Wednesday, July 2, 2014

ADA 24: An Exceptional Exhibition
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Exceptional Artworks Committee presents the Ninth Annual "Exceptional Exhibition" in celebration of the 24th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Multi-Faceted
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Reginald Adams exhibits his many talents with paintings, sculptures, mobiles, furniture and more;
Caroline Tauxe displays her colorful mixed media jewelry.

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

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.

Ever a New Season: Works by 19th-Century Photographer George Barnard
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

During the nation's 150th anniversary observance of the Civil War, a Barnard exhibition makes sense. OHA owns a rare complete first edition of Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866), widely recognized as one of two foundational publications of 19th-century American photography. Barnard also lived in Oswego and Syracuse before the war and retired to Marcellus for his last decade. A technical innovator, commercial pioneer, and important taste-maker in one of our most pivotal periods, Barnard was also firmly rooted in the traditions and iconography of 19th-century American landscape painting, which equated national identity with the land and infused much of his work. "Ever a New Season" reintroduces an exciting early figure to a region already attuned to and highly literate in contemporary photography.

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Stefan Zoller is a graduate painting student in VPA's Department of Art. "Son of the Genesee" pays homage to the Genesee Valley of Western New York, where he was born and raised, and where he first painted.

Introduced to art by an older brother, Zoller took college art courses while still in high school. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in studio art from Houghton College in 2008, he moved to Corning, NY, to work with renowned portrait painter Thomas S. Buechner. During two years studying representational painting with Buechner, Zoller also maintained a home studio practice, painting in the non-representational vein he had developed during his undergraduate experience.

Zoller recently had a solo exhibition at VPA's Michael Sickler Gallery. His recent group exhibitions include the 64th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; the Southern Tier Biennial at Olean Public Library, Olean; and "Zoller & Ryder" at Atrium Gallery, Corning.

Because 914Works will be closed during several summer holidays, patrons are encouraged to contact the staff at 914works@syr.edu to confirm that the gallery is open.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

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.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Blindness/Insight: Works by Andrea Deschambeault-Porter
Gallery 4040

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

New and recent collages and oil paintings by artist Andrea Deschambeault-Porter. Working intuitively, the artist develops a vibrant pictorial experience by moving between abstraction and representation of various subjects such as still life, landscape, and the figure, involving some combination of conscious and unconscious thought.

Andrea Deschambeault-Porter lives and works Manlius. She grew up in the Catskills Mountain region of NY, and received her BFA from SUNY Purchase and her MFA from Syracuse University. She studied in Venice, Italy, for a year in 1984. This is her first exhibition at Gallery 4040.

Proof Through the Night: The Black & White Work of Paul Pearce
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Proof Through the Night" is a retrospective of traditional silver-based photography and lithographs by Paul Pearce, a certified disabled combat veteran who now declares himself to be a "backward observer." His photography focuses on issues of war and morality and questions the very notion of civilization. In his words about what inspires him to photograph he states, "In spite of growing cynicism, I have a calling to declare a point of view, a mandate to cry out that (in my opinion), the sky is falling, and a gnawing need to expose a system that turns innocent children into monsters."

Pearce was raised as an All-American boy, Sunday school attendee and college-bound Eagle Scout. He was drafted into the Army, commissioned as an artillery Lieutenant and ordered into combat in Vietnam as a forward observer with the 114th infantry. He returned from the war motivated to raise consciousness about the evils of war. Armed with a camera and a printing press he taught himself photography, struggled for peace and justice as an artist and anti-war activist, and participated in and documented antiwar protests including the massive action in Syracuse following the killings at Kent State.

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: Raging Bull
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Flicks on the Crick: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Price: Free
Sound Garden
310 W. Jefferson St., Syracuse

Starting at dusk, the film will be projected on the side of Sound Garden's building along the Creekwalk. Blankets or lawn chairs are recommended.

Joe Whiting Band
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Americana rock

Thursday, July 3, 2014

ADA 24: An Exceptional Exhibition
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Exceptional Artworks Committee presents the Ninth Annual "Exceptional Exhibition" in celebration of the 24th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Multi-Faceted
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Reginald Adams exhibits his many talents with paintings, sculptures, mobiles, furniture and more;
Caroline Tauxe displays her colorful mixed media jewelry.

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

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.

