Saturday, June 7, 2014

Works of Tina Strutz
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Tina Strutz will display her acrylic landscape paintings of her travels in the US and abroad. A self-taught painter and educated in the Netherlands, Strutz's past visual displays include window dressing for Dey Brothers and other local department stores in the Syracuse area.

Explorations of a Nemesis: Works by Karen Jean Smith
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

Passages In Time
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Marna Bell: Four photography series eliciting imagery of memories
Chris Irick: Internationally recognized jeweler exhibiting her series referencing machinery
Jonathan Kirk: Britis- born sculptor who utilizes forms from the Industrial Revolution, combining abstraction with narrative

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Stained Glass Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Funky Flea
40 Below's Public Arts Task Force and Echo

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

An outdoor flea market that's a lotta flea, a little bit art & craft, and a bunches of fun. Featuring over 75 local vendors, food trucks, and live music.

For more information, visit funkyfleasyracuse.blogspot.com.

The Photography of J.R. Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

J.R. Hughto is a filmmaker and photographer whose work explores duality, principally the friction between nostalgia/modernity and documentary/lyricism. Hughto's photography has appeared in print in the German edition of Wired Magazine, and has shown in Los Angeles and San Diego, CA, and Syracuse and Buffalo.

Westcott Art Trail Sale
Westcott Community Center

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

This is a non-juried art sale, but there are many very talented artists in the Westcott neighborhood, so the quality of items offered for sale is very high. There is also enormous variety! Artists sell photographs, paintings, pottery, sculpture, hand-made wearables, jewelry, drawings, wall hangings and more. Participating artists set up their work at their homes, in their yards, on their porches, inside in their studios, at the Westcott Community Center (indoors and out), or indoors at Petit library.

Art trail maps available at www.westcottarttrail.org.

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

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

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

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

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

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

42nd Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Annual Teen Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of local art professionals will serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City high schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.

In collaboration with the Syracuse chapter of The Links, Inc.

See Me
Community Folk Art Center

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

Presented in partnership with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Syracuse, this exhibition highlights local artists and families facing mental illness. "See Me" reinforces the celebration of these artists. There is no shame in having mental illness; the shame is how little people know.

NAMI is a grass-roots, self-help, support and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of families who have relatives with a brain disorder (mental illness).

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

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

Off the Tops of Our Heads: Improv Comedy Night
Don't Feed the Actors

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

This time, we dare you to bring in any hat and we will work it into our scenes.

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

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

Taste of Syracuse

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Main Stage
1:00-2:00 pm: Westcott Jug Suckers
2:15-3:15 pm: Double Barrel Blues Band
3:30-4:30 pm: Carolyn Kelly Blues Band
5:00-6:30 pm: Carolyn Wonderland
7:00-8:30 pm: The Barn Dogs Plus: "Music of The Allman Brothers Band"
9:00-11:00 pm: Blues Traveler

Clinton Square Stage
12:00-1:00 pm: Better Than Bowling
1:15-2:45 pm: Hold The Air
3:00-4:00 pm: Joe Whiting
4:15-5:15 pm: Wild Honey
5:30-6:30 pm: Mike Powell Band
6:45-7:45 pm: Fabulous Ripcords
8:00-9:15 pm: Driftwater
9:30-11:00 pm: Custom Taylor

Erie Blvd. Stage
12:00-1:00 pm: Ben Fiore Trio
1:15-2:00 pm: Honey Spoon
2:00-3:00 pm: Hobo Graffiti
3:15-4:15 pm: Merit
4:30-5:45 pm: Teagan and the Tweeds
6:00-7:15 pm: Candid
7:30-8:45 pm: Gridley Paige
9:00-11:00 pm: Scars & Stripes

Two days of fantastic food and fabulous music. Stroll the streets of historic Clinton Square and beyond while enjoying delicious $1 samples from some of the area's best restaurants. Choose between three stages of continuous live music with something for everyone. Treat your little ones to a pint-sized good time in our Family Zone.

For more information, visit www.tasteofsyracuse.com.

Greek Cultural Festival

Price: Free
St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church
325 Waring Rd., Syracuse

1:00-1:30 pm: Food and Culture Lecture: Discover and Explore Greece
1:30 pm: Church tour
2:00 pm: Dancers in training
2:00-2:45 pm: Food and Culture Lecture: Ikaria-the Greek Island of longevity and the Mediterranean Diet
2:00-5:00 pm: Iconography Demonstration
3:00 pm: Children dancers
3:30 pm: Church tour
4:00 pm: Dancers in training
4:00-4:45 pm: Food and Culture Lecture: Ikaria-the Greek Island of longevity and the Mediterranean Diet
5:00 pm: Children dancers
5:30 pm: Church tour
6:00 pm: Adult dancers
7:30 pm: Church tour
8:00 pm: Adult dancers

Greek food, live music, and dancing.

For more information, visit www.syracusegreekfest.com.

Jazz on Demand
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Beauchamp Public Library
Corner S. Salina & Colvin Sts., Syracuse

Performed by the CNY Jazz Trio, Jazz on Demand will demonstrate how jazz musicians think about improvising by showing how they build their ideas on the basic architecture of the song. The one-hour, narrated, family program includes historic background, a call-and-response blues that invites the audience to co-create a blues melody, and a flash card experiment that gives the audience control over what song the combo plays, in what musical style, and at what tempo.

Spring Cabaret
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor

Blessed Sacrament School
3127 James St., Syracuse

Jesse Cook, Flamenco Guitar Virtuoso
Syracuse Stage

Price: $30
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Jesse Cook and his band incorporate elements of flamenco, rumba, jazz, and many forms of world music. Cook is known internationally as one of the most influential figures in Nuevo Flamenco music.

His music has been featured on Sex and the City, The Chris Isaak Show and several Olympic Games:
* Canada's Gabrielle Daleman, and Russian pairs Stolbova and Klimov's skated to Jesse's music in their routines at the Olympic Games in Sochi.
* At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Irina Slutskaya of Russia won a bronze medal skating to Cook's composition "Mario Takes a Walk".

Jesse is a Juno Award winner, Acoustic Guitar Player's Choice Award silver winner in the Flamenco Category and a three-time winner of the Canadian Smooth Jazz award for Guitarist of the Year.

Jesse Cook's concert is part of the Syracuse Stage Gala, an annual fundraiser presented by the Syracuse Stage Board of Trustees and the Syracuse Stage Guild. Tickets for the Gala (which include the Jesse Cook concert) are $200-$300. For more information about the Gala, visit the Syracuse Stage website.

To purchase concert tickets, call the Syracuse Stage Box Office at 315-443-3275 or visit the Syracuse Stage website.

Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

From the moment his tall, red-and-white-striped hat appears around the door, Sally and her brother know that The Cat in the Hat is the funniest, most mischievous cat they have ever met.

With the trickiest of tricks and craziest of ideas, he is certainly fun to play with. And he turns a rainy afternoon into an amazing adventure. But what will mum find when she gets home...?

The National Theatre's production of Dr. Seuss's THE CAT IN THE HAT is a lively, engaging play that is fun for all ages. Not a word has been touched or added to Dr. Seuss's classic, ensuring anyone who's read the story will find themselves transported into the world they've always imagined.

For tickets or information, call 315-445-4200 or visit the website.

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A Year With Frog and Toad
Redhouse
The District Festival

Price: $25 regular, $15 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In this Theater For Young Audiences version, A Year With Frog and Toad remains true to the spirit of the original stories as it follows two great friends, the cheerful and popular Frog and the rather grumpy Toad, through four fun-filled seasons. Waking from hibernation in the spring, they proceed to plant gardens, swim, rake leaves and go sledding, learning life lessons along the way, including a most important one about friendship and rejoicing in the attributes that make each of us different and special. Book and lyrics by Willie Reale, music by Robert Reale, based on the books by Arnold Lobel.

This production features professional actors, community actors, actors with developmental disabilities from Arc of Onondaga, and students from Elmcrest all performing together.

Tickets are available online at www.theredhouse.org or by calling the Redhouse box office at 315-362-2785. See all three festival shows for $60 for the general public, and $40 for students/seniors. The three-show discount is only available by calling the Redhouse box office.

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The Princess and the Pea
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

From the moment his tall, red-and-white-striped hat appears around the door, Sally and her brother know that The Cat in the Hat is the funniest, most mischievous cat they have ever met.

With the trickiest of tricks and craziest of ideas, he is certainly fun to play with. And he turns a rainy afternoon into an amazing adventure. But what will mum find when she gets home...?

The National Theatre's production of Dr. Seuss's THE CAT IN THE HAT is a lively, engaging play that is fun for all ages. Not a word has been touched or added to Dr. Seuss's classic, ensuring anyone who's read the story will find themselves transported into the world they've always imagined.

For tickets or information, call 315-445-4200 or visit the website.

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The Civil War
Appleseed Productions
The District Festival

Price: $25 regular, $15 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawing on letters, diaries, firsthand accounts, and the words of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman, The Civil War is a thrilling, gut-wrenching, and awe-inspiring "dramatic theatrical concert" that covers the enormous emotional landscape of the most difficult test our nation has ever endured. It also examines the lives of the lovers and families left behind, as well as the hopes and fears of the slaves whose freedom was at stake. It passionately asks us to consider our beliefs about freedom, honor and faith. Book by Frank Wildhorn, Gregory Boyd, and Jack Murphy; music by Frank Wildhorn; lyrics by Frank Wildhorn, Gregory Boyd, and Jack Murphy.

Tickets are available online at www.theredhouse.org or by calling the Redhouse box office at 315-362-2785. See all three festival shows for $60 for the general public, and $40 for students/seniors. The three-show discount is only available by calling the Redhouse box office.

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Company
Rarely Done Productions
The District Festival

Price: $25 regular, $15 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Company opens on the night of confirmed bachelor Robert's 35th birthday as he contemplates his unmarried state. Over the course of a series of dinners, drinks, and even a wedding, his friends -- "those good and crazy people, [his] married friends" -- explain the pros and cons of taking on a spouse. The habitually single Robert is forced to question his adamant retention of bachelorhood during a hilarious, yet accurate, array of interactions. Book by George Furth, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

Tickets are available online at www.theredhouse.org or by calling the Redhouse box office at 315-362-2785. See all three festival shows for $60 for the general public, and $40 for students/seniors. The three-show discount is only available by calling the Redhouse box office.

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Les Miserables
Wit's End Players

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

The Wit's End Players are proud to present a semi-staged production of Les Misérables, the beloved global stage sensation, which sweeps its audience through an epic tale of broken dreams, passion, and redemption, set against the backdrop of a nation in the grip of revolution. This enthralling story is a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit, and features the now-classic songs "I Dreamed a Dream," "On My Own," "Stars," "Bring Him Home," "Do You Hear the People Sing?," "One Day More," "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables," "Master of the House," and more.

Tickets available at www.ticketmaster.com, 1-800-745-3000, or from the Oncenter Box Office, open Monday-Friday 10:00 am-4:00 pm and Saturday 10:00 am-2:00 pm, 315-435-2121.

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Sunday, June 8, 2014

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

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

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

Stained Glass Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Westcott Art Trail Sale
Westcott Community Center

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

This is a non-juried art sale, but there are many very talented artists in the Westcott neighborhood, so the quality of items offered for sale is very high. There is also enormous variety! Artists sell photographs, paintings, pottery, sculpture, hand-made wearables, jewelry, drawings, wall hangings and more. Participating artists set up their work at their homes, in their yards, on their porches, inside in their studios, at the Westcott Community Center (indoors and out), or indoors at Petit library.

Art trail maps available at www.westcottarttrail.org.

Greek Cultural Festival

Price: Free
St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church
325 Waring Rd., Syracuse

12:30 pm: Dancers in training
1:00 pm: Children dancers
1:00 pm: Church tour
1:00-1:30 pm: Food and Culture Lecture: Discover and Explore Greece
1:00-3:00 pm: Iconography Demonstration
2:00-2:45 pm:Food and Culture Lecture: Ikaria-the Greek Island for longevity and the Mediterranean Diet
3:00 pm: Children dancers
3:00 pm: Church tour

Greek food, live music, and dancing.

For more information, visit www.syracusegreekfest.com.

Live at the Everson: CNY Young Artists
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Outstanding competition winniers play and sing an eclectic, fun and intriguing concert.

Performers selected from:
* Onondaga Music Educators Assoc Scholarship Competition
* CNY Association of Music Teachers Competitions
* Symphoria/CMM Concerto Competition
* Syracuse Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition
* Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition

Celtic Woman: The Emerald Tour
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Irish music sensation Celtic Woman presents their stunning new show Emerald. This brand-new stage production celebrates the Emerald Isles' spellbinding Celtic heritage through an extraordinary presentation of traditional Irish anthems, pop standards and original music by Emmy-nominated music producer David Downes. The Emerald Tour showcases performances of favorites from the group's treasure chest of songs including "Mo GhileMear," "Dulaman," "Nil Se'n La," "Danny Boy," "The Call," "Amazing Grace" and "You Raise Me Up." Don't miss the inspiring performances of this timeless music complete with bagpipers, dancers, a full band and choir in an exceptional production with the angelic voices of Celtic Woman.

Tickets are available by calling the Landmark Theatre Box Office at 315-475-7979 or online at TicketMaster.com.

Spring Cabaret
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor

Blessed Sacrament School
3127 James St., Syracuse

Jazz Vespers: Breath of Life
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Cindy Miller

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

The Vespers Series will close with a special performance by acclaimed jazz vocalist, Cindy Miller.

Cindy Miller has sung alongside jazz greats such as Chuck Mangione, flutist Hubert Laws, guitarist Gene Bertoncini, and world famous vibraphonist Peter Appleyard. She has also had numerous appearances with the Gap Mangione Big Band and the Benny Goodman Tribute Band. Her professional engagements have ranged from large stadium and concert performances to intimate club and cabaret performances. Miller has also performed with a variety of symphony orchestras. She has been a guest soloist with the Utica Symphony Orchestra and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the Central New York Jazz Orchestra. A native of Western New York, Miller received her master's degree in voice from the Eastman School of Music.

The Jazz Vespers Series features services that combine inspirational and meditative readings, homily and live jazz, and are open to people of all faiths. During the services, jazz selections are performed by members of the CNY Jazz Orchestra. These beautiful selections are drawn from both secular and sacred sources.

A Year With Frog and Toad
Redhouse
The District Festival

Price: $25 regular, $15 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In this Theater For Young Audiences version, A Year With Frog and Toad remains true to the spirit of the original stories as it follows two great friends, the cheerful and popular Frog and the rather grumpy Toad, through four fun-filled seasons. Waking from hibernation in the spring, they proceed to plant gardens, swim, rake leaves and go sledding, learning life lessons along the way, including a most important one about friendship and rejoicing in the attributes that make each of us different and special. Book and lyrics by Willie Reale, music by Robert Reale, based on the books by Arnold Lobel.

This production features professional actors, community actors, actors with developmental disabilities from Arc of Onondaga, and students from Elmcrest all performing together.

Tickets are available online at www.theredhouse.org or by calling the Redhouse box office at 315-362-2785. See all three festival shows for $60 for the general public, and $40 for students/seniors. The three-show discount is only available by calling the Redhouse box office.

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Les Miserables
Wit's End Players

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

The Wit's End Players are proud to present a semi-staged production of Les Misérables, the beloved global stage sensation, which sweeps its audience through an epic tale of broken dreams, passion, and redemption, set against the backdrop of a nation in the grip of revolution. This enthralling story is a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit, and features the now-classic songs "I Dreamed a Dream," "On My Own," "Stars," "Bring Him Home," "Do You Hear the People Sing?," "One Day More," "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables," "Master of the House," and more.

Tickets available at www.ticketmaster.com, 1-800-745-3000, or from the Oncenter Box Office, open Monday-Friday 10:00 am-4:00 pm and Saturday 10:00 am-2:00 pm, 315-435-2121.

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The Civil War
Appleseed Productions
The District Festival

Price: $25 regular, $15 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawing on letters, diaries, firsthand accounts, and the words of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman, The Civil War is a thrilling, gut-wrenching, and awe-inspiring "dramatic theatrical concert" that covers the enormous emotional landscape of the most difficult test our nation has ever endured. It also examines the lives of the lovers and families left behind, as well as the hopes and fears of the slaves whose freedom was at stake. It passionately asks us to consider our beliefs about freedom, honor and faith. Book by Frank Wildhorn, Gregory Boyd, and Jack Murphy; music by Frank Wildhorn; lyrics by Frank Wildhorn, Gregory Boyd, and Jack Murphy.

Tickets are available online at www.theredhouse.org or by calling the Redhouse box office at 315-362-2785. See all three festival shows for $60 for the general public, and $40 for students/seniors. The three-show discount is only available by calling the Redhouse box office.

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Monday, June 9, 2014

Works of Tina Strutz
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Tina Strutz will display her acrylic landscape paintings of her travels in the US and abroad. A self-taught painter and educated in the Netherlands, Strutz's past visual displays include window dressing for Dey Brothers and other local department stores in the Syracuse area.

Explorations of a Nemesis: Works by Karen Jean Smith
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Onondaga Art Guild's 50th Anniversary Show
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibit showcases the work of 32 Guild Artists representing a variety of mediums from watercolor, oil paintings and sculpture, including works by Linda Abbey, Carol Adamec, Angela Arrey-Wastavino, Joan Back, Maureen Barcza, Barbara Bickford, Susi Buschbacher, Deb Dahlin, Patrice Downes Centore, Donna Egan, Bonnie Goetske, Geraldine Greig, Judy Hand, Karen Harris, Mary Haven, Marge Hill, Elizabeth Hughes, Peter Huntington, Brian Madigan, Jane McCarthy, Geraldine Meday, Adriana Meiss, Susan Murphy, Candace O'Brien, Toloa Perry, Maria Rizzo, Allison Sarenski, Gale Shuba, Mary Beth Sorber, Tina Strutz, Mary Touchette, Kathryn Wehrung.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Stained Glass Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

The Photography of J.R. Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

J.R. Hughto is a filmmaker and photographer whose work explores duality, principally the friction between nostalgia/modernity and documentary/lyricism. Hughto's photography has appeared in print in the German edition of Wired Magazine, and has shown in Los Angeles and San Diego, CA, and Syracuse and Buffalo.

Young Art 2014
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

The exhibit presents works by children from La Casita's Dual Language Reading Circles, a program offered in collaboration with the Spanish Action League of Upstate NY. The program focuses on the development of bilingual reading skills and art projects that spring from the themes of the readings completed this year. The exhibit includes a 20-foot mural and a beautiful collection of handmade masks created under the guidance of Westside artist Juan Cruz.

Learning to See
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Join us for Learning to See, an exhibition of work produced by students participating in EL PUNTO Art Studio 2014, a contemporary arts workshop hosted by Point of Contact. Exhibited works include photography, video, and performance arts. This innovative arts program is facilitated to local youths in close collaboration with local Latino artists and community organizations including La Casita Cultural Center, The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, the Near West Side Initiative, and the Pal Project.

Fowler Voices

Price: Free
Fowler High School
227 Magnolia St., Syracuse

Fowler High School seniors will debut their documentary completed as part of a collaboration between S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and Fowler High School students. The evening will also feature food from each students' country of origin.

For more information, contact Ashley Kang at aehanry@syr.edu or 315-882-1054.

Flashback Series: Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (uncut)
Palace Theatre

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

Note: Extreme violence

Red Dust (1932)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Directed by Victor Fleming. Cast features Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor, Gene Raymond, Tully Marshall, Willie Fung.

MGM's classic of a rubber plantation worker in Indochina (Gable) and the two women who pursue him (Harlow and Astor). An excellent Pre-Code mix of drama, comedy, romance and adventure, performed by a top-notch cast.

Neverly Brothers Band
Liverpool is the Place

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

Everly Brothers tribute

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Works of Tina Strutz
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Tina Strutz will display her acrylic landscape paintings of her travels in the US and abroad. A self-taught painter and educated in the Netherlands, Strutz's past visual displays include window dressing for Dey Brothers and other local department stores in the Syracuse area.

Explorations of a Nemesis: Works by Karen Jean Smith
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Onondaga Art Guild's 50th Anniversary Show
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibit showcases the work of 32 Guild Artists representing a variety of mediums from watercolor, oil paintings and sculpture, including works by Linda Abbey, Carol Adamec, Angela Arrey-Wastavino, Joan Back, Maureen Barcza, Barbara Bickford, Susi Buschbacher, Deb Dahlin, Patrice Downes Centore, Donna Egan, Bonnie Goetske, Geraldine Greig, Judy Hand, Karen Harris, Mary Haven, Marge Hill, Elizabeth Hughes, Peter Huntington, Brian Madigan, Jane McCarthy, Geraldine Meday, Adriana Meiss, Susan Murphy, Candace O'Brien, Toloa Perry, Maria Rizzo, Allison Sarenski, Gale Shuba, Mary Beth Sorber, Tina Strutz, Mary Touchette, Kathryn Wehrung.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Passages In Time
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Marna Bell: Four photography series eliciting imagery of memories
Chris Irick: Internationally recognized jeweler exhibiting her series referencing machinery
Jonathan Kirk: Britis- born sculptor who utilizes forms from the Industrial Revolution, combining abstraction with narrative

See Me
Community Folk Art Center

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

There will be an opening reception this afternoon 3:00-6:00 pm, with readings from poets, a musical performance by cellist Steven Rosenthal, and a book signing with NAMI president Karen Winters Schwartz.

Presented in partnership with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Syracuse, this exhibition highlights local artists and families facing mental illness. "See Me" reinforces the celebration of these artists. There is no shame in having mental illness; the shame is how little people know.

NAMI is a grass-roots, self-help, support and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of families who have relatives with a brain disorder (mental illness).

42nd Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Annual Teen Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of local art professionals will serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City high schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.

In collaboration with the Syracuse chapter of The Links, Inc.

Stained Glass Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

The Photography of J.R. Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

J.R. Hughto is a filmmaker and photographer whose work explores duality, principally the friction between nostalgia/modernity and documentary/lyricism. Hughto's photography has appeared in print in the German edition of Wired Magazine, and has shown in Los Angeles and San Diego, CA, and Syracuse and Buffalo.

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

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

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

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

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

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

Young Art 2014
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

The exhibit presents works by children from La Casita's Dual Language Reading Circles, a program offered in collaboration with the Spanish Action League of Upstate NY. The program focuses on the development of bilingual reading skills and art projects that spring from the themes of the readings completed this year. The exhibit includes a 20-foot mural and a beautiful collection of handmade masks created under the guidance of Westside artist Juan Cruz.

Learning to See
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Join us for Learning to See, an exhibition of work produced by students participating in EL PUNTO Art Studio 2014, a contemporary arts workshop hosted by Point of Contact. Exhibited works include photography, video, and performance arts. This innovative arts program is facilitated to local youths in close collaboration with local Latino artists and community organizations including La Casita Cultural Center, The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, the Near West Side Initiative, and the Pal Project.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Works of Tina Strutz
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Tina Strutz will display her acrylic landscape paintings of her travels in the US and abroad. A self-taught painter and educated in the Netherlands, Strutz's past visual displays include window dressing for Dey Brothers and other local department stores in the Syracuse area.

Explorations of a Nemesis: Works by Karen Jean Smith
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Onondaga Art Guild's 50th Anniversary Show
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibit showcases the work of 32 Guild Artists representing a variety of mediums from watercolor, oil paintings and sculpture, including works by Linda Abbey, Carol Adamec, Angela Arrey-Wastavino, Joan Back, Maureen Barcza, Barbara Bickford, Susi Buschbacher, Deb Dahlin, Patrice Downes Centore, Donna Egan, Bonnie Goetske, Geraldine Greig, Judy Hand, Karen Harris, Mary Haven, Marge Hill, Elizabeth Hughes, Peter Huntington, Brian Madigan, Jane McCarthy, Geraldine Meday, Adriana Meiss, Susan Murphy, Candace O'Brien, Toloa Perry, Maria Rizzo, Allison Sarenski, Gale Shuba, Mary Beth Sorber, Tina Strutz, Mary Touchette, Kathryn Wehrung.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Passages In Time
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Marna Bell: Four photography series eliciting imagery of memories
Chris Irick: Internationally recognized jeweler exhibiting her series referencing machinery
Jonathan Kirk: Britis- born sculptor who utilizes forms from the Industrial Revolution, combining abstraction with narrative

See Me
Community Folk Art Center

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

Presented in partnership with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Syracuse, this exhibition highlights local artists and families facing mental illness. "See Me" reinforces the celebration of these artists. There is no shame in having mental illness; the shame is how little people know.

NAMI is a grass-roots, self-help, support and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of families who have relatives with a brain disorder (mental illness).

42nd Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Annual Teen Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of local art professionals will serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City high schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.

In collaboration with the Syracuse chapter of The Links, Inc.

Stained Glass Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

The Photography of J.R. Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

J.R. Hughto is a filmmaker and photographer whose work explores duality, principally the friction between nostalgia/modernity and documentary/lyricism. Hughto's photography has appeared in print in the German edition of Wired Magazine, and has shown in Los Angeles and San Diego, CA, and Syracuse and Buffalo.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

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

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

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

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

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

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Young Art 2014
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

The exhibit presents works by children from La Casita's Dual Language Reading Circles, a program offered in collaboration with the Spanish Action League of Upstate NY. The program focuses on the development of bilingual reading skills and art projects that spring from the themes of the readings completed this year. The exhibit includes a 20-foot mural and a beautiful collection of handmade masks created under the guidance of Westside artist Juan Cruz.

Learning to See
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Join us for Learning to See, an exhibition of work produced by students participating in EL PUNTO Art Studio 2014, a contemporary arts workshop hosted by Point of Contact. Exhibited works include photography, video, and performance arts. This innovative arts program is facilitated to local youths in close collaboration with local Latino artists and community organizations including La Casita Cultural Center, The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, the Near West Side Initiative, and the Pal Project.

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

Play Again
Syracuse City Parks and SUNY-ESF Center for Community Design Research

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A screening of the film Play Again, followed by a discussion about the role of urban parks, your current experience with parks, and your hopes for the future of Syracuse parks. City Parks, SUNY ESF and community volunteers are gathering information from the community for a parks study. We will determine how the City will advance environmental and botanical park project activities that encourage revitalization of parks and neighborhoods connected by the Onondaga Creek waterways.
Phase I of the project engages the community in the discovery process and seeks input from community members and city partners to determine next steps and priorities.

For more information contact Glen Lewis at GLewis@syrgov.net or visit www.celebrateyourparks.org.

Liverpool Community Chorus
Liverpool is the Place

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

Show tunes

Company
Rarely Done Productions
The District Festival

Price: $25 regular, $15 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Company opens on the night of confirmed bachelor Robert's 35th birthday as he contemplates his unmarried state. Over the course of a series of dinners, drinks, and even a wedding, his friends -- "those good and crazy people, [his] married friends" -- explain the pros and cons of taking on a spouse. The habitually single Robert is forced to question his adamant retention of bachelorhood during a hilarious, yet accurate, array of interactions. Book by George Furth, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

Tickets are available online at www.theredhouse.org or by calling the Redhouse box office at 315-362-2785. See all three festival shows for $60 for the general public, and $40 for students/seniors. The three-show discount is only available by calling the Redhouse box office.

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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Works of Tina Strutz
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Tina Strutz will display her acrylic landscape paintings of her travels in the US and abroad. A self-taught painter and educated in the Netherlands, Strutz's past visual displays include window dressing for Dey Brothers and other local department stores in the Syracuse area.

Explorations of a Nemesis: Works by Karen Jean Smith
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Onondaga Art Guild's 50th Anniversary Show
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibit showcases the work of 32 Guild Artists representing a variety of mediums from watercolor, oil paintings and sculpture, including works by Linda Abbey, Carol Adamec, Angela Arrey-Wastavino, Joan Back, Maureen Barcza, Barbara Bickford, Susi Buschbacher, Deb Dahlin, Patrice Downes Centore, Donna Egan, Bonnie Goetske, Geraldine Greig, Judy Hand, Karen Harris, Mary Haven, Marge Hill, Elizabeth Hughes, Peter Huntington, Brian Madigan, Jane McCarthy, Geraldine Meday, Adriana Meiss, Susan Murphy, Candace O'Brien, Toloa Perry, Maria Rizzo, Allison Sarenski, Gale Shuba, Mary Beth Sorber, Tina Strutz, Mary Touchette, Kathryn Wehrung.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Passages In Time
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Marna Bell: Four photography series eliciting imagery of memories
Chris Irick: Internationally recognized jeweler exhibiting her series referencing machinery
Jonathan Kirk: Britis- born sculptor who utilizes forms from the Industrial Revolution, combining abstraction with narrative

See Me
Community Folk Art Center

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

Presented in partnership with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Syracuse, this exhibition highlights local artists and families facing mental illness. "See Me" reinforces the celebration of these artists. There is no shame in having mental illness; the shame is how little people know.

NAMI is a grass-roots, self-help, support and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of families who have relatives with a brain disorder (mental illness).

42nd Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Annual Teen Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of local art professionals will serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City high schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.

In collaboration with the Syracuse chapter of The Links, Inc.

Stained Glass Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

The Photography of J.R. Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

J.R. Hughto is a filmmaker and photographer whose work explores duality, principally the friction between nostalgia/modernity and documentary/lyricism. Hughto's photography has appeared in print in the German edition of Wired Magazine, and has shown in Los Angeles and San Diego, CA, and Syracuse and Buffalo.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

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

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

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

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

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

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Young Art 2014
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

The exhibit presents works by children from La Casita's Dual Language Reading Circles, a program offered in collaboration with the Spanish Action League of Upstate NY. The program focuses on the development of bilingual reading skills and art projects that spring from the themes of the readings completed this year. The exhibit includes a 20-foot mural and a beautiful collection of handmade masks created under the guidance of Westside artist Juan Cruz.

Learning to See
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Join us for Learning to See, an exhibition of work produced by students participating in EL PUNTO Art Studio 2014, a contemporary arts workshop hosted by Point of Contact. Exhibited works include photography, video, and performance arts. This innovative arts program is facilitated to local youths in close collaboration with local Latino artists and community organizations including La Casita Cultural Center, The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, the Near West Side Initiative, and the Pal Project.

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

Non SICuitur Thursday
Syracuse Improv Collective

Price: $3
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Open mic night.

The Colors of the Mountain
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Donations accepted
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The CNY-Cajibio Sister Community will be screening "The Colors of the Mountain," a film about the struggle of Campesinos whose daily lives are affected by armed military and guerrilla rebels. A fundraiser for the 10th Anniversary delegation of the CNY-Cajibio Sister Community and the Movimiento Campesino de Cajibío (Small Farmers Movement) at this event! We will also be sharing our stories about why we are going on the delegation and how our community can build solidarity abroad. Donations will be gratefully accepted.

John Legend

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

Tickets available at ticketmaster.com.

Big Louie and the Gang that Couldn't Think Straight
Acme Mystery Company

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

You and the rest of the Bangalone Gang are in deep trouble. Big Louie's been beaned by a bocci ball and now he ain't thinking so good. The gang's got to figure out what to do before arch rival gang leader "Muscles" Marinara has you rubbed out. You better move fast. Word on the street is that ruthless hitman Jake "The Weasel" is on the way.

Deadly Dancing
Wise Gals Dinner Theater
Sara Caliva, director

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

In the murder mystery comedy Deadly Dancing, it's the summer of 1963, and the guests at Killerman's Resort in the Catskills are bunny hopping, limbo-ing, and cha cha-ing their way through the summer. Baby is about to have the biggest adventure of her life.

You've arrived just in time for the legendary annual dance contest, and Johnny and Robby are here yet again to go head-to-head with their original dance routines. Unfortunately, the action doesn't stop at the dancing, and someone just may wind up dead before the vacation is over. So be careful, because things could get dirty if the dancing turns deadly. Join us to relive the 80s reliving the 60s in this hilarious "Dirty Dancing"-esque murder mystery parody.

For tickets, visit wiseguys.showare.com.

The Civil War
Appleseed Productions
The District Festival

Price: $25 regular, $15 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawing on letters, diaries, firsthand accounts, and the words of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman, The Civil War is a thrilling, gut-wrenching, and awe-inspiring "dramatic theatrical concert" that covers the enormous emotional landscape of the most difficult test our nation has ever endured. It also examines the lives of the lovers and families left behind, as well as the hopes and fears of the slaves whose freedom was at stake. It passionately asks us to consider our beliefs about freedom, honor and faith. Book by Frank Wildhorn, Gregory Boyd, and Jack Murphy; music by Frank Wildhorn; lyrics by Frank Wildhorn, Gregory Boyd, and Jack Murphy.

Tickets are available online at www.theredhouse.org or by calling the Redhouse box office at 315-362-2785. See all three festival shows for $60 for the general public, and $40 for students/seniors. The three-show discount is only available by calling the Redhouse box office.

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Friday, June 13, 2014

Works of Tina Strutz
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Tina Strutz will display her acrylic landscape paintings of her travels in the US and abroad. A self-taught painter and educated in the Netherlands, Strutz's past visual displays include window dressing for Dey Brothers and other local department stores in the Syracuse area.

Explorations of a Nemesis: Works by Karen Jean Smith
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Onondaga Art Guild's 50th Anniversary Show
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibit showcases the work of 32 Guild Artists representing a variety of mediums from watercolor, oil paintings and sculpture, including works by Linda Abbey, Carol Adamec, Angela Arrey-Wastavino, Joan Back, Maureen Barcza, Barbara Bickford, Susi Buschbacher, Deb Dahlin, Patrice Downes Centore, Donna Egan, Bonnie Goetske, Geraldine Greig, Judy Hand, Karen Harris, Mary Haven, Marge Hill, Elizabeth Hughes, Peter Huntington, Brian Madigan, Jane McCarthy, Geraldine Meday, Adriana Meiss, Susan Murphy, Candace O'Brien, Toloa Perry, Maria Rizzo, Allison Sarenski, Gale Shuba, Mary Beth Sorber, Tina Strutz, Mary Touchette, Kathryn Wehrung.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Passages In Time
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Marna Bell: Four photography series eliciting imagery of memories
Chris Irick: Internationally recognized jeweler exhibiting her series referencing machinery
Jonathan Kirk: Britis- born sculptor who utilizes forms from the Industrial Revolution, combining abstraction with narrative

See Me
Community Folk Art Center

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

Presented in partnership with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Syracuse, this exhibition highlights local artists and families facing mental illness. "See Me" reinforces the celebration of these artists. There is no shame in having mental illness; the shame is how little people know.

NAMI is a grass-roots, self-help, support and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of families who have relatives with a brain disorder (mental illness).

42nd Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Annual Teen Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of local art professionals will serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City high schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.

In collaboration with the Syracuse chapter of The Links, Inc.

Stained Glass Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

The Photography of J.R. Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

J.R. Hughto is a filmmaker and photographer whose work explores duality, principally the friction between nostalgia/modernity and documentary/lyricism. Hughto's photography has appeared in print in the German edition of Wired Magazine, and has shown in Los Angeles and San Diego, CA, and Syracuse and Buffalo.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

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

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

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

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

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

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Young Art 2014
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

The exhibit presents works by children from La Casita's Dual Language Reading Circles, a program offered in collaboration with the Spanish Action League of Upstate NY. The program focuses on the development of bilingual reading skills and art projects that spring from the themes of the readings completed this year. The exhibit includes a 20-foot mural and a beautiful collection of handmade masks created under the guidance of Westside artist Juan Cruz.

Learning to See
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Join us for Learning to See, an exhibition of work produced by students participating in EL PUNTO Art Studio 2014, a contemporary arts workshop hosted by Point of Contact. Exhibited works include photography, video, and performance arts. This innovative arts program is facilitated to local youths in close collaboration with local Latino artists and community organizations including La Casita Cultural Center, The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, the Near West Side Initiative, and the Pal Project.

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

Hearts and Minds
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Hearts and Minds" is a 1974 American documentary film about the Vietnam War directed by Peter Davis. The film's title is based on a quote from President Lyndon B. Johnson: "the ultimate victory will depend on the hearts and minds of the people who actually live out there. The movie was chosen as Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 47th Academy Awards presented in 1975.

The film looks unflinchingly at the nature of power and horrible consequences of war. It is very much a pro-peace film, but uses the people who were there to speak for themselves. It also seeks to probe deeper underneath the American psyche of the times and evolves into a historical document about the violent social rupture that happened between the '50s and the '60s. In the end, the film leaves you thinking about the price of war – and who is given the task to bear that price. (112 minutes)

Oakwood Ghostwalk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: OHA members $12; non-members $15 (reservations required)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Discover a pathway into the past through the picturesque "old section" of Oakwood Cemetery and meet some of the fascinating folks that now reside there and hear their stories.

For more information and reservations please call Karen at 315-428-1864 x312. If calling for reservations on the weekend, please call 315-428-1864 x321.

Pops Concert: Movie Magic of John Williams
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Syracuse Pops Chorus

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors, free for children under 9
Drivers Village (formerly Penn Can Mall)
5885 E. Circle Dr., Cicero

Hear such favorites as the music from Star Wars, harry Potter, Home Alone, and many others.

Reid Speed & Mantis, with Quazarr, Rump$Tep, Kreaturestep!, Devon Ezzo
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

From the moment his tall, red-and-white-striped hat appears around the door, Sally and her brother know that The Cat in the Hat is the funniest, most mischievous cat they have ever met.

With the trickiest of tricks and craziest of ideas, he is certainly fun to play with. And he turns a rainy afternoon into an amazing adventure. But what will mum find when she gets home...?

The National Theatre's production of Dr. Seuss's THE CAT IN THE HAT is a lively, engaging play that is fun for all ages. Not a word has been touched or added to Dr. Seuss's classic, ensuring anyone who's read the story will find themselves transported into the world they've always imagined.

For tickets or information, call 315-445-4200 or visit the website.

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Deadly Dancing
Wise Gals Dinner Theater
Sara Caliva, director

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

In the murder mystery comedy Deadly Dancing, it's the summer of 1963, and the guests at Killerman's Resort in the Catskills are bunny hopping, limbo-ing, and cha cha-ing their way through the summer. Baby is about to have the biggest adventure of her life.

You've arrived just in time for the legendary annual dance contest, and Johnny and Robby are here yet again to go head-to-head with their original dance routines. Unfortunately, the action doesn't stop at the dancing, and someone just may wind up dead before the vacation is over. So be careful, because things could get dirty if the dancing turns deadly. Join us to relive the 80s reliving the 60s in this hilarious "Dirty Dancing"-esque murder mystery parody.

For tickets, visit wiseguys.showare.com.

As You Like It
Redhouse

Price: Free
Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) lawn
West Jefferson St., Syracuse

Don't miss Shakespeare's most beloved comedy about flirtation, friendship, and mistaken identity in this 60-minute lighthearted look at the fickle and passionate nature of love.

Rain location: Redhouse

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And Then There Were None
Central New York Playhouse
Jon Wilson, director

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

In Agatha Christie's classic tale, ten guilty strangers are trapped on an island. One by one they
are accused of murder; one by one they start to die.

In this superlative mystery, statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten "soldiers" met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other or their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island and, along with the two house servants, marooned. A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead—poisoned. One down and nine to go!

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A Year With Frog and Toad
Redhouse
The District Festival

Price: $25 regular, $15 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In this Theater For Young Audiences version, A Year With Frog and Toad remains true to the spirit of the original stories as it follows two great friends, the cheerful and popular Frog and the rather grumpy Toad, through four fun-filled seasons. Waking from hibernation in the spring, they proceed to plant gardens, swim, rake leaves and go sledding, learning life lessons along the way, including a most important one about friendship and rejoicing in the attributes that make each of us different and special. Book and lyrics by Willie Reale, music by Robert Reale, based on the books by Arnold Lobel.

This production features professional actors, community actors, actors with developmental disabilities from Arc of Onondaga, and students from Elmcrest all performing together.

Tickets are available online at www.theredhouse.org or by calling the Redhouse box office at 315-362-2785. See all three festival shows for $60 for the general public, and $40 for students/seniors. The three-show discount is only available by calling the Redhouse box office.

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Les Miserables
Wit's End Players

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

The Wit's End Players are proud to present a semi-staged production of Les Misérables, the beloved global stage sensation, which sweeps its audience through an epic tale of broken dreams, passion, and redemption, set against the backdrop of a nation in the grip of revolution. This enthralling story is a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit, and features the now-classic songs "I Dreamed a Dream," "On My Own," "Stars," "Bring Him Home," "Do You Hear the People Sing?," "One Day More," "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables," "Master of the House," and more.

Tickets available at www.ticketmaster.com, 1-800-745-3000, or from the Oncenter Box Office, open Monday-Friday 10:00 am-4:00 pm and Saturday 10:00 am-2:00 pm, 315-435-2121.

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Saturday, June 14, 2014

Works of Tina Strutz
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Tina Strutz will display her acrylic landscape paintings of her travels in the US and abroad. A self-taught painter and educated in the Netherlands, Strutz's past visual displays include window dressing for Dey Brothers and other local department stores in the Syracuse area.

Explorations of a Nemesis: Works by Karen Jean Smith
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Passages In Time
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Marna Bell: Four photography series eliciting imagery of memories
Chris Irick: Internationally recognized jeweler exhibiting her series referencing machinery
Jonathan Kirk: Britis- born sculptor who utilizes forms from the Industrial Revolution, combining abstraction with narrative

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Stained Glass Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Art on the Porches

Price: Free
Ruskin Avenue
Strathmore neighborhood, Syracuse

Art on the Porches is an art show, sale, and celebration of the historic Strathmore neighborhood featuring local artists who will be displaying and selling their work from the spacious porches and lawns of the beautiful homes along Ruskin Avenue. Music, dancers, indie bands, painters, potters, and more will help celebrate our 13th annual festival!

Clairmonte Ave. Stage
10:00 am: Kambuya Marimba Ensemble (dynamic, percussive rhythms rooted in the African tradition)
11:30 am: Mark Nanni and the Intention (swingin' hot zydeco style jazz trio)
1:00 pm: Gary Frenay and Arty Lenin (Sammy award winning power pop duo)
2:15 pm: Los Blancos: (American Roots music)
4:15 pm: Department

105 Ruskin Ave. Stage
10:00 am: Dave Robertson (solo acoustic)
11:30 am: Reyna-Rose Band (Americana with a fresh mountain sound)
1:00 pm: Black Squirrels (acoustic dance band, featuring Folk, Americana, Irish, English, Gypsy, Punk, Pop, Old Country)
2:30 pm: Zeke Leonard (Americana on self-made instruments)
3:00 pm: Malvinas (chaos based in the work of Malvina Reynolds...art/rock/noise/punk/riot grrrl/jamboree/feminist band)
3:45 pm: The Stonelord Brothers (soaring nuevo-classic rock)

For more information, visit artontheporches.org/.

The Photography of J.R. Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

J.R. Hughto is a filmmaker and photographer whose work explores duality, principally the friction between nostalgia/modernity and documentary/lyricism. Hughto's photography has appeared in print in the German edition of Wired Magazine, and has shown in Los Angeles and San Diego, CA, and Syracuse and Buffalo.

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

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

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

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

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

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

See Me
Community Folk Art Center

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

Presented in partnership with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Syracuse, this exhibition highlights local artists and families facing mental illness. "See Me" reinforces the celebration of these artists. There is no shame in having mental illness; the shame is how little people know.

NAMI is a grass-roots, self-help, support and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of families who have relatives with a brain disorder (mental illness).

42nd Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Annual Teen Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of local art professionals will serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City high schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.

In collaboration with the Syracuse chapter of The Links, Inc.

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

"Social Media" Show
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $7
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

Let's chat (post, tweet, and DM) about the wonderful world of Social Media. And by wonderful, we mean hellish. The moments of our lives have been reduced to snapshots of our food and 140-character rants of our latest pet peeves (or our pets...or their peeves.) Thanks to Facebook, you can now have 983 "friends," and not ever have to see, or even actually know, any of them. Honestly, we haven't felt the need to ask someone to "like" us since the third grade. On Twitter, you don't have to Like or Friend people, you "Follow" them. Yeah -- that's not too creepy. And then there's Instagram...which is basically Twitter for illiterates. We think, enough is enough. Sorry...we mean #EnoughIsEnough.

Join us, as the SCiT house team, Pork Pie Hat, updates their status with hilarious improv comedy (in the style of the hit TV show, "Whose Line Is It, Anyway.")