USA), Ballum (USA), Dear Sweet Emma (USA).
There will be a brief discussion after each film as well as a look at animation from various cultures.

Larry Hoyt, with Jeff and Judy Stanton
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Acoustic Americana, featuring many of Hoyt's original songs, plus favorites from the Great Americana Songbook—songs written by Stephen Foster, Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and more! Jeff Stanton on bass, Judy Stanton on fiddle and violin.

Death Joins the Club
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Noses up, everyone. You and the other members of the posh Pfieffer Hills Country Club are gathering to consider applications for membership and you want to look your snobby best. Members of the wealthy elite are dying to get in, or rather, are waiting for you to die so they can get in. A word to the wise, dear member: some applicants are less patient than others.

Friday, June 2, 2017

Spring Thaw
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Recent works by Cayetano Valenzuela, Casey Landerkin, Jamie Santos, Tim Rand, Toeny Morgan, Sofia Perez, Ashley Marie Bartlett, and Solon Quinn

Paint & Clay & Silver & Gold
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Roger DeMuth: watercolor and ink paintings
Naomi DeMuth: sculptural ceramic forms
Susan Machamer: hand crafted jewelry

Silk Works by Maureen Stathis
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm.

George Awde: Scale Without Measure
Light Work Gallery

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

George Awde's photographic work explores themes of contemporary masculinity, the male body, homosociality, and notions of physical and psychological strength, as seen through young men with whom he identifies. The men and boys whom Awde has photographed over the last 10 years include migrants to Beirut from Syria. Many are now his close friends. Through years of contact, Awde has established close relationships allowing for an intimate portrayal of the everyday. His pictures explore the way that people interact with one another, and in them one senses a longing to belong. Awde's parents fled Lebanon in the conflicts leading to the 1970s Civil War in order to pursue their futures by coming to America. This informed Awde's perspective on the world and his place in it while growing up, and now informs his practice as an artist and teacher. As the global refugee crisis escalates, and the early executive orders of a new and contentious president attempt to aggressively block refugees from entering the United States, the themes of Awde's work are evermore present.

Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 1999, artist Eric Gottesman began making portraits in Ethiopia of people with HIV. Because great stigma surrounds this disease, subjects did not allow him to photograph their faces. Over the next five years, Gottesman made these portraits of people with HIV anonymous by hiding and obscuring their faces and changing each sitter's name to protect their identity. A transcribed text from each sitter describing life with HIV in Ethiopia accompanies each image. In 2004, a woman with HIV allowed him to photograph her face for the first time and he knew the project was completed.

All That Jazz: 35 Years of Syracuse Jazz Fest
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Recognizing 35 successful years of Syracuse Jazz Fest, OHA offers a visual exhibit on the history of Jazz Fest. OHA's visual exhibit will feature highlights of the musical festival, from the different venues, to music industry superstars and jazz legends, as well as some of our own homegrown musical talent.

With help from Jazz Fest founder and executive director, Frank Malfitano, the exhibit will be a walk down memory lane for some die-hard local music fans: Dizzy Gillespie's bulging cheeks while playing trumpet, Jean Luc Ponty's electrifying violin, B.B. King's guitar Lucille, Buckwheat Zydeco's accordion, Wynton Marsalis' big band style orchestra, or Kenny G's saxophone; or maybe singing to the songs of Aretha Franklin, the Doobie Brothers, Boz Scaggs, Natalie Cole, or Smokey Robinson. Whatever musical tastes exist in Central New York, Syracuse Jazz Fest has touched almost all of them.

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.

Fields and Meadows: New Work by Robert Colley and Lucie Wellner
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The exhibition features photographs by Robert Colley and watercolor paintings by Lucie Wellner. Colley's photos are part of a series of landscapes from Scotland, Germany, Monterey, CA, and upstate New York, with an emphasis on the color yellow. He is a writer, editor, and photographer currently based in Fabius, NY. Wellner's plein air watercolors were painted during a recent trip to Kalymnos, Greece, and record a profusion of spring blooms. She lives in Pompey, NY.