Ever a New Season: Works by 19th-Century Photographer George Barnard
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

During the nation's 150th anniversary observance of the Civil War, a Barnard exhibition makes sense. OHA owns a rare complete first edition of Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866), widely recognized as one of two foundational publications of 19th-century American photography. Barnard also lived in Oswego and Syracuse before the war and retired to Marcellus for his last decade. A technical innovator, commercial pioneer, and important taste-maker in one of our most pivotal periods, Barnard was also firmly rooted in the traditions and iconography of 19th-century American landscape painting, which equated national identity with the land and infused much of his work. "Ever a New Season" reintroduces an exciting early figure to a region already attuned to and highly literate in contemporary photography.

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Stefan Zoller is a graduate painting student in VPA's Department of Art. "Son of the Genesee" pays homage to the Genesee Valley of Western New York, where he was born and raised, and where he first painted.

Introduced to art by an older brother, Zoller took college art courses while still in high school. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in studio art from Houghton College in 2008, he moved to Corning, NY, to work with renowned portrait painter Thomas S. Buechner. During two years studying representational painting with Buechner, Zoller also maintained a home studio practice, painting in the non-representational vein he had developed during his undergraduate experience.

Zoller recently had a solo exhibition at VPA's Michael Sickler Gallery. His recent group exhibitions include the 64th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; the Southern Tier Biennial at Olean Public Library, Olean; and "Zoller & Ryder" at Atrium Gallery, Corning.

Because 914Works will be closed during several summer holidays, patrons are encouraged to contact the staff at 914works@syr.edu to confirm that the gallery is open.

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

REnewal features work by regionally recognized artists that incorporates recycled materials and utilizes appropriated vintage imagery.

Works include assemblages by Dan Bacich, illustrative collage by Marty Blake, one-of-a-kind and limited edition furniture and jewelry by Unite Two Design (Theresa and Keith Traub), pots by Jen Gandee, up-cycled jewelry by Betsy Menson Sio, and hand-painted, digital collage by Lucie Wellner.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

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.

Blindness/Insight: Works by Andrea Deschambeault-Porter
Gallery 4040

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

New and recent collages and oil paintings by artist Andrea Deschambeault-Porter. Working intuitively, the artist develops a vibrant pictorial experience by moving between abstraction and representation of various subjects such as still life, landscape, and the figure, involving some combination of conscious and unconscious thought.

Andrea Deschambeault-Porter lives and works Manlius. She grew up in the Catskills Mountain region of NY, and received her BFA from SUNY Purchase and her MFA from Syracuse University. She studied in Venice, Italy, for a year in 1984. This is her first exhibition at Gallery 4040.

Proof Through the Night: The Black & White Work of Paul Pearce
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Proof Through the Night" is a retrospective of traditional silver-based photography and lithographs by Paul Pearce, a certified disabled combat veteran who now declares himself to be a "backward observer." His photography focuses on issues of war and morality and questions the very notion of civilization. In his words about what inspires him to photograph he states, "In spite of growing cynicism, I have a calling to declare a point of view, a mandate to cry out that (in my opinion), the sky is falling, and a gnawing need to expose a system that turns innocent children into monsters."

Pearce was raised as an All-American boy, Sunday school attendee and college-bound Eagle Scout. He was drafted into the Army, commissioned as an artillery Lieutenant and ordered into combat in Vietnam as a forward observer with the 114th infantry. He returned from the war motivated to raise consciousness about the evils of war. Armed with a camera and a printing press he taught himself photography, struggled for peace and justice as an artist and anti-war activist, and participated in and documented antiwar protests including the massive action in Syracuse following the killings at Kent State.

Summer Review 2014
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

If you missed one of this year's exhibitions, now's your chance to see it!

This year's UVP Summer Review will feature the following videos from our 2013-2014 programming year:

Dani Leventhal: Platonic
Phil Solomon: Still Raining, Still Dreaming
Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth and other works
Michael Bühler-Rose: I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me
Ann Hamilton: table

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: Raging Bull
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Y-Files: Where Are the Cows?
Acme Mystery Company

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

Sheriff Shelly Moganagle is calling an emergency town meeting for you and everybody else in Pine Bluffs to try and figure out where in the heck all these cows are disappearing to. Roland McBurger's new hamburger joint? Cattle rustlers? Down at the Crazy Kegger folks are saying it's alien cow abduction! The Sheriff is taking no chances and has called in the FBI. Be there when Special Agents Molding and Sulky arrive. They'll need all the help they can get.

