Saturday, October 7, 2023

The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A multi-media art exhibit representing the different realities of a region divided by the Río Grande but united by culture, history, and its people.

The exhibit features works from a collective of South Texas-based artists. Curated by Gil Rocha of the Laredo Center for the Arts.

Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings inspired by landscapes of Central New York.

Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Stephen Carpenter: visual interpretations of the rich and nuanced sound of Pierre Cochereau's organ improvisation of Bolero, presented as digital imagery on canvas
Michael Hughes: textural wheel thrown stoneware and porcelain
Lily Tsay: glass bead and homemade porcelain bead jewelry with select materials

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"On My Own Time" is a community arts program that links the business and cultural sectors of Central New York to spotlight local workforce members who create visual art 'on their own time.' Its goal is to promote appreciation and support of visual arts and recognize individual creativity in our region. It seeks to create a bridge between the business and arts communities in a collaborative setting that encourages, recognizes, and celebrates creativity in the local workforce. This joint effort promotes an appreciation of the importance of arts and culture to the economy and quality of life of the Central New York community. This year, On My Own Time rings in its 50th annual celebration of the creative talents of the Central New York workforce and the beauty of art in our lives!

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ithaca-based artist Christine Chin creates works that explore the evidence of climate change and its impact on the environment. "Invasive Impressions" presents two bodies of Chin's work: her "Invasive Species Cyanotypes" and "Native Species Cyanotypes." Chin's "Invasive Species" series uses the cyanotype process to document invasive species in the Finger Lakes region. She uses actual specimens, collected herself or through collaborations with organizations that work to monitor and control invasive species, including the Finger Lakes Institute and the Finger Lakes Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management. The "Native Species" series focuses on species that coexist in ecosystems affected by invasive species. Shown together, these works draw attention to the relationships that form between species competing for the same ever-dwindling resources.

"Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions" is part of the Everson CNY Artist Initiative, an exhibition program that celebrates the multi-faceted talents of regional artists.

Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Dan Shanahan's paintings highlight the quiet beauty found in scenes of everyday life. His plein air watercolors depict residential and downtown neighborhoods throughout the city of Syracuse, focusing on distinctive buildings and houses.

A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.

On My Own Time Retrospective
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

This year marks the 50th anniversary of On My Own Time, a creative showcase produced by CNY Arts. For a half-century, On My Own Time has offered a unique forum for avocational artists to display their original visual artwork.

Each artist is a member of the local workforce, and businesses are encouraged to participate and celebrate the creative achievement of their employees. On My Own Time was inspired by individuals who make art outside of the hours dedicated to their career. On My Own Time welcomes nonprofessional artists of all levels of expertise and experience who share the joy of creative expression in common.

This fall, join CNY Arts and participants of On My Own Time - past and present - to celebrate our avocational creative community! The On My Own Time 50th Anniversary Retrospective will run at the new Art in the Atrium gallery and programming space, located right in the heart of downtown!

Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon

Employing vivid color, rich pattern, stunning beauty, and admiring love, Lebanese-American artist Helen Zughaib has brought her father's childhood stories of Syria and Lebanon in the 1930s and 40s to life. In 1981, Zughaib received a BFA from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts and has since become one of the world's most renowned Arab American artists. Her work is in the collections of the White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, and the Arab American National Museum. We welcome Helen back to Syracuse where we will exhibit her full series of 25 gouache paintings, each illustrating a story as told by her father, Elia Zughaib.

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Rhythm & Ballet
Syracuse City Ballet

Price: $30 regular, $15 children 12 and under
Syracuse City Ballet Studios
932 Spencer St., Syracuse

Imagine a swanky night club, in the 1920s or there around, you're listening to some of your favorite jazz, blues, and swing music, when all the sudden the floor clears and the dancers of Syracuse City Ballet appear. "Rhythm & Ballet" will be some of the most impressive, expressive, and sensual ballet you've ever seen; set to music loved by every generation.

High School Film Competition
Syracuse International Film Festival

Sharkey's Event Center
7240 Oswego Rd., Liverpool

Horror Day
Syracuse International Film Festival

Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

150th Anniversary of the Birth of Sergei Rachmaninoff
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Kevin Moore, piano

Price: $10
Park Central Presbyterian Church
504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Pianist Kevin Moore presents an all-Rachmaninoff program celebrating 150 years of the great composer and pianist. The program features Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42 and Twelve Preludes.

Kim Richey
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Manhattan Chamber Players
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Richard Strauss Sextet from Capriccio
Boccherini String Quintet in D Major, "Del Fandango"
Brahms String Sextet in G Major, op. 36

Pops Series: Country Hits: Symphoria Loves Country
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Sean O'Loughlin, conductor

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

"Symphoria Loves Country" brings to life the classic hits of Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Cash, as well as songs by the biggest artists of today, like Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw, The Chicks, and Kacey Musgraves.

One of These Nights: The Ultimate Tribute to The Eagles
The Oncenter

Price: $48
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Performance rescheduled from February 10, 2023. Tickets purchased for the original date will be honored for the new date.

One of These Nights promises exactly that ... an unforgettable night featuring the music of the Eagles, one of the most successful rock bands of all time!

One of These Nights takes the audience on a journey through all the Eagles' sounds, from tasteful country rock, complete with full harmonies, to hard rocking tunes that highlight the Eagles' extraordinary catalogue.

The show features the band's greatest hits like "Hotel California," "Desperado," "Lyin' Eyes," "Life In The Fast Lane," "Take It Easy," "Already Gone," "One Of These Nights," and many others – all presented in a highly entertaining production with uncanny accuracy. It was these and other Eagles' tracks that earned the band seven #1 singles, six Grammys, five American Music Awards and six number one albums.