Seen and Heard PAL Project
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Photography and Literacy Project is an innovative program positioned under Syracuse University's Coalition of Museums and Art Centers (CMAC) that brings SU students into Syracuse City Schools to develop projects involving photography, video, audio recording, and writing. The objective is to improve students' writing and reading skills by linking these studies with photography, video, and poetry.

This exhibition features work by children selected from five groups that the PAL Project worked with over a nine week period: Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection, middle and high school students; North Side Leaning Center, middle and high school students; Edward Smith School, self-contained classroom, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students; Edward Smith School, 5th grade students; and Say Yes to Education.

From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Haudenosaunee, a name referring to the alliance of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations, have rich artistic traditions. This exhibition features the work of five contemporary Haudenosaunee artists represented in the Everson's collection—Tom Huff, Ada Jacques, Peter B. Jones, Tammy Tarbell-Boehning, and Steve Smith—all of whom draw upon their cultural heritage and blend traditional artistic methods with modern techniques.

A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The first exhibition in the Everson's new ceramics gallery, "A Century of Collecting" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Museum's first purchase of ceramics for the permanent collection in 1916. From that initial purchase of 32 works by distinguished Arts & Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the Everson has amassed a premier collection of more than 5000 ceramic pieces, dating from ancient times to the present day. This exhibition presents a survey of works made by key figures in modern and contemporary studio ceramics, tracing the Everson's role as a driving force in shaping attitudes about ceramics as a fine art medium.

Deborah Stratman: Xenoi
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Deborah Stratman's short video Xenoi (2016), the Greek island of Syros is visited by a series of unexpected guests: immutable forms, outside of time, aloof observers of the human condition. These hovering guests are the Platonic Solids, named for the famed ancient Greek philosopher, Plato, who described them in the dialogue Timaeus as part of a higher level of reality.

Shot on location and featuring a hypnotic score, Xenoi scans the horizon of modern day Greece, a landscape at once timeless and jarringly contemporary. "Xenoi" is the plural of "xenos," an enigmatic word usually translated as "stranger" — but whether the stranger is friend or foe depends on context and interpretation. What do these geometric specters portend in a contemporary climate of consumerism and economic crisis?

Taste of Syracuse

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Main Stage
5:30-7:30 pm: Born To Run
7:55-9:10 pm: Country Swagg
9:30-11:00 pm: Hard Promises

Erie Stage
12:00-1:15 pm: Tim Herron
5:00-6:00 pm: The Barking Loungers
6:20-7:50 pm: The Barndogs Plus
8:10-9:10 pm: Annie in The Water
9:30-11:00 pm: Exodus, Skunk City's Tribute to Bob Marley

Clinton Square Stage
12:00-1:30 pm: Just Joe
3:15-4:15 pm: Lori Ann sings the oldies
5:00-6:10 pm: Castle Creek
6:30-7:30 pm: Brownskin
7:45-9:10 pm: 5th Edition
9:30-11:00 pm: Stroke

Family Zone
6:30 pm: Magical John Comedy and Magic Show
5:00-8:00 pm: Family Dance Party

Food and music festival.
For more information, visit www.tasteofsyracuse.com.

Saturday, June 3, 2017

Paint & Clay & Silver & Gold
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Roger DeMuth: watercolor and ink paintings
Naomi DeMuth: sculptural ceramic forms
Susan Machamer: hand crafted jewelry

Seen and Heard PAL Project
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Photography and Literacy Project is an innovative program positioned under Syracuse University's Coalition of Museums and Art Centers (CMAC) that brings SU students into Syracuse City Schools to develop projects involving photography, video, audio recording, and writing. The objective is to improve students' writing and reading skills by linking these studies with photography, video, and poetry.

This exhibition features work by children selected from five groups that the PAL Project worked with over a nine week period: Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection, middle and high school students; North Side Leaning Center, middle and high school students; Edward Smith School, self-contained classroom, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students; Edward Smith School, 5th grade students; and Say Yes to Education.

A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The first exhibition in the Everson's new ceramics gallery, "A Century of Collecting" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Museum's first purchase of ceramics for the permanent collection in 1916. From that initial purchase of 32 works by distinguished Arts & Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the Everson has amassed a premier collection of more than 5000 ceramic pieces, dating from ancient times to the present day. This exhibition presents a survey of works made by key figures in modern and contemporary studio ceramics, tracing the Everson's role as a driving force in shaping attitudes about ceramics as a fine art medium.

