Monday, March 3, 2014

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

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

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

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

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

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

It's a Zoo Out There
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Photography exhibit, consisting primarily of animals Kelly Parker has photographed during her travels to different zoos, most of which are in the CNY area. Parker has been photographing for more than 20 years but has recently begun to show her work publicly. She hopes that when you look through her photos you too can see some of the many images that she has seen through the lens of her camera.

Gallery Exhibit: Lin Price--Realities, Dreams and Myths
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
These recent works are part of an ongoing series, which often features an "Everyman" character, who exists in invented painterly terrains. It is an alternate dream-like world that mirrors back to us the difficulties of daily existence and unspoken longings. And, although I've chosen to depict a particular model, there is an element of autobiography in many of the paintings.

Recurring themes emerge; work, isolation, stress, searching, anticipation, and caring, and I believe many people in our times can identify with them. The paintings are idiosyncratic and I attempt to execute them with empathy towards the human condition.

Through imagination, playful creation of abstracted spaces, and color composition, I attempt to show an inner world that is mysterious, somehow noble, and non-linear--as dreams and life often are.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

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

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Artist's Statement:

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

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

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

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

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Gladys Triana: Sharply into a Light Space
Point of Contact Gallery

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

This new series of photographs by Gladys Triana evoke our universe and signal the threatening situation caused by climate change. In addition, Triana includes videos and an installation to recreate a new reality, an illusion that raises awareness on this topic.

Triana was born in Cuba and resides in New York City. Her artwork includes prints, drawings, collages, works on canvas, photography, and installations, which have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions around the US and abroad many international collective expositions. Her work is represented in Museums such as The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, El Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile, El Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, among others.

Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble

Price: Free
Dewitt Community Library
Shoppingtown Mall, Dewitt

Explore the relationship of art, nature, spirituality, and song through the lens of America's most frequently performed contemporary choral composer, Morten Lauridsen, with commentary from composers, conductors, and singers. Shining Night is the first episode in a documentary film series exploring and celebrating the transformative power of song, www.songwithoutborders.net.

This 60-minute film has been screened at film festivals and performing arts venues across America and Europe, and is the winner of the 2012 DC Independent Film Festival Best Documentary. Here is your chance to see it prior to SVE's March 8 and 9 performances of Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna.

Flashback Mondays Movie Series: Harold and Maude

Price: $5
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

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

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

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

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

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

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

It's a Zoo Out There
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Photography exhibit, consisting primarily of animals Kelly Parker has photographed during her travels to different zoos, most of which are in the CNY area. Parker has been photographing for more than 20 years but has recently begun to show her work publicly. She hopes that when you look through her photos you too can see some of the many images that she has seen through the lens of her camera.

Gallery Exhibit: Lin Price--Realities, Dreams and Myths
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
These recent works are part of an ongoing series, which often features an "Everyman" character, who exists in invented painterly terrains. It is an alternate dream-like world that mirrors back to us the difficulties of daily existence and unspoken longings. And, although I've chosen to depict a particular model, there is an element of autobiography in many of the paintings.

Recurring themes emerge; work, isolation, stress, searching, anticipation, and caring, and I believe many people in our times can identify with them. The paintings are idiosyncratic and I attempt to execute them with empathy towards the human condition.

Through imagination, playful creation of abstracted spaces, and color composition, I attempt to show an inner world that is mysterious, somehow noble, and non-linear--as dreams and life often are.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Introspections
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Gary Trento: figurative oil paintings
Dana Stenson: mixed media jewelry
Sean Flaherty: portraiture in oil painting
Sharon BuMann: figurative sculpture

Art, Design and Concept: The Process of Scenic Design For the Theater
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The scenic model is one of the tools that theatrical scenic designers use as part of their creative process to represent the appearance of the final stage setting. Models communicate the shape, volume and relationship of elements of the setting in the performance space and showcase the art, design and conceptual ideas that create a visual representation of the performance environment.

The opening of "Art, Design and Concept" coincides with the opening of the Department of Drama's production of Speed-the-Plow, which features scenic design by SU Drama students.

914Works is an intimate space for VPA students and faculty to present individual or group exhibitions, readings and small-scale performances.

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Artist's Statement:

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

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

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

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Gladys Triana: Sharply into a Light Space
Point of Contact Gallery

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

This new series of photographs by Gladys Triana evoke our universe and signal the threatening situation caused by climate change. In addition, Triana includes videos and an installation to recreate a new reality, an illusion that raises awareness on this topic.

Triana was born in Cuba and resides in New York City. Her artwork includes prints, drawings, collages, works on canvas, photography, and installations, which have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions around the US and abroad many international collective expositions. Her work is represented in Museums such as The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, El Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile, El Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, among others.

Philippe Halsman's Hollywood
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

This exhibition of work by noted photographer Philippe Halsman includes 30 portraits of actors and actresses that are on loan from SUArt Galleries.

Born in Riga, Latvia, Halsman (1906-1979) had a prolific career in photography that spanned five decades. A celebrated portraitist, camera designer and father of "jumpology"--the art of photographing subjects mid-jump--Halsman produced images of prominent fashion trends and individuals of his time, including Audrey Hepburn, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. His works were featured in articles and as cover art for such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Look and Newsweek. While he made numerous contributions to several magazines throughout his career, Halsman's record 101 Life magazine covers is one of his most notable achievements.