John Waxman and JD Madrid have teamed-up with fellow stellar musicians to create one of the best sounding Eagles' tribute bands touring today. Recognized for their uncanny accuracy to the original, One of These Nights is a pure and simple tribute to the Eagles!

'Cuse Cabaret
Derek Emerson Powell, director

Price: $25
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A hilarious night of comedy songs celebrating Syracuse and CNY — where laughter and local pride collide!

What's funny about ... I-81? The snow? Wegmans? Jim Boeheim? Salted roads? Destiny USA? The snow? Footwear? The Dome? Syracuse China? Armory Square? The snow? Gardening? Dino BBQ? A fake buried giant? That bridge and ... those crows?

Co-lyricists Johanna Beale Keller and Hanna Richardson have written a collection of parody songs about the Syracuse they both love — the town with a big ice chip on its shoulder! Audience members will recognize many of their favorite tunes from Broadway, rock and roll, and pop hits as the joys and frustrations of living in Syracuse are illustrated with affection and edgy humor.

With Ben Borenstein at the keyboard, four singers will perform the 70-minute show, directed by Derek Emerson Powell.

Join us for a hilarious night of comedy songs celebrating the quirks and charms of Syracuse and Central New York! Come and enjoy an evening filled with catchy tunes, witty lyrics, and uproarious performances that pay tribute to our beloved city and its unique culture.

Opening: Guys and Dolls
Syracuse University Drama Department
Banji Aborisade, director

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

Topping Entertainment Weekly's list of the "Greatest Musicals of All Time," Guys and Dolls is everything we love about musical theater. Nathan Detroit needs serious dough to keep his craps game afloat and his marriage-minded girlfriend, Adelaide, happy. When Nathan makes a bet with high-roller Sky Masterson, his problems appear to be solved. Featuring unforgettable showtunes like "Luck Be a Lady" and the irrepressible "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat," Guys and Dolls will put a spring in your step and a smile on your face.

Based on story and characters by Damon Runyon, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. Choreographed by Banji Aborisade; music direction by Brian Cimmet.

Sunday, October 8, 2023

The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A multi-media art exhibit representing the different realities of a region divided by the Río Grande but united by culture, history, and its people.

The exhibit features works from a collective of South Texas-based artists. Curated by Gil Rocha of the Laredo Center for the Arts.

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"On My Own Time" is a community arts program that links the business and cultural sectors of Central New York to spotlight local workforce members who create visual art 'on their own time.' Its goal is to promote appreciation and support of visual arts and recognize individual creativity in our region. It seeks to create a bridge between the business and arts communities in a collaborative setting that encourages, recognizes, and celebrates creativity in the local workforce. This joint effort promotes an appreciation of the importance of arts and culture to the economy and quality of life of the Central New York community. This year, On My Own Time rings in its 50th annual celebration of the creative talents of the Central New York workforce and the beauty of art in our lives!

Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ithaca-based artist Christine Chin creates works that explore the evidence of climate change and its impact on the environment. "Invasive Impressions" presents two bodies of Chin's work: her "Invasive Species Cyanotypes" and "Native Species Cyanotypes." Chin's "Invasive Species" series uses the cyanotype process to document invasive species in the Finger Lakes region. She uses actual specimens, collected herself or through collaborations with organizations that work to monitor and control invasive species, including the Finger Lakes Institute and the Finger Lakes Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management. The "Native Species" series focuses on species that coexist in ecosystems affected by invasive species. Shown together, these works draw attention to the relationships that form between species competing for the same ever-dwindling resources.

"Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions" is part of the Everson CNY Artist Initiative, an exhibition program that celebrates the multi-faceted talents of regional artists.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Dan Shanahan's paintings highlight the quiet beauty found in scenes of everyday life. His plein air watercolors depict residential and downtown neighborhoods throughout the city of Syracuse, focusing on distinctive buildings and houses.

On My Own Time Retrospective
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

This year marks the 50th anniversary of On My Own Time, a creative showcase produced by CNY Arts. For a half-century, On My Own Time has offered a unique forum for avocational artists to display their original visual artwork.

Each artist is a member of the local workforce, and businesses are encouraged to participate and celebrate the creative achievement of their employees. On My Own Time was inspired by individuals who make art outside of the hours dedicated to their career. On My Own Time welcomes nonprofessional artists of all levels of expertise and experience who share the joy of creative expression in common.

This fall, join CNY Arts and participants of On My Own Time - past and present - to celebrate our avocational creative community! The On My Own Time 50th Anniversary Retrospective will run at the new Art in the Atrium gallery and programming space, located right in the heart of downtown!

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

Rhythm & Ballet
Syracuse City Ballet

Price: $30 regular, $15 children 12 and under
Syracuse City Ballet Studios
932 Spencer St., Syracuse

Imagine a swanky night club, in the 1920s or there around, you're listening to some of your favorite jazz, blues, and swing music, when all the sudden the floor clears and the dancers of Syracuse City Ballet appear. "Rhythm & Ballet" will be some of the most impressive, expressive, and sensual ballet you've ever seen; set to music loved by every generation.

Flutes and Piano
Lana Stafford, flute; Debra Perkins, flute; Sabine Krantz, piano

Tully United Community Church
Meetinghouse Road, Tully

Music by Mozart, Ian Clarke, Widor, and Uebayashi

Community Side By Side Concert
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Sean O'Loughlin, conductor

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

Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King
Khachaturian Masquerade Suite: Waltz
Gounod Funeral March of a Marionette
O'Loughlin Dark Illumination
Saint-Saens Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah
O'Loughlin Music from Stranger Things
Webber/Custer Phantom of the Opera

'Cuse Cabaret
Derek Emerson Powell, director

Price: $25
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A hilarious night of comedy songs celebrating Syracuse and CNY — where laughter and local pride collide!