From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Haudenosaunee, a name referring to the alliance of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations, have rich artistic traditions. This exhibition features the work of five contemporary Haudenosaunee artists represented in the Everson's collection—Tom Huff, Ada Jacques, Peter B. Jones, Tammy Tarbell-Boehning, and Steve Smith—all of whom draw upon their cultural heritage and blend traditional artistic methods with modern techniques.

Silk Works by Maureen Stathis
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

16th Annual Westcott Art Trail
Westcott Community Center

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

Since its inception in 2002, Westcott Art Trail has grown to be one of the finest and most well attended art & craft offerings in Syracuse, with over 60 artists located in 15 or more locations around the Westcott neighborhood.

Artists can be found at locations including Petit Branch Library, Westcott Community Center, and artists' homes and studios that stretch from Meadowbrook Drive to Berkley Drive and from Broad Street to Harvard Place and beyond.

Throughout the trail you can find items for sale such as photography, pottery, ceramics, jewelry, paintings, drawings, glass, handwoven items, and more. Many artists will be demonstrating their craft.

Art trail maps available at the website.

Fields and Meadows: New Work by Robert Colley and Lucie Wellner
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The exhibition features photographs by Robert Colley and watercolor paintings by Lucie Wellner. Colley's photos are part of a series of landscapes from Scotland, Germany, Monterey, CA, and upstate New York, with an emphasis on the color yellow. He is a writer, editor, and photographer currently based in Fabius, NY. Wellner's plein air watercolors were painted during a recent trip to Kalymnos, Greece, and record a profusion of spring blooms. She lives in Pompey, NY.

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.

All That Jazz: 35 Years of Syracuse Jazz Fest
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Recognizing 35 successful years of Syracuse Jazz Fest, OHA offers a visual exhibit on the history of Jazz Fest. OHA's visual exhibit will feature highlights of the musical festival, from the different venues, to music industry superstars and jazz legends, as well as some of our own homegrown musical talent.

With help from Jazz Fest founder and executive director, Frank Malfitano, the exhibit will be a walk down memory lane for some die-hard local music fans: Dizzy Gillespie's bulging cheeks while playing trumpet, Jean Luc Ponty's electrifying violin, B.B. King's guitar Lucille, Buckwheat Zydeco's accordion, Wynton Marsalis' big band style orchestra, or Kenny G's saxophone; or maybe singing to the songs of Aretha Franklin, the Doobie Brothers, Boz Scaggs, Natalie Cole, or Smokey Robinson. Whatever musical tastes exist in Central New York, Syracuse Jazz Fest has touched almost all of them.

Deborah Stratman: Xenoi
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Deborah Stratman's short video Xenoi (2016), the Greek island of Syros is visited by a series of unexpected guests: immutable forms, outside of time, aloof observers of the human condition. These hovering guests are the Platonic Solids, named for the famed ancient Greek philosopher, Plato, who described them in the dialogue Timaeus as part of a higher level of reality.

Shot on location and featuring a hypnotic score, Xenoi scans the horizon of modern day Greece, a landscape at once timeless and jarringly contemporary. "Xenoi" is the plural of "xenos," an enigmatic word usually translated as "stranger" — but whether the stranger is friend or foe depends on context and interpretation. What do these geometric specters portend in a contemporary climate of consumerism and economic crisis?

Taste of Syracuse

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Main Stage
1:30-2:30 pm: Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier
2:30-3:30 pm: Poor Tim
3:50-4:50 pm: The Delinquents
5:10-6:40 pm: CNY Songbirds present The Music of Fleetwood Mac and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
7:00-8:30 pm: Fabulous Ripcords
9:00-11:00 pm: Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Erie Stage
12:00-1:00 pm: Jpeg
1:20-2:20 pm: Pale Green Stars
2:40-3:40 pm: Jess Novak Band
4:00-5:00 pm: Formerly Un-Named
5:20-6:20 pm: Pearly Bakers Best
6:40-7:40 pm: The Spring Street Family
8:00-9:00 pm: Root Shock
9:30-11:00 pm: Sophistafunk

