Saturday, February 1, 2014

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

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

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

Penny Santy: The Nature of Our Soul
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Penny Santy's works are representational pieces that break from that, at times, to abstraction. Her paintings embrace the human experience that is effected by or reflected in our natural surroundings. She has been inspired by the works of Gustav Klimpt, the impressionists, and the tonalists for the spiritual connection captured in their work, and by abstract expressionists like Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell and Willem de Kooning for the energy, paint textures and movement expressed in their works.

Crystal Glow
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Karen Kosicki: infrared photography
Max Block: dichroic fused glass jewelry and objects d'art
Mary Giehl: crystal sculpture grown from alum, and mixed media wall hangings featuring crochet elements

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Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

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Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

Vein 8: Stone Canoe Exhibition
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, is published annually by University College of Syracuse University. The prize-winning journal, now in its 8th year, is committed to communicating to the world at large the depth and diversity of the Upstate New York arts community, and each issue features a provocative mix of artists and writers, both well-known and emerging, with ties to the region. The journal's name is inspired by the oldest recorded Upstate New York story, the journey of the Peacemaker in his sacred canoe of stone from Lake Ontario to the Finger Lakes, where he brought the resident warring tribes together to form the Iroquois Confederacy. Each year, the journal's prize-winning writers and artists are presented with an original stone canoe carving by noted Native American sculptor Tom Huff. The current journal, Stone Canoe Number 8, features the work of 24 artists chosen by 2014 arts editor Melora Griffis.

Participating artists include Doug Baird, Stephanie Barkley, Megan Biddle, Francis Clemente, Theresa DeSalvio, Vykky Ebner, Lorrie Fredette, Diana Godfrey, Walter Kopec, Kate Lawless, Steve Miller, Rachel Pea, Jen Pepper, Kathy Petrillo, Sarah Pfohl, Stephan Phillips, Larry Poole, Maria Rizzo, Mitchell Saller, Radio Sebastian, Kaitlyn Spina, Werner Sun, Ron Throop, Paul Weiner.

Getting To Know You: Artists Examine Authentic Connections in the Digital Age
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Featuring work by Fanny Allié, American Bear, CampusNeighbor, and damali abrams.

In the digital age, people can virtually live their lives online. With the advent of various social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, it is easier than ever to connect. However, are these relationships genuine? Furthermore, does a social medium foster intimacy or aid in the superficiality of our society? For this exhibition, 601 Tully does not seek to resolve these questions but rather, bring them to light. The featured artists offer avenues for people to have authentic connections with one another through various interactive mediums with and without the assistance of the internet.

New York-based artist, Fanny Allié, invited Syracuse residents to submit photos, memories, and stories about their lives in an attempt to learn more about the community. With each memento, Allié will construct a site-specific installation that will give the audience a window into the individuals living in this area.

While Allié's installation exemplifies the direct interaction between herself and the participant, the collaborative team of American Bear created prompts and assignments for the public to engage with one another. As the assignments are completed, American Bear hopes to foster a more compassionate and community-minded city.

Like many college towns, there is and has always been an underlying fissure between Syracuse University students and the permanent residents. In recent years, Nancy Cantor, former Syracuse University Chancellor, has worked to mend that divide by creating the initiative, Scholarship in Action. CampusNeighbor is a bartering website that builds on that idea by linking these two groups together through skill-sharing, with the hopes that these exchanges will help to dismantle barriers that have been created through the years.

Although all of the above require participation in order to activate the piece, damali abrams, a performance-based artist, takes a different approach by reading from her diary. By exposing herself in this vulnerable manner, it elicits the viewer to relate to her through shared experiences.

Whether one is simply telling their story to Allié or participating in CampusNeighbor, the exhibition aims to get to know you.

Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth & other works
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition will include Yui Kugimiya's works Cat Brushing Teeth (2008), Cronica de Una Muerte Anunciada (2012), and Sunset Donut (2012).

A Groundhog's Valentine: Improv Comedy Night
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: $20 dinner and show, $10 show only
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

This time, the kids of DFtA will explore the link between small furry creatures and love ... or something like that.

DFtA specializes in audience interactive improv and is one of the longest-running improv troupes in Central New York. Having toured all over the area, their large stable of theatrically trained actors rotate in and out of each show, ensuring a unique experience each time. Come enjoy an evening of improv in the style of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and Drew Carey's "Improvaganza."

The performance will be preceded by dinner at 6:30 pm.

Family Movie Series: E.T the Extra-Terrestrial
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Family Movie Series: E.T the Extra-Terrestrial
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Student Recital Series: Anna Lilikas, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Masks of Life
Open Hand Theater

Price: $8
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Open Hand Theater's artistic director Geoffrey Navias takes the audience on a marvelous journey around the world with original characters, traditional masks and unusual live music that children and parents alike will not soon forget. "Masks of Life" follows the events that mark the important moments in life. Geoffrey Navias' performance works its magic through the language of make believe and tells the stories of the art and traditions that define many cultures of the world.

Next to Normal
Redhouse

Price: $30 regular, $20 members, $15 student rush starting one hour before show
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Next To Normal tells the story of a mother, Diane Goodman, who struggles with bipolar disorder and the effect that her illness has on her family. This contemporary musical with an unforgettable score is an emotional powerhouse that addresses such issues as grieving a loss, ethics in modern psychiatry, and suburban life. Book and lyrics by Brin Yorkey, music by Tom Kitt.

These performances include a Talkback Series after the show.

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The Whipping Man
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Richmond, April, 1865. The Civil War has ended and Caleb DeLeon, a badly wounded Confederate soldier, stumbles into the ruin of what was once his home. His family has fled the City's destruction leaving two former slaves, Simon and John, to wait and watch. Together they care for the wounded Caleb, and having adopted the religion of their former owners, celebrate Passover. A mesmerizing drama where secrets are revealed and the plot twists and turns. Since opening off-Broadway to critical acclaim and winning the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play, The Whipping Man, by Matthew Lopez, has become one of the most produced plays in the country.

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Les Misérables
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Korrie Taylor, director

Price: $22 regular in advance, $20 student in advance, $25 at door
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Baldwinsville Theatre Guild will dazzle you with a full-scale production of Claude-Michel Schönberg's Les Misérables. The musical, an epic saga based upon the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo, is entirely sung-through, with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, and English language adaptation by Herbert Kretzmer. The story chronicles the struggles of Jean Valjean, a French peasant who searches for redemption after serving a prison sentence for stealing bread to feed his family.

The show will be done with full orchestration under the musical direction of Abel Searor.

Read a Review!

Next to Normal
Redhouse

Price: $30 regular, $20 members, $15 student rush starting one hour before show
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Next To Normal tells the story of a mother, Diane Goodman, who struggles with bipolar disorder and the effect that her illness has on her family. This contemporary musical with an unforgettable score is an emotional powerhouse that addresses such issues as grieving a loss, ethics in modern psychiatry, and suburban life. Book and lyrics by Brin Yorkey, music by Tom Kitt.