The exhibition is a joint project of the graduate students enrolled in the "Museum Preparation and Installation" and "Museum Graphics and Communications" courses in the museum studies program in VPA's Department of Design, under the guidance of faculty members Andrew Saluti and Carlota Deseda-Coon.

Lore
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the chaos of 1945, as Allied forces sweep across Germany, 14-year-old Lore is ordered by her Nazi parents to take her four younger siblings to safety at their grandmother's home on the northern sea, more than 500 miles away, since the parents must try to avoid capture and arrest. A harrowing journey with many lessons. Oscar-nominated. (Directed by Cate Shortland, 2012, 109 minutes)

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

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

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

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

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

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

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

It's a Zoo Out There
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Photography exhibit, consisting primarily of animals Kelly Parker has photographed during her travels to different zoos, most of which are in the CNY area. Parker has been photographing for more than 20 years but has recently begun to show her work publicly. She hopes that when you look through her photos you too can see some of the many images that she has seen through the lens of her camera.

Gallery Exhibit: Lin Price--Realities, Dreams and Myths
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
These recent works are part of an ongoing series, which often features an "Everyman" character, who exists in invented painterly terrains. It is an alternate dream-like world that mirrors back to us the difficulties of daily existence and unspoken longings. And, although I've chosen to depict a particular model, there is an element of autobiography in many of the paintings.

Recurring themes emerge; work, isolation, stress, searching, anticipation, and caring, and I believe many people in our times can identify with them. The paintings are idiosyncratic and I attempt to execute them with empathy towards the human condition.

Through imagination, playful creation of abstracted spaces, and color composition, I attempt to show an inner world that is mysterious, somehow noble, and non-linear--as dreams and life often are.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Introspections
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Gary Trento: figurative oil paintings
Dana Stenson: mixed media jewelry
Sean Flaherty: portraiture in oil painting
Sharon BuMann: figurative sculpture

Art, Design and Concept: The Process of Scenic Design For the Theater
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The scenic model is one of the tools that theatrical scenic designers use as part of their creative process to represent the appearance of the final stage setting. Models communicate the shape, volume and relationship of elements of the setting in the performance space and showcase the art, design and conceptual ideas that create a visual representation of the performance environment.

The opening of "Art, Design and Concept" coincides with the opening of the Department of Drama's production of Speed-the-Plow, which features scenic design by SU Drama students.

914Works is an intimate space for VPA students and faculty to present individual or group exhibitions, readings and small-scale performances.

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

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

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Artist's Statement:

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

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

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

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Gladys Triana: Sharply into a Light Space
Point of Contact Gallery

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

This new series of photographs by Gladys Triana evoke our universe and signal the threatening situation caused by climate change. In addition, Triana includes videos and an installation to recreate a new reality, an illusion that raises awareness on this topic.

Triana was born in Cuba and resides in New York City. Her artwork includes prints, drawings, collages, works on canvas, photography, and installations, which have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions around the US and abroad many international collective expositions. Her work is represented in Museums such as The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, El Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile, El Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, among others.

Philippe Halsman's Hollywood
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

This exhibition of work by noted photographer Philippe Halsman includes 30 portraits of actors and actresses that are on loan from SUArt Galleries.

Born in Riga, Latvia, Halsman (1906-1979) had a prolific career in photography that spanned five decades. A celebrated portraitist, camera designer and father of "jumpology"--the art of photographing subjects mid-jump--Halsman produced images of prominent fashion trends and individuals of his time, including Audrey Hepburn, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. His works were featured in articles and as cover art for such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Look and Newsweek. While he made numerous contributions to several magazines throughout his career, Halsman's record 101 Life magazine covers is one of his most notable achievements.

The exhibition is a joint project of the graduate students enrolled in the "Museum Preparation and Installation" and "Museum Graphics and Communications" courses in the museum studies program in VPA's Department of Design, under the guidance of faculty members Andrew Saluti and Carlota Deseda-Coon.

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

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Dan Lenchner's collection of photos of Third Reich life makes the power of the "uncanny" visible. They are both strange and somehow familiar, these snapshots: Nazi officers at family picnics, weddings and christenings, relaxing off-duty and courting their sweethearts, along with mischievous boys at Hitler Youth summer camps, smiling nurses, teenage girls practicing their goose-step, nuns posing with former students in uniform. Here are the threads in the fabric of a nation given over to war, close to 70 years ago. Still we struggle with what to make of their deeds, which lie so outside the frame. Lenchner, a photographer himself, is acutely attuned to this quality about the truth of any image. His book quotes Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, that the "trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him...terribly and terrifyingly normal."

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The title of this documentary contains what sounds like a cheeky ad slogan for the embattled organization WikiLeaks. In fact, the phrase "we steal secrets" is spoken by General Michael V. Hayden, a former director of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, when he is explaining how government activities that involve secrets in turn require secrecy. Drawing on the testimony of more than 20 witnesses, the film creates an astonishing picture of the complex new world of internet communications, intelligence and the ever-expanding web of post-cold war secrecy.
Directed by Alex Gibney, 2013, 130 minutes.

Lunchtime Lecture: Mithila Painting Gallery Tour
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Theories of Everything, and Much, Much More
University Lectures
Featuring Roz Chast

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Roz Chast sold her first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1978 and since then she has established herself as one of our greatest artistic chroniclers of the anxieties, superstitions, furies, insecurities and surreal imaginings of modern life.