What's funny about ... I-81? The snow? Wegmans? Jim Boeheim? Salted roads? Destiny USA? The snow? Footwear? The Dome? Syracuse China? Armory Square? The snow? Gardening? Dino BBQ? A fake buried giant? That bridge and ... those crows?

Co-lyricists Johanna Beale Keller and Hanna Richardson have written a collection of parody songs about the Syracuse they both love — the town with a big ice chip on its shoulder! Audience members will recognize many of their favorite tunes from Broadway, rock and roll, and pop hits as the joys and frustrations of living in Syracuse are illustrated with affection and edgy humor.

With Ben Borenstein at the keyboard, four singers will perform the 70-minute show, directed by Derek Emerson Powell.

Join us for a hilarious night of comedy songs celebrating the quirks and charms of Syracuse and Central New York! Come and enjoy an evening filled with catchy tunes, witty lyrics, and uproarious performances that pay tribute to our beloved city and its unique culture.

Guys and Dolls
Syracuse University Drama Department
Banji Aborisade, director

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

Topping Entertainment Weekly's list of the "Greatest Musicals of All Time," Guys and Dolls is everything we love about musical theater. Nathan Detroit needs serious dough to keep his craps game afloat and his marriage-minded girlfriend, Adelaide, happy. When Nathan makes a bet with high-roller Sky Masterson, his problems appear to be solved. Featuring unforgettable showtunes like "Luck Be a Lady" and the irrepressible "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat," Guys and Dolls will put a spring in your step and a smile on your face.

Based on story and characters by Damon Runyon, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. Choreographed by Banji Aborisade; music direction by Brian Cimmet.

Monday, October 9, 2023

The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A multi-media art exhibit representing the different realities of a region divided by the Río Grande but united by culture, history, and its people.

The exhibit features works from a collective of South Texas-based artists. Curated by Gil Rocha of the Laredo Center for the Arts.

Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings inspired by landscapes of Central New York.

A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Mystery Double Feature
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $4 non-members, $3.50 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938)
Cast: Peter Lorre, Henry Wilcoxon, Erik Rhodes, Mary McGuire, Harold Huber, Leon Ames
Director: Norman Foster
This entry finds Moto (Lorre) at his undercover best as he investigates a secret assassination society that's running rampant.

The Grand Central Murder (1942)
Cast: Van Heflin, Virginia Grey, Patricia Dane, Sam Levene, Cecilia Parker, Tom Conway, Samuel S. Hinds
Director: S. Sylvan Simon
This fast-paced, suspect-filled whodunit stars Heflin in one of his early starring roles as a detective trying to solve the murder of an actress in a railroad car at Grand Central Station. An excellent cast and interesting motives really keep this one moving!

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A multi-media art exhibit representing the different realities of a region divided by the Río Grande but united by culture, history, and its people.

The exhibit features works from a collective of South Texas-based artists. Curated by Gil Rocha of the Laredo Center for the Arts.

Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings inspired by landscapes of Central New York.

Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Stephen Carpenter: visual interpretations of the rich and nuanced sound of Pierre Cochereau's organ improvisation of Bolero, presented as digital imagery on canvas
Michael Hughes: textural wheel thrown stoneware and porcelain
Lily Tsay: glass bead and homemade porcelain bead jewelry with select materials

A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Mondrian: Art, Design, Fashion
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Discover the remarkable influence of Piet Mondrian's art on fashion and design. This exhibition, curated by Professor Jeffrey Mayer and featuring the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, addresses the effect that Piet Mondrian's utopian neoplastic art has had on design and fashion in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Mondrian (1872-1944) was a visionary Dutch painter known for pioneering the De Stijl movement. His iconic grid-based compositions using only straight lines, primary colors plus black, white and grey, transformed the art world. His work embodies simplicity, harmony, and a universal language of abstraction.

The exhibition features not only fashion from the 1980s and 1990s but is also filled with additional "design" objects that have been influenced by Mondrian's work, including dinnerware from Kate Spade; toys from Mattel, LOL and Thomas the Train; sneakers by Nike; and packaging from the beauty brand L'Oreal's Studio Line.

Jazz at Timber Banks: Quatro
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Persimmons
3536 Timber Banks Pkwy., Baldwinsville

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A multi-media art exhibit representing the different realities of a region divided by the Río Grande but united by culture, history, and its people.

The exhibit features works from a collective of South Texas-based artists. Curated by Gil Rocha of the Laredo Center for the Arts.

Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings inspired by landscapes of Central New York.

Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Stephen Carpenter: visual interpretations of the rich and nuanced sound of Pierre Cochereau's organ improvisation of Bolero, presented as digital imagery on canvas
Michael Hughes: textural wheel thrown stoneware and porcelain
Lily Tsay: glass bead and homemade porcelain bead jewelry with select materials

A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ithaca-based artist Christine Chin creates works that explore the evidence of climate change and its impact on the environment. "Invasive Impressions" presents two bodies of Chin's work: her "Invasive Species Cyanotypes" and "Native Species Cyanotypes." Chin's "Invasive Species" series uses the cyanotype process to document invasive species in the Finger Lakes region. She uses actual specimens, collected herself or through collaborations with organizations that work to monitor and control invasive species, including the Finger Lakes Institute and the Finger Lakes Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management. The "Native Species" series focuses on species that coexist in ecosystems affected by invasive species. Shown together, these works draw attention to the relationships that form between species competing for the same ever-dwindling resources.

"Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions" is part of the Everson CNY Artist Initiative, an exhibition program that celebrates the multi-faceted talents of regional artists.