These performances include a Talkback Series after the show.

Read a Review!

The Whipping Man
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Richmond, April, 1865. The Civil War has ended and Caleb DeLeon, a badly wounded Confederate soldier, stumbles into the ruin of what was once his home. His family has fled the City's destruction leaving two former slaves, Simon and John, to wait and watch. Together they care for the wounded Caleb, and having adopted the religion of their former owners, celebrate Passover. A mesmerizing drama where secrets are revealed and the plot twists and turns. Since opening off-Broadway to critical acclaim and winning the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play, The Whipping Man, by Matthew Lopez, has become one of the most produced plays in the country.

Read a Review!

Sunday, February 2, 2014

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

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

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Penny Santy: The Nature of Our Soul
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Penny Santy's works are representational pieces that break from that, at times, to abstraction. Her paintings embrace the human experience that is effected by or reflected in our natural surroundings. She has been inspired by the works of Gustav Klimpt, the impressionists, and the tonalists for the spiritual connection captured in their work, and by abstract expressionists like Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell and Willem de Kooning for the energy, paint textures and movement expressed in their works.

William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A special screening of the Peabody award-winning PBS documentary "William Kentridge: Anything is Possible," giving viewers an intimate look into the mind and creative process of the South African artist whose acclaimed charcoal drawings, animations, video installations, shadow plays, mechanical puppets, tapestries, sculptures, live performance pieces, and operas have made him one of the most dynamic and exciting contemporary artists working today. (2011, directed by Charles Atlas and Susan Sollins)

Le Moyne College Jazzuits
Arts at Assisi

Price: Free
Assumption Church
812 N. Salina St., Syracuse

Pictures at an Exhibition: Transcriptions for Trumpet and Organ
Malmgren Concert Series

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Originally composed as a suite for solo piano, Modest Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition has been transcribed for orchestra by numerous arrangers including Maurice Ravel and Leopold Stokowski. This performance will feature yet another combination: trumpet and organ. Syracuse University Organist Kola Owolabi will be joined by Gabriel DiMartino, trumpet instructor at the Setnor School of Music. They will perform several other works, including a concerto by the Venetian baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni.

Maria de Buenos Aires: A Tango Opera
Syracuse Opera

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

You are in for a treat when Syracuse Opera presents Maria de Buenos Aires, an intoxicating mix of opera and tango by the legendary Astor Piazzolla and poet Horacio Ferrer. This sultry Spanish "tango operita" promises to be an electrifying and provocative theatrical experience. Astor Piazzolla has mastered the musical language of this dance form to dramatize the life of Maria, who searches recklessly for love. Each step she takes is driven by haunting melodies and accompanied by an orchestra unique to the Argentine sound. The drama is real, the music is exhilarating and the experience will be unforgettable.

The opera will be sung in Spanish, with projected English translations above the stage.

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The Whipping Man
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Richmond, April, 1865. The Civil War has ended and Caleb DeLeon, a badly wounded Confederate soldier, stumbles into the ruin of what was once his home. His family has fled the City's destruction leaving two former slaves, Simon and John, to wait and watch. Together they care for the wounded Caleb, and having adopted the religion of their former owners, celebrate Passover. A mesmerizing drama where secrets are revealed and the plot twists and turns. Since opening off-Broadway to critical acclaim and winning the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play, The Whipping Man, by Matthew Lopez, has become one of the most produced plays in the country.

Read a Review!

Les Misérables
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Korrie Taylor, director

Price: $22 regular in advance, $20 student/senior in advance, $25 at door
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Baldwinsville Theatre Guild will dazzle you with a full-scale production of Claude-Michel Schönberg's Les Misérables. The musical, an epic saga based upon the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo, is entirely sung-through, with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, and English language adaptation by Herbert Kretzmer. The story chronicles the struggles of Jean Valjean, a French peasant who searches for redemption after serving a prison sentence for stealing bread to feed his family.

The show will be done with full orchestration under the musical direction of Abel Searor.

Read a Review!

Monday, February 3, 2014

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

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

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

Penny Santy: The Nature of Our Soul
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Penny Santy's works are representational pieces that break from that, at times, to abstraction. Her paintings embrace the human experience that is effected by or reflected in our natural surroundings. She has been inspired by the works of Gustav Klimpt, the impressionists, and the tonalists for the spiritual connection captured in their work, and by abstract expressionists like Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell and Willem de Kooning for the energy, paint textures and movement expressed in their works.

Gallery Exhibit: Meredith Cantor-Feller, Model American
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
As an observer and artist I get my inspiration from the varied experiences of living and life. Using the mediums of photography and video allows me to put myself, if only briefly, into the experience of my subjects. Borrowing the still-life, snap-shots or momentary records of their lives. At times my subjects are aware of me and my camera yet there often remains a strong sense of invading of publicly private moments. I use these ready-made observations as the foundation for my questions about the living experience.

"Model American" is a working series of environmental portraits that examine the conflict of consumer expectations, behaviors and economics. This series features the employees of commonplace consumer environments posing as "Model Americans". The combination of environment and prop narrates the conflict between consumer want and human need, and the friction between consumer and citizen driving the Model American engine.

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We will be featuring a selection of beautiful black and white stoneware functional pottery with a botanical theme by Leslie Green Guilbault of Hamilton.

Domestic Vicissitudes: Works by Analia Segal
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Comprised of both a site-specific installation and a large scale video projection, this exhibition navigates the porous boundaries between art, design and architecture intertwining the conceptual, aesthetic and functional nature of the objects that compose the everyday scenarios we live in.

Argentina-born Analia Segalis a Guggenheim Fellow, and has received grants that include: Pollock Krassner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fundación Konex, Fundación Antorchas, Bienal de Diseño-Universidad de Buenos Aires, and 100% Design. Her works has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, as well as published in specialized magazines, catalogues and books, and it is included in private and public collections. She graduated as a Graphic Designer from the University of Buenos Aires and received her Masters Degree in Art from New York University. She lives and works in New York City since 1999.

Chairs: A Designer's Choice
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Iconic chairs owned by faculty in the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Department of Design are the focus of a new exhibition. "Chairs: A Designer's Choice" includes 16 chairs in a range of styles and materials by such notable designers as Alvar Aalto, Mario Bellini, Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, Emeco, Mies Van der Rohe, Gerrit Rietveld and Gustav Stickley. The exhibition is curated by James Fathers, professor and chair of the Department of Design, and is a joint project of the design faculty and the department's graduate program in museum studies.

For more information or to schedule a class visit to the exhibition, contact Carlota Deseda-Coon at design@syr.edu.

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

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

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

Penny Santy: The Nature of Our Soul
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Penny Santy's works are representational pieces that break from that, at times, to abstraction. Her paintings embrace the human experience that is effected by or reflected in our natural surroundings. She has been inspired by the works of Gustav Klimpt, the impressionists, and the tonalists for the spiritual connection captured in their work, and by abstract expressionists like Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell and Willem de Kooning for the energy, paint textures and movement expressed in their works.

Gallery Exhibit: Meredith Cantor-Feller, Model American
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
As an observer and artist I get my inspiration from the varied experiences of living and life. Using the mediums of photography and video allows me to put myself, if only briefly, into the experience of my subjects. Borrowing the still-life, snap-shots or momentary records of their lives. At times my subjects are aware of me and my camera yet there often remains a strong sense of invading of publicly private moments. I use these ready-made observations as the foundation for my questions about the living experience.

"Model American" is a working series of environmental portraits that examine the conflict of consumer expectations, behaviors and economics. This series features the employees of commonplace consumer environments posing as "Model Americans". The combination of environment and prop narrates the conflict between consumer want and human need, and the friction between consumer and citizen driving the Model American engine.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Crystal Glow
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Karen Kosicki: infrared photography
Max Block: dichroic fused glass jewelry and objects d'art
Mary Giehl: crystal sculpture grown from alum, and mixed media wall hangings featuring crochet elements

Read a review!

Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

Read a review!

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We will be featuring a selection of beautiful black and white stoneware functional pottery with a botanical theme by Leslie Green Guilbault of Hamilton.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Domestic Vicissitudes: Works by Analia Segal
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Comprised of both a site-specific installation and a large scale video projection, this exhibition navigates the porous boundaries between art, design and architecture intertwining the conceptual, aesthetic and functional nature of the objects that compose the everyday scenarios we live in.

Argentina-born Analia Segalis a Guggenheim Fellow, and has received grants that include: Pollock Krassner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fundación Konex, Fundación Antorchas, Bienal de Diseño-Universidad de Buenos Aires, and 100% Design. Her works has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, as well as published in specialized magazines, catalogues and books, and it is included in private and public collections. She graduated as a Graphic Designer from the University of Buenos Aires and received her Masters Degree in Art from New York University. She lives and works in New York City since 1999.

Chairs: A Designer's Choice
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Iconic chairs owned by faculty in the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Department of Design are the focus of a new exhibition. "Chairs: A Designer's Choice" includes 16 chairs in a range of styles and materials by such notable designers as Alvar Aalto, Mario Bellini, Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, Emeco, Mies Van der Rohe, Gerrit Rietveld and Gustav Stickley. The exhibition is curated by James Fathers, professor and chair of the Department of Design, and is a joint project of the design faculty and the department's graduate program in museum studies.

For more information or to schedule a class visit to the exhibition, contact Carlota Deseda-Coon at design@syr.edu.

Artist Talk: Yui Kugimiya
Urban Video Project

Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Kugimiya will present an artist talk in conjunction with the video exhibit, "Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth & other works." A reception and screening will follow on the plaza, weather permitting.

Galactic, with Ryan Montbleau
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

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

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

Penny Santy: The Nature of Our Soul
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Penny Santy's works are representational pieces that break from that, at times, to abstraction. Her paintings embrace the human experience that is effected by or reflected in our natural surroundings. She has been inspired by the works of Gustav Klimpt, the impressionists, and the tonalists for the spiritual connection captured in their work, and by abstract expressionists like Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell and Willem de Kooning for the energy, paint textures and movement expressed in their works.

Gallery Exhibit: Meredith Cantor-Feller, Model American
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
As an observer and artist I get my inspiration from the varied experiences of living and life. Using the mediums of photography and video allows me to put myself, if only briefly, into the experience of my subjects. Borrowing the still-life, snap-shots or momentary records of their lives. At times my subjects are aware of me and my camera yet there often remains a strong sense of invading of publicly private moments. I use these ready-made observations as the foundation for my questions about the living experience.

"Model American" is a working series of environmental portraits that examine the conflict of consumer expectations, behaviors and economics. This series features the employees of commonplace consumer environments posing as "Model Americans". The combination of environment and prop narrates the conflict between consumer want and human need, and the friction between consumer and citizen driving the Model American engine.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Crystal Glow
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Karen Kosicki: infrared photography
Max Block: dichroic fused glass jewelry and objects d'art
Mary Giehl: crystal sculpture grown from alum, and mixed media wall hangings featuring crochet elements

Read a review!

Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

Read a review!

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We will be featuring a selection of beautiful black and white stoneware functional pottery with a botanical theme by Leslie Green Guilbault of Hamilton.

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Domestic Vicissitudes: Works by Analia Segal
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Comprised of both a site-specific installation and a large scale video projection, this exhibition navigates the porous boundaries between art, design and architecture intertwining the conceptual, aesthetic and functional nature of the objects that compose the everyday scenarios we live in.

Argentina-born Analia Segalis a Guggenheim Fellow, and has received grants that include: Pollock Krassner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fundación Konex, Fundación Antorchas, Bienal de Diseño-Universidad de Buenos Aires, and 100% Design. Her works has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, as well as published in specialized magazines, catalogues and books, and it is included in private and public collections. She graduated as a Graphic Designer from the University of Buenos Aires and received her Masters Degree in Art from New York University. She lives and works in New York City since 1999.

Chairs: A Designer's Choice
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Iconic chairs owned by faculty in the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Department of Design are the focus of a new exhibition. "Chairs: A Designer's Choice" includes 16 chairs in a range of styles and materials by such notable designers as Alvar Aalto, Mario Bellini, Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, Emeco, Mies Van der Rohe, Gerrit Rietveld and Gustav Stickley. The exhibition is curated by James Fathers, professor and chair of the Department of Design, and is a joint project of the design faculty and the department's graduate program in museum studies.

For more information or to schedule a class visit to the exhibition, contact Carlota Deseda-Coon at design@syr.edu.

Getting To Know You: Artists Examine Authentic Connections in the Digital Age
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Featuring work by Fanny Allié, American Bear, CampusNeighbor, and damali abrams.

In the digital age, people can virtually live their lives online. With the advent of various social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, it is easier than ever to connect. However, are these relationships genuine? Furthermore, does a social medium foster intimacy or aid in the superficiality of our society? For this exhibition, 601 Tully does not seek to resolve these questions but rather, bring them to light. The featured artists offer avenues for people to have authentic connections with one another through various interactive mediums with and without the assistance of the internet.

New York-based artist, Fanny Allié, invited Syracuse residents to submit photos, memories, and stories about their lives in an attempt to learn more about the community. With each memento, Allié will construct a site-specific installation that will give the audience a window into the individuals living in this area.

While Allié's installation exemplifies the direct interaction between herself and the participant, the collaborative team of American Bear created prompts and assignments for the public to engage with one another. As the assignments are completed, American Bear hopes to foster a more compassionate and community-minded city.

Like many college towns, there is and has always been an underlying fissure between Syracuse University students and the permanent residents. In recent years, Nancy Cantor, former Syracuse University Chancellor, has worked to mend that divide by creating the initiative, Scholarship in Action. CampusNeighbor is a bartering website that builds on that idea by linking these two groups together through skill-sharing, with the hopes that these exchanges will help to dismantle barriers that have been created through the years.

Although all of the above require participation in order to activate the piece, damali abrams, a performance-based artist, takes a different approach by reading from her diary. By exposing herself in this vulnerable manner, it elicits the viewer to relate to her through shared experiences.

Whether one is simply telling their story to Allié or participating in CampusNeighbor, the exhibition aims to get to know you.

Vein 8: Stone Canoe Exhibition
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, is published annually by University College of Syracuse University. The prize-winning journal, now in its 8th year, is committed to communicating to the world at large the depth and diversity of the Upstate New York arts community, and each issue features a provocative mix of artists and writers, both well-known and emerging, with ties to the region. The journal's name is inspired by the oldest recorded Upstate New York story, the journey of the Peacemaker in his sacred canoe of stone from Lake Ontario to the Finger Lakes, where he brought the resident warring tribes together to form the Iroquois Confederacy. Each year, the journal's prize-winning writers and artists are presented with an original stone canoe carving by noted Native American sculptor Tom Huff. The current journal, Stone Canoe Number 8, features the work of 24 artists chosen by 2014 arts editor Melora Griffis.

Participating artists include Doug Baird, Stephanie Barkley, Megan Biddle, Francis Clemente, Theresa DeSalvio, Vykky Ebner, Lorrie Fredette, Diana Godfrey, Walter Kopec, Kate Lawless, Steve Miller, Rachel Pea, Jen Pepper, Kathy Petrillo, Sarah Pfohl, Stephan Phillips, Larry Poole, Maria Rizzo, Mitchell Saller, Radio Sebastian, Kaitlyn Spina, Werner Sun, Ron Throop, Paul Weiner.

Caribbean Cinematic Festival 2014
Community Folk Art Center

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

7:00-8:00 pm: Toussaint L'Overture, part 1
8:00–9:00 pm: Talk back discussion with Jimmy Jean-Louis

Toussaint L'Overture
At long last the story of the Haitian Revolution is given the cinematic treatment in this fittingly two-part epic drama, starring celebrated Haitian actor Jimmy Jean-Louis as Toussaint L'Ouverture. The film tells the story of the man who led the greatest--and only successful--slave revolt in history, from his life as a coachman on the Breda plantation to his final days, imprisoned by Napoleon Bonaparte in a tiny cell in the icy Jura mountains of France. In association with the Alliance Française. Directed by Philipe Niang (Haiti, 2012, 57 minutes)
Awards: 2012 Monte-Carlo Film Festival, nominated for Outstanding Mini-Series; 2013 Black Reel Awards, nominated for Outstanding Foreign Film

*CANCELLED* Gerald Zampino, clarinet; Gregory Wood, cello; Maryna Mazhukhova, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Today's program has been cancelled due to weather.

Music of Beethoven and Bruch.

*POSTPONED* SU Ensemble Series: SU Wind Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The concert has been postponed until Wed., Feb. 12 at 8:00 pm.

Under the direction of Bradley P. Ethington and Justin J. Mertz, the Wind Ensemble will perform works by Jess Turner, Howard Hanson, Gabriel Fauré, and John Mackey. Samantha S. Baldwin will appear as graduate conducting associate.

Free parking will be available in Irving Garage. For further information, please contact the University Band office at 315-443-2194 or fmmoore@syr.edu.

Maria de Buenos Aires: A Tango Opera
Syracuse Opera

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

You are in for a treat when Syracuse Opera presents Maria de Buenos Aires, an intoxicating mix of opera and tango by the legendary Astor Piazzolla and poet Horacio Ferrer. This sultry Spanish "tango operita" promises to be an electrifying and provocative theatrical experience. Astor Piazzolla has mastered the musical language of this dance form to dramatize the life of Maria, who searches recklessly for love. Each step she takes is driven by haunting melodies and accompanied by an orchestra unique to the Argentine sound. The drama is real, the music is exhilarating and the experience will be unforgettable.

The opera will be sung in Spanish, with projected English translations above the stage.

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The Whipping Man
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Richmond, April, 1865. The Civil War has ended and Caleb DeLeon, a badly wounded Confederate soldier, stumbles into the ruin of what was once his home. His family has fled the City's destruction leaving two former slaves, Simon and John, to wait and watch. Together they care for the wounded Caleb, and having adopted the religion of their former owners, celebrate Passover. A mesmerizing drama where secrets are revealed and the plot twists and turns. Since opening off-Broadway to critical acclaim and winning the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play, The Whipping Man, by Matthew Lopez, has become one of the most produced plays in the country.

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Menopause The Musical
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Set in a department store, where four women with seemingly nothing in common but a black lace bra meet by chance at a lingerie sale, the all-female cast makes fun of their woeful hot flashes, forgetfulness, mood swings, wrinkles, night sweats, and chocolate binges. A sisterhood is created between these diverse women as they realize that menopause is no longer "The Silent Passage." It is a stage in every woman's life that is perfectly normal.

Menopause The Musical is the work of writer Jeanie Linders, director Seth Greenleaf, and choreographer Daria Melendez. The laughter-filled 90-minute production includes parodies from the classics of the '60s, '70s and '80s. Inspired by a hot flash and a bottle of wine, writer and producer Jeanie Linders created the show as a celebration of women who are on the brink of, in the middle of or have survived "The Change."

Tickets are available in person at the Oncenter Box Office, 760 S. State St.; by phone at 315-435-2121 or online at Ticketmaster.com.

The Whipping Man
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Richmond, April, 1865. The Civil War has ended and Caleb DeLeon, a badly wounded Confederate soldier, stumbles into the ruin of what was once his home. His family has fled the City's destruction leaving two former slaves, Simon and John, to wait and watch. Together they care for the wounded Caleb, and having adopted the religion of their former owners, celebrate Passover. A mesmerizing drama where secrets are revealed and the plot twists and turns. Since opening off-Broadway to critical acclaim and winning the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play, The Whipping Man, by Matthew Lopez, has become one of the most produced plays in the country.

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*SOLD OUT* Next to Normal
Redhouse

Price: $30 regular, $20 members, $15 student rush starting one hour before show
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Next To Normal tells the story of a mother, Diane Goodman, who struggles with bipolar disorder and the effect that her illness has on her family. This contemporary musical with an unforgettable score is an emotional powerhouse that addresses such issues as grieving a loss, ethics in modern psychiatry, and suburban life. Book and lyrics by Brin Yorkey, music by Tom Kitt.

These performances include a Talkback Series after the show.

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Thursday, February 6, 2014

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

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

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

Penny Santy: The Nature of Our Soul
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Penny Santy's works are representational pieces that break from that, at times, to abstraction. Her paintings embrace the human experience that is effected by or reflected in our natural surroundings. She has been inspired by the works of Gustav Klimpt, the impressionists, and the tonalists for the spiritual connection captured in their work, and by abstract expressionists like Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell and Willem de Kooning for the energy, paint textures and movement expressed in their works.

Gallery Exhibit: Meredith Cantor-Feller, Model American
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
As an observer and artist I get my inspiration from the varied experiences of living and life. Using the mediums of photography and video allows me to put myself, if only briefly, into the experience of my subjects. Borrowing the still-life, snap-shots or momentary records of their lives. At times my subjects are aware of me and my camera yet there often remains a strong sense of invading of publicly private moments. I use these ready-made observations as the foundation for my questions about the living experience.

"Model American" is a working series of environmental portraits that examine the conflict of consumer expectations, behaviors and economics. This series features the employees of commonplace consumer environments posing as "Model Americans". The combination of environment and prop narrates the conflict between consumer want and human need, and the friction between consumer and citizen driving the Model American engine.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Crystal Glow
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Karen Kosicki: infrared photography
Max Block: dichroic fused glass jewelry and objects d'art
Mary Giehl: crystal sculpture grown from alum, and mixed media wall hangings featuring crochet elements

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Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

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Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We will be featuring a selection of beautiful black and white stoneware functional pottery with a botanical theme by Leslie Green Guilbault of Hamilton.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Portals: Urban Landscapes from Havana to Syracuse
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception with the artist this evening at 6:00 pm.

An exhibit of 46 photographs of Havana and Syracuse, exhibited on old wooden doors and over a skyline of Havana created on foam. The multicolored lights above the skyline represent the lights of the city of Havana. The blue shimmers below represent the sea that surrounds the city.

A portal opened for Danisley Perez Bravo between two worlds. The exhibition combines the last images that she captured with her lens when she left her beloved city of Havana, and the first ones she took when she arrived in Syracuse to make this her new home.

Guided visits are offered in English or Spanish by appointment. For a guided tour, please email us at lacasita@syr.edu to schedule your visit.

Domestic Vicissitudes: Works by Analia Segal
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Comprised of both a site-specific installation and a large scale video projection, this exhibition navigates the porous boundaries between art, design and architecture intertwining the conceptual, aesthetic and functional nature of the objects that compose the everyday scenarios we live in.

Argentina-born Analia Segalis a Guggenheim Fellow, and has received grants that include: Pollock Krassner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fundación Konex, Fundación Antorchas, Bienal de Diseño-Universidad de Buenos Aires, and 100% Design. Her works has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, as well as published in specialized magazines, catalogues and books, and it is included in private and public collections. She graduated as a Graphic Designer from the University of Buenos Aires and received her Masters Degree in Art from New York University. She lives and works in New York City since 1999.

Chairs: A Designer's Choice
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Iconic chairs owned by faculty in the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Department of Design are the focus of a new exhibition. "Chairs: A Designer's Choice" includes 16 chairs in a range of styles and materials by such notable designers as Alvar Aalto, Mario Bellini, Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, Emeco, Mies Van der Rohe, Gerrit Rietveld and Gustav Stickley. The exhibition is curated by James Fathers, professor and chair of the Department of Design, and is a joint project of the design faculty and the department's graduate program in museum studies.

For more information or to schedule a class visit to the exhibition, contact Carlota Deseda-Coon at design@syr.edu.

Getting To Know You: Artists Examine Authentic Connections in the Digital Age
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Featuring work by Fanny Allié, American Bear, CampusNeighbor, and damali abrams.

In the digital age, people can virtually live their lives online. With the advent of various social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, it is easier than ever to connect. However, are these relationships genuine? Furthermore, does a social medium foster intimacy or aid in the superficiality of our society? For this exhibition, 601 Tully does not seek to resolve these questions but rather, bring them to light. The featured artists offer avenues for people to have authentic connections with one another through various interactive mediums with and without the assistance of the internet.

New York-based artist, Fanny Allié, invited Syracuse residents to submit photos, memories, and stories about their lives in an attempt to learn more about the community. With each memento, Allié will construct a site-specific installation that will give the audience a window into the individuals living in this area.

While Allié's installation exemplifies the direct interaction between herself and the participant, the collaborative team of American Bear created prompts and assignments for the public to engage with one another. As the assignments are completed, American Bear hopes to foster a more compassionate and community-minded city.

Like many college towns, there is and has always been an underlying fissure between Syracuse University students and the permanent residents. In recent years, Nancy Cantor, former Syracuse University Chancellor, has worked to mend that divide by creating the initiative, Scholarship in Action. CampusNeighbor is a bartering website that builds on that idea by linking these two groups together through skill-sharing, with the hopes that these exchanges will help to dismantle barriers that have been created through the years.

Although all of the above require participation in order to activate the piece, damali abrams, a performance-based artist, takes a different approach by reading from her diary. By exposing herself in this vulnerable manner, it elicits the viewer to relate to her through shared experiences.

Whether one is simply telling their story to Allié or participating in CampusNeighbor, the exhibition aims to get to know you.

Vein 8: Stone Canoe Exhibition
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, is published annually by University College of Syracuse University. The prize-winning journal, now in its 8th year, is committed to communicating to the world at large the depth and diversity of the Upstate New York arts community, and each issue features a provocative mix of artists and writers, both well-known and emerging, with ties to the region. The journal's name is inspired by the oldest recorded Upstate New York story, the journey of the Peacemaker in his sacred canoe of stone from Lake Ontario to the Finger Lakes, where he brought the resident warring tribes together to form the Iroquois Confederacy. Each year, the journal's prize-winning writers and artists are presented with an original stone canoe carving by noted Native American sculptor Tom Huff. The current journal, Stone Canoe Number 8, features the work of 24 artists chosen by 2014 arts editor Melora Griffis.

Participating artists include Doug Baird, Stephanie Barkley, Megan Biddle, Francis Clemente, Theresa DeSalvio, Vykky Ebner, Lorrie Fredette, Diana Godfrey, Walter Kopec, Kate Lawless, Steve Miller, Rachel Pea, Jen Pepper, Kathy Petrillo, Sarah Pfohl, Stephan Phillips, Larry Poole, Maria Rizzo, Mitchell Saller, Radio Sebastian, Kaitlyn Spina, Werner Sun, Ron Throop, Paul Weiner.

Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth & other works
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition will include Yui Kugimiya's works Cat Brushing Teeth (2008), Cronica de Una Muerte Anunciada (2012), and Sunset Donut (2012).

Equilibrium: Works by Juan Alberto Cruz
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

There will be an artist reception this evening 7:00-9:00 pm.

Featured in this exhibition are new and recent works including Cruz's lyrical figurative-based abstract paintings in oil on canvas, dynamic paper collages that utilize geometric shapes to create visually energetic patterns and new assemblage wood sculptures.

Caribbean Cinematic Festival 2014
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

6:30–9:30 pm: "Forward Ever," and talk-back discussion with Bruce Paddington via Skype, moderated by Cecilia Green

Emancipator Ensemble, with Odesza, Real Magic
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Death Takes a Cruise
Acme Mystery Company

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

Pack your costume, grab your party hat, and step aboard our venerable riverboat, The Mississippi Mistress, as we prepare to set sail down the "Big Muddy" for New Orleans and Mardi Gras! Woooo-hooo! The mighty Captain "Crawdaddy" Cretin will help you navigate the shoals, sand bars, (and wet bars), while Scooter, the Porter, and your Cruise Director, Lucy Belle Juniper, see to your comfort and entertainment. Watch out for the other passengers (They look pretty suspicious). Someone might not make it to the "Big Easy" alive.

Little Shop of Horrors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-498-9304.

The Whipping Man
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Richmond, April, 1865. The Civil War has ended and Caleb DeLeon, a badly wounded Confederate soldier, stumbles into the ruin of what was once his home. His family has fled the City's destruction leaving two former slaves, Simon and John, to wait and watch. Together they care for the wounded Caleb, and having adopted the religion of their former owners, celebrate Passover. A mesmerizing drama where secrets are revealed and the plot twists and turns. Since opening off-Broadway to critical acclaim and winning the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play, The Whipping Man, by Matthew Lopez, has become one of the most produced plays in the country.

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Pterodactyls
Redhouse

Price: $30 regular, $20 members, $15 student rush starting one hour before show
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In this wild comedy by Nicky Silver, dysfunction takes on new meaning with the Duncan family. We laugh throughout as we watch the family disintegrate, and finally realize the seeds of this dysfunction lie within us all.

These performances include a Talkback Series after the show.

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Friday, February 7, 2014

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

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

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

Penny Santy: The Nature of Our Soul
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Penny Santy's works are representational pieces that break from that, at times, to abstraction. Her paintings embrace the human experience that is effected by or reflected in our natural surroundings. She has been inspired by the works of Gustav Klimpt, the impressionists, and the tonalists for the spiritual connection captured in their work, and by abstract expressionists like Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell and Willem de Kooning for the energy, paint textures and movement expressed in their works.

Gallery Exhibit: Meredith Cantor-Feller, Model American
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
As an observer and artist I get my inspiration from the varied experiences of living and life. Using the mediums of photography and video allows me to put myself, if only briefly, into the experience of my subjects. Borrowing the still-life, snap-shots or momentary records of their lives. At times my subjects are aware of me and my camera yet there often remains a strong sense of invading of publicly private moments. I use these ready-made observations as the foundation for my questions about the living experience.

"Model American" is a working series of environmental portraits that examine the conflict of consumer expectations, behaviors and economics. This series features the employees of commonplace consumer environments posing as "Model Americans". The combination of environment and prop narrates the conflict between consumer want and human need, and the friction between consumer and citizen driving the Model American engine.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Crystal Glow
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Karen Kosicki: infrared photography
Max Block: dichroic fused glass jewelry and objects d'art
Mary Giehl: crystal sculpture grown from alum, and mixed media wall hangings featuring crochet elements

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Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

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Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We will be featuring a selection of beautiful black and white stoneware functional pottery with a botanical theme by Leslie Green Guilbault of Hamilton.

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Equilibrium: Works by Juan Alberto Cruz
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

Featured in this exhibition are new and recent works including Cruz's lyrical figurative-based abstract paintings in oil on canvas, dynamic paper collages that utilize geometric shapes to create visually energetic patterns and new assemblage wood sculptures.

Portals: Urban Landscapes from Havana to Syracuse
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

An exhibit of 46 photographs of Havana and Syracuse, exhibited on old wooden doors and over a skyline of Havana created on foam. The multicolored lights above the skyline represent the lights of the city of Havana. The blue shimmers below represent the sea that surrounds the city.

A portal opened for Danisley Perez Bravo between two worlds. The exhibition combines the last images that she captured with her lens when she left her beloved city of Havana, and the first ones she took when she arrived in Syracuse to make this her new home.

Guided visits are offered in English or Spanish by appointment. For a guided tour, please email us at lacasita@syr.edu to schedule your visit.

Domestic Vicissitudes: Works by Analia Segal
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Comprised of both a site-specific installation and a large scale video projection, this exhibition navigates the porous boundaries between art, design and architecture intertwining the conceptual, aesthetic and functional nature of the objects that compose the everyday scenarios we live in.

Argentina-born Analia Segalis a Guggenheim Fellow, and has received grants that include: Pollock Krassner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fundación Konex, Fundación Antorchas, Bienal de Diseño-Universidad de Buenos Aires, and 100% Design. Her works has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, as well as published in specialized magazines, catalogues and books, and it is included in private and public collections. She graduated as a Graphic Designer from the University of Buenos Aires and received her Masters Degree in Art from New York University. She lives and works in New York City since 1999.

Chairs: A Designer's Choice
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Iconic chairs owned by faculty in the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Department of Design are the focus of a new exhibition. "Chairs: A Designer's Choice" includes 16 chairs in a range of styles and materials by such notable designers as Alvar Aalto, Mario Bellini, Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, Emeco, Mies Van der Rohe, Gerrit Rietveld and Gustav Stickley. The exhibition is curated by James Fathers, professor and chair of the Department of Design, and is a joint project of the design faculty and the department's graduate program in museum studies.

For more information or to schedule a class visit to the exhibition, contact Carlota Deseda-Coon at design@syr.edu.

Getting To Know You: Artists Examine Authentic Connections in the Digital Age
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

Featuring work by Fanny Allié, American Bear, CampusNeighbor, and damali abrams.

In the digital age, people can virtually live their lives online. With the advent of various social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, it is easier than ever to connect. However, are these relationships genuine? Furthermore, does a social medium foster intimacy or aid in the superficiality of our society? For this exhibition, 601 Tully does not seek to resolve these questions but rather, bring them to light. The featured artists offer avenues for people to have authentic connections with one another through various interactive mediums with and without the assistance of the internet.

New York-based artist, Fanny Allié, invited Syracuse residents to submit photos, memories, and stories about their lives in an attempt to learn more about the community. With each memento, Allié will construct a site-specific installation that will give the audience a window into the individuals living in this area.

While Allié's installation exemplifies the direct interaction between herself and the participant, the collaborative team of American Bear created prompts and assignments for the public to engage with one another. As the assignments are completed, American Bear hopes to foster a more compassionate and community-minded city.

Like many college towns, there is and has always been an underlying fissure between Syracuse University students and the permanent residents. In recent years, Nancy Cantor, former Syracuse University Chancellor, has worked to mend that divide by creating the initiative, Scholarship in Action. CampusNeighbor is a bartering website that builds on that idea by linking these two groups together through skill-sharing, with the hopes that these exchanges will help to dismantle barriers that have been created through the years.

Although all of the above require participation in order to activate the piece, damali abrams, a performance-based artist, takes a different approach by reading from her diary. By exposing herself in this vulnerable manner, it elicits the viewer to relate to her through shared experiences.

Whether one is simply telling their story to Allié or participating in CampusNeighbor, the exhibition aims to get to know you.

Vein 8: Stone Canoe Exhibition
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, is published annually by University College of Syracuse University. The prize-winning journal, now in its 8th year, is committed to communicating to the world at large the depth and diversity of the Upstate New York arts community, and each issue features a provocative mix of artists and writers, both well-known and emerging, with ties to the region. The journal's name is inspired by the oldest recorded Upstate New York story, the journey of the Peacemaker in his sacred canoe of stone from Lake Ontario to the Finger Lakes, where he brought the resident warring tribes together to form the Iroquois Confederacy. Each year, the journal's prize-winning writers and artists are presented with an original stone canoe carving by noted Native American sculptor Tom Huff. The current journal, Stone Canoe Number 8, features the work of 24 artists chosen by 2014 arts editor Melora Griffis.

Participating artists include Doug Baird, Stephanie Barkley, Megan Biddle, Francis Clemente, Theresa DeSalvio, Vykky Ebner, Lorrie Fredette, Diana Godfrey, Walter Kopec, Kate Lawless, Steve Miller, Rachel Pea, Jen Pepper, Kathy Petrillo, Sarah Pfohl, Stephan Phillips, Larry Poole, Maria Rizzo, Mitchell Saller, Radio Sebastian, Kaitlyn Spina, Werner Sun, Ron Throop, Paul Weiner.

Country Folk Art Craft Show

Price: $6
Empire Expo Center
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth & other works
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition will include Yui Kugimiya's works Cat Brushing Teeth (2008), Cronica de Una Muerte Anunciada (2012), and Sunset Donut (2012).

Caribbean Cinematic Festival 2014
Community Folk Art Center

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

6:30–7:00 pm: Poetry and spoken word by artist Ras Howard Henry
7:00–9:00 pm: Screening: Better Mus' Come, with talk-back discussion moderated by Asomgyee Pamoja & Arthur Paris

Better Mus' Come
In Kingston, Jamaica, in the late 1970s, the two main political parties, the People's National Party and the Jamaica Labour Party enlist the support of gangs to enforce their policies and advance their political agenda. Young Ricky is a single father and a community leader whose gang is aligned to one party. One day he meets Kemala, who belongs to a community controlled by the other party: enemy territory, and the two instantly connect. Kemala encourages Ricky to adopt a more passive approach as Ricky tries to navigate his way through the constant social upheaval that seems ubiquitous in his community. Will their love triumph, or will bigger forces win the day? Based on true events. Directed by Storm Saulter (Jamaica, 2011, drama, 93 minutes)

Awards: 2102 American Black Film Festival, won Best Performance by an Actor (Male or Female) Sheldon Shepherd; 2014 Black Reel Awards, nominated for Outstanding Foreign Film

Jazz@Sitrus: Joshua Breakstone
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover
Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse

Red Hot Chilli Pipers, with Hobo Graffiti
Creative Concerts

Price: $30, $50
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Peter Mulvey
Folkus Project

Price: $15 regular, $12 members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Sexy vocals, great chops, and the kind of energy and enthusiasm no one can resist.

A husky, smoky voice; incendiary guitar; singular, moody songs; and theatrical flair all come together to identify the music of Peter Mulvey. His extraordinary songs contain a complexity of detail and range of effect that are rare.

Touring relentlessly--from Ireland to Anchorage and all points in between, year in and year out--has made Mulvey who and what he is. His live shows are what defines his work and where he shines. The intensity and simplicity of his performances showcase Mulvey's well-honed strengths as a writer and performer.

Through more than 17 years of performing, Mulvey has truly lived an artist's life, always looking for ways to further immerse himself in language, art, and music. He played, wrote, and sang in bands while studying theatre at Marquette University. After graduating, he traveled to Ireland, where he learned the trade of busker on the streets of Dublin. Returning to the U.S. a few years later, he settled in Boston, building an audience through street and subway performing, while immersing himself in the thriving musical community. His discography includes 18 recordings, the most recent of which (The Good Stuff and Chaser) are "inspired siftings through the treasure trove of the American landscape." He was asked to participate in TEDxKC, in Kansas City, this past August. In 2008 he won a Wisconsin Area Music Industry Award in the Solo Artist/Performer category.

Tim Reynolds and TR3, with The Boatmen, Spring Street Family Band
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Maria de Buenos Aires: A Tango Opera
Syracuse Opera

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

You are in for a treat when Syracuse Opera presents Maria de Buenos Aires, an intoxicating mix of opera and tango by the legendary Astor Piazzolla and poet Horacio Ferrer. This sultry Spanish "tango operita" promises to be an electrifying and provocative theatrical experience. Astor Piazzolla has mastered the musical language of this dance form to dramatize the life of Maria, who searches recklessly for love. Each step she takes is driven by haunting melodies and accompanied by an orchestra unique to the Argentine sound. The drama is real, the music is exhilarating and the experience will be unforgettable.

The opera will be sung in Spanish, with projected English translations above the stage.

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Stone Canoe Closing Event: Readings by Lloyd & Lawler
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Stone Canoe Literary Journal presents a reading with authors David Lloyd and Patrick Lawler as a closing event for their exhibition, Vein 8, at the ArtRage Gallery.

Both will read from their newly published work. Join us for a memorable evening. David Lloyd, past Stone Canoe Fiction Editor, is the author of nine books, including Over the Line, a novel, and Boys: Stories and a Novella (both from Syracuse University Press). His most recent poetry collection is Warriors (Salt Publishing, 2012). His articles, interviews, poems, and stories have appeared in numerous magazines including Crab Orchard Review, Denver Quarterly, Stone Canoe, and TriQuarterly. He directs the Creative Writing Program at Le Moyne College in Syracuse.

Patrick Lawler, 2014 Stone Canoe Fiction Editor, has published five collections of poetry: A Drowning Man is Never Tall Enough, Reading a Burning Book, Feeding the Fear of the Earth, Trade World Center, and Underground (Notes Toward an Autobiography). His novel Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds is the winner of the Ronald Sukenick American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize and the CNY Book Award for Fiction. The Bitter Oleander Press will be publishing a collection of his poetry Child Sings in the Womb, and Four Way Books will be publishing a collection of his short stories The Meaning of If—both in 2014.

DWC Student and Member Open Mic Night
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Meet, greet, snack, and share your work at this season's open mic. Sign-ups begin at 6:45.

Little Shop of Horrors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-498-9304.

Les Misérables
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Korrie Taylor, director

Price: $22 regular in advance, $20 student in advance, $25 at door
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Baldwinsville Theatre Guild will dazzle you with a full-scale production of Claude-Michel Schönberg's Les Misérables. The musical, an epic saga based upon the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo, is entirely sung-through, with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, and English language adaptation by Herbert Kretzmer. The story chronicles the struggles of Jean Valjean, a French peasant who searches for redemption after serving a prison sentence for stealing bread to feed his family.

The show will be done with full orchestration under the musical direction of Abel Searor.

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King Lear
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students; $7 SU students, faculty, staff, and alumni
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Gerard Moses stars as Lear, a father who divides his kingdom based on declarations of love from his three daughters. When he realizes he's made a mistake, it's too late and the world devolves into chaos.

Tickets available at the door or at ticketleap.com/.

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Jump Cut
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

Price: $15
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Three bright urbanites want to make their mark on the world. Paul, a master of irony and distance, is a hardworking film maker on the rise. His girlfriend Karen, a grad student, must get on with her thesis or find a life outside of academia. Dave, a life-long buddy whose brilliance is being consumed by increasingly severe episodes of manic depression, is camping on Paul's couch. Paul and Karen decide to turn Dave into a documentary. The camera is on 24 hours a day, capturing up-close images of his jags and torpors and their responses. How far will love, friendship and ambition take this hip trio?

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*SOLD OUT* Next to Normal
Redhouse

Price: $30 regular, $20 members, $15 student rush starting one hour before show
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Next To Normal tells the story of a mother, Diane Goodman, who struggles with bipolar disorder and the effect that her illness has on her family. This contemporary musical with an unforgettable score is an emotional powerhouse that addresses such issues as grieving a loss, ethics in modern psychiatry, and suburban life. Book and lyrics by Brin Yorkey, music by Tom Kitt.

These performances include a Talkback Series after the show.

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The Whipping Man
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Richmond, April, 1865. The Civil War has ended and Caleb DeLeon, a badly wounded Confederate soldier, stumbles into the ruin of what was once his home. His family has fled the City's destruction leaving two former slaves, Simon and John, to wait and watch. Together they care for the wounded Caleb, and having adopted the religion of their former owners, celebrate Passover. A mesmerizing drama where secrets are revealed and the plot twists and turns. Since opening off-Broadway to critical acclaim and winning the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play, The Whipping Man, by Matthew Lopez, has become one of the most produced plays in the country.

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Saturday, February 8, 2014

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

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

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

Penny Santy: The Nature of Our Soul
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Penny Santy's works are representational pieces that break from that, at times, to abstraction. Her paintings embrace the human experience that is effected by or reflected in our natural surroundings. She has been inspired by the works of Gustav Klimpt, the impressionists, and the tonalists for the spiritual connection captured in their work, and by abstract expressionists like Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell and Willem de Kooning for the energy, paint textures and movement expressed in their works.

Crystal Glow
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Karen Kosicki: infrared photography
Max Block: dichroic fused glass jewelry and objects d'art
Mary Giehl: crystal sculpture grown from alum, and mixed media wall hangings featuring crochet elements

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Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We will be featuring a selection of beautiful black and white stoneware functional pottery with a botanical theme by Leslie Green Guilbault of Hamilton.

Country Folk Art Craft Show

Price: $6
Empire Expo Center
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

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Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

Vein 8: Stone Canoe Exhibition
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, is published annually by University College of Syracuse University. The prize-winning journal, now in its 8th year, is committed to communicating to the world at large the depth and diversity of the Upstate New York arts community, and each issue features a provocative mix of artists and writers, both well-known and emerging, with ties to the region. The journal's name is inspired by the oldest recorded Upstate New York story, the journey of the Peacemaker in his sacred canoe of stone from Lake Ontario to the Finger Lakes, where he brought the resident warring tribes together to form the Iroquois Confederacy. Each year, the journal's prize-winning writers and artists are presented with an original stone canoe carving by noted Native American sculptor Tom Huff. The current journal, Stone Canoe Number 8, features the work of 24 artists chosen by 2014 arts editor Melora Griffis.

Participating artists include Doug Baird, Stephanie Barkley, Megan Biddle, Francis Clemente, Theresa DeSalvio, Vykky Ebner, Lorrie Fredette, Diana Godfrey, Walter Kopec, Kate Lawless, Steve Miller, Rachel Pea, Jen Pepper, Kathy Petrillo, Sarah Pfohl, Stephan Phillips, Larry Poole, Maria Rizzo, Mitchell Saller, Radio Sebastian, Kaitlyn Spina, Werner Sun, Ron Throop, Paul Weiner.

Equilibrium: Works by Juan Alberto Cruz
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

Featured in this exhibition are new and recent works including Cruz's lyrical figurative-based abstract paintings in oil on canvas, dynamic paper collages that utilize geometric shapes to create visually energetic patterns and new assemblage wood sculptures.

Getting To Know You: Artists Examine Authentic Connections in the Digital Age
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Featuring work by Fanny Allié, American Bear, CampusNeighbor, and damali abrams.

In the digital age, people can virtually live their lives online. With the advent of various social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, it is easier than ever to connect. However, are these relationships genuine? Furthermore, does a social medium foster intimacy or aid in the superficiality of our society? For this exhibition, 601 Tully does not seek to resolve these questions but rather, bring them to light. The featured artists offer avenues for people to have authentic connections with one another through various interactive mediums with and without the assistance of the internet.

New York-based artist, Fanny Allié, invited Syracuse residents to submit photos, memories, and stories about their lives in an attempt to learn more about the community. With each memento, Allié will construct a site-specific installation that will give the audience a window into the individuals living in this area.

While Allié's installation exemplifies the direct interaction between herself and the participant, the collaborative team of American Bear created prompts and assignments for the public to engage with one another. As the assignments are completed, American Bear hopes to foster a more compassionate and community-minded city.

Like many college towns, there is and has always been an underlying fissure between Syracuse University students and the permanent residents. In recent years, Nancy Cantor, former Syracuse University Chancellor, has worked to mend that divide by creating the initiative, Scholarship in Action. CampusNeighbor is a bartering website that builds on that idea by linking these two groups together through skill-sharing, with the hopes that these exchanges will help to dismantle barriers that have been created through the years.

Although all of the above require participation in order to activate the piece, damali abrams, a performance-based artist, takes a different approach by reading from her diary. By exposing herself in this vulnerable manner, it elicits the viewer to relate to her through shared experiences.

Whether one is simply telling their story to Allié or participating in CampusNeighbor, the exhibition aims to get to know you.

Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth & other works
Urban Video Project