How to be Fabulous [in an unfabulous world]
Wise Gals Dinner Theater
Jenn DeCook & Nora O'Dea , director

Price: $34.95
Stein's (formerly McNamara's Pub)
5600 Newport Rd., Camillus

Join us as Sara Caliva presents you with her uniquely snarky view of the world and challenges you to be the weirdest version of yourself. Written by Sara and Katie Caliva.

Friday, July 4, 2014

Multi-Faceted
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Reginald Adams exhibits his many talents with paintings, sculptures, mobiles, furniture and more;
Caroline Tauxe displays her colorful mixed media jewelry.

Opening: The Forest for the Trees
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Please join us for First Friday in Skaneateles and our opening reception 5:00-8:00 pm this evening. Meet the artists and enjoy music by singer/songwriter Jane Zell. Light refreshments will be served.

Featuring fibers by Sharon Bottle Souva and jewelry by Dana Blythe Stenson.

Sharon Bottle Souva works with the designs of nature to create fiber panels that are a combination of collage and machine thread work.

Dana Stenson's jewelry is nature inspired and handcrafted using sterling silver settings for semi-precious stones and found objects.

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

REnewal features work by regionally recognized artists that incorporates recycled materials and utilizes appropriated vintage imagery.

Works include assemblages by Dan Bacich, illustrative collage by Marty Blake, one-of-a-kind and limited edition furniture and jewelry by Unite Two Design (Theresa and Keith Traub), pots by Jen Gandee, up-cycled jewelry by Betsy Menson Sio, and hand-painted, digital collage by Lucie Wellner.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Blindness/Insight: Works by Andrea Deschambeault-Porter
Gallery 4040

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

New and recent collages and oil paintings by artist Andrea Deschambeault-Porter. Working intuitively, the artist develops a vibrant pictorial experience by moving between abstraction and representation of various subjects such as still life, landscape, and the figure, involving some combination of conscious and unconscious thought.

Andrea Deschambeault-Porter lives and works Manlius. She grew up in the Catskills Mountain region of NY, and received her BFA from SUNY Purchase and her MFA from Syracuse University. She studied in Venice, Italy, for a year in 1984. This is her first exhibition at Gallery 4040.

Summer Review 2014
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

If you missed one of this year's exhibitions, now's your chance to see it!

This year's UVP Summer Review will feature the following videos from our 2013-2014 programming year:

Dani Leventhal: Platonic
Phil Solomon: Still Raining, Still Dreaming
Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth and other works
Michael Bühler-Rose: I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me
Ann Hamilton: table

Saturday, July 5, 2014

ADA 24: An Exceptional Exhibition
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Exceptional Artworks Committee presents the Ninth Annual "Exceptional Exhibition" in celebration of the 24th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Multi-Faceted
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Reginald Adams exhibits his many talents with paintings, sculptures, mobiles, furniture and more;
Caroline Tauxe displays her colorful mixed media jewelry.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

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.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

The Forest for the Trees
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring fibers by Sharon Bottle Souva and jewelry by Dana Blythe Stenson.

Sharon Bottle Souva works with the designs of nature to create fiber panels that are a combination of collage and machine thread work.

Dana Stenson's jewelry is nature inspired and handcrafted using sterling silver settings for semi-precious stones and found objects.

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Stefan Zoller is a graduate painting student in VPA's Department of Art. "Son of the Genesee" pays homage to the Genesee Valley of Western New York, where he was born and raised, and where he first painted.

Introduced to art by an older brother, Zoller took college art courses while still in high school. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in studio art from Houghton College in 2008, he moved to Corning, NY, to work with renowned portrait painter Thomas S. Buechner. During two years studying representational painting with Buechner, Zoller also maintained a home studio practice, painting in the non-representational vein he had developed during his undergraduate experience.

Zoller recently had a solo exhibition at VPA's Michael Sickler Gallery. His recent group exhibitions include the 64th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; the Southern Tier Biennial at Olean Public Library, Olean; and "Zoller & Ryder" at Atrium Gallery, Corning.

Because 914Works will be closed during several summer holidays, patrons are encouraged to contact the staff at 914works@syr.edu to confirm that the gallery is open.

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

REnewal features work by regionally recognized artists that incorporates recycled materials and utilizes appropriated vintage imagery.

