Sunday, October 6, 2013

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

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2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

From the Earth: New Works in Wood and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

All Creatures Great and Small
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

All Creatures Great and Small will feature artwork that incorporates animals into the form and/or surface of ceramic vessels and sculptures, and as subject matter of paintings, photographs and prints. Participating artists include Fredrick Bartolovic and Michelle Strader, Shanna Fliegel, Bob Gates, Steven Godfrey, Tom Huff, Ron Meyers, Hannah Niswonger, Brooke Noble, Donnalee Peden, Matt Smith, Stacy Stanhope, and Lucie Wellner.

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their 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.

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

Combat Paper Redux
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, we have brought "Combat Paper" back to Syracuse! An earlier version of this exhibit featuring images on paper made out of shredded combat uniforms was our Grand Opening exhibition in October 2008. The Combat Paper project began as art therapy utilizing paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and yes...Vietnam.

While anti-war activists are portrayed as unpatriotic and focused only on the negative, the project has proven to have a positive impact on veterans, serving as a visceral statement of the long-lasting effects of combat and as a catalyst for community discussion and activism. The art comes to us from all across this country with a special nod to the work from the Combat Paper Studio in Ithaca.

A companion piece to the paper-making project is the Warrior Writers' Project where veterans are encouraged through workshops to write about their feelings since coming home. The words have been printed on hand-made combat paper and bound into books. This project provides an opportunity for veterans to come together and connect, reconcile and heal through sharing their words with each other. We will feature a Warrior Writers' event and journal making workshop with vets from Ithaca during the exhibition.

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Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

Using blood collected from a slaughterhouse as his primary medium, the artist explores ideas about transformation, death, and rebirth. Jordan Eagles encases the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin panels; mounted on the gallery walls they create a sublime environment that envelops and engages the viewer. The exhibition title, "Red Giant," refers to a luminous giant star in its final phase of stellar evolution—what our Sun will become in five billion years—while also referencing the intense, potent color of blood. The abstract patterns and forms in the works may suggest internal organs as well as cosmological phenomena like solar storms, sunspots, craters, meteorites, and supernova explosions.

Eagles' works are in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Everson Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Causey Contemporary and Krause Gallery, New York; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.He has been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, L'Uomo Vogue, Architectural Digest and Wired.

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Advanced Painting
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Advanced Painting is an exhibition of recent work by senior and graduate painting students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts Department of Art.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com, or phone XL Projects at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

The Peace & Social Justice Showcase
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular, $5 AARP members, free for SU and Le Moyne students
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This year the showcase focuses on the films of George Gittoes: Miscreants of Taliwood, Love City Jalalabad, Snow Monkey. Gittoes is an Australian poet, photo-journalist, writer, filmmaker, painter and activist whose career has focused on documenting civil unrest and social turmoil around the world, exploring the ever optimistic human spirit in the face of the dangers and chaos of war. The award winning short Asad (2012, 18 minutes) by Bryan Buckley will also be screened.

PIXAR and the Making of Wall-E
Syracuse International Film Festival
Featuring Jim Morris

Price: $15 for 1/$25 for 2 regular ("for 2" price only available at the door); $5 children under 12; $8 student/AARP members
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Syracuse International Film Festival will present Jim Morris at the Landmark Theatre. He will talk about the making of Wall-E, which was his first film as Executive Vice President of PIXAR. Wall-E received 52 major awards, including the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and the New York Film Critic's award for Best Feature Animation.

This award-winning film will be shown in 35mm with Jim giving insight and behind-the-scenes info about the film.

Adult World
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $20 for 1, $35 for 2 regular; $15 for 1, $25 for 2 AARP members ("for 2" price only available at the door))
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The long-awaited Syracuse premier of Adult World, directed by Scott Coffey. Produced by Syracuse native Justin Nappi, Adult World was shot in Syracuse and stars John Cusak, Emma Roberts, and Amanda Riesco, with Cloris Leachman in a featured role. As you may know, the film premiered earlier this year in the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The storyline: a recent college grad who hopes to be a great poet finds herself working in an adult bookstore.

We've been told that some of the cast will make a guest appearance, but so far the names are still a secret! Come find out who shows up and join the celebration.

There will be a pre-event party at 6:00 pm: $40 for 1/$75 for 2. Includes food, beverage and complimentary 10th anniversary wine glass.

The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

Restoring the Stickley House
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Steven Kern

Price: $10 regular, $5 with student ID
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Steven Kern's talk promises to delight the many east side neighbors who have watched in distress as the Stickley House on Columbus Avenue has been neglected for years. Steven is the director of the Everson Museum which has taken on the role of restoring the Stickley House. He will share plans for restoration of the property as a historic house and museum satellite, with special attention to the unique and beautiful craftsman interior.

Sunday Musicale: Angelo Candela's Jazz Troup
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: $5 suggested donation
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

Angelo Candela's Jazz Troup features Angelo Candela, John Piazza, Bob Cesari, Brian Murphy, Mike Solazzo, and Chris Jones.

Greater Syracuse Honors Youth Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band
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.

Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazengarb

Price: $30
Sheraton Syracuse University Grand Ballroom
801 University Ave., Syracuse

Loren and Mark do a fund raiser for Signature Music.