Since then nine collections have been published of Chast's work, most recently, Theories of Everything, (Bloomsbury), a 25-year retrospective. Chast is known for her cast of recurring characters—generally hapless but relatively cheerful "everyfolk." In her cartoons, she addresses the universal topics of guilt, anxiety, aging, families, friends, money, real estate and as she would say, "much, much more!" The editor of The New Yorker, David Remnick, has called her "the magazine's only certifiable genius." She collaborated with Steve Martin on the children's book The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! (Random House). Her children's book, Too Busy Marco, (Simon & Schuster) was published in 2010; the sequel, Marco Goes to School, was released in 2012. Her most recent book for adults is What I Hate: From A-Z (Bloomsbury, 2011).

She is currently working on a book that chronicles her relationship with her aging parents as they shift from independence to dependence. Using handwritten text, drawings, photographs, and her keen eye for the foibles that make us human, Chast addresses the realities of what it is to get old in America today—and what it is to have aging parents today—with tenderness and candor, and a good dose of her characteristic wit.

A native of Brooklyn, Chast received a bachelor's degree in 1977 from Rhode Island School of Design with studies in graphic design and painting, but returned to the cartooning which she had begun in high school. Less than two years out of college, she was added to the 40 or so artists under contract to The New Yorker which has continually published her work for 33 years, from black and white cartoons to color spreads, back pages and covers. In addition she has provided cartoons and editorial illustrations for almost 50 magazines and journals from Mother Jones to Town & Country. She has illustrated several children's books and contributed to many humor collections, lectured widely and received several prestigious awards including honorary degrees from Pratt Institute and the Art Institute of Boston.

Pianists from the studio of Steven Heyman
Civic Morning Musicals

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

SU Ensemble Series: University Singers
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.

Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

A hilarious new comedy by David Henry Hwang about the misadventures of miscommunication. An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract, but the deal isn't the only thing lost in translation as he tangles with a government official, a bumbling consultant, and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat. Time magazine named Chinglish one of the best plays of 2011.

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Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

A hilarious new comedy by David Henry Hwang about the misadventures of miscommunication. An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract, but the deal isn't the only thing lost in translation as he tangles with a government official, a bumbling consultant, and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat. Time magazine named Chinglish one of the best plays of 2011.

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Thursday, March 6, 2014

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

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

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

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

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

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

It's a Zoo Out There
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Photography exhibit, consisting primarily of animals Kelly Parker has photographed during her travels to different zoos, most of which are in the CNY area. Parker has been photographing for more than 20 years but has recently begun to show her work publicly. She hopes that when you look through her photos you too can see some of the many images that she has seen through the lens of her camera.

Gallery Exhibit: Lin Price--Realities, Dreams and Myths
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
These recent works are part of an ongoing series, which often features an "Everyman" character, who exists in invented painterly terrains. It is an alternate dream-like world that mirrors back to us the difficulties of daily existence and unspoken longings. And, although I've chosen to depict a particular model, there is an element of autobiography in many of the paintings.

Recurring themes emerge; work, isolation, stress, searching, anticipation, and caring, and I believe many people in our times can identify with them. The paintings are idiosyncratic and I attempt to execute them with empathy towards the human condition.

Through imagination, playful creation of abstracted spaces, and color composition, I attempt to show an inner world that is mysterious, somehow noble, and non-linear--as dreams and life often are.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Introspections
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Gary Trento: figurative oil paintings
Dana Stenson: mixed media jewelry
Sean Flaherty: portraiture in oil painting
Sharon BuMann: figurative sculpture

Art, Design and Concept: The Process of Scenic Design For the Theater
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The scenic model is one of the tools that theatrical scenic designers use as part of their creative process to represent the appearance of the final stage setting. Models communicate the shape, volume and relationship of elements of the setting in the performance space and showcase the art, design and conceptual ideas that create a visual representation of the performance environment.

The opening of "Art, Design and Concept" coincides with the opening of the Department of Drama's production of Speed-the-Plow, which features scenic design by SU Drama students.

914Works is an intimate space for VPA students and faculty to present individual or group exhibitions, readings and small-scale performances.

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Artist's Statement:

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

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

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

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Baker High School Student Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

We are thrilled to be featuring student work from Baker High School in Baldwinsville. Fresh and fun art is the best way to describe it.

Ice: Work by Bryan Hopkins and Jamie Young
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jamie Young is a Syracuse-area commercial and fine art photographer who studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His stunning photos in the Ice exhibition were taken on a 2012 trip to Iceland. Young said "the power of nature to constanlty change the landscape is more evident in Iceland than anywhere else on Earth." The images in the show feature ice formations and dynamic landscapes.

Ceramist Bryan Hopkins lives in Buffalo and teaches art at Niagara Community College. He recieved his MFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz. His sculptural and utilitarian ceramics are made with porcelain "following in in the lineage of fine china" and embody the physical qualities of the material, "strength, fagility, translucence".

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

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

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

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

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

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

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Gladys Triana: Sharply into a Light Space
Point of Contact Gallery

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

This new series of photographs by Gladys Triana evoke our universe and signal the threatening situation caused by climate change. In addition, Triana includes videos and an installation to recreate a new reality, an illusion that raises awareness on this topic.

Triana was born in Cuba and resides in New York City. Her artwork includes prints, drawings, collages, works on canvas, photography, and installations, which have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions around the US and abroad many international collective expositions. Her work is represented in Museums such as The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, El Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile, El Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, among others.

Philippe Halsman's Hollywood
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

This exhibition of work by noted photographer Philippe Halsman includes 30 portraits of actors and actresses that are on loan from SUArt Galleries.

Born in Riga, Latvia, Halsman (1906-1979) had a prolific career in photography that spanned five decades. A celebrated portraitist, camera designer and father of "jumpology"--the art of photographing subjects mid-jump--Halsman produced images of prominent fashion trends and individuals of his time, including Audrey Hepburn, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. His works were featured in articles and as cover art for such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Look and Newsweek. While he made numerous contributions to several magazines throughout his career, Halsman's record 101 Life magazine covers is one of his most notable achievements.

The exhibition is a joint project of the graduate students enrolled in the "Museum Preparation and Installation" and "Museum Graphics and Communications" courses in the museum studies program in VPA's Department of Design, under the guidance of faculty members Andrew Saluti and Carlota Deseda-Coon.

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

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Dan Lenchner's collection of photos of Third Reich life makes the power of the "uncanny" visible. They are both strange and somehow familiar, these snapshots: Nazi officers at family picnics, weddings and christenings, relaxing off-duty and courting their sweethearts, along with mischievous boys at Hitler Youth summer camps, smiling nurses, teenage girls practicing their goose-step, nuns posing with former students in uniform. Here are the threads in the fabric of a nation given over to war, close to 70 years ago. Still we struggle with what to make of their deeds, which lie so outside the frame. Lenchner, a photographer himself, is acutely attuned to this quality about the truth of any image. His book quotes Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, that the "trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him...terribly and terrifyingly normal."

Michael Bühler-Rose: I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery's exhibition of Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics from Mar. 17 - May 30.

From the Artist Statement:
"I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me" reflects on my background of years of studying and teaching Hindu rituals as a Brahmin priest in India. By creating parallels between the artist as priest, the art object as a deity, and viewing it in the gallery/museum as a pilgrimage I explore how conceptual art practice translates to thousands of years of intricate Hindu theory on dealing with imagery.

In the two-way viewing theory of darsana, the pilgrim/viewer takes darsana of, or sees, the deity. Just as important though is that the deity is always looking back at the pilgrim/viewer, creating an acknowledgement of the viewer's reverential presence.

In this video, the priest/artist uses a bathing ritual, usually reserved for venerating a deity, to worship the viewer. Flipping around the darsana idea explores how the presence of the viewer vindicates the existence of the art object, e.g. The viewer venerates the art object by coming to its temple/gallery to see it, the art object in turn, ritually welcomes and worships the viewer.

About the Artist:
Michael Bühler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Born in New Jersey, he lives and works in New York City. He received a Fulbright Fellowship to India, obtained his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and his MFA from University of Florida. Recent work and curated projects have been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Vogt Gallery, New York; Scaramouche, NY; Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai; Nature Morte, New Delhi; and Carroll and Sons, Boston. His work is held in the Sammlung Goetz, Munich, the SK Kultur Stiftung/Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, and the Harvard Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA. He is an instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design and The Cooper Union.

Death Takes a Cruise
Acme Mystery Company

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

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

A Sing-a-long with Phil, Bob, and Cathy
Central New York Playhouse
Featuring Phil Markert, Bob Brown, and Cathleen O'Brien

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

Remember the Point After, the Green Gate Inn, The Hotel Syracuse, Ernie's Lakeside, and so many others? Phil Markert, the pied piper of sing-a-long wants to do it all again!

All of "That Ole Gang of Mine" and anyone who can or can't sing is invited to a giant sing-a-long evening. Maybe Harry, Syd, the tweetie birds, and other old regulars will be there...why not you? The amazing 82-year-old Markert, with the help of Bob Brown and Cathleen O'Brien, plans on leading the crowd through at least 100 sing-a-long favorites! Phil, Bob, and Cathleen will also debut an original piece adopted as the official song for The St. Patrick's Day Parade, "My Irish Song."

This special presentation is a joint fundraiser for CNYP and the Salt City Center for Performing Arts.

Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

A hilarious new comedy by David Henry Hwang about the misadventures of miscommunication. An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract, but the deal isn't the only thing lost in translation as he tangles with a government official, a bumbling consultant, and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat. Time magazine named Chinglish one of the best plays of 2011.

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Friday, March 7, 2014

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

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

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

It's a Zoo Out There
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Photography exhibit, consisting primarily of animals Kelly Parker has photographed during her travels to different zoos, most of which are in the CNY area. Parker has been photographing for more than 20 years but has recently begun to show her work publicly. She hopes that when you look through her photos you too can see some of the many images that she has seen through the lens of her camera.

Gallery Exhibit: Lin Price--Realities, Dreams and Myths
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
These recent works are part of an ongoing series, which often features an "Everyman" character, who exists in invented painterly terrains. It is an alternate dream-like world that mirrors back to us the difficulties of daily existence and unspoken longings. And, although I've chosen to depict a particular model, there is an element of autobiography in many of the paintings.

Recurring themes emerge; work, isolation, stress, searching, anticipation, and caring, and I believe many people in our times can identify with them. The paintings are idiosyncratic and I attempt to execute them with empathy towards the human condition.