Works include assemblages by Dan Bacich, illustrative collage by Marty Blake, one-of-a-kind and limited edition furniture and jewelry by Unite Two Design (Theresa and Keith Traub), pots by Jen Gandee, up-cycled jewelry by Betsy Menson Sio, and hand-painted, digital collage by Lucie Wellner.

Blindness/Insight: Works by Andrea Deschambeault-Porter
Gallery 4040

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

New and recent collages and oil paintings by artist Andrea Deschambeault-Porter. Working intuitively, the artist develops a vibrant pictorial experience by moving between abstraction and representation of various subjects such as still life, landscape, and the figure, involving some combination of conscious and unconscious thought.

Andrea Deschambeault-Porter lives and works Manlius. She grew up in the Catskills Mountain region of NY, and received her BFA from SUNY Purchase and her MFA from Syracuse University. She studied in Venice, Italy, for a year in 1984. This is her first exhibition at Gallery 4040.

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.

Ever a New Season: Works by 19th-Century Photographer George Barnard
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

During the nation's 150th anniversary observance of the Civil War, a Barnard exhibition makes sense. OHA owns a rare complete first edition of Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866), widely recognized as one of two foundational publications of 19th-century American photography. Barnard also lived in Oswego and Syracuse before the war and retired to Marcellus for his last decade. A technical innovator, commercial pioneer, and important taste-maker in one of our most pivotal periods, Barnard was also firmly rooted in the traditions and iconography of 19th-century American landscape painting, which equated national identity with the land and infused much of his work. "Ever a New Season" reintroduces an exciting early figure to a region already attuned to and highly literate in contemporary photography.

Summer Review 2014
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

If you missed one of this year's exhibitions, now's your chance to see it!

This year's UVP Summer Review will feature the following videos from our 2013-2014 programming year:

Dani Leventhal: Platonic
Phil Solomon: Still Raining, Still Dreaming
Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth and other works
Michael Bühler-Rose: I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me
Ann Hamilton: table

Improv Comedy Night: Stars, Stripes, and Comedy
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

Let's celebrate what is funny about America. This month's lineup includes Phil Brady, Dustin Czarny, Colleen Deitrich, Greg Holtham, Greg Hipius, and Justin Polly.

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.

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: Goldfinger
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

SKARTS 'n the Park: Los Blancos

Price: Free
Clift Park
Genesee St., Skaneateles

Known for its American roots music blending a variety of styles, Los Blancos has received several Syracuse Area Music Awards (SAMMYS) and Syracuse New Times Best of Syracuse Awards. Its music incorporates elements of blues, Memphis Soul, rockin' Zydeco, Latin, outlaw country, funk and folk. Los Blancos has shared the stage with a range of stellar musicians and has been the sole support opener for Little Feat, Los Lobos, The Derek Trucks Band and The Radiators.

King Buzzo of The Melvins, with Emma Ruth Rundle
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

The Forest for the Trees
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring fibers by Sharon Bottle Souva and jewelry by Dana Blythe Stenson.

Sharon Bottle Souva works with the designs of nature to create fiber panels that are a combination of collage and machine thread work.

Dana Stenson's jewelry is nature inspired and handcrafted using sterling silver settings for semi-precious stones and found objects.

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

REnewal features work by regionally recognized artists that incorporates recycled materials and utilizes appropriated vintage imagery.

Works include assemblages by Dan Bacich, illustrative collage by Marty Blake, one-of-a-kind and limited edition furniture and jewelry by Unite Two Design (Theresa and Keith Traub), pots by Jen Gandee, up-cycled jewelry by Betsy Menson Sio, and hand-painted, digital collage by Lucie Wellner.

Proof Through the Night: The Black & White Work of Paul Pearce
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Proof Through the Night" is a retrospective of traditional silver-based photography and lithographs by Paul Pearce, a certified disabled combat veteran who now declares himself to be a "backward observer." His photography focuses on issues of war and morality and questions the very notion of civilization. In his words about what inspires him to photograph he states, "In spite of growing cynicism, I have a calling to declare a point of view, a mandate to cry out that (in my opinion), the sky is falling, and a gnawing need to expose a system that turns innocent children into monsters."

Pearce was raised as an All-American boy, Sunday school attendee and college-bound Eagle Scout. He was drafted into the Army, commissioned as an artillery Lieutenant and ordered into combat in Vietnam as a forward observer with the 114th infantry. He returned from the war motivated to raise consciousness about the evils of war. Armed with a camera and a printing press he taught himself photography, struggled for peace and justice as an artist and anti-war activist, and participated in and documented antiwar protests including the massive action in Syracuse following the killings at Kent State.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

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.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Ever a New Season: Works by 19th-Century Photographer George Barnard
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

During the nation's 150th anniversary observance of the Civil War, a Barnard exhibition makes sense. OHA owns a rare complete first edition of Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866), widely recognized as one of two foundational publications of 19th-century American photography. Barnard also lived in Oswego and Syracuse before the war and retired to Marcellus for his last decade. A technical innovator, commercial pioneer, and important taste-maker in one of our most pivotal periods, Barnard was also firmly rooted in the traditions and iconography of 19th-century American landscape painting, which equated national identity with the land and infused much of his work. "Ever a New Season" reintroduces an exciting early figure to a region already attuned to and highly literate in contemporary photography.

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.

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: Goldfinger
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

*POSTPONED* Red, White, and Phil: A Sing-a-long with Phil Markert
Central New York Playhouse

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

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the cabaret will be postponed. A new date will be announced in the fall.

Phil Markert, the pied piper of sing-a-long, is coming back to the Central New York Playhouse, this time for a patriotic celebration!

All of "That Ole Gang of Mine" and anyone who can or can't sing is invited to a giant sing-a-long evening. Maybe Harry, Syd, the tweetie birds, and other old regulars will be there...why not you? The amazing 82-year-old Markert will lead the crowd through at least 100 sing-a-long favorites!

How to be Fabulous [in an unfabulous world]
Wise Gals Dinner Theater
Jenn DeCook & Nora O'Dea , director

Price: $34.95
Stein's (formerly McNamara's Pub)
5600 Newport Rd., Camillus

Join us as Sara Caliva presents you with her uniquely snarky view of the world and challenges you to be the weirdest version of yourself. Written by Sara and Katie Caliva.

Monday, July 7, 2014

ADA 24: An Exceptional Exhibition
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Exceptional Artworks Committee presents the Ninth Annual "Exceptional Exhibition" in celebration of the 24th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The Forest for the Trees
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring fibers by Sharon Bottle Souva and jewelry by Dana Blythe Stenson.

Sharon Bottle Souva works with the designs of nature to create fiber panels that are a combination of collage and machine thread work.

Dana Stenson's jewelry is nature inspired and handcrafted using sterling silver settings for semi-precious stones and found objects.

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

Fulton Chain Gang
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Modern country

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

ADA 24: An Exceptional Exhibition
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Exceptional Artworks Committee presents the Ninth Annual "Exceptional Exhibition" in celebration of the 24th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Multi-Faceted
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Reginald Adams exhibits his many talents with paintings, sculptures, mobiles, furniture and more;
Caroline Tauxe displays her colorful mixed media jewelry.

The Forest for the Trees
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring fibers by Sharon Bottle Souva and jewelry by Dana Blythe Stenson.

Sharon Bottle Souva works with the designs of nature to create fiber panels that are a combination of collage and machine thread work.

Dana Stenson's jewelry is nature inspired and handcrafted using sterling silver settings for semi-precious stones and found objects.

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Stefan Zoller is a graduate painting student in VPA's Department of Art. "Son of the Genesee" pays homage to the Genesee Valley of Western New York, where he was born and raised, and where he first painted.

Introduced to art by an older brother, Zoller took college art courses while still in high school. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in studio art from Houghton College in 2008, he moved to Corning, NY, to work with renowned portrait painter Thomas S. Buechner. During two years studying representational painting with Buechner, Zoller also maintained a home studio practice, painting in the non-representational vein he had developed during his undergraduate experience.

Zoller recently had a solo exhibition at VPA's Michael Sickler Gallery. His recent group exhibitions include the 64th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; the Southern Tier Biennial at Olean Public Library, Olean; and "Zoller & Ryder" at Atrium Gallery, Corning.

Because 914Works will be closed during several summer holidays, patrons are encouraged to contact the staff at 914works@syr.edu to confirm that the gallery is open.

The Critics
Town of Clay

Price: Free
Clay Central Park Amphitheater
Wetzel Road near Henry Clay Blvd., Clay

Funk, soul, and high energy

Pops in the Park: Carolyn Kelly Band
City Parks and Recreation Department

Price: Free
Upper Onondaga Park Gazebo
Roberts Avenue, Syracuse

Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating.

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

ADA 24: An Exceptional Exhibition
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Exceptional Artworks Committee presents the Ninth Annual "Exceptional Exhibition" in celebration of the 24th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Multi-Faceted
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Reginald Adams exhibits his many talents with paintings, sculptures, mobiles, furniture and more;
Caroline Tauxe displays her colorful mixed media jewelry.

The Forest for the Trees
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring fibers by Sharon Bottle Souva and jewelry by Dana Blythe Stenson.

Sharon Bottle Souva works with the designs of nature to create fiber panels that are a combination of collage and machine thread work.

Dana Stenson's jewelry is nature inspired and handcrafted using sterling silver settings for semi-precious stones and found objects.

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

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.

Ever a New Season: Works by 19th-Century Photographer George Barnard
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

During the nation's 150th anniversary observance of the Civil War, a Barnard exhibition makes sense. OHA owns a rare complete first edition of Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866), widely recognized as one of two foundational publications of 19th-century American photography. Barnard also lived in Oswego and Syracuse before the war and retired to Marcellus for his last decade. A technical innovator, commercial pioneer, and important taste-maker in one of our most pivotal periods, Barnard was also firmly rooted in the traditions and iconography of 19th-century American landscape painting, which equated national identity with the land and infused much of his work. "Ever a New Season" reintroduces an exciting early figure to a region already attuned to and highly literate in contemporary photography.

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Stefan Zoller is a graduate painting student in VPA's Department of Art. "Son of the Genesee" pays homage to the Genesee Valley of Western New York, where he was born and raised, and where he first painted.

Introduced to art by an older brother, Zoller took college art courses while still in high school. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in studio art from Houghton College in 2008, he moved to Corning, NY, to work with renowned portrait painter Thomas S. Buechner. During two years studying representational painting with Buechner, Zoller also maintained a home studio practice, painting in the non-representational vein he had developed during his undergraduate experience.

Zoller recently had a solo exhibition at VPA's Michael Sickler Gallery. His recent group exhibitions include the 64th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; the Southern Tier Biennial at Olean Public Library, Olean; and "Zoller & Ryder" at Atrium Gallery, Corning.

Because 914Works will be closed during several summer holidays, patrons are encouraged to contact the staff at 914works@syr.edu to confirm that the gallery is open.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

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.

Blindness/Insight: Works by Andrea Deschambeault-Porter
Gallery 4040

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

New and recent collages and oil paintings by artist Andrea Deschambeault-Porter. Working intuitively, the artist develops a vibrant pictorial experience by moving between abstraction and representation of various subjects such as still life, landscape, and the figure, involving some combination of conscious and unconscious thought.

Andrea Deschambeault-Porter lives and works Manlius. She grew up in the Catskills Mountain region of NY, and received her BFA from SUNY Purchase and her MFA from Syracuse University. She studied in Venice, Italy, for a year in 1984. This is her first exhibition at Gallery 4040.

Proof Through the Night: The Black & White Work of Paul Pearce
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Proof Through the Night" is a retrospective of traditional silver-based photography and lithographs by Paul Pearce, a certified disabled combat veteran who now declares himself to be a "backward observer." His photography focuses on issues of war and morality and questions the very notion of civilization. In his words about what inspires him to photograph he states, "In spite of growing cynicism, I have a calling to declare a point of view, a mandate to cry out that (in my opinion), the sky is falling, and a gnawing need to expose a system that turns innocent children into monsters."

Pearce was raised as an All-American boy, Sunday school attendee and college-bound Eagle Scout. He was drafted into the Army, commissioned as an artillery Lieutenant and ordered into combat in Vietnam as a forward observer with the 114th infantry. He returned from the war motivated to raise consciousness about the evils of war. Armed with a camera and a printing press he taught himself photography, struggled for peace and justice as an artist and anti-war activist, and participated in and documented antiwar protests including the massive action in Syracuse following the killings at Kent State.

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Flicks on the Crick: Anchorman2: The Legend Continues

Price: Free
Sound Garden
310 W. Jefferson St., Syracuse

Starting at dusk, the film will be projected on the side of Sound Garden's building along the Creekwalk. Blankets or lawn chairs are recommended.

Easy Ramblers
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Country and bluegrass

Stan Colella All-Star Band Concert
Syacuse Parks and Recreation Department

Price: Free
Webster Pond
2004 Valley Dr., Syracuse