The Drowsy Chaperone
TheaterFirst Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $30 regular, $28 seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

If you like La Cage then you're going to LOVE The Drowsy Chaperone, the five-time Tony Award winner that's a hilarious tribute to everything we love about the good old-fashioned musical. Music & Lyrics by Lisa Lambert & Greg Morrison and Book by Bob Martin & Don McKellar.

For tickets, call the box office at 315-703-3333.

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Blithe Spirit
Syracuse Stage
Michael Barakeva, director

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

The funniest ghost story ever written. Novelist Charles Condomine enlists Madame Arcati, one of the most delightfully eccentric characters you will ever meet, to hold a séance at his home hoping to raise some ideas for a new book. Instead, she raises the ghost of his former wife, Elvira, who is determined to wreak havoc (and succeeds) on Charles' current marriage to Ruth. Recently revived on Broadway to hilarious effect, Blithe Spirit is one of Noel Coward's most sparkling comedies.

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Monday, October 7, 2013

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Louise Woodard's exhibit is a record of her investigation and discoveries in nature. It is an attempt through representation and design to communicate to others her visual and imaginative impressions. Certain images are depicted as the original subject; some parts are excluded; some enhanced, with the purpose of creating new visuals. The exhibit includes original watercolor paintings and drawings.

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement: My work is an attempt to illustrate transcendence. I believe that repetition is the foundation of clarity. The use of repeated patterns in my work serves the same function that a mantra does in meditation. The techniques I employ, screenprinting and non-traditional paint application, give the work the appearance of mechanical reproduction. The diminished evidence of the human hand creates a visual purity.

Kevin Mullins was born in Oklahoma and raised in New York. He received a A.A.S. in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina and completed a Master's Program in Printmaking at the Cheksea School of Art, London, England with graduate studies at Bariff School of Fine Art, Canada and the Institute Allende, Mexico. Mullins spent five years at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, leaving practice.

Mullins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship and grants from the Brandywine Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, the Wuritzer Foundation, Taos, NM and the New York State Arts Council. In 2003 he was an Artist-in-Residence at Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Japan.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Mixed media works. Listen to the stories. Become a part of the tale. Find the magic within you.

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

From the Earth: New Works in Wood and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

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Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

The Syracuse Poster Project, established in 2001, brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the city's poster panels. Each year they produce 16 art posters, each featuring an illustrated poem about the downtown, the city, or the nearby countryside. The Project enlivens the city, builds community, and spreads its value by selling poster prints and poster-related products.

Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone. Cast: Sidney Toler, Sen Yung, Phyllis Brooks, George Zucco, Marc Lawrence, Richard Lane.

Toler's first film as Chan finds the famous detective trying to solve a murder on a docked cruise ship.

Red Elvises, with Et Tu Bruce
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Louise Woodard's exhibit is a record of her investigation and discoveries in nature. It is an attempt through representation and design to communicate to others her visual and imaginative impressions. Certain images are depicted as the original subject; some parts are excluded; some enhanced, with the purpose of creating new visuals. The exhibit includes original watercolor paintings and drawings.

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement: My work is an attempt to illustrate transcendence. I believe that repetition is the foundation of clarity. The use of repeated patterns in my work serves the same function that a mantra does in meditation. The techniques I employ, screenprinting and non-traditional paint application, give the work the appearance of mechanical reproduction. The diminished evidence of the human hand creates a visual purity.

Kevin Mullins was born in Oklahoma and raised in New York. He received a A.A.S. in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina and completed a Master's Program in Printmaking at the Cheksea School of Art, London, England with graduate studies at Bariff School of Fine Art, Canada and the Institute Allende, Mexico. Mullins spent five years at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, leaving practice.

Mullins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship and grants from the Brandywine Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, the Wuritzer Foundation, Taos, NM and the New York State Arts Council. In 2003 he was an Artist-in-Residence at Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Japan.

Re-emergence
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Recent work by Michael Teres, professor in the Art Department at SUNY Geneseo. Works on exhibit are photographs that have been highly manipulated using Adobe Photoshop.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Mixed media works. Listen to the stories. Become a part of the tale. Find the magic within you.

Creative Rapport
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Mary Padgett shows her pastel florals, still lifes, and landscapes reflecting her passion for color, light and texture.
Wendy Harris, a former student of Mary Padgett, exhibits her interpretations of light and texture through cloudscape and landscape pastel paintings.
Michelle DaRin exhibits enamel and mixed media jewelry.
Stephen Brucker displays his art glass forms drawing attention to the delicacy and impermanence of nature.

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

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

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

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

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From the Earth: New Works in Wood and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

Meet the Pen Women
Gallery One Fourteen

Gallery One Fourteen
114 Helen St., Syracuse

An exhibit of the visual and literary work of members of the CNY Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

Read a review!

2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

The Syracuse Poster Project, established in 2001, brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the city's poster panels. Each year they produce 16 art posters, each featuring an illustrated poem about the downtown, the city, or the nearby countryside. The Project enlivens the city, builds community, and spreads its value by selling poster prints and poster-related products.

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

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.

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their art.

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

Using blood collected from a slaughterhouse as his primary medium, the artist explores ideas about transformation, death, and rebirth. Jordan Eagles encases the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin panels; mounted on the gallery walls they create a sublime environment that envelops and engages the viewer. The exhibition title, "Red Giant," refers to a luminous giant star in its final phase of stellar evolution—what our Sun will become in five billion years—while also referencing the intense, potent color of blood. The abstract patterns and forms in the works may suggest internal organs as well as cosmological phenomena like solar storms, sunspots, craters, meteorites, and supernova explosions.

Eagles' works are in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Everson Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Causey Contemporary and Krause Gallery, New York; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.He has been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, L'Uomo Vogue, Architectural Digest and Wired.

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Iraq Paper Scissors
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Iraq Paper Scissors," a documentary by filmmaker Sara Nesson, reveals both the papermaking process and the process of healing found in shredding those uniforms, that second skin worn while engaging in violence. Seeing this film and watching the actual creation of many of the artworks currently on our walls, is something you don't want to miss. Even if you've seen it before, you've never seen it like this. (2010, 45 minutes)

A Conversation with Tony Kushner
University Lectures

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In a profile of Tony Kushner published in The New Yorker, John Lahr wrote that Kushner "takes an almost carnal glee in tackling the most difficult subjects in contemporary history—among them, AIDS and the conservative counter-revolution; Afghanistan and the West; German Fascism and Reaganism; the rise of capitalism; and racism and the civil rights movement in the South. He gives voice to characters who have been rendered powerless by the forces of circumstances," and "forces the audience to identify with the marginalized – a humanizing act of the imagination."

Kushner is best known for his two-part epic Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. His other plays include A Bright Room Called Day; Slavs!; Hydriotaphia; Homebody/Kabul; and Caroline, or Change, the musical for which he wrote book and lyrics. Kushner has translated and adapted Pierre Corneille's The Illusion, S.Y. Ansky's The Dybbuk, Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan and Mother Courage and Her Children, and the English-language libretto for the children's opera Brundibár by Hans Krasa. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols' film of Angels in America, and Steven Spielberg's Munich, as well as Spielberg's movie Lincoln. His books include But the Giraffe, A Curtain Raising and Brundibar: the Libretto, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; The Art of Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the Present; and Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon. His latest work includes a collection of one-act plays entitled Tiny Kushner, featuring characters such as Laura Bush, Nixon's analyst, the queen of Albania, and a number of tax evaders, and The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, which premiered at the Guthrie Theatre in May 2009, opened in New York in May 2011.

Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an Emmy Award, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, an Oscar nomination, an Arts Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels Award for a Mid-Career Playwright, a Spirit of Justice Award from the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, and a Cultural Achievement Award from The National Foundation for Jewish Culture, among many others. In 2008, Kushner became the first recipient of the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, the largest theater award in the U.S. He was also awarded the 2009 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for lifetime achievement. He is the subject of a documentary film, "Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner," made by the Oscar-winning filmmaker Freida Lee Mock.

Wagner and Verdi
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Verdi "Vedi! Le fosche notturne spoglie" (The Anvil Chorus) from Il Trovatore
Verdi "Va, pensiero" from Nabucco
Wagner Treulich Gefuhrt (Bridal Chorus) from Lohengrin

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.

Hello, Dolly!
Broadway in Syracuse
Featuring Sally Struthers

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

Winner of ten Tony Awards including Best Musical, Hello, Dolly! is one of the most enduring Broadway classics. Emmy-award winning Sally Struthers (All In the Family, Gilmore Girls) stars as the strong-willed matchmaker Dolly, as she travels to Yonkers, NY, to find a match for the ornery "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. Featuring an irresistible story and an unforgettable score including the title song, Put on Your Sunday Clothes, It Only Takes A Moment, and the show-stopping Before the Parade Passes By, Hello, Dolly! has been charming audiences around the world for nearly 50 years.

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Louise Woodard's exhibit is a record of her investigation and discoveries in nature. It is an attempt through representation and design to communicate to others her visual and imaginative impressions. Certain images are depicted as the original subject; some parts are excluded; some enhanced, with the purpose of creating new visuals. The exhibit includes original watercolor paintings and drawings.

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement: My work is an attempt to illustrate transcendence. I believe that repetition is the foundation of clarity. The use of repeated patterns in my work serves the same function that a mantra does in meditation. The techniques I employ, screenprinting and non-traditional paint application, give the work the appearance of mechanical reproduction. The diminished evidence of the human hand creates a visual purity.

Kevin Mullins was born in Oklahoma and raised in New York. He received a A.A.S. in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina and completed a Master's Program in Printmaking at the Cheksea School of Art, London, England with graduate studies at Bariff School of Fine Art, Canada and the Institute Allende, Mexico. Mullins spent five years at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, leaving practice.

Mullins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship and grants from the Brandywine Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, the Wuritzer Foundation, Taos, NM and the New York State Arts Council. In 2003 he was an Artist-in-Residence at Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Japan.

Re-emergence
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Recent work by Michael Teres, professor in the Art Department at SUNY Geneseo. Works on exhibit are photographs that have been highly manipulated using Adobe Photoshop.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Mixed media works. Listen to the stories. Become a part of the tale. Find the magic within you.

Creative Rapport
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Mary Padgett shows her pastel florals, still lifes, and landscapes reflecting her passion for color, light and texture.
Wendy Harris, a former student of Mary Padgett, exhibits her interpretations of light and texture through cloudscape and landscape pastel paintings.
Michelle DaRin exhibits enamel and mixed media jewelry.
Stephen Brucker displays his art glass forms drawing attention to the delicacy and impermanence of nature.

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

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

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

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

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From the Earth: New Works in Wood and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

Meet the Pen Women
Gallery One Fourteen

Gallery One Fourteen
114 Helen St., Syracuse

An exhibit of the visual and literary work of members of the CNY Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

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Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

The Syracuse Poster Project, established in 2001, brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the city's poster panels. Each year they produce 16 art posters, each featuring an illustrated poem about the downtown, the city, or the nearby countryside. The Project enlivens the city, builds community, and spreads its value by selling poster prints and poster-related products.

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their 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.

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

Using blood collected from a slaughterhouse as his primary medium, the artist explores ideas about transformation, death, and rebirth. Jordan Eagles encases the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin panels; mounted on the gallery walls they create a sublime environment that envelops and engages the viewer. The exhibition title, "Red Giant," refers to a luminous giant star in its final phase of stellar evolution—what our Sun will become in five billion years—while also referencing the intense, potent color of blood. The abstract patterns and forms in the works may suggest internal organs as well as cosmological phenomena like solar storms, sunspots, craters, meteorites, and supernova explosions.

Eagles' works are in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Everson Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Causey Contemporary and Krause Gallery, New York; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.He has been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, L'Uomo Vogue, Architectural Digest and Wired.

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FULL
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

FULL is an exhibition of work by 13 sculpture students in the Department of Art who each produced 70 sculptures.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Nourish: An Exploration of Consumption
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

With an overabundance of food, we are a culture obsessed with our next meal. The harsh reality is that much of the food produced goes to waste while others still go hungry at night. For this exhibition, the artists will explore the differing ways that people choose to nourish themselves and how it is reflective of who we are as a society and as an individual. The participating artists are Cynthia Herrera, Marisa Jahn and Steve Shada, Tattfoo Tan, various artists from the Hudson Valley Seed Library, and Viviane Le Courtois.

Combat Paper Redux
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, we have brought "Combat Paper" back to Syracuse! An earlier version of this exhibit featuring images on paper made out of shredded combat uniforms was our Grand Opening exhibition in October 2008. The Combat Paper project began as art therapy utilizing paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and yes...Vietnam.

While anti-war activists are portrayed as unpatriotic and focused only on the negative, the project has proven to have a positive impact on veterans, serving as a visceral statement of the long-lasting effects of combat and as a catalyst for community discussion and activism. The art comes to us from all across this country with a special nod to the work from the Combat Paper Studio in Ithaca.

A companion piece to the paper-making project is the Warrior Writers' Project where veterans are encouraged through workshops to write about their feelings since coming home. The words have been printed on hand-made combat paper and bound into books. This project provides an opportunity for veterans to come together and connect, reconcile and heal through sharing their words with each other. We will feature a Warrior Writers' event and journal making workshop with vets from Ithaca during the exhibition.

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The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

Lunchtime Lectures: America's Calling
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Join SUArt Galleries Associate Director and Curator of Collections David Prince as he highlights specific artists in "America's Calling," an exhibition of 16 works by 15 foreign-born artists who were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands.

Lake Effect Winds
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Anatoly Liadov Russian Folk Songs
Darius Milhaud Suite d'après Corrette (Op. 161b, 1937)
Malcolm Arnold Wind Quintet

Tom McKay, clarinet; Beth Scott, flute; Kathryn Dimmel, oboe; Margie Hawthorne, horn; Jill Bushnell, bassoon

Melvin Seals & JGB, with Universal Transit
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Etgar Keret
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The reading is preceded by a question-and-answer session from 3:45-4:30 pm.

Hello, Dolly!
Broadway in Syracuse
Featuring Sally Struthers

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

Winner of ten Tony Awards including Best Musical, Hello, Dolly! is one of the most enduring Broadway classics. Emmy-award winning Sally Struthers (All In the Family, Gilmore Girls) stars as the strong-willed matchmaker Dolly, as she travels to Yonkers, NY, to find a match for the ornery "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. Featuring an irresistible story and an unforgettable score including the title song, Put on Your Sunday Clothes, It Only Takes A Moment, and the show-stopping Before the Parade Passes By, Hello, Dolly! has been charming audiences around the world for nearly 50 years.

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Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $30 regular, $20 non-members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This rock and roll musical tells the story of America's first political maverick. A.J. kicked British butt, shafted the Indians and smacked down the Spaniards all in the name of these United States—who cares if he didn't have permission? Music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, book by Alex Timbers.

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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Louise Woodard's exhibit is a record of her investigation and discoveries in nature. It is an attempt through representation and design to communicate to others her visual and imaginative impressions. Certain images are depicted as the original subject; some parts are excluded; some enhanced, with the purpose of creating new visuals. The exhibit includes original watercolor paintings and drawings.

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement: My work is an attempt to illustrate transcendence. I believe that repetition is the foundation of clarity. The use of repeated patterns in my work serves the same function that a mantra does in meditation. The techniques I employ, screenprinting and non-traditional paint application, give the work the appearance of mechanical reproduction. The diminished evidence of the human hand creates a visual purity.

Kevin Mullins was born in Oklahoma and raised in New York. He received a A.A.S. in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina and completed a Master's Program in Printmaking at the Cheksea School of Art, London, England with graduate studies at Bariff School of Fine Art, Canada and the Institute Allende, Mexico. Mullins spent five years at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, leaving practice.

Mullins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship and grants from the Brandywine Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, the Wuritzer Foundation, Taos, NM and the New York State Arts Council. In 2003 he was an Artist-in-Residence at Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Japan.

Re-emergence
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Recent work by Michael Teres, professor in the Art Department at SUNY Geneseo. Works on exhibit are photographs that have been highly manipulated using Adobe Photoshop.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Mixed media works. Listen to the stories. Become a part of the tale. Find the magic within you.

Creative Rapport
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Mary Padgett shows her pastel florals, still lifes, and landscapes reflecting her passion for color, light and texture.
Wendy Harris, a former student of Mary Padgett, exhibits her interpretations of light and texture through cloudscape and landscape pastel paintings.
Michelle DaRin exhibits enamel and mixed media jewelry.
Stephen Brucker displays his art glass forms drawing attention to the delicacy and impermanence of nature.

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

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

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

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

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From the Earth: New Works in Wood and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

Meet the Pen Women
Gallery One Fourteen

Gallery One Fourteen
114 Helen St., Syracuse

An exhibit of the visual and literary work of members of the CNY Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

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2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

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.

Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

The Syracuse Poster Project, established in 2001, brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the city's poster panels. Each year they produce 16 art posters, each featuring an illustrated poem about the downtown, the city, or the nearby countryside. The Project enlivens the city, builds community, and spreads its value by selling poster prints and poster-related products.

All Creatures Great and Small
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

All Creatures Great and Small will feature artwork that incorporates animals into the form and/or surface of ceramic vessels and sculptures, and as subject matter of paintings, photographs and prints. Participating artists include Fredrick Bartolovic and Michelle Strader, Shanna Fliegel, Bob Gates, Steven Godfrey, Tom Huff, Ron Meyers, Hannah Niswonger, Brooke Noble, Donnalee Peden, Matt Smith, Stacy Stanhope, and Lucie Wellner.

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

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.

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their art.

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

Using blood collected from a slaughterhouse as his primary medium, the artist explores ideas about transformation, death, and rebirth. Jordan Eagles encases the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin panels; mounted on the gallery walls they create a sublime environment that envelops and engages the viewer. The exhibition title, "Red Giant," refers to a luminous giant star in its final phase of stellar evolution—what our Sun will become in five billion years—while also referencing the intense, potent color of blood. The abstract patterns and forms in the works may suggest internal organs as well as cosmological phenomena like solar storms, sunspots, craters, meteorites, and supernova explosions.

Eagles' works are in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Everson Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Causey Contemporary and Krause Gallery, New York; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.He has been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, L'Uomo Vogue, Architectural Digest and Wired.

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FULL
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

FULL is an exhibition of work by 13 sculpture students in the Department of Art who each produced 70 sculptures.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Nourish: An Exploration of Consumption
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

With an overabundance of food, we are a culture obsessed with our next meal. The harsh reality is that much of the food produced goes to waste while others still go hungry at night. For this exhibition, the artists will explore the differing ways that people choose to nourish themselves and how it is reflective of who we are as a society and as an individual. The participating artists are Cynthia Herrera, Marisa Jahn and Steve Shada, Tattfoo Tan, various artists from the Hudson Valley Seed Library, and Viviane Le Courtois.

Combat Paper Redux
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, we have brought "Combat Paper" back to Syracuse! An earlier version of this exhibit featuring images on paper made out of shredded combat uniforms was our Grand Opening exhibition in October 2008. The Combat Paper project began as art therapy utilizing paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and yes...Vietnam.

While anti-war activists are portrayed as unpatriotic and focused only on the negative, the project has proven to have a positive impact on veterans, serving as a visceral statement of the long-lasting effects of combat and as a catalyst for community discussion and activism. The art comes to us from all across this country with a special nod to the work from the Combat Paper Studio in Ithaca.

A companion piece to the paper-making project is the Warrior Writers' Project where veterans are encouraged through workshops to write about their feelings since coming home. The words have been printed on hand-made combat paper and bound into books. This project provides an opportunity for veterans to come together and connect, reconcile and heal through sharing their words with each other. We will feature a Warrior Writers' event and journal making workshop with vets from Ithaca during the exhibition.

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Platonic: Dani Leventhal
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Dani Leventhal's Platonic, geometric specters twirl in space; pet cats foam at the mouth; a little boy mistakes his junkie dad for a superhero; and a confused adolescent worries he has sired a centaur. Platonic references both the ancient philosopher's metaphysics of ideal Forms, which simultaneously exist outside our perceptions and yet give rise to them, and the related meaning in common parlance of non-romantic love. Leventhal trains her searching lens on the distance separating bodies, moments, and perspectives. The result is a study in the awkward gaps between appearance and reality, seeing and understanding, desire and its object. (21:33 minutes)

Bomba and Plena Festival
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

A colorful ending of Hispanic Heritage Month with Puerto Rican Bomba! We invite our communities to come together for this event, a festivity of Caribbean rhythms, live music by José Mora and Pleneros D' Borikén, and dance performance by La Casita's own Bomba & Plena Dance Troupe and the Syracuse University student troupe, Raíces.

"What If...?" Film Series: Empowered: Power from the People
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Tompkins County, NY, is one of the cloudiest, least windy places in the country, and yet its residents are proving that we can meet our energy needs through totally renewable resources. From solar and wind to veggie oil and geothermal, "Empowered: Power from the People" tells the story of one community's role in the energy independence revolution. The film will be followed by a facilitated discussion. Directed by Shira Golding Evergreen. (2012, 76 minutes)

The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

Bruised Orange in the Salt City--A Birthday Celebration of John Prine
Westcott Theater
Featuring Los Blancos with George Newton and Joel Kane

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Featuring special guests Tim Herron, Shirley Woodcock-Kolb, Jeff Jones, Larry Hoyt, Sharon Allen, Mark Hoffmann, Scott Wilson, Annabel Hine-Otts, Kim Monroe, and Chris Eves.

Low Noon
Acme Mystery Company

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

Welcome to Hadleyville, the most lawless place in the whole Territory of New Mexico. What makes this place so bad? Why, that would be you, pardner, and all the other low-down snakes that live here. Problem is that Statehood is coming and the Federales are looking to pull this place right out from under you. The undertaker, Ewell Dye, has called a town meeting at the Ramirez Saloon to figure out what to do. Watch your back, buckaroo. Folks are about to get even nastier.

Hello, Dolly!
Broadway in Syracuse
Featuring Sally Struthers

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

Winner of ten Tony Awards including Best Musical, Hello, Dolly! is one of the most enduring Broadway classics. Emmy-award winning Sally Struthers (All In the Family, Gilmore Girls) stars as the strong-willed matchmaker Dolly, as she travels to Yonkers, NY, to find a match for the ornery "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. Featuring an irresistible story and an unforgettable score including the title song, Put on Your Sunday Clothes, It Only Takes A Moment, and the show-stopping Before the Parade Passes By, Hello, Dolly! has been charming audiences around the world for nearly 50 years.

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Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $30 regular, $20 non-members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This rock and roll musical tells the story of America's first political maverick. A.J. kicked British butt, shafted the Indians and smacked down the Spaniards all in the name of these United States—who cares if he didn't have permission? Music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, book by Alex Timbers.

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Seussical
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Lowenstein, director

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

Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (a Tony-winning duo—Lucky Stiff, Once on this Island, Ragtime). It brings to life all the favorite Dr. Seuss characters including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie, and a little boy with a big imagination—Jojo. The colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos. Musical direction by Brian Cimmet; choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith.

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Friday, October 11, 2013

The Wisest Man Series: The Irish Language Through Time
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit featuring subtle speech and images from the Blasket Islands to Tipperary Hill by John Francis McCarthy.

For more information, call 315-445-4153. Co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Irish Literature Program.

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Louise Woodard's exhibit is a record of her investigation and discoveries in nature. It is an attempt through representation and design to communicate to others her visual and imaginative impressions. Certain images are depicted as the original subject; some parts are excluded; some enhanced, with the purpose of creating new visuals. The exhibit includes original watercolor paintings and drawings.

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement: My work is an attempt to illustrate transcendence. I believe that repetition is the foundation of clarity. The use of repeated patterns in my work serves the same function that a mantra does in meditation. The techniques I employ, screenprinting and non-traditional paint application, give the work the appearance of mechanical reproduction. The diminished evidence of the human hand creates a visual purity.

Kevin Mullins was born in Oklahoma and raised in New York. He received a A.A.S. in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina and completed a Master's Program in Printmaking at the Cheksea School of Art, London, England with graduate studies at Bariff School of Fine Art, Canada and the Institute Allende, Mexico. Mullins spent five years at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, leaving practice.

Mullins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship and grants from the Brandywine Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, the Wuritzer Foundation, Taos, NM and the New York State Arts Council. In 2003 he was an Artist-in-Residence at Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Japan.

Re-emergence
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Recent work by Michael Teres, professor in the Art Department at SUNY Geneseo. Works on exhibit are photographs that have been highly manipulated using Adobe Photoshop.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Mixed media works. Listen to the stories. Become a part of the tale. Find the magic within you.

Creative Rapport
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Mary Padgett shows her pastel florals, still lifes, and landscapes reflecting her passion for color, light and texture.
Wendy Harris, a former student of Mary Padgett, exhibits her interpretations of light and texture through cloudscape and landscape pastel paintings.
Michelle DaRin exhibits enamel and mixed media jewelry.
Stephen Brucker displays his art glass forms drawing attention to the delicacy and impermanence of nature.

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

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

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

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

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From the Earth: New Works in Wood and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

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Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

The Syracuse Poster Project, established in 2001, brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the city's poster panels. Each year they produce 16 art posters, each featuring an illustrated poem about the downtown, the city, or the nearby countryside. The Project enlivens the city, builds community, and spreads its value by selling poster prints and poster-related products.

All Creatures Great and Small
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

All Creatures Great and Small will feature artwork that incorporates animals into the form and/or surface of ceramic vessels and sculptures, and as subject matter of paintings, photographs and prints. Participating artists include Fredrick Bartolovic and Michelle Strader, Shanna Fliegel, Bob Gates, Steven Godfrey, Tom Huff, Ron Meyers, Hannah Niswonger, Brooke Noble, Donnalee Peden, Matt Smith, Stacy Stanhope, and Lucie Wellner.

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their 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.

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

Using blood collected from a slaughterhouse as his primary medium, the artist explores ideas about transformation, death, and rebirth. Jordan Eagles encases the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin panels; mounted on the gallery walls they create a sublime environment that envelops and engages the viewer. The exhibition title, "Red Giant," refers to a luminous giant star in its final phase of stellar evolution—what our Sun will become in five billion years—while also referencing the intense, potent color of blood. The abstract patterns and forms in the works may suggest internal organs as well as cosmological phenomena like solar storms, sunspots, craters, meteorites, and supernova explosions.

Eagles' works are in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Everson Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Causey Contemporary and Krause Gallery, New York; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.He has been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, L'Uomo Vogue, Architectural Digest and Wired.

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FULL
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

FULL is an exhibition of work by 13 sculpture students in the Department of Art who each produced 70 sculptures.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Nourish: An Exploration of Consumption
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

With an overabundance of food, we are a culture obsessed with our next meal. The harsh reality is that much of the food produced goes to waste while others still go hungry at night. For this exhibition, the artists will explore the differing ways that people choose to nourish themselves and how it is reflective of who we are as a society and as an individual. The participating artists are Cynthia Herrera, Marisa Jahn and Steve Shada, Tattfoo Tan, various artists from the Hudson Valley Seed Library, and Viviane Le Courtois.

Combat Paper Redux
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, we have brought "Combat Paper" back to Syracuse! An earlier version of this exhibit featuring images on paper made out of shredded combat uniforms was our Grand Opening exhibition in October 2008. The Combat Paper project began as art therapy utilizing paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and yes...Vietnam.

While anti-war activists are portrayed as unpatriotic and focused only on the negative, the project has proven to have a positive impact on veterans, serving as a visceral statement of the long-lasting effects of combat and as a catalyst for community discussion and activism. The art comes to us from all across this country with a special nod to the work from the Combat Paper Studio in Ithaca.

A companion piece to the paper-making project is the Warrior Writers' Project where veterans are encouraged through workshops to write about their feelings since coming home. The words have been printed on hand-made combat paper and bound into books. This project provides an opportunity for veterans to come together and connect, reconcile and heal through sharing their words with each other. We will feature a Warrior Writers' event and journal making workshop with vets from Ithaca during the exhibition.

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Platonic: Dani Leventhal
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Dani Leventhal's Platonic, geometric specters twirl in space; pet cats foam at the mouth; a little boy mistakes his junkie dad for a superhero; and a confused adolescent worries he has sired a centaur. Platonic references both the ancient philosopher's metaphysics of ideal Forms, which simultaneously exist outside our perceptions and yet give rise to them, and the related meaning in common parlance of non-romantic love. Leventhal trains her searching lens on the distance separating bodies, moments, and perspectives. The result is a study in the awkward gaps between appearance and reality, seeing and understanding, desire and its object. (21:33 minutes)

Rediscoverting World Cinema: Orson Welles Jane Eyre
ArtRage Gallery

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

Directed by Robert Stevenson, with Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine. Charlotte Bronte's timeless classic has been lensed 20 times and this one is often regarded best. Here is Welles in his first firepower starring role. And wait till you see ten-year-old Elizabeth Taylor! (1944, 97 minutes)

The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

Quench Your Mind
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Tea conversations with artist Viviane Le Courtois.

Jazz@Sitrus: Melissa Gardiner Organ Trio
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

The Melissa Gardiner Organ Trio originated from a weekly gig in Harlem, where the audience of local residents really helped to shape the direction of the group. The result was soulful, swinging, rhythmic interpretations of jazz standards and original music that really grooves, with influences from the gospel and R&B tradition. Musical artist inspirations range from Duke Ellington and JJ Johnson to Wycliffe Gordon and Trombone Shorty. Melissa will be playing selections from her album, Transitions, as well as some new original music and covers by artists such as Norah Jones, Erykah Badu and Radiohead. Melissa Gardiner on trombone/voice will be joined by Noah Kellman on organ and Malik Washington on drums.

Dubl Handi
Folkus Project

Price: $10
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Old-time music with a modern twist.

Dubl Handi is Hilary Hawke, banjo and vocals; Ernie Vega, guitar and vocals; and Brian Geltner, percussion. In the tradition of folk music around the world, rhythmic groove is the pervasive thread, Dubl Handi uses percussion, guitar, drums, vocals and banjo to play songs from America's Appalachian region.

Faculty Recital Series: Harumi Rhodes, violin
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Featuring works by Beethoven.

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.

Conspirator, with Solaris, Mister F
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Tragedy of Carmen
Syracuse Opera

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

Bizet's Carmen has become one of the most beloved operas of all times. The story of the lovelorn gypsy, her naïve soldier Don Jose, his childhood sweetheart Micaëla, and the dashing toreador Escamillo fulfill a story laden with immorality, lawlessness, jealousy, and rage. The music features brilliant melodies, captivating rhythms, and emotional punch.

In 1981, the acclaimed stage and film director Peter Brook created an adaptation called La Tragedie de Carmen. He retained all of the beloved melodies of Bizet's original score, reduced the orchestra, eliminated the chorus and secondary roles to intensify the original story told through the eyes of the operas four leading characters--the gypsy, the solider, the village girl, and the bullfighter. The result is an intense, passionate glimpse into the psychology of these iconoclastic characters.

It will be sung in French with projected English translations above the stage.

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Any Number Can Die
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

There's a mystery afoot! Set in the 1920s, this comedy/mystery from the pen of Fred Carmichael includes all the elements of the csassic mysteries: The dark and stormy night ... the Last Will read at midnight ... robed figures and Secret passageways. The two elderly detectives will have their hands full solving these murders!

For more information, call the ticket number at 315-877-8465.

Inherit the Wind
Central New York Playhouse
Sharee Lemos, director

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

One of the best courtroom dramas of all time comes to life! Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.

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The Drowsy Chaperone
TheaterFirst Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $30 regular, $28 seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

If you like La Cage then you're going to LOVE The Drowsy Chaperone, the five-time Tony Award winner that's a hilarious tribute to everything we love about the good old-fashioned musical. Music & Lyrics by Lisa Lambert & Greg Morrison and Book by Bob Martin & Don McKellar.

For tickets, call the box office at 315-703-3333.

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Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $30 regular, $20 non-members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This rock and roll musical tells the story of America's first political maverick. A.J. kicked British butt, shafted the Indians and smacked down the Spaniards all in the name of these United States—who cares if he didn't have permission? Music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, book by Alex Timbers.

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Seussical
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Lowenstein, director

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

Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (a Tony-winning duo—Lucky Stiff, Once on this Island, Ragtime). It brings to life all the favorite Dr. Seuss characters including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie, and a little boy with a big imagination—Jojo. The colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos. Musical direction by Brian Cimmet; choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith.

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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

The Wisest Man Series: The Irish Language Through Time
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit featuring subtle speech and images from the Blasket Islands to Tipperary Hill by John Francis McCarthy.

For more information, call 315-445-4153. Co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Irish Literature Program.

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Louise Woodard's exhibit is a record of her investigation and discoveries in nature. It is an attempt through representation and design to communicate to others her visual and imaginative impressions. Certain images are depicted as the original subject; some parts are excluded; some enhanced, with the purpose of creating new visuals. The exhibit includes original watercolor paintings and drawings.

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.

Creative Rapport
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Mary Padgett shows her pastel florals, still lifes, and landscapes reflecting her passion for color, light and texture.
Wendy Harris, a former student of Mary Padgett, exhibits her interpretations of light and texture through cloudscape and landscape pastel paintings.
Michelle DaRin exhibits enamel and mixed media jewelry.
Stephen Brucker displays his art glass forms drawing attention to the delicacy and impermanence of nature.

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

Using blood collected from a slaughterhouse as his primary medium, the artist explores ideas about transformation, death, and rebirth. Jordan Eagles encases the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin panels; mounted on the gallery walls they create a sublime environment that envelops and engages the viewer. The exhibition title, "Red Giant," refers to a luminous giant star in its final phase of stellar evolution—what our Sun will become in five billion years—while also referencing the intense, potent color of blood. The abstract patterns and forms in the works may suggest internal organs as well as cosmological phenomena like solar storms, sunspots, craters, meteorites, and supernova explosions.

Eagles' works are in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Everson Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Causey Contemporary and Krause Gallery, New York; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.He has been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, L'Uomo Vogue, Architectural Digest and Wired.

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From the Earth: New Works in Wood and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

The Syracuse Poster Project, established in 2001, brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the city's poster panels. Each year they produce 16 art posters, each featuring an illustrated poem about the downtown, the city, or the nearby countryside. The Project enlivens the city, builds community, and spreads its value by selling poster prints and poster-related products.

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

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

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

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All Creatures Great and Small
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

All Creatures Great and Small will feature artwork that incorporates animals into the form and/or surface of ceramic vessels and sculptures, and as subject matter of paintings, photographs and prints. Participating artists include Fredrick Bartolovic and Michelle Strader, Shanna Fliegel, Bob Gates, Steven Godfrey, Tom Huff, Ron Meyers, Hannah Niswonger, Brooke Noble, Donnalee Peden, Matt Smith, Stacy Stanhope, and Lucie Wellner.

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.

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

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.

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their art.

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

Combat Paper Redux
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

There will be a guided tour of the exhibit from 2:00-3:00 this afternoon, led by volunteer docent Dawn Janis.

Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, we have brought "Combat Paper" back to Syracuse! An earlier version of this exhibit featuring images on paper made out of shredded combat uniforms was our Grand Opening exhibition in October 2008. The Combat Paper project began as art therapy utilizing paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and yes...Vietnam.

While anti-war activists are portrayed as unpatriotic and focused only on the negative, the project has proven to have a positive impact on veterans, serving as a visceral statement of the long-lasting effects of combat and as a catalyst for community discussion and activism. The art comes to us from all across this country with a special nod to the work from the Combat Paper Studio in Ithaca.

A companion piece to the paper-making project is the Warrior Writers' Project where veterans are encouraged through workshops to write about their feelings since coming home. The words have been printed on hand-made combat paper and bound into books. This project provides an opportunity for veterans to come together and connect, reconcile and heal through sharing their words with each other. We will feature a Warrior Writers' event and journal making workshop with vets from Ithaca during the exhibition.

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FULL
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

FULL is an exhibition of work by 13 sculpture students in the Department of Art who each produced 70 sculptures.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Nourish: An Exploration of Consumption
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

With an overabundance of food, we are a culture obsessed with our next meal. The harsh reality is that much of the food produced goes to waste while others still go hungry at night. For this exhibition, the artists will explore the differing ways that people choose to nourish themselves and how it is reflective of who we are as a society and as an individual. The participating artists are Cynthia Herrera, Marisa Jahn and Steve Shada, Tattfoo Tan, various artists from the Hudson Valley Seed Library, and Viviane Le Courtois.

SUArt Kids: Nyumba Ya Sanaa
Syracuse University Art Museum