Through imagination, playful creation of abstracted spaces, and color composition, I attempt to show an inner world that is mysterious, somehow noble, and non-linear--as dreams and life often are.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Introspections
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Gary Trento: figurative oil paintings
Dana Stenson: mixed media jewelry
Sean Flaherty: portraiture in oil painting
Sharon BuMann: figurative sculpture

Art, Design and Concept: The Process of Scenic Design For the Theater
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The scenic model is one of the tools that theatrical scenic designers use as part of their creative process to represent the appearance of the final stage setting. Models communicate the shape, volume and relationship of elements of the setting in the performance space and showcase the art, design and conceptual ideas that create a visual representation of the performance environment.

The opening of "Art, Design and Concept" coincides with the opening of the Department of Drama's production of Speed-the-Plow, which features scenic design by SU Drama students.

914Works is an intimate space for VPA students and faculty to present individual or group exhibitions, readings and small-scale performances.

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

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

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Artist's Statement:

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

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

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

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Baker High School Student Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

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

We are thrilled to be featuring student work from Baker High School in Baldwinsville. Fresh and fun art is the best way to describe it.

Ice: Work by Bryan Hopkins and Jamie Young
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jamie Young is a Syracuse-area commercial and fine art photographer who studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His stunning photos in the Ice exhibition were taken on a 2012 trip to Iceland. Young said "the power of nature to constanlty change the landscape is more evident in Iceland than anywhere else on Earth." The images in the show feature ice formations and dynamic landscapes.

Ceramist Bryan Hopkins lives in Buffalo and teaches art at Niagara Community College. He recieved his MFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz. His sculptural and utilitarian ceramics are made with porcelain "following in in the lineage of fine china" and embody the physical qualities of the material, "strength, fagility, translucence".

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Equilibrium: Works by Juan Alberto Cruz
Gallery 4040

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

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

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

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Gladys Triana: Sharply into a Light Space
Point of Contact Gallery

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

This new series of photographs by Gladys Triana evoke our universe and signal the threatening situation caused by climate change. In addition, Triana includes videos and an installation to recreate a new reality, an illusion that raises awareness on this topic.

Triana was born in Cuba and resides in New York City. Her artwork includes prints, drawings, collages, works on canvas, photography, and installations, which have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions around the US and abroad many international collective expositions. Her work is represented in Museums such as The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, El Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile, El Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, among others.

Philippe Halsman's Hollywood
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

This exhibition of work by noted photographer Philippe Halsman includes 30 portraits of actors and actresses that are on loan from SUArt Galleries.

Born in Riga, Latvia, Halsman (1906-1979) had a prolific career in photography that spanned five decades. A celebrated portraitist, camera designer and father of "jumpology"--the art of photographing subjects mid-jump--Halsman produced images of prominent fashion trends and individuals of his time, including Audrey Hepburn, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. His works were featured in articles and as cover art for such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Look and Newsweek. While he made numerous contributions to several magazines throughout his career, Halsman's record 101 Life magazine covers is one of his most notable achievements.

The exhibition is a joint project of the graduate students enrolled in the "Museum Preparation and Installation" and "Museum Graphics and Communications" courses in the museum studies program in VPA's Department of Design, under the guidance of faculty members Andrew Saluti and Carlota Deseda-Coon.

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

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Dan Lenchner's collection of photos of Third Reich life makes the power of the "uncanny" visible. They are both strange and somehow familiar, these snapshots: Nazi officers at family picnics, weddings and christenings, relaxing off-duty and courting their sweethearts, along with mischievous boys at Hitler Youth summer camps, smiling nurses, teenage girls practicing their goose-step, nuns posing with former students in uniform. Here are the threads in the fabric of a nation given over to war, close to 70 years ago. Still we struggle with what to make of their deeds, which lie so outside the frame. Lenchner, a photographer himself, is acutely attuned to this quality about the truth of any image. His book quotes Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, that the "trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him...terribly and terrifyingly normal."

Michael Bühler-Rose: I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery's exhibition of Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics from Mar. 17 - May 30.

From the Artist Statement:
"I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me" reflects on my background of years of studying and teaching Hindu rituals as a Brahmin priest in India. By creating parallels between the artist as priest, the art object as a deity, and viewing it in the gallery/museum as a pilgrimage I explore how conceptual art practice translates to thousands of years of intricate Hindu theory on dealing with imagery.

In the two-way viewing theory of darsana, the pilgrim/viewer takes darsana of, or sees, the deity. Just as important though is that the deity is always looking back at the pilgrim/viewer, creating an acknowledgement of the viewer's reverential presence.

In this video, the priest/artist uses a bathing ritual, usually reserved for venerating a deity, to worship the viewer. Flipping around the darsana idea explores how the presence of the viewer vindicates the existence of the art object, e.g. The viewer venerates the art object by coming to its temple/gallery to see it, the art object in turn, ritually welcomes and worships the viewer.

About the Artist:
Michael Bühler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Born in New Jersey, he lives and works in New York City. He received a Fulbright Fellowship to India, obtained his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and his MFA from University of Florida. Recent work and curated projects have been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Vogt Gallery, New York; Scaramouche, NY; Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai; Nature Morte, New Delhi; and Carroll and Sons, Boston. His work is held in the Sammlung Goetz, Munich, the SK Kultur Stiftung/Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, and the Harvard Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA. He is an instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design and The Cooper Union.