Clinton Square Stage
12:00-1:30 pm: Lori Ann sings the oldies
1:45-2:45 pm: Opus Black String QRT
3:00-4:00 pm: Dunes & The Del-Tunes, featuring Mr. Rock & Roll Gary Dunes
4:20-5:20 pm: Salt City Chill
5:40-6:40 pm: Jes Sheldon & Friends
6:50-8:20 pm: Custom Taylor Band
8:40-11:00 pm: CNY Rock of Ages, all-star band featuring CNY's favorite rockers/singers

Family Zone
1:00 pm: Charlie and Checkers
3:00 pm: Magical John Comedy and Magic Show
4:00-8:00 pm: Balloonology with the Twin Magicians
5:00-8:00 pm: Family Dance Party

Food and music festival.
For more information, visit www.tasteofsyracuse.com.

Green Lakes Movie Night: Tangled

Price: $8 vehicle entry fee
Green Lakes State Park
7900 Green Lakes Rd., Fayetteville

S'mores at 8:00 pm; movie at 9:00 pm. Popcorn will be served. Be sure to bring bug spray, blankets, and chairs.

In case of rain, movie will be shown indoors. Please contact the park at 315-637-6111 for new location.

Jinjoo Cho and Friends: America the Beautiful
Geneva Music Festival
Featuring Jinjoo Cho, violin

Price: $25
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Avner Dorman Tree-YO!
Richard Danielpour Book of Hours
Osvaldo Golijov Tenebrae
Dvorak String Quartet Op. 97, "American"

For tickets or more information, visit genevamusicfestival.com.

RIP 2016 Cabaret
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $10
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

A cabaret to honor the (many) great performers we lost last year.

Bad Kitty
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 regular, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Several of Nick Bruel's wildly popular Bad Kitty books rolled into one hilarious play. Clawesomely fun! Written and composed by Min Kahng.

Read a review!

Little Red Riding Hood
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive version of the children's classic story.

Bad Kitty
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 regular, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Several of Nick Bruel's wildly popular Bad Kitty books rolled into one hilarious play. Clawesomely fun! Written and composed by Min Kahng.

Read a review!

Romeo and Juliet
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Sunday, June 4, 2017

Silk Works by Maureen Stathis
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

George Awde: Scale Without Measure
Light Work Gallery

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

George Awde's photographic work explores themes of contemporary masculinity, the male body, homosociality, and notions of physical and psychological strength, as seen through young men with whom he identifies. The men and boys whom Awde has photographed over the last 10 years include migrants to Beirut from Syria. Many are now his close friends. Through years of contact, Awde has established close relationships allowing for an intimate portrayal of the everyday. His pictures explore the way that people interact with one another, and in them one senses a longing to belong. Awde's parents fled Lebanon in the conflicts leading to the 1970s Civil War in order to pursue their futures by coming to America. This informed Awde's perspective on the world and his place in it while growing up, and now informs his practice as an artist and teacher. As the global refugee crisis escalates, and the early executive orders of a new and contentious president attempt to aggressively block refugees from entering the United States, the themes of Awde's work are evermore present.

Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 1999, artist Eric Gottesman began making portraits in Ethiopia of people with HIV. Because great stigma surrounds this disease, subjects did not allow him to photograph their faces. Over the next five years, Gottesman made these portraits of people with HIV anonymous by hiding and obscuring their faces and changing each sitter's name to protect their identity. A transcribed text from each sitter describing life with HIV in Ethiopia accompanies each image. In 2004, a woman with HIV allowed him to photograph her face for the first time and he knew the project was completed.

Fields and Meadows: New Work by Robert Colley and Lucie Wellner
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The exhibition features photographs by Robert Colley and watercolor paintings by Lucie Wellner. Colley's photos are part of a series of landscapes from Scotland, Germany, Monterey, CA, and upstate New York, with an emphasis on the color yellow. He is a writer, editor, and photographer currently based in Fabius, NY. Wellner's plein air watercolors were painted during a recent trip to Kalymnos, Greece, and record a profusion of spring blooms. She lives in Pompey, NY.