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"On My Own Time" is a community arts program that links the business and cultural sectors of Central New York to spotlight local workforce members who create visual art 'on their own time.' Its goal is to promote appreciation and support of visual arts and recognize individual creativity in our region. It seeks to create a bridge between the business and arts communities in a collaborative setting that encourages, recognizes, and celebrates creativity in the local workforce. This joint effort promotes an appreciation of the importance of arts and culture to the economy and quality of life of the Central New York community. This year, On My Own Time rings in its 50th annual celebration of the creative talents of the Central New York workforce and the beauty of art in our lives!

Mondrian: Art, Design, Fashion
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Discover the remarkable influence of Piet Mondrian's art on fashion and design. This exhibition, curated by Professor Jeffrey Mayer and featuring the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, addresses the effect that Piet Mondrian's utopian neoplastic art has had on design and fashion in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Mondrian (1872-1944) was a visionary Dutch painter known for pioneering the De Stijl movement. His iconic grid-based compositions using only straight lines, primary colors plus black, white and grey, transformed the art world. His work embodies simplicity, harmony, and a universal language of abstraction.

The exhibition features not only fashion from the 1980s and 1990s but is also filled with additional "design" objects that have been influenced by Mondrian's work, including dinnerware from Kate Spade; toys from Mattel, LOL and Thomas the Train; sneakers by Nike; and packaging from the beauty brand L'Oreal's Studio Line.

Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon

Employing vivid color, rich pattern, stunning beauty, and admiring love, Lebanese-American artist Helen Zughaib has brought her father's childhood stories of Syria and Lebanon in the 1930s and 40s to life. In 1981, Zughaib received a BFA from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts and has since become one of the world's most renowned Arab American artists. Her work is in the collections of the White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, and the Arab American National Museum. We welcome Helen back to Syracuse where we will exhibit her full series of 25 gouache paintings, each illustrating a story as told by her father, Elia Zughaib.

*SOLD OUT* Adeem the Artist
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

From their earliest self-released EPs to 2021's Cast-Iron Pansexual—the album that earned praise from Rolling Stone and American Songwriter for its examination of faith, sexual identity, and self-acceptance—Adeem the Artist has continued to build a following by blending Appalachian musical influences and poetic flair with a healthy dose of comedic instinct.

John Murillo, the Richard Elman Visiting Writer
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

John Murillo is the author of the poetry collections Up Jump the Boogie (Cypher 2010, Four Way Books 2020), finalist for both the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Pen Open Book Award, and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry (Four Way 2020), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Poetry Society of Virginia's North American Book Award, and finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, Believer Poetry Award, Maya Angelou Book Award, Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award and the NAACP Image Award. His other honors include the Four Quartets Prize from the T.S. Eliot Foundation and the Poetry Society of America, two Larry Neal Writers Awards, a pair of Pushcart Prizes, the J Howard and Barbara MJ Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation, an NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Cave Canem Foundation, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Murillo's poems have appeared in such publications as American Poetry Review, Poetry, and Best American Poetry 2017, 2019, and 2020. Currently, he is an associate professor of English and director of the creative writing program at Wesleyan University.

The reading will be preceded by a question-and-answer session beginning at 4:00 pm.

Guys and Dolls
Syracuse University Drama Department
Banji Aborisade, director

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

Topping Entertainment Weekly's list of the "Greatest Musicals of All Time," Guys and Dolls is everything we love about musical theater. Nathan Detroit needs serious dough to keep his craps game afloat and his marriage-minded girlfriend, Adelaide, happy. When Nathan makes a bet with high-roller Sky Masterson, his problems appear to be solved. Featuring unforgettable showtunes like "Luck Be a Lady" and the irrepressible "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat," Guys and Dolls will put a spring in your step and a smile on your face.

Based on story and characters by Damon Runyon, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. Choreographed by Banji Aborisade; music direction by Brian Cimmet.

Thursday, October 12, 2023

The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A multi-media art exhibit representing the different realities of a region divided by the Río Grande but united by culture, history, and its people.

The exhibit features works from a collective of South Texas-based artists. Curated by Gil Rocha of the Laredo Center for the Arts.

Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings inspired by landscapes of Central New York.

Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Stephen Carpenter: visual interpretations of the rich and nuanced sound of Pierre Cochereau's organ improvisation of Bolero, presented as digital imagery on canvas
Michael Hughes: textural wheel thrown stoneware and porcelain
Lily Tsay: glass bead and homemade porcelain bead jewelry with select materials

A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ithaca-based artist Christine Chin creates works that explore the evidence of climate change and its impact on the environment. "Invasive Impressions" presents two bodies of Chin's work: her "Invasive Species Cyanotypes" and "Native Species Cyanotypes." Chin's "Invasive Species" series uses the cyanotype process to document invasive species in the Finger Lakes region. She uses actual specimens, collected herself or through collaborations with organizations that work to monitor and control invasive species, including the Finger Lakes Institute and the Finger Lakes Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management. The "Native Species" series focuses on species that coexist in ecosystems affected by invasive species. Shown together, these works draw attention to the relationships that form between species competing for the same ever-dwindling resources.

"Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions" is part of the Everson CNY Artist Initiative, an exhibition program that celebrates the multi-faceted talents of regional artists.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"On My Own Time" is a community arts program that links the business and cultural sectors of Central New York to spotlight local workforce members who create visual art 'on their own time.' Its goal is to promote appreciation and support of visual arts and recognize individual creativity in our region. It seeks to create a bridge between the business and arts communities in a collaborative setting that encourages, recognizes, and celebrates creativity in the local workforce. This joint effort promotes an appreciation of the importance of arts and culture to the economy and quality of life of the Central New York community. This year, On My Own Time rings in its 50th annual celebration of the creative talents of the Central New York workforce and the beauty of art in our lives!

Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Dan Shanahan's paintings highlight the quiet beauty found in scenes of everyday life. His plein air watercolors depict residential and downtown neighborhoods throughout the city of Syracuse, focusing on distinctive buildings and houses.

Mondrian: Art, Design, Fashion
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Discover the remarkable influence of Piet Mondrian's art on fashion and design. This exhibition, curated by Professor Jeffrey Mayer and featuring the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, addresses the effect that Piet Mondrian's utopian neoplastic art has had on design and fashion in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Mondrian (1872-1944) was a visionary Dutch painter known for pioneering the De Stijl movement. His iconic grid-based compositions using only straight lines, primary colors plus black, white and grey, transformed the art world. His work embodies simplicity, harmony, and a universal language of abstraction.

The exhibition features not only fashion from the 1980s and 1990s but is also filled with additional "design" objects that have been influenced by Mondrian's work, including dinnerware from Kate Spade; toys from Mattel, LOL and Thomas the Train; sneakers by Nike; and packaging from the beauty brand L'Oreal's Studio Line.

Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon

Employing vivid color, rich pattern, stunning beauty, and admiring love, Lebanese-American artist Helen Zughaib has brought her father's childhood stories of Syria and Lebanon in the 1930s and 40s to life. In 1981, Zughaib received a BFA from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts and has since become one of the world's most renowned Arab American artists. Her work is in the collections of the White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, and the Arab American National Museum. We welcome Helen back to Syracuse where we will exhibit her full series of 25 gouache paintings, each illustrating a story as told by her father, Elia Zughaib.

Institute of Queer Ecology: Hysteria
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Hysteria is an original video by Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO). In this work, the institute uses image, movement, and sound to construct an ecofeminist retelling of the poorly understood "dancing plagues" that swept through Europe between the 10th and the 17th centuries. The afflicted dancers are subtly recast as pointedly subversive agents entangled in environmental contagion and contamination that drive these wild, manic uprisings.

Dancing plagues (also referred to as dancing mania, choreomania, and tarantism) were spontaneous social phenomena in which groups of people, at times in the thousands, danced erratically and without restraint. The mania affected people of all ages and genders, and they often danced until they collapsed from exhaustion or suffered injury and even death.

Shot in and around Syracuse as part of Light Work UVP's Residential Media Art Commission program, Hysteria features many iconic Central New York locations, including the Syracuse Metro Water Treatment Plant on Onondaga Lake, Pratt's Falls, and Stone Quarry Art Park. (12:33, 2023)

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.

Strength for Life
Strathmore Speakers Series
Featuring Pete Hayley, personal trainer and nutritional coach

Price: Free
Onondaga Hill Free Library
4840 W. Seneca Tnpk., Syracuse

Personal trainer and nutrition coach Pete Haley will discuss what it means to be strong for life. Pete's presentation will cover the value of movement and exercise, and the difference between the two. He will also discuss the impact of discomfort, pain, and injury and how to move while dealing with them, the value of consistency/quality vs. quantity, and the impact of nutrition on how we move, feel, and perceive pain. His presentation will include a demonstration of movements and exercises that attendees can try at home. A brief Q&A will follow his presentation.

This is a hybrid event, held in person and on Zoom.

In person registration
Zoom registration

The Wildly Inappropriate Poetry of Arthur Greenleaf Holmes
Featuring Gordon Boudreau

Price: $15
Wunderbar
201 S. West St., Syracuse

Gordon Boudreau makes his Wunderbar debut as the fictional Arthur Greenleaf Holmes, England's preeminent 16th century libertine poet. Arthur fuses irresponsible humor with a deep love of language, poetry, and the humanities for an evening of convulsive laughter and surprising insight. Blending the profane with the elegant and the subversive with the illuminating, Arthur pollutes the evening with such pearl-clutching rhythmic upheavals as the euphonic "Ode to an Extremely Provocative Knothole;" the prepubescent lament "Mother, Will My Stones Drop?;" and his towering "I Built My Love a Menstrual Hut." Forced to find its way out of a dark and dusty corner of the Smithsonian amidst a landscape of uninspired current pop events, news-feed minutiae, and a non-nutritional diet of cat videos, The Wildly Inappropriate Poetry of Arthur Greenleaf Holmes fuses melodic language with an utter disregard for decent society. For everyone — from college professors to the noble laborer, the NPR set to the barroom biker crowd — comes an evening to delight the true pervert of distinction.

Parental discretion is advised.

Guys and Dolls
Syracuse University Drama Department
Banji Aborisade, director

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

Topping Entertainment Weekly's list of the "Greatest Musicals of All Time," Guys and Dolls is everything we love about musical theater. Nathan Detroit needs serious dough to keep his craps game afloat and his marriage-minded girlfriend, Adelaide, happy. When Nathan makes a bet with high-roller Sky Masterson, his problems appear to be solved. Featuring unforgettable showtunes like "Luck Be a Lady" and the irrepressible "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat," Guys and Dolls will put a spring in your step and a smile on your face.

Based on story and characters by Damon Runyon, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. Choreographed by Banji Aborisade; music direction by Brian Cimmet.

Friday, October 13, 2023

The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A multi-media art exhibit representing the different realities of a region divided by the Río Grande but united by culture, history, and its people.

The exhibit features works from a collective of South Texas-based artists. Curated by Gil Rocha of the Laredo Center for the Arts.

Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings inspired by landscapes of Central New York.

Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Stephen Carpenter: visual interpretations of the rich and nuanced sound of Pierre Cochereau's organ improvisation of Bolero, presented as digital imagery on canvas
Michael Hughes: textural wheel thrown stoneware and porcelain
Lily Tsay: glass bead and homemade porcelain bead jewelry with select materials

A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ithaca-based artist Christine Chin creates works that explore the evidence of climate change and its impact on the environment. "Invasive Impressions" presents two bodies of Chin's work: her "Invasive Species Cyanotypes" and "Native Species Cyanotypes." Chin's "Invasive Species" series uses the cyanotype process to document invasive species in the Finger Lakes region. She uses actual specimens, collected herself or through collaborations with organizations that work to monitor and control invasive species, including the Finger Lakes Institute and the Finger Lakes Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management. The "Native Species" series focuses on species that coexist in ecosystems affected by invasive species. Shown together, these works draw attention to the relationships that form between species competing for the same ever-dwindling resources.

"Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions" is part of the Everson CNY Artist Initiative, an exhibition program that celebrates the multi-faceted talents of regional artists.

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"On My Own Time" is a community arts program that links the business and cultural sectors of Central New York to spotlight local workforce members who create visual art 'on their own time.' Its goal is to promote appreciation and support of visual arts and recognize individual creativity in our region. It seeks to create a bridge between the business and arts communities in a collaborative setting that encourages, recognizes, and celebrates creativity in the local workforce. This joint effort promotes an appreciation of the importance of arts and culture to the economy and quality of life of the Central New York community. This year, On My Own Time rings in its 50th annual celebration of the creative talents of the Central New York workforce and the beauty of art in our lives!

Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Dan Shanahan's paintings highlight the quiet beauty found in scenes of everyday life. His plein air watercolors depict residential and downtown neighborhoods throughout the city of Syracuse, focusing on distinctive buildings and houses.

Mondrian: Art, Design, Fashion
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Discover the remarkable influence of Piet Mondrian's art on fashion and design. This exhibition, curated by Professor Jeffrey Mayer and featuring the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, addresses the effect that Piet Mondrian's utopian neoplastic art has had on design and fashion in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Mondrian (1872-1944) was a visionary Dutch painter known for pioneering the De Stijl movement. His iconic grid-based compositions using only straight lines, primary colors plus black, white and grey, transformed the art world. His work embodies simplicity, harmony, and a universal language of abstraction.

The exhibition features not only fashion from the 1980s and 1990s but is also filled with additional "design" objects that have been influenced by Mondrian's work, including dinnerware from Kate Spade; toys from Mattel, LOL and Thomas the Train; sneakers by Nike; and packaging from the beauty brand L'Oreal's Studio Line.

On My Own Time Retrospective
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

This year marks the 50th anniversary of On My Own Time, a creative showcase produced by CNY Arts. For a half-century, On My Own Time has offered a unique forum for avocational artists to display their original visual artwork.

Each artist is a member of the local workforce, and businesses are encouraged to participate and celebrate the creative achievement of their employees. On My Own Time was inspired by individuals who make art outside of the hours dedicated to their career. On My Own Time welcomes nonprofessional artists of all levels of expertise and experience who share the joy of creative expression in common.

This fall, join CNY Arts and participants of On My Own Time - past and present - to celebrate our avocational creative community! The On My Own Time 50th Anniversary Retrospective will run at the new Art in the Atrium gallery and programming space, located right in the heart of downtown!

Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon

Employing vivid color, rich pattern, stunning beauty, and admiring love, Lebanese-American artist Helen Zughaib has brought her father's childhood stories of Syria and Lebanon in the 1930s and 40s to life. In 1981, Zughaib received a BFA from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts and has since become one of the world's most renowned Arab American artists. Her work is in the collections of the White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, and the Arab American National Museum. We welcome Helen back to Syracuse where we will exhibit her full series of 25 gouache paintings, each illustrating a story as told by her father, Elia Zughaib.

Institute of Queer Ecology: Hysteria
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Hysteria is an original video by Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO). In this work, the institute uses image, movement, and sound to construct an ecofeminist retelling of the poorly understood "dancing plagues" that swept through Europe between the 10th and the 17th centuries. The afflicted dancers are subtly recast as pointedly subversive agents entangled in environmental contagion and contamination that drive these wild, manic uprisings.

Dancing plagues (also referred to as dancing mania, choreomania, and tarantism) were spontaneous social phenomena in which groups of people, at times in the thousands, danced erratically and without restraint. The mania affected people of all ages and genders, and they often danced until they collapsed from exhaustion or suffered injury and even death.

Shot in and around Syracuse as part of Light Work UVP's Residential Media Art Commission program, Hysteria features many iconic Central New York locations, including the Syracuse Metro Water Treatment Plant on Onondaga Lake, Pratt's Falls, and Stone Quarry Art Park. (12:33, 2023)

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.

Rhythm & Ballet
Syracuse City Ballet

Price: $30 regular, $15 children 12 and under
Syracuse City Ballet Studios
932 Spencer St., Syracuse

Imagine a swanky night club, in the 1920s or there around, you're listening to some of your favorite jazz, blues, and swing music, when all the sudden the floor clears and the dancers of Syracuse City Ballet appear. "Rhythm & Ballet" will be some of the most impressive, expressive, and sensual ballet you've ever seen; set to music loved by every generation.

asleep, street, pipes, tones
315 Ensemble

Price: $10 suggested price, but no one will be turned away
Wunderbar
201 S. West St., Syracuse

An audio-visual experience featuring Michael Pisaro's monumental asleep, street, pipes, tones, a 64-minute work, performed by Chris Cresswell on electric guitar and Diane Jones on amplified contrabass flute. The work incorporates field recordings and sounds from everyday life to create an ambient, reflective work. Asleep, street, pipes, tones has been described as "a fascinating, intense and lovingly produced example of what can be made if you come from a completely different direction to the music-making process." The work is accompanied by an abstract visual film created by Chris Cresswell.

The piece will be preceded by yaz lancaster's everything cut down for solo electric guitar, Melissa Keeling's Northern Lights, and Adam Scott Neal's cords for electric guitar and electronics.

The Magic of Motown Tribute Concert
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Experience The Magic of Motown Tribute! This high-energy tribute to the legends of Motown will transport you back in time where you'll visit the very best of "Hitsville, USA!" This performance features a cast of 15 power-house vocalists backed by a six-piece band who embody artists such as The Temptations, The Four Tops, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson, and more! The show's pitch-perfect harmonies, dynamic choreography, and gorgeous costuming perfectly capture the sights and sound of Motown and has become a timeless treasure.

Knight of the Lute
NYS Baroque
Featuring Paul O’Dette, lute

Price: $30 regular, $10 student/low income
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Paul O'Dette plays solo lute music from the Albani Manuscripts, only recently discovered in an Italian villa. Music by Kapsberger, Lorenzino, Cavaliere del Liuto, and more.

Spooky Serenades: A Friday the 13th Cabaret
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $15
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Join CNYP musicians for a spooky Halloween cabaret, featuring songs from Jekyll and Hyde, Carrie, Beetlejuice, and many more!

Featuring Piano/Music Director Erica Moser with Alyssa Rae Courter, Kathy Burke Egloff, Maddie Deshaies, Hali Greenhouse, Sara Harrington, Michele Lindor, Bella Lupia, Christopher James Lupia, Nicholas MacLane, Zachary Moser, Kiara Rice, Garrett Robinson, CJ Roche, Casey Ryan, Olivia Semsel, Ryan Sparkes, Ceara Windhausen, and Eric Ziegler.

Almost, Maine
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Chris Spring, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

A woman carries her heart, broken into 19 pieces, in a small paper bag. A man shrinks to half his former size, after losing hope in love. A couple keep the love they have given each other in large red bags, or compress the mass into the size of a diamond.

These playful and surreal experiences are commonplace in the world of John Cariani's Almost, Maine, where on one deeply cold and magical midwinter night, the citizens of Almost — not organized enough for a town, too populated for a wilderness — experience the life-altering power of the human heart. Relationships end, begin, or change beyond recognition, as strangers become friends, friends become lovers, and lovers turn into strangers. Propelled by the mystical energy of the aurora borealis and populated with characters who are humorous, plain-spoken, thoughtful, and sincere, Almost, Maine is a series of loosely connected tales about love, each with a compelling couple at its center, each with its own touch of sorcery.

Guys and Dolls
Syracuse University Drama Department
Banji Aborisade, director

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

Topping Entertainment Weekly's list of the "Greatest Musicals of All Time," Guys and Dolls is everything we love about musical theater. Nathan Detroit needs serious dough to keep his craps game afloat and his marriage-minded girlfriend, Adelaide, happy. When Nathan makes a bet with high-roller Sky Masterson, his problems appear to be solved. Featuring unforgettable showtunes like "Luck Be a Lady" and the irrepressible "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat," Guys and Dolls will put a spring in your step and a smile on your face.

Based on story and characters by Damon Runyon, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. Choreographed by Banji Aborisade; music direction by Brian Cimmet.

Saturday, October 14, 2023

The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A multi-media art exhibit representing the different realities of a region divided by the Río Grande but united by culture, history, and its people.

The exhibit features works from a collective of South Texas-based artists. Curated by Gil Rocha of the Laredo Center for the Arts.

Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings inspired by landscapes of Central New York.

Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Stephen Carpenter: visual interpretations of the rich and nuanced sound of Pierre Cochereau's organ improvisation of Bolero, presented as digital imagery on canvas
Michael Hughes: textural wheel thrown stoneware and porcelain
Lily Tsay: glass bead and homemade porcelain bead jewelry with select materials

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"On My Own Time" is a community arts program that links the business and cultural sectors of Central New York to spotlight local workforce members who create visual art 'on their own time.' Its goal is to promote appreciation and support of visual arts and recognize individual creativity in our region. It seeks to create a bridge between the business and arts communities in a collaborative setting that encourages, recognizes, and celebrates creativity in the local workforce. This joint effort promotes an appreciation of the importance of arts and culture to the economy and quality of life of the Central New York community. This year, On My Own Time rings in its 50th annual celebration of the creative talents of the Central New York workforce and the beauty of art in our lives!

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ithaca-based artist Christine Chin creates works that explore the evidence of climate change and its impact on the environment. "Invasive Impressions" presents two bodies of Chin's work: her "Invasive Species Cyanotypes" and "Native Species Cyanotypes." Chin's "Invasive Species" series uses the cyanotype process to document invasive species in the Finger Lakes region. She uses actual specimens, collected herself or through collaborations with organizations that work to monitor and control invasive species, including the Finger Lakes Institute and the Finger Lakes Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management. The "Native Species" series focuses on species that coexist in ecosystems affected by invasive species. Shown together, these works draw attention to the relationships that form between species competing for the same ever-dwindling resources.

"Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions" is part of the Everson CNY Artist Initiative, an exhibition program that celebrates the multi-faceted talents of regional artists.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Dan Shanahan's paintings highlight the quiet beauty found in scenes of everyday life. His plein air watercolors depict residential and downtown neighborhoods throughout the city of Syracuse, focusing on distinctive buildings and houses.

CNY Art Guild Fall Fine Art Show and Sale

Price: Free admission
Aspen House, Radisson
8550 N. Entry Rd., Baldwinsville

Acrylic and oil paintings, watercolors, stained glass, photography, and ceramics

A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.