Jazz@Sitrus: Donna Alford JASS Band
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

2014 SAMMY Award Show

Price: $20
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Area Music Awards show will feature performances by Mike McKay Band, Brownskin Band, Pale Green Stars, The Goonies, reunion of the Flashcubes, plus the SAMMY Winners announcements, the People's Choice Awards, and the Brian Bourke Award for Best New Artist.

Meg Hutchinson
Folkus Project

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

Songs of transformation, peace, and arrival from one of the very best of the Boston/urban songwriters.

Meg is yet another of those amazing young "urban folk" songwriters, with a magical voice and a subtle intensity that grows and grows. She's a winner of a Kerrville New Folk Award (2000) and was nominated for a Boston Music Award for her first studio album Against the Grey. (Other albums include The Crossing, Come Up Full, The Living Side, and last year's Beyond That.) She has also won awards at the Rocky Mountain Folks Fest, the Telluride Troubadour Songwriter's Showcase in Colorado, and The Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at Merlefest in North Carolina. Performing Songwriter has called Hutchinson "A master of introspective ballads filled with understated yearning and an exquisite sense of metaphor."

Poets Sean Conrey and Bill Neumire
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Sean M. Conrey is a professor in the writing and rhetoric program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and spends his summers writing in Beirut, Lebanon. His poetry has appeared in such journals as American Letters and Commentary, Cream City Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Notre Dame Review and Tampa Review, among others. He is the author of a book of poems, The Word in Edgewise (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2013) and a chapbook, A Conversation with the Living (Finishing Line, 2009).

Bill Neumire's poems have appeared in such journals as American Poetry Journal, Laurel Review, Los Angeles Review and Tule Review. He currently serves as an assistant editor for Brickhouse Books, and the literary magazine Verdad. His first book of poems is Estrus (Aldrich Press, 2013). He lives in Liverpool.

Death of a Salesman
Central New York Playhouse
Kasey McHale, director

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

Arthur Miller's classic story revolves around the last days of Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness. Through a series of tragic soul-searching revelations of the life he has lived with his wife, his sons, and his business associates, we discover how his quest for the "American Dream" kept him blind to the people who truly loved him. A thrilling work of deep and revealing beauty that remains one of the most profound classic dramas of the American theatre.

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The Normal Heart
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Normal Heart is a largely autobiographical play by Larry Kramer. It focuses on the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks, the gay founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Ned prefers loud public confrontations to the calmer, more private strategies favored by his associates, friends, and closeted lover Felix Turner, none of whom is prepared to throw himself into the media spotlight. Their differences of opinion lead to frequent arguments that threaten to undermine their mutual goal. (Mature audiences 18+)

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Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

A hilarious new comedy by David Henry Hwang about the misadventures of miscommunication. An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract, but the deal isn't the only thing lost in translation as he tangles with a government official, a bumbling consultant, and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat. Time magazine named Chinglish one of the best plays of 2011.

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Saturday, March 8, 2014

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

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

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

It's a Zoo Out There
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Photography exhibit, consisting primarily of animals Kelly Parker has photographed during her travels to different zoos, most of which are in the CNY area. Parker has been photographing for more than 20 years but has recently begun to show her work publicly. She hopes that when you look through her photos you too can see some of the many images that she has seen through the lens of her camera.

Watercolors by Christy Lemp and Photographs by Chris Murray
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception this afternoon 2:00-4:00 pm.

Introspections
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Gary Trento: figurative oil paintings
Dana Stenson: mixed media jewelry
Sean Flaherty: portraiture in oil painting
Sharon BuMann: figurative sculpture

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

Baker High School Student Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

We are thrilled to be featuring student work from Baker High School in Baldwinsville. Fresh and fun art is the best way to describe it.

Three in Harmony
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Three in Harmony" is an expressive collection of contemporary pieces that are artfully inspired from the Korean ceramic tradition. The artists, Eunjung Shin-Vargas, Jee Eun Lee, and Veronica Byun, have used their modern consciousness to create a deeply sensory experience with gentle Korean traditions. They've articulated a universal relevancy to the human condition, personal relationships, culture, and womanhood in each of their pieces. Even with each artist possessing a distinct personal style, the pieces fuse seamlessly to create this compelling, striking exhibition.

Ice: Work by Bryan Hopkins and Jamie Young
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jamie Young is a Syracuse-area commercial and fine art photographer who studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His stunning photos in the Ice exhibition were taken on a 2012 trip to Iceland. Young said "the power of nature to constanlty change the landscape is more evident in Iceland than anywhere else on Earth." The images in the show feature ice formations and dynamic landscapes.

Ceramist Bryan Hopkins lives in Buffalo and teaches art at Niagara Community College. He recieved his MFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz. His sculptural and utilitarian ceramics are made with porcelain "following in in the lineage of fine china" and embody the physical qualities of the material, "strength, fagility, translucence".

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Dan Lenchner's collection of photos of Third Reich life makes the power of the "uncanny" visible. They are both strange and somehow familiar, these snapshots: Nazi officers at family picnics, weddings and christenings, relaxing off-duty and courting their sweethearts, along with mischievous boys at Hitler Youth summer camps, smiling nurses, teenage girls practicing their goose-step, nuns posing with former students in uniform. Here are the threads in the fabric of a nation given over to war, close to 70 years ago. Still we struggle with what to make of their deeds, which lie so outside the frame. Lenchner, a photographer himself, is acutely attuned to this quality about the truth of any image. His book quotes Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, that the "trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him...terribly and terrifyingly normal."

Equilibrium: Works by Juan Alberto Cruz
Gallery 4040

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

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

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

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michael Bühler-Rose: I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery's exhibition of Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics from Mar. 17 - May 30.

From the Artist Statement:
"I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me" reflects on my background of years of studying and teaching Hindu rituals as a Brahmin priest in India. By creating parallels between the artist as priest, the art object as a deity, and viewing it in the gallery/museum as a pilgrimage I explore how conceptual art practice translates to thousands of years of intricate Hindu theory on dealing with imagery.

In the two-way viewing theory of darsana, the pilgrim/viewer takes darsana of, or sees, the deity. Just as important though is that the deity is always looking back at the pilgrim/viewer, creating an acknowledgement of the viewer's reverential presence.

In this video, the priest/artist uses a bathing ritual, usually reserved for venerating a deity, to worship the viewer. Flipping around the darsana idea explores how the presence of the viewer vindicates the existence of the art object, e.g. The viewer venerates the art object by coming to its temple/gallery to see it, the art object in turn, ritually welcomes and worships the viewer.

About the Artist:
Michael Bühler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Born in New Jersey, he lives and works in New York City. He received a Fulbright Fellowship to India, obtained his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and his MFA from University of Florida. Recent work and curated projects have been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Vogt Gallery, New York; Scaramouche, NY; Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai; Nature Morte, New Delhi; and Carroll and Sons, Boston. His work is held in the Sammlung Goetz, Munich, the SK Kultur Stiftung/Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, and the Harvard Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA. He is an instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design and The Cooper Union.

Cinderella
Syracuse City Ballet

Price: $51.50, $45.50, $31.50, $21.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

It Was Rape
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $10 film only, $20 pre-screening event and film
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In commemoration of International Women's Day, ArtRage Gallery and the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation are pleased to bring activist, author and filmmaker, Jennifer Baumgardner to Syracuse to present her 2013 film, It Was Rape, an intensely important documentary that explores sexual violence through the experiences of eight survivors. Rape is wrong, illegal, reprehensible--and yet still tragically common. In this film, eight women tell their diverse personal stories of sexual assault, from a Midwestern teenager trying alcohol for the first time to a Native American woman gradually coming to terms with her abusive childhood. Gripping and emotional, this film is an opportunity to empathize with people--not just absorb faceless statistics--and to puncture the silence and denial that allow sexual assault to thrive. Ultimately, these stories shed light on how this epidemic affects us all. Jennifer Baumgardner was an editor at Ms. magazine from 1993-1997. She is the author of five books, including Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future and Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism. Jennifer and her work have been featured in venues from Oprah to NPR, and BBC News Hour to Bitch Magazine.

The pre-screening event includes a Meet the Filmmaker reception and book signing at 5:30 pm.

Irish & Celtic Music

Price: Free
Paine Branch Library
113 Nichols, Syraucuse

Come enjoy Irish and Celtic music, with Gail Lyons, harp, and Selma Moore, flute. For more information, phone 315-435-5442.

Symphoria Cabaret Concert
Temple Society of Concord

Price: $40
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Guest conductor Travis Newton, with special guest artist, saxophonist Joe Carello, will lead the symphony on a journey through favorites by Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers, Berlin, and a visit to Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof".

An orchestra of 24 Symphoria musicians will perform at this cabaret-style concert in the Temple social hall. Dessert, wine and other beverages will be available for purchase. Reservations requested--seating is limited!

Joanne Troy Perry and the Unstoppables
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $10
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Concertante
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, $10 student
Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

Established in 1995, Concertante began as a string chamber orchestra, transforming over the years into a string sextet. The ensemble has received critical acclaim for performances spanning 41 states, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, as well as Canada, China, and Israel. This will be their third concert for SFCM.

R. Strauss String Sextet Op. 85, from "Capriccio"
Dvorák String Sextet in A Major, Op. 48
Brahms String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18

Second Saturday series: Andrew & Noah VanNorstrand
Westcott Community Center

Price: $15
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

The brothers from Fulton created a sensation last year at the WCC. They're back.

They began as teen prodigies and now they are an institution within the local trad-music scene, playing a wide variety of originals, well-known folks standards, and anything else that catches their fancy. Guitar, fiddle, mandolin—you never know what they'll pick up next. Last year's appearance at the Westcott Center was one of the true highlights of the year in local music; don't miss this encore.

For reservations, call 315-478-8634 before 4:30 pm Friday, March 7.

Library Boogie
Open Hand Theater
Tom Knight

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

Tom Knight is back again with his vibrant collection of original songs and skits that will keep even the very youngest children waiting to see what happens next. While Tom sings to his original music tracks, puppets like Henry the Magician, the Little Elephant, Andy the Recycling Guy, and Allie the Alligator act out the stories of the songs. Tom Knight's songs are easy to remember and fun to sing and most have a part for the audience, whether it is hand movements, dancing to the "Alligator Jump" or just singing along.

Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

A hilarious new comedy by David Henry Hwang about the misadventures of miscommunication. An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract, but the deal isn't the only thing lost in translation as he tangles with a government official, a bumbling consultant, and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat. Time magazine named Chinglish one of the best plays of 2011.

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Death of a Salesman
Central New York Playhouse
Kasey McHale, director

Price: $34.95 dinner theater, $20 show only
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Tonight's show will be preceded by dinner at 6:45 pm.

Arthur Miller's classic story revolves around the last days of Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness. Through a series of tragic soul-searching revelations of the life he has lived with his wife, his sons, and his business associates, we discover how his quest for the "American Dream" kept him blind to the people who truly loved him. A thrilling work of deep and revealing beauty that remains one of the most profound classic dramas of the American theatre.

Read a Review!

The Normal Heart
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Normal Heart is a largely autobiographical play by Larry Kramer. It focuses on the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks, the gay founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Ned prefers loud public confrontations to the calmer, more private strategies favored by his associates, friends, and closeted lover Felix Turner, none of whom is prepared to throw himself into the media spotlight. Their differences of opinion lead to frequent arguments that threaten to undermine their mutual goal. (Mature audiences 18+)

Read a review!

Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

A hilarious new comedy by David Henry Hwang about the misadventures of miscommunication. An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract, but the deal isn't the only thing lost in translation as he tangles with a government official, a bumbling consultant, and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat. Time magazine named Chinglish one of the best plays of 2011.

Read a Review!

Sunday, March 9, 2014

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Ice: Work by Bryan Hopkins and Jamie Young
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jamie Young is a Syracuse-area commercial and fine art photographer who studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His stunning photos in the Ice exhibition were taken on a 2012 trip to Iceland. Young said "the power of nature to constanlty change the landscape is more evident in Iceland than anywhere else on Earth." The images in the show feature ice formations and dynamic landscapes.

Ceramist Bryan Hopkins lives in Buffalo and teaches art at Niagara Community College. He recieved his MFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz. His sculptural and utilitarian ceramics are made with porcelain "following in in the lineage of fine china" and embody the physical qualities of the material, "strength, fagility, translucence".

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Dan Lenchner's collection of photos of Third Reich life makes the power of the "uncanny" visible. They are both strange and somehow familiar, these snapshots: Nazi officers at family picnics, weddings and christenings, relaxing off-duty and courting their sweethearts, along with mischievous boys at Hitler Youth summer camps, smiling nurses, teenage girls practicing their goose-step, nuns posing with former students in uniform. Here are the threads in the fabric of a nation given over to war, close to 70 years ago. Still we struggle with what to make of their deeds, which lie so outside the frame. Lenchner, a photographer himself, is acutely attuned to this quality about the truth of any image. His book quotes Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, that the "trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him...terribly and terrifyingly normal."

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

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

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Equilibrium: Works by Juan Alberto Cruz
Gallery 4040

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

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

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

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

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

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

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

Cinderella
Syracuse City Ballet

Price: $51.50, $45.50, $31.50, $21.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Pops Concert
Syracuse University Brass Ensemble
James T. Spencer, conductor

Price: Free
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Love and Light
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Society for New Music
Robert Cowles, conductor

Price: $20 regular, $18 seniors, $5 students
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

This collaborative performance by SVE and and Society for New Music features Lux Aeterna, a work for chorus and chamber orchestra by Morten Lauridsen, recipient of the 2007 Medal of Arts; and Valentines and Graffiti, a work for ensemble, soloist, clarinet and piano by Earl George.

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Death of a Salesman
Central New York Playhouse
Kasey McHale, director

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

Arthur Miller's classic story revolves around the last days of Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness. Through a series of tragic soul-searching revelations of the life he has lived with his wife, his sons, and his business associates, we discover how his quest for the "American Dream" kept him blind to the people who truly loved him. A thrilling work of deep and revealing beauty that remains one of the most profound classic dramas of the American theatre.

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Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

A hilarious new comedy by David Henry Hwang about the misadventures of miscommunication. An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract, but the deal isn't the only thing lost in translation as he tangles with a government official, a bumbling consultant, and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat. Time magazine named Chinglish one of the best plays of 2011.

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Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

A hilarious new comedy by David Henry Hwang about the misadventures of miscommunication. An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract, but the deal isn't the only thing lost in translation as he tangles with a government official, a bumbling consultant, and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat. Time magazine named Chinglish one of the best plays of 2011.

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Monday, March 10, 2014

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

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

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

It's a Zoo Out There
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Photography exhibit, consisting primarily of animals Kelly Parker has photographed during her travels to different zoos, most of which are in the CNY area. Parker has been photographing for more than 20 years but has recently begun to show her work publicly. She hopes that when you look through her photos you too can see some of the many images that she has seen through the lens of her camera.

Watercolors by Christy Lemp and Photographs by Chris Murray
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Gallery Exhibit: Lin Price--Realities, Dreams and Myths
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
These recent works are part of an ongoing series, which often features an "Everyman" character, who exists in invented painterly terrains. It is an alternate dream-like world that mirrors back to us the difficulties of daily existence and unspoken longings. And, although I've chosen to depict a particular model, there is an element of autobiography in many of the paintings.

Recurring themes emerge; work, isolation, stress, searching, anticipation, and caring, and I believe many people in our times can identify with them. The paintings are idiosyncratic and I attempt to execute them with empathy towards the human condition.

Through imagination, playful creation of abstracted spaces, and color composition, I attempt to show an inner world that is mysterious, somehow noble, and non-linear--as dreams and life often are.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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