All That Jazz: 35 Years of Syracuse Jazz Fest
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Recognizing 35 successful years of Syracuse Jazz Fest, OHA offers a visual exhibit on the history of Jazz Fest. OHA's visual exhibit will feature highlights of the musical festival, from the different venues, to music industry superstars and jazz legends, as well as some of our own homegrown musical talent.

With help from Jazz Fest founder and executive director, Frank Malfitano, the exhibit will be a walk down memory lane for some die-hard local music fans: Dizzy Gillespie's bulging cheeks while playing trumpet, Jean Luc Ponty's electrifying violin, B.B. King's guitar Lucille, Buckwheat Zydeco's accordion, Wynton Marsalis' big band style orchestra, or Kenny G's saxophone; or maybe singing to the songs of Aretha Franklin, the Doobie Brothers, Boz Scaggs, Natalie Cole, or Smokey Robinson. Whatever musical tastes exist in Central New York, Syracuse Jazz Fest has touched almost all of them.

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.

Seen and Heard PAL Project
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Photography and Literacy Project is an innovative program positioned under Syracuse University's Coalition of Museums and Art Centers (CMAC) that brings SU students into Syracuse City Schools to develop projects involving photography, video, audio recording, and writing. The objective is to improve students' writing and reading skills by linking these studies with photography, video, and poetry.

This exhibition features work by children selected from five groups that the PAL Project worked with over a nine week period: Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection, middle and high school students; North Side Leaning Center, middle and high school students; Edward Smith School, self-contained classroom, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students; Edward Smith School, 5th grade students; and Say Yes to Education.

From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Haudenosaunee, a name referring to the alliance of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations, have rich artistic traditions. This exhibition features the work of five contemporary Haudenosaunee artists represented in the Everson's collection—Tom Huff, Ada Jacques, Peter B. Jones, Tammy Tarbell-Boehning, and Steve Smith—all of whom draw upon their cultural heritage and blend traditional artistic methods with modern techniques.

A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The first exhibition in the Everson's new ceramics gallery, "A Century of Collecting" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Museum's first purchase of ceramics for the permanent collection in 1916. From that initial purchase of 32 works by distinguished Arts & Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the Everson has amassed a premier collection of more than 5000 ceramic pieces, dating from ancient times to the present day. This exhibition presents a survey of works made by key figures in modern and contemporary studio ceramics, tracing the Everson's role as a driving force in shaping attitudes about ceramics as a fine art medium.

16th Annual Westcott Art Trail
Westcott Community Center

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

Since its inception in 2002, Westcott Art Trail has grown to be one of the finest and most well attended art & craft offerings in Syracuse, with over 60 artists located in 15 or more locations around the Westcott neighborhood.

Artists can be found at locations including Petit Branch Library, Westcott Community Center, and artists' homes and studios that stretch from Meadowbrook Drive to Berkley Drive and from Broad Street to Harvard Place and beyond.

Throughout the trail you can find items for sale such as photography, pottery, ceramics, jewelry, paintings, drawings, glass, handwoven items, and more. Many artists will be demonstrating their craft.

Art trail maps available at the website.

Live! at The Everson: CNY Young Artists Live
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: $20 regular, students free with ID
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Winners of CNY young artist competitions during the 2016-17 season for pre-college young musicians: Onondaga County Music Educators Association, Central New York Association of Music Teachers, Civic Morning Musicals/Symphoria, Syracuse Youth Orchestra, and the Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra.

OnCenter garage parking is $2.50 with CMM stamped ticket.

Jazz on Tap: Ronnie Leigh & Marcus Curry
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover
Finger Lakes On Tap
35 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Italian Repertoire
Syracuse Chorale
Peppie Calvar, conductor

Price: $15 at the door, $12 in advance; ages 18 and under free
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

Jazz Vespers: Language of Love
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Cookie Coogan

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

Jazz Vespers services are a combination of inspirational and meditative readings, homily, and jazz played by members of the CNY Jazz Orchestra and various guest vocalists. The jazz selections are drawn from secular and sacred sources. These informal events are open to people of all faiths.

Romeo and Juliet
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse