Thursday, May 2, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

The exhibit will be composed of a diverse collection of student art, including sculpture, painting and photography. Each reflects the variety of experiences and sources of inspiration of the individuals who created them.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

To Begin a New Day/Recent Photography by Jenilee Ward
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Dreamt Realities
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Dreamt Realities features the work of four Syracuse-based photographers: Eddie Colleli, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Jeff Madison, and Heidi Vantassel. This exhibit features surreal, phantasmagorical pictures that explore geographical spaces. Using both traditional and cutting edge techniques, these photographers create/freeze their imagery drawing a fine line between what's real and what's imagined -- for example, a neglected house becomes a fascinating nightmare, a forgotten shore resembles a timeless dream, and a staged environment is inspired by a hazy dream.

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Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press. Founded by Barney Rosset in 1951, Grove Press became one of the 20th-century's great avant-garde publishing houses. What began as a small independent publisher on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village grew into a multimillion dollar publishing company that has been credited with introducing important authors from around the world to American readers during the postwar period.

Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable Victorian Library. Each book published by Grove, the exhibition reveals, was in its own way, a "strange victory." For while Grove altered the American literary landscape and its relationship to social mores, equality, and freedom of expression, Grove also aggressively deployed savvy marketing strategies, became embroiled in labor union battles, floundered in its own success, and offended the sensibilities of not only "squares," but feminists, Marxists, academics, and many others. Strange Victories tells the complicated story of Grove's many literary and political achievements, whose profound influence on American culture endures today.

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Corporeal Contours" features the work of two distinguished artists, Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, each displaying their personal ideas of identity in relation to the world around them. A large part of the exhibition also seeks to expose the hyper-exoticism of tourism companies, while also confronting issues of racial identity in Caribbean and American societies.

The artists each use very personal experiences to create an array of compelling silhouetted forms and prints. For her on-going series Can I Pass (2010), Baez incorporates aspects from her transcultural background to examine the United States' "brown paper bag test" and the Dominican Republic's "fan test." She uses art as a medium to challenge these tests, tracing her outline and painting her skin tone for each day within the form over the course of an entire month. Within her works, Baez is able to explore idealized body types, race, and skin tones within the greater social scheme across both countries.

For her series, Chung analyzes post colonial culture by using old logos and slogans from tourist advertisements, and archival photographs to create her thought-provoking prints. She focuses on race, class, and contemporary society in Jamaica and Trinidad, as well as the exotic identity assumed by tourist companies. Chung is also able to address the increasingly popular skin bleaching practices in Jamaica, exposing a deeper dimension of self image and controversy in her work.

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her exhibit "When We Just Existed," artist Deborah Roberts investigates children's innocence, and how their sense of self is shaped by their environments, as well as the residual effects this may have on adults. In many of her paintings, Roberts uses her prepubescent self as the subject, adding a personal dimension to her pieces that will help you think of your own childhood. In her work, she makes references to the lynching in African American history and the racial tensions that children may experience.

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

Joe Lingeman: Habitus
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present the photographic work of Syracuse University MFA student Joe Lingeman. Lingeman combines varying modes of photography -- still life, commercial portraiture, and street photography. Taken as a whole, his images deal with absurdity, spiritual longing, and a tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life in the developed world.

Joe Lingeman's work has been shown at Art Chicago 2010, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, and Craft Chemistry in Syracuse. His images have been published in the pages of Next American City, and Facebook's internal 'zine, Zeitgeist. Lingeman was born in Toldeo, OH, and grew up in Bloomington, IN. He holds a BA in Sociology and a BFA in photography from Indiana University. He is scheduled to complete his MFA at Syracuse University in May of 2013.

Jason Lazarus: Too Hard to Keep (Syracuse)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 2010, Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus initiated a growing archive of photos deemed "too hard to keep." "Too Hard to Keep" is a place for photographs, photo-objects, and even digital files to exist when they are too difficult to hold on to, yet too meaningful to destroy. Participants have dictated whether the photographs submitted to the archive may be shown freely with other pieces of the archive, or if they are only to be displayed face down, adding to the charged significance of each object. Out of this expanding collection site-specific installations occur. With "Too Hard to Keep" in Syracuse, Lazarus shares a slice of the larger archive alongside anonymous local submissions in a carefully considered installation.

Interested in submitting to the T.H.T.K. archive? Drop off your print anonymously in the drop box located at Light Work during the length of the exhibition.

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2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Mother's Day: Works by Mitzie Testani
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Mitzie Testani is a designer and illustrator who creates fanciful images from ordinary items and scenes. In "Mother's Day," Testani will include pieces on a variety of themes ranging from portraits and pet birds to illustrated alphabets and quotes in honor of mothers.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

Karen Klee-Atlin: Prints
Redhouse

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

The show features vibrant prints on the theme of Mexican Carnival, landscape and birdlife.

Karen Klee-Atlin was born in Toronto, where she studied at the Ontario College of Art. She did graduate work in painting and printmaking and received her MFA in painting from the University of Calgary. She has lived in many parts of Canada and the US as well as in Peru, the Philippines and Mexico, teaching art in schools and universities as well as pursuing her studio work. Her work has been influenced by her travels and a range of sources, including folk religious sculpture, industrial training manuals, and scarecrows. Karen has shown her work internationally, and her images can be found as the covers of two plays, "Bone Cage" and "It Is Solved By Walking," by the Canadian playwright and two-time Governor-General's Award winner, Catherine Banks.

Annual Kids' Benefit Show
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In a collaborative effort benefiting their school art programs, teachers at Meachem and Seymour Dual Language Academy are featuring over 100 works created by their elementary students.

The two school art teachers, Stacy Griffin of Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler of Seymour, have prepared their young people for this prestigious opportunity of displaying works in a professional gallery with a journey of study that goes beyond the walls of the classroom, school hallways, and cafeterias. Over the past year, walking field trips took the students into galleries, artists' studios, and the Everson Museum of Art.

In addition to local touring, Griffin took her students on a world tour, thus their pieces in the show reflect Indian, Australian, Egyptian and Greek influences. Her counterpart in the show, Moser-Vogler reinforces the coupling of arts with other studies believing that the results "can positively enhance any culture, subject or curriculum."

Proceeds from sales of students' works are divided to give one half to students and one half to the respective teacher's art program for much-needed supplies, especially those not available through vendors that the teachers pay for out of pocket, such as salt and flour for homemade play dough, and food coloring and shaving cream to show color mixing.

The eNth Degree: MFA 2013
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"The eNth Degree: MFA 2013" is the thesis exhibition for the Masters of Fine Arts candidates in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at SU, uniting a group of artists working exponentially beyond the confines of their studied fields, taking their work to a new level art making. The 19 included in this year's exhibition work in a variety of media including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, film, site-specific installation, and performance.

The participating artists are Daniel Aguilera, Siqiao Ao, Jennifer Chan, Ryan Crotty, Caitlin Foley, Andrew Frost, Meyer Giordano, Su San Na Kim, Lori Klopp, Jee Eun Lee, Joseph Lingeman, Misha Rabinovich, Samantha Raut, Becky Reiser, Tanya Schiller, Tonja Torgerson, Joel Weissman, Sarah Camille Wilson, Matthew Williamson.

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

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Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting" is a collection of oil and acrylic pieces on canvas showcasing three contemporary Colombian artists exploring non-figurative art. The exhibit is conceived as a bridge-building opportunity and artistic exchange between artists residing at home and in the diaspora, in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. It includes paintings by Fernando Manrique, Rafael Ordoñez, and Esperanza Tielbaard Pazmiño, all of whom explore the of textural and composition possibilities in abstract art.

The artistic proposals of Manrique, Ordoñez and Pazmiño share an interest in communicating the rich sensory experiences and of the conceptual suggestions possible in pictorial abstraction. Their works explore alternative ways of engaging reality and ask viewers to see through the senses as they travel through interweaving forms, suggestive textures, and provoking compositions. Their canvases challenge accepted distinctions between abstract and figurative painting, as well as between purist and committed art from Latin America, since they incorporate issues of identity, technology, nature, and affect as themes to be explored through the senses.

The collection invites us to be seduced by the mix and to reflect on our understanding of artistic creation and perception, and changing patterns in the 21st century.

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

Rationalize & Perpetuate: Video Installation by Sandra Stephens
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Sandra Stephens' work takes an in-depth look at how culture and those around us contribute to our construction of identities. Pieces will look at race, class, gender and sexuality. She will explore the influence of war on simplifying the view of the "other", visual culture and its effects on identity, and how these both affect the lives and identities of children. Her work will also touch on stereotyping, with newer and older work that takes different approaches. She is interested in how and why we stereotype, and in how stereotyping contributes to historic and current-day events. Employing technologies of interactivity and projection, the pieces will pull the viewer in and play with perceptions of the projected image and its blurred relationship to reality. Although the work will touch on disturbing themes, hope will also be expressed through the innocence of children, who are shown to be in many ways much more enlightened than adults.

Psychic Geographies
Urban Video Project

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

Urban Video Project and Light Work are pleased to announce the exhibition of the group show Psychic Geographies. This will be the first time that UVP has mounted a group show, and it will feature five video pieces running continuously each night of the show.

In the pieces that make up Psychic Geographies, forces of desire, both personal and political, and forces of nature traverse the land with a heavy tread, describing the borders of contested territories and propagating strange ecologies.

The outdoor program will include:
Landscape Studies: New Mexico (2008-2010) by Mariam Ghani
Gowane (2013) by Sayler/Morris with Evan Paschke
We Began by Measuring Distance (2009) by Basma Alsharif
There There Square (2002) by Jacqueline Goss
Circle in the Sand (excerpt) (2012) by Michael Robinson

Psychic Geographies was curated by Anneka Herre.

Creative Arts Academy Spring 2013 Showcase
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Community Folk Art Center will be celebrating the talent, dedication, and passion of our students in the Creative Arts Academy. We will enjoy an exhibition from our visual arts students, as well as performances from our theater and dance disciplines. Students will present their respective art forms for an audience of friends, family, teachers, and community members.

Community Folk Art Center is extremely proud of all of Creative Arts Academy's recent achievements. In March, visual art pieces from students Aida Hajdarpasic and Shibani Rathnam were selected to be in the 16th Annual National K-12 Ceramic Exhibition held in Houston, TX. In celebration of their talent, Shibani was awarded with the Artistic Merit award, while Aida received the Honorable Mention award. We are happy to see our students recognized for the talent and skill that they have worked so hard to develop and perfect. We continue to support and encourage the creative stimulation and growth of the students within our Creative Arts Academy.

Syracuse Pops Chorus
Temple Society of Concord
Lou Lemos, conductor

Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Pops Chorus, is a group of 100 singers that has performed with the newly reorganized Symphoria orchestra, and has presented many concerts throughout Central New York.

This concert will feature 60 members of the Pops Chorus performing music from Broadway and The Great American Songbook.

Deadly Inheritance
Acme Mystery Company

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

The matriarch of a wealthy family is gravely ill and wishing to settle her estate. First, her long lost younger son must be declared officially dead. That's where the fun begins! Join in as you and the other intensely greedy relatives gather to memorialize "Little Dickie" and battle for position to receive the lion's share of the family's $13 billion fortune. Be careful at this gathering, however, the next memorial could be for you.

Good People
Syracuse Stage
Laura Kepley, director

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

There will be a pre-show happy hour this evening 6:00-7:15 pm, featuring a game of BINGO with prizes, along with complimentary appetizers from Kitty Hoynes.

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire returns to his hometown of South Boston and captures the tangy rhythms and sharp humor of the old neighborhood for an edgy take on the state of current affairs in this 2011 Tony-nominated play. Margie (with hard g) is a single mom who just lost her job, is behind in her rent, and like many today, has zero prospects. With nowhere to turn, she seeks out an old friend Mikey, the one who got away--from Southie and from her. What can she expect from Mikey after 30 years? The journey from the old neighborhood to Chestnut Hill is fraught with twists and surprises and measured in much more than miles.

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Preview: Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up
Redhouse

Price: $10 regular, $7.50 members, $5 students
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

"All children grow up, except one." Peter's sudden arrival into the lives of Wendy, John, and Michael is the beginning of a thrilling adventure. Together they embark on a fantastical flight to the Never Land, a magical place of vivid dangers and unsettling beauty. There they meet the Lost Boys, a horde of pirates, and the wickedest villain of all time. This is J. M. Barrie's rarely produced original fantasy, adapted by the Royal Shakespeare Company — the inspiration for all other versions — and still, by far, the strangest and best. This production will feature professional and local actors paired with actors with developmental and physical disabilities.

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Friday, May 3, 2013

VPA Transmedia Senior Thesis Show 
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Kiri Rowan is a graduating senior at Syracuse University. She will graduate with a BFA in Art Photography with a minor in Psychology. All of her photographs are shot on 35mm color film and she works with light and color to give a hint of both romanticism and nostalgia. The work borders between intimacy and disconnect, pairing photos of bare skin with forlorn houses. Her work is a journal of sorts, documenting her life as well as trying to share with others the little moments that so often go overlooked by most.  
 
Max Jackson is a graduating senior from Berkeley, CA. He will graduate with a BFA in Art Photography. His work is eclectic and has been exhibited in Prague, Czech Republic, and San Francisco, CA. "The Small Hours" centers around liminal spaces that are revealed late at night. Moments of weariness, intoxication or anxiety that clarify points of existential transition.

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

The exhibit will be composed of a diverse collection of student art, including sculpture, painting and photography. Each reflects the variety of experiences and sources of inspiration of the individuals who created them.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

To Begin a New Day/Recent Photography by Jenilee Ward
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Dreamt Realities
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Dreamt Realities features the work of four Syracuse-based photographers: Eddie Colleli, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Jeff Madison, and Heidi Vantassel. This exhibit features surreal, phantasmagorical pictures that explore geographical spaces. Using both traditional and cutting edge techniques, these photographers create/freeze their imagery drawing a fine line between what's real and what's imagined -- for example, a neglected house becomes a fascinating nightmare, a forgotten shore resembles a timeless dream, and a staged environment is inspired by a hazy dream.

Read a Review!

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press. Founded by Barney Rosset in 1951, Grove Press became one of the 20th-century's great avant-garde publishing houses. What began as a small independent publisher on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village grew into a multimillion dollar publishing company that has been credited with introducing important authors from around the world to American readers during the postwar period.

Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable Victorian Library. Each book published by Grove, the exhibition reveals, was in its own way, a "strange victory." For while Grove altered the American literary landscape and its relationship to social mores, equality, and freedom of expression, Grove also aggressively deployed savvy marketing strategies, became embroiled in labor union battles, floundered in its own success, and offended the sensibilities of not only "squares," but feminists, Marxists, academics, and many others. Strange Victories tells the complicated story of Grove's many literary and political achievements, whose profound influence on American culture endures today.

Delineation
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Donalee Peden Wesley: mixed media drawings (including charcoal, graphite, and pastel and watercolor washes) and sculptures exploring the depths and subtleties of human/animal relationship
Arlene Abend: pendant necklaces made of bronze, brass and copper

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When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her exhibit "When We Just Existed," artist Deborah Roberts investigates children's innocence, and how their sense of self is shaped by their environments, as well as the residual effects this may have on adults. In many of her paintings, Roberts uses her prepubescent self as the subject, adding a personal dimension to her pieces that will help you think of your own childhood. In her work, she makes references to the lynching in African American history and the racial tensions that children may experience.

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Corporeal Contours" features the work of two distinguished artists, Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, each displaying their personal ideas of identity in relation to the world around them. A large part of the exhibition also seeks to expose the hyper-exoticism of tourism companies, while also confronting issues of racial identity in Caribbean and American societies.

The artists each use very personal experiences to create an array of compelling silhouetted forms and prints. For her on-going series Can I Pass (2010), Baez incorporates aspects from her transcultural background to examine the United States' "brown paper bag test" and the Dominican Republic's "fan test." She uses art as a medium to challenge these tests, tracing her outline and painting her skin tone for each day within the form over the course of an entire month. Within her works, Baez is able to explore idealized body types, race, and skin tones within the greater social scheme across both countries.

For her series, Chung analyzes post colonial culture by using old logos and slogans from tourist advertisements, and archival photographs to create her thought-provoking prints. She focuses on race, class, and contemporary society in Jamaica and Trinidad, as well as the exotic identity assumed by tourist companies. Chung is also able to address the increasingly popular skin bleaching practices in Jamaica, exposing a deeper dimension of self image and controversy in her work.

HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

Joe Lingeman: Habitus
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present the photographic work of Syracuse University MFA student Joe Lingeman. Lingeman combines varying modes of photography -- still life, commercial portraiture, and street photography. Taken as a whole, his images deal with absurdity, spiritual longing, and a tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life in the developed world.

Joe Lingeman's work has been shown at Art Chicago 2010, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, and Craft Chemistry in Syracuse. His images have been published in the pages of Next American City, and Facebook's internal 'zine, Zeitgeist. Lingeman was born in Toldeo, OH, and grew up in Bloomington, IN. He holds a BA in Sociology and a BFA in photography from Indiana University. He is scheduled to complete his MFA at Syracuse University in May of 2013.

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Jason Lazarus: Too Hard to Keep (Syracuse)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 2010, Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus initiated a growing archive of photos deemed "too hard to keep." "Too Hard to Keep" is a place for photographs, photo-objects, and even digital files to exist when they are too difficult to hold on to, yet too meaningful to destroy. Participants have dictated whether the photographs submitted to the archive may be shown freely with other pieces of the archive, or if they are only to be displayed face down, adding to the charged significance of each object. Out of this expanding collection site-specific installations occur. With "Too Hard to Keep" in Syracuse, Lazarus shares a slice of the larger archive alongside anonymous local submissions in a carefully considered installation.

Interested in submitting to the T.H.T.K. archive? Drop off your print anonymously in the drop box located at Light Work during the length of the exhibition.

Read a review!

Mother's Day: Works by Mitzie Testani
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Mitzie Testani is a designer and illustrator who creates fanciful images from ordinary items and scenes. In "Mother's Day," Testani will include pieces on a variety of themes ranging from portraits and pet birds to illustrated alphabets and quotes in honor of mothers.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

Karen Klee-Atlin: Prints
Redhouse

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

The show features vibrant prints on the theme of Mexican Carnival, landscape and birdlife.

Karen Klee-Atlin was born in Toronto, where she studied at the Ontario College of Art. She did graduate work in painting and printmaking and received her MFA in painting from the University of Calgary. She has lived in many parts of Canada and the US as well as in Peru, the Philippines and Mexico, teaching art in schools and universities as well as pursuing her studio work. Her work has been influenced by her travels and a range of sources, including folk religious sculpture, industrial training manuals, and scarecrows. Karen has shown her work internationally, and her images can be found as the covers of two plays, "Bone Cage" and "It Is Solved By Walking," by the Canadian playwright and two-time Governor-General's Award winner, Catherine Banks.

Annual Kids' Benefit Show
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In a collaborative effort benefiting their school art programs, teachers at Meachem and Seymour Dual Language Academy are featuring over 100 works created by their elementary students.

The two school art teachers, Stacy Griffin of Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler of Seymour, have prepared their young people for this prestigious opportunity of displaying works in a professional gallery with a journey of study that goes beyond the walls of the classroom, school hallways, and cafeterias. Over the past year, walking field trips took the students into galleries, artists' studios, and the Everson Museum of Art.

In addition to local touring, Griffin took her students on a world tour, thus their pieces in the show reflect Indian, Australian, Egyptian and Greek influences. Her counterpart in the show, Moser-Vogler reinforces the coupling of arts with other studies believing that the results "can positively enhance any culture, subject or curriculum."

Proceeds from sales of students' works are divided to give one half to students and one half to the respective teacher's art program for much-needed supplies, especially those not available through vendors that the teachers pay for out of pocket, such as salt and flour for homemade play dough, and food coloring and shaving cream to show color mixing.

The eNth Degree: MFA 2013
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"The eNth Degree: MFA 2013" is the thesis exhibition for the Masters of Fine Arts candidates in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at SU, uniting a group of artists working exponentially beyond the confines of their studied fields, taking their work to a new level art making. The 19 included in this year's exhibition work in a variety of media including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, film, site-specific installation, and performance.

The participating artists are Daniel Aguilera, Siqiao Ao, Jennifer Chan, Ryan Crotty, Caitlin Foley, Andrew Frost, Meyer Giordano, Su San Na Kim, Lori Klopp, Jee Eun Lee, Joseph Lingeman, Misha Rabinovich, Samantha Raut, Becky Reiser, Tanya Schiller, Tonja Torgerson, Joel Weissman, Sarah Camille Wilson, Matthew Williamson.

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

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20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting" is a collection of oil and acrylic pieces on canvas showcasing three contemporary Colombian artists exploring non-figurative art. The exhibit is conceived as a bridge-building opportunity and artistic exchange between artists residing at home and in the diaspora, in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. It includes paintings by Fernando Manrique, Rafael Ordoñez, and Esperanza Tielbaard Pazmiño, all of whom explore the of textural and composition possibilities in abstract art.

The artistic proposals of Manrique, Ordoñez and Pazmiño share an interest in communicating the rich sensory experiences and of the conceptual suggestions possible in pictorial abstraction. Their works explore alternative ways of engaging reality and ask viewers to see through the senses as they travel through interweaving forms, suggestive textures, and provoking compositions. Their canvases challenge accepted distinctions between abstract and figurative painting, as well as between purist and committed art from Latin America, since they incorporate issues of identity, technology, nature, and affect as themes to be explored through the senses.

The collection invites us to be seduced by the mix and to reflect on our understanding of artistic creation and perception, and changing patterns in the 21st century.

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

An exhibit of photos by the participants of the teen photography workshop at La Casita in collaboration with the Department of Child and Family Studies of Syracuse University. The program is part of the Creative Corner Program at La Casita which is a multi-modal artistic space in which children and youth explore diverse forms and processes of art-making. In addition, the Teen Photography Workshop series is part of the 2013 Reducing Teen Violence Initiative in the Near West Side.

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

Rationalize & Perpetuate: Video Installation by Sandra Stephens
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Sandra Stephens' work takes an in-depth look at how culture and those around us contribute to our construction of identities. Pieces will look at race, class, gender and sexuality. She will explore the influence of war on simplifying the view of the "other", visual culture and its effects on identity, and how these both affect the lives and identities of children. Her work will also touch on stereotyping, with newer and older work that takes different approaches. She is interested in how and why we stereotype, and in how stereotyping contributes to historic and current-day events. Employing technologies of interactivity and projection, the pieces will pull the viewer in and play with perceptions of the projected image and its blurred relationship to reality. Although the work will touch on disturbing themes, hope will also be expressed through the innocence of children, who are shown to be in many ways much more enlightened than adults.

Psychic Geographies
Urban Video Project

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

Urban Video Project and Light Work are pleased to announce the exhibition of the group show Psychic Geographies. This will be the first time that UVP has mounted a group show, and it will feature five video pieces running continuously each night of the show.

In the pieces that make up Psychic Geographies, forces of desire, both personal and political, and forces of nature traverse the land with a heavy tread, describing the borders of contested territories and propagating strange ecologies.

The outdoor program will include:
Landscape Studies: New Mexico (2008-2010) by Mariam Ghani
Gowane (2013) by Sayler/Morris with Evan Paschke
We Began by Measuring Distance (2009) by Basma Alsharif
There There Square (2002) by Jacqueline Goss
Circle in the Sand (excerpt) (2012) by Michael Robinson

Psychic Geographies was curated by Anneka Herre.

Jazz@Sitrus
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Swing This! with Mark Hoffmann

Price: Free
Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse

Jazzuits with Jazz Ensemble and Nancy Kelly
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

In this evening of fun-filled jazz, the Jazzuits will present music from the Great American Songbook and the Jazz Ensemble, joined by jazz favorite Nancy Kelly, will perform jazz standards. The two ensembles will join forces for a show-stopping grand finale!

For more information, call 315-445-4523.

John Gorka
Folkus Project

Price: $18
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

You asked and we delivered! The dean of the contemporary singer-songwriters returns.

Graduate Guitar Recital: Ben Ellis, guitar
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Cry Havoc
Appleseed Productions
Lois Haas, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Hailed as a female Journey's End, this is the story of nurses on Bataan. In a sort of dugout subjected to gunfire, the individual characters emerge to offer a collective reaction to war. This is a compelling, caustic revelation of human beings under fire. During the Memorial Day season, Appleseed will take the opportunity to recognize women veterans. Written by Allan R. Kenward.

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Cabaret Series: The Women We Ain't, with Stephfond Brunson and Donnie Williams
Central New York Playhouse

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

The hilarious duo of Stephfond Brunson and Donnie Williams bring their wit and talent to portray all the women they are not in this wild cabaret. With musical accompaniment by Abel Searor and musical guests it will be a great night of song and frivolity.

Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up
Redhouse

Price: $20 regular, $15 members, $10 students
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

"All children grow up, except one." Peter's sudden arrival into the lives of Wendy, John, and Michael is the beginning of a thrilling adventure. Together they embark on a fantastical flight to the Never Land, a magical place of vivid dangers and unsettling beauty. There they meet the Lost Boys, a horde of pirates, and the wickedest villain of all time. This is J. M. Barrie's rarely produced original fantasy, adapted by the Royal Shakespeare Company — the inspiration for all other versions — and still, by far, the strangest and best. This production will feature professional and local actors paired with actors with developmental and physical disabilities.

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Good People
Syracuse Stage
Laura Kepley, director

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

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire returns to his hometown of South Boston and captures the tangy rhythms and sharp humor of the old neighborhood for an edgy take on the state of current affairs in this 2011 Tony-nominated play. Margie (with hard g) is a single mom who just lost her job, is behind in her rent, and like many today, has zero prospects. With nowhere to turn, she seeks out an old friend Mikey, the one who got away--from Southie and from her. What can she expect from Mikey after 30 years? The journey from the old neighborhood to Chestnut Hill is fraught with twists and surprises and measured in much more than miles.

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Suds: The Rocking '60s Musical Soap Opera
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Suds: The Rocking '60s Musical which has been breaking box office records across the country. It's the story of a young teenage girl and the two guardian angels who come to teach her about finding true love. Suds features more than 50 songs, including "Walk On By," "Please, Mr. Postman," "Wonderful, Wonderful," "You Don't Own Me," "It's My Party," "Where The Boys Are," "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," and many more.

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Saturday, May 4, 2013

VPA Transmedia Senior Thesis Show 
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Kiri Rowan is a graduating senior at Syracuse University. She will graduate with a BFA in Art Photography with a minor in Psychology. All of her photographs are shot on 35mm color film and she works with light and color to give a hint of both romanticism and nostalgia. The work borders between intimacy and disconnect, pairing photos of bare skin with forlorn houses. Her work is a journal of sorts, documenting her life as well as trying to share with others the little moments that so often go overlooked by most.  
 
Max Jackson is a graduating senior from Berkeley, CA. He will graduate with a BFA in Art Photography. His work is eclectic and has been exhibited in Prague, Czech Republic, and San Francisco, CA. "The Small Hours" centers around liminal spaces that are revealed late at night. Moments of weariness, intoxication or anxiety that clarify points of existential transition.

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings and sketches by Skaneateles artist Hetty Easter and her Sketch Club students will be on display. Hetty and her students created all the artwork while outside. Easter's Sketch Club gives children the opportunity to enjoy being creative in a relaxed setting. She started the club last September. It meets approximately once a week after school, with a break during the coldest winter months. This exhibit will include work from more than 20 children, in grades 1-6, who have participated in the group since its inception.

Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Over 100 juried artists show their work.

Delineation
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Donalee Peden Wesley: mixed media drawings (including charcoal, graphite, and pastel and watercolor washes) and sculptures exploring the depths and subtleties of human/animal relationship
Arlene Abend: pendant necklaces made of bronze, brass and copper

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20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

Read a review!

HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

Mother's Day: Works by Mitzie Testani
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Mitzie Testani is a designer and illustrator who creates fanciful images from ordinary items and scenes. In "Mother's Day," Testani will include pieces on a variety of themes ranging from portraits and pet birds to illustrated alphabets and quotes in honor of mothers.

Karen Klee-Atlin: Prints
Redhouse

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

The show features vibrant prints on the theme of Mexican Carnival, landscape and birdlife.

Karen Klee-Atlin was born in Toronto, where she studied at the Ontario College of Art. She did graduate work in painting and printmaking and received her MFA in painting from the University of Calgary. She has lived in many parts of Canada and the US as well as in Peru, the Philippines and Mexico, teaching art in schools and universities as well as pursuing her studio work. Her work has been influenced by her travels and a range of sources, including folk religious sculpture, industrial training manuals, and scarecrows. Karen has shown her work internationally, and her images can be found as the covers of two plays, "Bone Cage" and "It Is Solved By Walking," by the Canadian playwright and two-time Governor-General's Award winner, Catherine Banks.

Annual Kids' Benefit Show
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In a collaborative effort benefiting their school art programs, teachers at Meachem and Seymour Dual Language Academy are featuring over 100 works created by their elementary students.

The two school art teachers, Stacy Griffin of Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler of Seymour, have prepared their young people for this prestigious opportunity of displaying works in a professional gallery with a journey of study that goes beyond the walls of the classroom, school hallways, and cafeterias. Over the past year, walking field trips took the students into galleries, artists' studios, and the Everson Museum of Art.

In addition to local touring, Griffin took her students on a world tour, thus their pieces in the show reflect Indian, Australian, Egyptian and Greek influences. Her counterpart in the show, Moser-Vogler reinforces the coupling of arts with other studies believing that the results "can positively enhance any culture, subject or curriculum."

Proceeds from sales of students' works are divided to give one half to students and one half to the respective teacher's art program for much-needed supplies, especially those not available through vendors that the teachers pay for out of pocket, such as salt and flour for homemade play dough, and food coloring and shaving cream to show color mixing.

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her exhibit "When We Just Existed," artist Deborah Roberts investigates children's innocence, and how their sense of self is shaped by their environments, as well as the residual effects this may have on adults. In many of her paintings, Roberts uses her prepubescent self as the subject, adding a personal dimension to her pieces that will help you think of your own childhood. In her work, she makes references to the lynching in African American history and the racial tensions that children may experience.

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Corporeal Contours" features the work of two distinguished artists, Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, each displaying their personal ideas of identity in relation to the world around them. A large part of the exhibition also seeks to expose the hyper-exoticism of tourism companies, while also confronting issues of racial identity in Caribbean and American societies.

The artists each use very personal experiences to create an array of compelling silhouetted forms and prints. For her on-going series Can I Pass (2010), Baez incorporates aspects from her transcultural background to examine the United States' "brown paper bag test" and the Dominican Republic's "fan test." She uses art as a medium to challenge these tests, tracing her outline and painting her skin tone for each day within the form over the course of an entire month. Within her works, Baez is able to explore idealized body types, race, and skin tones within the greater social scheme across both countries.

For her series, Chung analyzes post colonial culture by using old logos and slogans from tourist advertisements, and archival photographs to create her thought-provoking prints. She focuses on race, class, and contemporary society in Jamaica and Trinidad, as well as the exotic identity assumed by tourist companies. Chung is also able to address the increasingly popular skin bleaching practices in Jamaica, exposing a deeper dimension of self image and controversy in her work.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

The eNth Degree: MFA 2013
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"The eNth Degree: MFA 2013" is the thesis exhibition for the Masters of Fine Arts candidates in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at SU, uniting a group of artists working exponentially beyond the confines of their studied fields, taking their work to a new level art making. The 19 included in this year's exhibition work in a variety of media including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, film, site-specific installation, and performance.

The participating artists are Daniel Aguilera, Siqiao Ao, Jennifer Chan, Ryan Crotty, Caitlin Foley, Andrew Frost, Meyer Giordano, Su San Na Kim, Lori Klopp, Jee Eun Lee, Joseph Lingeman, Misha Rabinovich, Samantha Raut, Becky Reiser, Tanya Schiller, Tonja Torgerson, Joel Weissman, Sarah Camille Wilson, Matthew Williamson.

Rationalize & Perpetuate: Video Installation by Sandra Stephens
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Sandra Stephens' work takes an in-depth look at how culture and those around us contribute to our construction of identities. Pieces will look at race, class, gender and sexuality. She will explore the influence of war on simplifying the view of the "other", visual culture and its effects on identity, and how these both affect the lives and identities of children. Her work will also touch on stereotyping, with newer and older work that takes different approaches. She is interested in how and why we stereotype, and in how stereotyping contributes to historic and current-day events. Employing technologies of interactivity and projection, the pieces will pull the viewer in and play with perceptions of the projected image and its blurred relationship to reality. Although the work will touch on disturbing themes, hope will also be expressed through the innocence of children, who are shown to be in many ways much more enlightened than adults.

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

Psychic Geographies
Urban Video Project

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

Urban Video Project and Light Work are pleased to announce the exhibition of the group show Psychic Geographies. This will be the first time that UVP has mounted a group show, and it will feature five video pieces running continuously each night of the show.

In the pieces that make up Psychic Geographies, forces of desire, both personal and political, and forces of nature traverse the land with a heavy tread, describing the borders of contested territories and propagating strange ecologies.

The outdoor program will include:
Landscape Studies: New Mexico (2008-2010) by Mariam Ghani
Gowane (2013) by Sayler/Morris with Evan Paschke
We Began by Measuring Distance (2009) by Basma Alsharif
There There Square (2002) by Jacqueline Goss
Circle in the Sand (excerpt) (2012) by Michael Robinson

Psychic Geographies was curated by Anneka Herre.

Bank Show
Syracuse Improv Collective

Price: $5
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The Syracuse Improv Collective brings their monthly "Bank Show" to the CNY Playhouse. The Collective specializes in bringing a show like no other combining long form improv with musical acts and stand up comedy. You never know what the SIC has in store.

Areytos Performance Works
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

We will be hosting a performance by the dance company Areytos Performance Works. Our audience will be delighted by the professional skill and rhythms of Areytos' seasoned dancers. Audience members will also have the chance to directly engage in the culture and movement of Afro-Dominican dance by taking part in the participatory portion of the event, which will be led by Dominican-American dancer/choreographer Sita Frederick, master traditional-artisan Genaro Ozuna, and dancer Alethea Pace. There will be an artist talk-back where audience members will be able to learn more about the creative motivations and experiences of the artists. We will also be listening to poems by award winning author, Nelly Rosario.

Areytos Performance Works is a Bronx-based dance theater company that specializes in performance art, Afro-Caribbean dances, contemporary modern dance, and stage environments. They are dedicated to creating community based projects that emphasize Africanist aesthetics, historical research, and artistic risk-taking in Caribbean communities.

2013 Salt City Horror Fest

Price: $15 advance, $20 at the door. Includes all films. Come and go as you please.
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

12:00 pm: Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein
Two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and the Wolf Man. Directed by Charles Barton, written by Robert Lees and Frederic I. Rinaldo; starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, and Lon Chaney Jr. (1948, 83 minutes, all ages)

1:40 pm: May the 4th be with you, Star Wars tribute

1:45 pm: It Came From Outer Space
A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert, and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strange. Directed by Jack Arnold; written by Ray Bradbury (story), Harry Essex (screenplay); starring Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, and Charles Drake (1953, 81 minutes, Anaglyph 3D)

3:10 pm: World War Z (WWZ) preview from Paramount films

3:15 pm: Night of the Living Dead
A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse. Directed by George A. Romero; written by John A. Russo and George A. Romero, starring Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, and Karl Hardman (1968, 96 minutes, parental guidance suggested)

5:00 pm: Fright Night
When a teenager learns that his next door neighbour is a vampire, no one will believe him. Directed by Tom Holland; written by Tom Holland; starring Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale and Amanda Bearse (1985, 105 minutes, rated R)

6:45 pm: Dinner Break

7:55 pm: The Fumigator, Jason West & David Royal, Trailer (Digital, 3min)
8:00 pm: Steel Warriors 2, Travis Indovina, Trailer (Digital, 5 min)

8:05 pm: Gator Green
8:20 pm: Manson Family
The Manson Family delivers an uncompromising, brutal vision of the collapse of the "Love Generation." On a ranch outside of Los Angeles, the hippie dream is perverting into something evil. What was once an oasis of free love and acid trips has become ground zero for a madman's paranoid visions. An average group of kids, the "Family", becomes engulfed in a delusional world where torment and slaughter is considered the path to righteousness. The Manson Family is a dizzying, rapid-fire vision of the sex and violence that unifies the misguided group, and at the direction of their leader, ends in a brutal spree leaving seven people dead in 48 hours. Now re-mastered in stunning HD for the first time ever in America. Extras include an all-new Director's commentary, the brand new short Gator Green, the uncut version of the previously censored, feature length documentary The Vanbebber Family on the film's near-mythic production, and much more. Directed by Jim VanBebber (2003, 95 minutes, uncut, ages 17+)

9:50pm: Robocop
In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally-wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him. Directed by Paul Verhoeven; written by Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner; starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen and Dan O'Herlihy (1987, 103 minutes, theatrical cut, rated R)

12:00 am: House on the Edge of the Park
Two lowlife punks invite themselves to a party at a posh villa and after being taunted by their snobbish hosts, hold everybody hostage and subject them to various torture and mayhem. Directed by Ruggero Deodato; starring David Hess, Annie Belle, Christian Borromeo (1980, 91 minutes, ages 17+)

1:30 am: Nekromantik
A street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him. Directed by Jörg Buttgereit; written by Jörg Buttgereit, Franz Rodenkirchen; starring Bernd Daktari Lorenz, Beatrice Manowski, and Harald Lundt (1987, 75 minutes, in German with English subtitles)

Advance sale tickets are available at Resurrected Tattoo, 125 W. Fayette St., Syracuse, 315-882-5400, Resurrectedtattoo@gmail.com.

The Third Man
ArtRage Gallery

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

How did Harry Lime die? In this film-noir classic, an American pulp novelist travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself involved in the mysterious death of an old friend and black-market opportunist. More than a thriller but a tale of existential loss and betrayal, a film wherein location, a devastated Vienna, is as much a player as the characters. Its hallmarks are a recklessly haunting visual style, and a twisty script with ironic comic touches. Orson Welles makes the most famous entrance in cinema history, and you'll never forget that musical score. This was Roger Ebert's favorite movie. (1949, directed by Carol Reed with Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles)

Pacifica String Quartet
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $25 regular, $15 senior, $10 student
Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

Boccherini Quartet in E-flat major Op. 58, No. 2
Shostakovich Quartet No. 2
Smetana Quartet No. 1, "From my Life"

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Junior Recital: Cory Tyson, guitar; and Shelby Dems, violin
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Good People
Syracuse Stage
Laura Kepley, director

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

There will be a free, intimate, insightful and entertaining pre-show talk led by members of the cast beginning at 2:00 pm this afternoon in the Sutton Pavilion.

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire returns to his hometown of South Boston and captures the tangy rhythms and sharp humor of the old neighborhood for an edgy take on the state of current affairs in this 2011 Tony-nominated play. Margie (with hard g) is a single mom who just lost her job, is behind in her rent, and like many today, has zero prospects. With nowhere to turn, she seeks out an old friend Mikey, the one who got away--from Southie and from her. What can she expect from Mikey after 30 years? The journey from the old neighborhood to Chestnut Hill is fraught with twists and surprises and measured in much more than miles.

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Cry Havoc
Appleseed Productions
Lois Haas, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Hailed as a female Journey's End, this is the story of nurses on Bataan. In a sort of dugout subjected to gunfire, the individual characters emerge to offer a collective reaction to war. This is a compelling, caustic revelation of human beings under fire. During the Memorial Day season, Appleseed will take the opportunity to recognize women veterans. Written by Allan R. Kenward.

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Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up
Redhouse

Price: $20 regular, $15 members, $10 students
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

"All children grow up, except one." Peter's sudden arrival into the lives of Wendy, John, and Michael is the beginning of a thrilling adventure. Together they embark on a fantastical flight to the Never Land, a magical place of vivid dangers and unsettling beauty. There they meet the Lost Boys, a horde of pirates, and the wickedest villain of all time. This is J. M. Barrie's rarely produced original fantasy, adapted by the Royal Shakespeare Company — the inspiration for all other versions — and still, by far, the strangest and best. This production will feature professional and local actors paired with actors with developmental and physical disabilities.

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Good People
Syracuse Stage
Laura Kepley, director

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

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire returns to his hometown of South Boston and captures the tangy rhythms and sharp humor of the old neighborhood for an edgy take on the state of current affairs in this 2011 Tony-nominated play. Margie (with hard g) is a single mom who just lost her job, is behind in her rent, and like many today, has zero prospects. With nowhere to turn, she seeks out an old friend Mikey, the one who got away--from Southie and from her. What can she expect from Mikey after 30 years? The journey from the old neighborhood to Chestnut Hill is fraught with twists and surprises and measured in much more than miles.

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Suds: The Rocking '60s Musical Soap Opera
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Suds: The Rocking '60s Musical which has been breaking box office records across the country. It's the story of a young teenage girl and the two guardian angels who come to teach her about finding true love. Suds features more than 50 songs, including "Walk On By," "Please, Mr. Postman," "Wonderful, Wonderful," "You Don't Own Me," "It's My Party," "Where The Boys Are," "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," and many more.

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Sunday, May 5, 2013

VPA Transmedia Senior Thesis Show 
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Kiri Rowan is a graduating senior at Syracuse University. She will graduate with a BFA in Art Photography with a minor in Psychology. All of her photographs are shot on 35mm color film and she works with light and color to give a hint of both romanticism and nostalgia. The work borders between intimacy and disconnect, pairing photos of bare skin with forlorn houses. Her work is a journal of sorts, documenting her life as well as trying to share with others the little moments that so often go overlooked by most.  
 
Max Jackson is a graduating senior from Berkeley, CA. He will graduate with a BFA in Art Photography. His work is eclectic and has been exhibited in Prague, Czech Republic, and San Francisco, CA. "The Small Hours" centers around liminal spaces that are revealed late at night. Moments of weariness, intoxication or anxiety that clarify points of existential transition.

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Over 100 juried artists show their work.

Joe Lingeman: Habitus
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present the photographic work of Syracuse University MFA student Joe Lingeman. Lingeman combines varying modes of photography -- still life, commercial portraiture, and street photography. Taken as a whole, his images deal with absurdity, spiritual longing, and a tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life in the developed world.

Joe Lingeman's work has been shown at Art Chicago 2010, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, and Craft Chemistry in Syracuse. His images have been published in the pages of Next American City, and Facebook's internal 'zine, Zeitgeist. Lingeman was born in Toldeo, OH, and grew up in Bloomington, IN. He holds a BA in Sociology and a BFA in photography from Indiana University. He is scheduled to complete his MFA at Syracuse University in May of 2013.

Jason Lazarus: Too Hard to Keep (Syracuse)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 2010, Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus initiated a growing archive of photos deemed "too hard to keep." "Too Hard to Keep" is a place for photographs, photo-objects, and even digital files to exist when they are too difficult to hold on to, yet too meaningful to destroy. Participants have dictated whether the photographs submitted to the archive may be shown freely with other pieces of the archive, or if they are only to be displayed face down, adding to the charged significance of each object. Out of this expanding collection site-specific installations occur. With "Too Hard to Keep" in Syracuse, Lazarus shares a slice of the larger archive alongside anonymous local submissions in a carefully considered installation.

Interested in submitting to the T.H.T.K. archive? Drop off your print anonymously in the drop box located at Light Work during the length of the exhibition.

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2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

Annual Kids' Benefit Show
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In a collaborative effort benefiting their school art programs, teachers at Meachem and Seymour Dual Language Academy are featuring over 100 works created by their elementary students.

The two school art teachers, Stacy Griffin of Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler of Seymour, have prepared their young people for this prestigious opportunity of displaying works in a professional gallery with a journey of study that goes beyond the walls of the classroom, school hallways, and cafeterias. Over the past year, walking field trips took the students into galleries, artists' studios, and the Everson Museum of Art.

In addition to local touring, Griffin took her students on a world tour, thus their pieces in the show reflect Indian, Australian, Egyptian and Greek influences. Her counterpart in the show, Moser-Vogler reinforces the coupling of arts with other studies believing that the results "can positively enhance any culture, subject or curriculum."

Proceeds from sales of students' works are divided to give one half to students and one half to the respective teacher's art program for much-needed supplies, especially those not available through vendors that the teachers pay for out of pocket, such as salt and flour for homemade play dough, and food coloring and shaving cream to show color mixing.

HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

The eNth Degree: MFA 2013
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"The eNth Degree: MFA 2013" is the thesis exhibition for the Masters of Fine Arts candidates in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at SU, uniting a group of artists working exponentially beyond the confines of their studied fields, taking their work to a new level art making. The 19 included in this year's exhibition work in a variety of media including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, film, site-specific installation, and performance.

The participating artists are Daniel Aguilera, Siqiao Ao, Jennifer Chan, Ryan Crotty, Caitlin Foley, Andrew Frost, Meyer Giordano, Su San Na Kim, Lori Klopp, Jee Eun Lee, Joseph Lingeman, Misha Rabinovich, Samantha Raut, Becky Reiser, Tanya Schiller, Tonja Torgerson, Joel Weissman, Sarah Camille Wilson, Matthew Williamson.

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

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20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

Graduate Guitar Recital: Kalen Ridley, guitar
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Handel's Israel in Egypt
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Performance by the combined choirs of St. David's and St. Paul's Cathedral, featuring instrumental performers from CNY.

Spring Celebration Concert
Syracuse Children's Chorus
Stephanie Mowery, conductor

Price: $22, $18 regular; $20, $15 students/seniors ($3 advance purchase discount)
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Music spanning the centuries including works by Thiman, Nuñez, Pergolesi, Kuzmenko, Paulus, Brunner, Naplan, Papoulis, and music of South Africa.

Hot Latin Cabaret with Michael Phillip Mossman
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Adults $25 in advance, $30 at the door; students $10
Sheraton Syracuse University Grand Ballroom
801 University Ave., Syracuse

A legendary jazz trumpeter and Latin jazz composer/arranger, Michael Philip Mossman's recent work includes collaborations with the Bilbao Orkesta Sinfonica, Arturo Sandoval, Cologne's WDR Big Band, David Sanborn, Joe Gallardo, Hamburg's NDR Big Band, the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic, and Paquito D'Rivera.

Junior Trumpet Recital: Ariana Walker, trumpet
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Junior Voice Recital: Adriana Magarino, mezzo-soprano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

12 Reasons To Die Tour: Ghostface Killah, with Adrian Younges' Venice Dawn, Irealz, DJ Afar, Mage 9, The Goonies, Go Go Gadget Pink Packet, Mike Vivo, Our Reality
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

A Bouquet of Short Plays
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The month of May brings flowers and new scripts by local playwrights.

Poor Richard's World: A tour through one man's view of the world in four short plays guided by Gerard Moses and written by R.D. Harris.

Fran: Ed Mastin has written a classic farce that might remind you of the reception room at your family doctor's office. Want to be reimbursed for all those long hours of waiting to see the doctor? Ed's play gives that reimbursement in laughs and giggles. Directed by Peter Moller.

Good People
Syracuse Stage
Laura Kepley, director

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

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire returns to his hometown of South Boston and captures the tangy rhythms and sharp humor of the old neighborhood for an edgy take on the state of current affairs in this 2011 Tony-nominated play. Margie (with hard g) is a single mom who just lost her job, is behind in her rent, and like many today, has zero prospects. With nowhere to turn, she seeks out an old friend Mikey, the one who got away--from Southie and from her. What can she expect from Mikey after 30 years? The journey from the old neighborhood to Chestnut Hill is fraught with twists and surprises and measured in much more than miles.

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Suds: The Rocking '60s Musical Soap Opera
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Suds: The Rocking '60s Musical which has been breaking box office records across the country. It's the story of a young teenage girl and the two guardian angels who come to teach her about finding true love. Suds features more than 50 songs, including "Walk On By," "Please, Mr. Postman," "Wonderful, Wonderful," "You Don't Own Me," "It's My Party," "Where The Boys Are," "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," and many more.

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Good People
Syracuse Stage
Laura Kepley, director

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

There will be a talkback with the actors following this evening's performance.

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire returns to his hometown of South Boston and captures the tangy rhythms and sharp humor of the old neighborhood for an edgy take on the state of current affairs in this 2011 Tony-nominated play. Margie (with hard g) is a single mom who just lost her job, is behind in her rent, and like many today, has zero prospects. With nowhere to turn, she seeks out an old friend Mikey, the one who got away--from Southie and from her. What can she expect from Mikey after 30 years? The journey from the old neighborhood to Chestnut Hill is fraught with twists and surprises and measured in much more than miles.

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Monday, May 6, 2013

VPA Transmedia Senior Thesis Show 
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Kiri Rowan is a graduating senior at Syracuse University. She will graduate with a BFA in Art Photography with a minor in Psychology. All of her photographs are shot on 35mm color film and she works with light and color to give a hint of both romanticism and nostalgia. The work borders between intimacy and disconnect, pairing photos of bare skin with forlorn houses. Her work is a journal of sorts, documenting her life as well as trying to share with others the little moments that so often go overlooked by most.  
 
Max Jackson is a graduating senior from Berkeley, CA. He will graduate with a BFA in Art Photography. His work is eclectic and has been exhibited in Prague, Czech Republic, and San Francisco, CA. "The Small Hours" centers around liminal spaces that are revealed late at night. Moments of weariness, intoxication or anxiety that clarify points of existential transition.

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings and sketches by Skaneateles artist Hetty Easter and her Sketch Club students will be on display. Hetty and her students created all the artwork while outside. Easter's Sketch Club gives children the opportunity to enjoy being creative in a relaxed setting. She started the club last September. It meets approximately once a week after school, with a break during the coldest winter months. This exhibit will include work from more than 20 children, in grades 1-6, who have participated in the group since its inception.

Dreamt Realities
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Dreamt Realities features the work of four Syracuse-based photographers: Eddie Colleli, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Jeff Madison, and Heidi Vantassel. This exhibit features surreal, phantasmagorical pictures that explore geographical spaces. Using both traditional and cutting edge techniques, these photographers create/freeze their imagery drawing a fine line between what's real and what's imagined -- for example, a neglected house becomes a fascinating nightmare, a forgotten shore resembles a timeless dream, and a staged environment is inspired by a hazy dream.

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Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press. Founded by Barney Rosset in 1951, Grove Press became one of the 20th-century's great avant-garde publishing houses. What began as a small independent publisher on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village grew into a multimillion dollar publishing company that has been credited with introducing important authors from around the world to American readers during the postwar period.

Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable Victorian Library. Each book published by Grove, the exhibition reveals, was in its own way, a "strange victory." For while Grove altered the American literary landscape and its relationship to social mores, equality, and freedom of expression, Grove also aggressively deployed savvy marketing strategies, became embroiled in labor union battles, floundered in its own success, and offended the sensibilities of not only "squares," but feminists, Marxists, academics, and many others. Strange Victories tells the complicated story of Grove's many literary and political achievements, whose profound influence on American culture endures today.

HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Jason Lazarus: Too Hard to Keep (Syracuse)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 2010, Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus initiated a growing archive of photos deemed "too hard to keep." "Too Hard to Keep" is a place for photographs, photo-objects, and even digital files to exist when they are too difficult to hold on to, yet too meaningful to destroy. Participants have dictated whether the photographs submitted to the archive may be shown freely with other pieces of the archive, or if they are only to be displayed face down, adding to the charged significance of each object. Out of this expanding collection site-specific installations occur. With "Too Hard to Keep" in Syracuse, Lazarus shares a slice of the larger archive alongside anonymous local submissions in a carefully considered installation.

Interested in submitting to the T.H.T.K. archive? Drop off your print anonymously in the drop box located at Light Work during the length of the exhibition.

Read a review!

Joe Lingeman: Habitus
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present the photographic work of Syracuse University MFA student Joe Lingeman. Lingeman combines varying modes of photography -- still life, commercial portraiture, and street photography. Taken as a whole, his images deal with absurdity, spiritual longing, and a tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life in the developed world.

Joe Lingeman's work has been shown at Art Chicago 2010, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, and Craft Chemistry in Syracuse. His images have been published in the pages of Next American City, and Facebook's internal 'zine, Zeitgeist. Lingeman was born in Toldeo, OH, and grew up in Bloomington, IN. He holds a BA in Sociology and a BFA in photography from Indiana University. He is scheduled to complete his MFA at Syracuse University in May of 2013.

Mother's Day: Works by Mitzie Testani
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Mitzie Testani is a designer and illustrator who creates fanciful images from ordinary items and scenes. In "Mother's Day," Testani will include pieces on a variety of themes ranging from portraits and pet birds to illustrated alphabets and quotes in honor of mothers.

Karen Klee-Atlin: Prints
Redhouse

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

The show features vibrant prints on the theme of Mexican Carnival, landscape and birdlife.

Karen Klee-Atlin was born in Toronto, where she studied at the Ontario College of Art. She did graduate work in painting and printmaking and received her MFA in painting from the University of Calgary. She has lived in many parts of Canada and the US as well as in Peru, the Philippines and Mexico, teaching art in schools and universities as well as pursuing her studio work. Her work has been influenced by her travels and a range of sources, including folk religious sculpture, industrial training manuals, and scarecrows. Karen has shown her work internationally, and her images can be found as the covers of two plays, "Bone Cage" and "It Is Solved By Walking," by the Canadian playwright and two-time Governor-General's Award winner, Catherine Banks.

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting" is a collection of oil and acrylic pieces on canvas showcasing three contemporary Colombian artists exploring non-figurative art. The exhibit is conceived as a bridge-building opportunity and artistic exchange between artists residing at home and in the diaspora, in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. It includes paintings by Fernando Manrique, Rafael Ordoñez, and Esperanza Tielbaard Pazmiño, all of whom explore the of textural and composition possibilities in abstract art.

The artistic proposals of Manrique, Ordoñez and Pazmiño share an interest in communicating the rich sensory experiences and of the conceptual suggestions possible in pictorial abstraction. Their works explore alternative ways of engaging reality and ask viewers to see through the senses as they travel through interweaving forms, suggestive textures, and provoking compositions. Their canvases challenge accepted distinctions between abstract and figurative painting, as well as between purist and committed art from Latin America, since they incorporate issues of identity, technology, nature, and affect as themes to be explored through the senses.

The collection invites us to be seduced by the mix and to reflect on our understanding of artistic creation and perception, and changing patterns in the 21st century.

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

An exhibit of photos by the participants of the teen photography workshop at La Casita in collaboration with the Department of Child and Family Studies of Syracuse University. The program is part of the Creative Corner Program at La Casita which is a multi-modal artistic space in which children and youth explore diverse forms and processes of art-making. In addition, the Teen Photography Workshop series is part of the 2013 Reducing Teen Violence Initiative in the Near West Side.

Middle Eastern Film Festival: Bas Ya Bahar
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The first feature film to be made by the state of Kuwait. It is a period piece about Kuwait before the discovery of oil when fishing was the predominant occupation. Bay Ya Bahr is the story of a crippled pearl diver who forbids his son Mussaid to go to sea to dive for pearls. Mussaid's father got the bends after resurfacing too fast during a shark attack on his boat. However, the boy cannot see any other way to make enough money to marry Nura, his beloved. Nura is the daughter of a merchant who wants her to marry for money. (1972, by Khalid Al-Siddiq)

Mystery Double Feature
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Mr. Moto Takes A Vacation (1939)
Director: Norman Foster. Cast: Peter Lorre, Lionel Atwill, Joseph Schildkraut, Virginia Field.
Mr. Moto's relaxing vacation becomes his latest case when he must prevent the theft of the Queen of Sheba's crown as its being transported to a museum.

Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945)
Director: Arthur Dreifuss. Cast: Chester Morris, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Nina Foch, Steve Cochran, Frank Sully, Iris Adrian.
Boston Blackie (Morris) is on the trail of a psychotic killer who escapes from an asylum and goes on a murder spree.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

VPA Transmedia Senior Thesis Show 
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Kiri Rowan is a graduating senior at Syracuse University. She will graduate with a BFA in Art Photography with a minor in Psychology. All of her photographs are shot on 35mm color film and she works with light and color to give a hint of both romanticism and nostalgia. The work borders between intimacy and disconnect, pairing photos of bare skin with forlorn houses. Her work is a journal of sorts, documenting her life as well as trying to share with others the little moments that so often go overlooked by most.  
 
Max Jackson is a graduating senior from Berkeley, CA. He will graduate with a BFA in Art Photography. His work is eclectic and has been exhibited in Prague, Czech Republic, and San Francisco, CA. "The Small Hours" centers around liminal spaces that are revealed late at night. Moments of weariness, intoxication or anxiety that clarify points of existential transition.

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

There will be an artist reception with Mr. Regal this evening 5:00-7:15pm.

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings and sketches by Skaneateles artist Hetty Easter and her Sketch Club students will be on display. Hetty and her students created all the artwork while outside. Easter's Sketch Club gives children the opportunity to enjoy being creative in a relaxed setting. She started the club last September. It meets approximately once a week after school, with a break during the coldest winter months. This exhibit will include work from more than 20 children, in grades 1-6, who have participated in the group since its inception.

To Begin a New Day/Recent Photography by Jenilee Ward
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Dreamt Realities
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Dreamt Realities features the work of four Syracuse-based photographers: Eddie Colleli, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Jeff Madison, and Heidi Vantassel. This exhibit features surreal, phantasmagorical pictures that explore geographical spaces. Using both traditional and cutting edge techniques, these photographers create/freeze their imagery drawing a fine line between what's real and what's imagined -- for example, a neglected house becomes a fascinating nightmare, a forgotten shore resembles a timeless dream, and a staged environment is inspired by a hazy dream.

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Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press. Founded by Barney Rosset in 1951, Grove Press became one of the 20th-century's great avant-garde publishing houses. What began as a small independent publisher on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village grew into a multimillion dollar publishing company that has been credited with introducing important authors from around the world to American readers during the postwar period.

Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable Victorian Library. Each book published by Grove, the exhibition reveals, was in its own way, a "strange victory." For while Grove altered the American literary landscape and its relationship to social mores, equality, and freedom of expression, Grove also aggressively deployed savvy marketing strategies, became embroiled in labor union battles, floundered in its own success, and offended the sensibilities of not only "squares," but feminists, Marxists, academics, and many others. Strange Victories tells the complicated story of Grove's many literary and political achievements, whose profound influence on American culture endures today.

Delineation
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Donalee Peden Wesley: mixed media drawings (including charcoal, graphite, and pastel and watercolor washes) and sculptures exploring the depths and subtleties of human/animal relationship
Arlene Abend: pendant necklaces made of bronze, brass and copper

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HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

Joe Lingeman: Habitus
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present the photographic work of Syracuse University MFA student Joe Lingeman. Lingeman combines varying modes of photography -- still life, commercial portraiture, and street photography. Taken as a whole, his images deal with absurdity, spiritual longing, and a tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life in the developed world.

Joe Lingeman's work has been shown at Art Chicago 2010, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, and Craft Chemistry in Syracuse. His images have been published in the pages of Next American City, and Facebook's internal 'zine, Zeitgeist. Lingeman was born in Toldeo, OH, and grew up in Bloomington, IN. He holds a BA in Sociology and a BFA in photography from Indiana University. He is scheduled to complete his MFA at Syracuse University in May of 2013.

Jason Lazarus: Too Hard to Keep (Syracuse)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 2010, Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus initiated a growing archive of photos deemed "too hard to keep." "Too Hard to Keep" is a place for photographs, photo-objects, and even digital files to exist when they are too difficult to hold on to, yet too meaningful to destroy. Participants have dictated whether the photographs submitted to the archive may be shown freely with other pieces of the archive, or if they are only to be displayed face down, adding to the charged significance of each object. Out of this expanding collection site-specific installations occur. With "Too Hard to Keep" in Syracuse, Lazarus shares a slice of the larger archive alongside anonymous local submissions in a carefully considered installation.

Interested in submitting to the T.H.T.K. archive? Drop off your print anonymously in the drop box located at Light Work during the length of the exhibition.

Read a review!

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Mother's Day: Works by Mitzie Testani
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Mitzie Testani is a designer and illustrator who creates fanciful images from ordinary items and scenes. In "Mother's Day," Testani will include pieces on a variety of themes ranging from portraits and pet birds to illustrated alphabets and quotes in honor of mothers.

Karen Klee-Atlin: Prints
Redhouse

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

The show features vibrant prints on the theme of Mexican Carnival, landscape and birdlife.

Karen Klee-Atlin was born in Toronto, where she studied at the Ontario College of Art. She did graduate work in painting and printmaking and received her MFA in painting from the University of Calgary. She has lived in many parts of Canada and the US as well as in Peru, the Philippines and Mexico, teaching art in schools and universities as well as pursuing her studio work. Her work has been influenced by her travels and a range of sources, including folk religious sculpture, industrial training manuals, and scarecrows. Karen has shown her work internationally, and her images can be found as the covers of two plays, "Bone Cage" and "It Is Solved By Walking," by the Canadian playwright and two-time Governor-General's Award winner, Catherine Banks.

The eNth Degree: MFA 2013
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"The eNth Degree: MFA 2013" is the thesis exhibition for the Masters of Fine Arts candidates in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at SU, uniting a group of artists working exponentially beyond the confines of their studied fields, taking their work to a new level art making. The 19 included in this year's exhibition work in a variety of media including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, film, site-specific installation, and performance.

The participating artists are Daniel Aguilera, Siqiao Ao, Jennifer Chan, Ryan Crotty, Caitlin Foley, Andrew Frost, Meyer Giordano, Su San Na Kim, Lori Klopp, Jee Eun Lee, Joseph Lingeman, Misha Rabinovich, Samantha Raut, Becky Reiser, Tanya Schiller, Tonja Torgerson, Joel Weissman, Sarah Camille Wilson, Matthew Williamson.

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

Read a review!

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting" is a collection of oil and acrylic pieces on canvas showcasing three contemporary Colombian artists exploring non-figurative art. The exhibit is conceived as a bridge-building opportunity and artistic exchange between artists residing at home and in the diaspora, in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. It includes paintings by Fernando Manrique, Rafael Ordoñez, and Esperanza Tielbaard Pazmiño, all of whom explore the of textural and composition possibilities in abstract art.

The artistic proposals of Manrique, Ordoñez and Pazmiño share an interest in communicating the rich sensory experiences and of the conceptual suggestions possible in pictorial abstraction. Their works explore alternative ways of engaging reality and ask viewers to see through the senses as they travel through interweaving forms, suggestive textures, and provoking compositions. Their canvases challenge accepted distinctions between abstract and figurative painting, as well as between purist and committed art from Latin America, since they incorporate issues of identity, technology, nature, and affect as themes to be explored through the senses.

The collection invites us to be seduced by the mix and to reflect on our understanding of artistic creation and perception, and changing patterns in the 21st century.

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

An exhibit of photos by the participants of the teen photography workshop at La Casita in collaboration with the Department of Child and Family Studies of Syracuse University. The program is part of the Creative Corner Program at La Casita which is a multi-modal artistic space in which children and youth explore diverse forms and processes of art-making. In addition, the Teen Photography Workshop series is part of the 2013 Reducing Teen Violence Initiative in the Near West Side.

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

American Jewish Satire
Temple Society of Concord

Price: Free (donations welcome)
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

PhD candidate Jenny Caplan, instructor in the SU Department of Religion, helps us explore the work of some of America's most well-known contemporary Jewish satirists. In this final session, she will look at the filmmaking duo, the Coen Brothers; in particular their ode to 1960s American, A Serious Man. No prior knowledge of the Coens' work is required.

Red Elvises, with Undergang, Papership
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Good People
Syracuse Stage
Laura Kepley, director

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

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire returns to his hometown of South Boston and captures the tangy rhythms and sharp humor of the old neighborhood for an edgy take on the state of current affairs in this 2011 Tony-nominated play. Margie (with hard g) is a single mom who just lost her job, is behind in her rent, and like many today, has zero prospects. With nowhere to turn, she seeks out an old friend Mikey, the one who got away--from Southie and from her. What can she expect from Mikey after 30 years? The journey from the old neighborhood to Chestnut Hill is fraught with twists and surprises and measured in much more than miles.

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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

VPA Transmedia Senior Thesis Show 
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Kiri Rowan is a graduating senior at Syracuse University. She will graduate with a BFA in Art Photography with a minor in Psychology. All of her photographs are shot on 35mm color film and she works with light and color to give a hint of both romanticism and nostalgia. The work borders between intimacy and disconnect, pairing photos of bare skin with forlorn houses. Her work is a journal of sorts, documenting her life as well as trying to share with others the little moments that so often go overlooked by most.  
 
Max Jackson is a graduating senior from Berkeley, CA. He will graduate with a BFA in Art Photography. His work is eclectic and has been exhibited in Prague, Czech Republic, and San Francisco, CA. "The Small Hours" centers around liminal spaces that are revealed late at night. Moments of weariness, intoxication or anxiety that clarify points of existential transition.

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings and sketches by Skaneateles artist Hetty Easter and her Sketch Club students will be on display. Hetty and her students created all the artwork while outside. Easter's Sketch Club gives children the opportunity to enjoy being creative in a relaxed setting. She started the club last September. It meets approximately once a week after school, with a break during the coldest winter months. This exhibit will include work from more than 20 children, in grades 1-6, who have participated in the group since its inception.

To Begin a New Day/Recent Photography by Jenilee Ward
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Dreamt Realities
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Dreamt Realities features the work of four Syracuse-based photographers: Eddie Colleli, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Jeff Madison, and Heidi Vantassel. This exhibit features surreal, phantasmagorical pictures that explore geographical spaces. Using both traditional and cutting edge techniques, these photographers create/freeze their imagery drawing a fine line between what's real and what's imagined -- for example, a neglected house becomes a fascinating nightmare, a forgotten shore resembles a timeless dream, and a staged environment is inspired by a hazy dream.

Read a Review!

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press. Founded by Barney Rosset in 1951, Grove Press became one of the 20th-century's great avant-garde publishing houses. What began as a small independent publisher on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village grew into a multimillion dollar publishing company that has been credited with introducing important authors from around the world to American readers during the postwar period.

Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable Victorian Library. Each book published by Grove, the exhibition reveals, was in its own way, a "strange victory." For while Grove altered the American literary landscape and its relationship to social mores, equality, and freedom of expression, Grove also aggressively deployed savvy marketing strategies, became embroiled in labor union battles, floundered in its own success, and offended the sensibilities of not only "squares," but feminists, Marxists, academics, and many others. Strange Victories tells the complicated story of Grove's many literary and political achievements, whose profound influence on American culture endures today.

Delineation
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Donalee Peden Wesley: mixed media drawings (including charcoal, graphite, and pastel and watercolor washes) and sculptures exploring the depths and subtleties of human/animal relationship
Arlene Abend: pendant necklaces made of bronze, brass and copper

Read a review!

HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Jason Lazarus: Too Hard to Keep (Syracuse)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 2010, Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus initiated a growing archive of photos deemed "too hard to keep." "Too Hard to Keep" is a place for photographs, photo-objects, and even digital files to exist when they are too difficult to hold on to, yet too meaningful to destroy. Participants have dictated whether the photographs submitted to the archive may be shown freely with other pieces of the archive, or if they are only to be displayed face down, adding to the charged significance of each object. Out of this expanding collection site-specific installations occur. With "Too Hard to Keep" in Syracuse, Lazarus shares a slice of the larger archive alongside anonymous local submissions in a carefully considered installation.

Interested in submitting to the T.H.T.K. archive? Drop off your print anonymously in the drop box located at Light Work during the length of the exhibition.

Read a review!

Joe Lingeman: Habitus
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present the photographic work of Syracuse University MFA student Joe Lingeman. Lingeman combines varying modes of photography -- still life, commercial portraiture, and street photography. Taken as a whole, his images deal with absurdity, spiritual longing, and a tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life in the developed world.

Joe Lingeman's work has been shown at Art Chicago 2010, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, and Craft Chemistry in Syracuse. His images have been published in the pages of Next American City, and Facebook's internal 'zine, Zeitgeist. Lingeman was born in Toldeo, OH, and grew up in Bloomington, IN. He holds a BA in Sociology and a BFA in photography from Indiana University. He is scheduled to complete his MFA at Syracuse University in May of 2013.

Mother's Day: Works by Mitzie Testani
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Mitzie Testani is a designer and illustrator who creates fanciful images from ordinary items and scenes. In "Mother's Day," Testani will include pieces on a variety of themes ranging from portraits and pet birds to illustrated alphabets and quotes in honor of mothers.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

Karen Klee-Atlin: Prints
Redhouse

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

The show features vibrant prints on the theme of Mexican Carnival, landscape and birdlife.

Karen Klee-Atlin was born in Toronto, where she studied at the Ontario College of Art. She did graduate work in painting and printmaking and received her MFA in painting from the University of Calgary. She has lived in many parts of Canada and the US as well as in Peru, the Philippines and Mexico, teaching art in schools and universities as well as pursuing her studio work. Her work has been influenced by her travels and a range of sources, including folk religious sculpture, industrial training manuals, and scarecrows. Karen has shown her work internationally, and her images can be found as the covers of two plays, "Bone Cage" and "It Is Solved By Walking," by the Canadian playwright and two-time Governor-General's Award winner, Catherine Banks.

Discovery of Being
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The essence of existence, emotion, strength and beauty unite distinctively in the photography and paintings of art teacher Peter Mahan and his former student Lacey McKinney.

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The eNth Degree: MFA 2013
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"The eNth Degree: MFA 2013" is the thesis exhibition for the Masters of Fine Arts candidates in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at SU, uniting a group of artists working exponentially beyond the confines of their studied fields, taking their work to a new level art making. The 19 included in this year's exhibition work in a variety of media including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, film, site-specific installation, and performance.

The participating artists are Daniel Aguilera, Siqiao Ao, Jennifer Chan, Ryan Crotty, Caitlin Foley, Andrew Frost, Meyer Giordano, Su San Na Kim, Lori Klopp, Jee Eun Lee, Joseph Lingeman, Misha Rabinovich, Samantha Raut, Becky Reiser, Tanya Schiller, Tonja Torgerson, Joel Weissman, Sarah Camille Wilson, Matthew Williamson.

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

Read a review!

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting" is a collection of oil and acrylic pieces on canvas showcasing three contemporary Colombian artists exploring non-figurative art. The exhibit is conceived as a bridge-building opportunity and artistic exchange between artists residing at home and in the diaspora, in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. It includes paintings by Fernando Manrique, Rafael Ordoñez, and Esperanza Tielbaard Pazmiño, all of whom explore the of textural and composition possibilities in abstract art.

The artistic proposals of Manrique, Ordoñez and Pazmiño share an interest in communicating the rich sensory experiences and of the conceptual suggestions possible in pictorial abstraction. Their works explore alternative ways of engaging reality and ask viewers to see through the senses as they travel through interweaving forms, suggestive textures, and provoking compositions. Their canvases challenge accepted distinctions between abstract and figurative painting, as well as between purist and committed art from Latin America, since they incorporate issues of identity, technology, nature, and affect as themes to be explored through the senses.

The collection invites us to be seduced by the mix and to reflect on our understanding of artistic creation and perception, and changing patterns in the 21st century.

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

An exhibit of photos by the participants of the teen photography workshop at La Casita in collaboration with the Department of Child and Family Studies of Syracuse University. The program is part of the Creative Corner Program at La Casita which is a multi-modal artistic space in which children and youth explore diverse forms and processes of art-making. In addition, the Teen Photography Workshop series is part of the 2013 Reducing Teen Violence Initiative in the Near West Side.

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

Rationalize & Perpetuate: Video Installation by Sandra Stephens
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Sandra Stephens' work takes an in-depth look at how culture and those around us contribute to our construction of identities. Pieces will look at race, class, gender and sexuality. She will explore the influence of war on simplifying the view of the "other", visual culture and its effects on identity, and how these both affect the lives and identities of children. Her work will also touch on stereotyping, with newer and older work that takes different approaches. She is interested in how and why we stereotype, and in how stereotyping contributes to historic and current-day events. Employing technologies of interactivity and projection, the pieces will pull the viewer in and play with perceptions of the projected image and its blurred relationship to reality. Although the work will touch on disturbing themes, hope will also be expressed through the innocence of children, who are shown to be in many ways much more enlightened than adults.

Middle Eastern Film Festival: Turtles Can Fly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This riveting and heart-breaking Iranian film is dedicated by the filmmaker to "all the innocent children in the world--the casualties of the policies of dictators and fascists." In a refugee camp near the Turkish border in Kurdish Iraq in 2003, a 13-year-old boy nicknamed Satellite has become the leader of a motley gang of children, many of whom have lost limbs to landmines. He finds a satellite dish for a village of frightened people who want to know when the United States will launch its attack on Iraq. Set against the miserable living conditions in the refugee camp, which has no electricity and no running water, are the images coming over the satellite of the wealth and power of the West. The landmines the children collect from the fields to sell to the U.N. or to arms merchants can explode at any moment, and the best ones, says Satellite, are "made in America." In war zones around the world, even for years after the end of combat operations, these weapons continue to take lives and limbs, ugly and dangerous imports from the supposedly free world. (2004, a film by Bahman Ghobadi)

Lunchtime Lecture: 2013/2014 Exhibition Sneak Peek
Syracuse University Art Museum