On My Own Time Retrospective
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

This year marks the 50th anniversary of On My Own Time, a creative showcase produced by CNY Arts. For a half-century, On My Own Time has offered a unique forum for avocational artists to display their original visual artwork.

Each artist is a member of the local workforce, and businesses are encouraged to participate and celebrate the creative achievement of their employees. On My Own Time was inspired by individuals who make art outside of the hours dedicated to their career. On My Own Time welcomes nonprofessional artists of all levels of expertise and experience who share the joy of creative expression in common.

This fall, join CNY Arts and participants of On My Own Time - past and present - to celebrate our avocational creative community! The On My Own Time 50th Anniversary Retrospective will run at the new Art in the Atrium gallery and programming space, located right in the heart of downtown!

Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon

Employing vivid color, rich pattern, stunning beauty, and admiring love, Lebanese-American artist Helen Zughaib has brought her father's childhood stories of Syria and Lebanon in the 1930s and 40s to life. In 1981, Zughaib received a BFA from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts and has since become one of the world's most renowned Arab American artists. Her work is in the collections of the White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, and the Arab American National Museum. We welcome Helen back to Syracuse where we will exhibit her full series of 25 gouache paintings, each illustrating a story as told by her father, Elia Zughaib.

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

Institute of Queer Ecology: Hysteria
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Hysteria is an original video by Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO). In this work, the institute uses image, movement, and sound to construct an ecofeminist retelling of the poorly understood "dancing plagues" that swept through Europe between the 10th and the 17th centuries. The afflicted dancers are subtly recast as pointedly subversive agents entangled in environmental contagion and contamination that drive these wild, manic uprisings.

Dancing plagues (also referred to as dancing mania, choreomania, and tarantism) were spontaneous social phenomena in which groups of people, at times in the thousands, danced erratically and without restraint. The mania affected people of all ages and genders, and they often danced until they collapsed from exhaustion or suffered injury and even death.

Shot in and around Syracuse as part of Light Work UVP's Residential Media Art Commission program, Hysteria features many iconic Central New York locations, including the Syracuse Metro Water Treatment Plant on Onondaga Lake, Pratt's Falls, and Stone Quarry Art Park. (12:33, 2023)

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.

Rhythm & Ballet
Syracuse City Ballet

Price: $30 regular, $15 children 12 and under
Syracuse City Ballet Studios
932 Spencer St., Syracuse

Imagine a swanky night club, in the 1920s or there around, you're listening to some of your favorite jazz, blues, and swing music, when all the sudden the floor clears and the dancers of Syracuse City Ballet appear. "Rhythm & Ballet" will be some of the most impressive, expressive, and sensual ballet you've ever seen; set to music loved by every generation.

Nostalgia and Love Songs
Civic Morning Musicals
Kat Skafidas, soprano; Kyle Seniw, tenor; Cynthia Bromka-Skafidas, piano

Price: $10
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Ravel Mélodies populaires grecques
Chopin-Viardot selections from 12 Mazurkas de Frédéric Chopin
Draper O sea-starved, hungry sea, 2017
Schumann selections from Gedichte aus "Liebesfrühling"
Schumann Vier Duette

Resounding Earth: A Sonic Landscape
Society for New Music

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Resounding Earth inspires a participatory sonic landscape in the park amphitheater, featuring a performance of Augusta Read Thomas's music for percussion quartet and ambient sounds celebrating community across cultures.

Ambient sounds, in this case, refer not only to sounds within the natural, outdoor setting but the fact that the musical score calls for 500 bells or sculpted metals of different sizes and shapes, from different cultures and historical periods.

To make this distinctive to CNY and the park, four regional composers will create mini-soundscapes in mapped locations nearby for visitors to explore before, during, or after Resounding Earth. Attendees are encouraged to bring a bell to "ring in" the performance, helping to change the sonic landscape for themselves and others.

Presented by SU Humanities Center's Syracuse Symposium, Society for New Music, and the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Southbound Renegade
Palace Theatre

Price: $15 in advance; $20 at the door, if available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Southbound Renegade, a Southern rock show, brings you back to the glory days of Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers. Performing all your favorite southern rock hits, they say playing these songs is all about the details. These guys really hit that mark. Close your eyes and you're back at the Fillmore East.

Flutes and Piano
Lana Stafford, flute; Debra Perkins, flute; Sabine Krantz, piano

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

Music by Mozart, Ian Clarke, Widor, and Uebayashi

Dj Mel: 50th Year of Hip-Hop Birthday Bash
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Kristin Gitler Festival with Bryan Dickenson and Melissa Grace Clark
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $15 suggested donation covers entertainment, dessert, coffee/tea
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Masterworks Series: West Side Story: Symphonic Dances
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Featuring Sterling Elliott, cello

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

Bernstein Candide Overture
Schumann Concerto for Cello in A minor, Op. 129
Anna Clyne This Midnight Hour
Bernstein West Side Story: Symphonic Dances

Guys and Dolls
Syracuse University Drama Department
Banji Aborisade, director

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

Topping Entertainment Weekly's list of the "Greatest Musicals of All Time," Guys and Dolls is everything we love about musical theater. Nathan Detroit needs serious dough to keep his craps game afloat and his marriage-minded girlfriend, Adelaide, happy. When Nathan makes a bet with high-roller Sky Masterson, his problems appear to be solved. Featuring unforgettable showtunes like "Luck Be a Lady" and the irrepressible "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat," Guys and Dolls will put a spring in your step and a smile on your face.

Based on story and characters by Damon Runyon, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. Choreographed by Banji Aborisade; music direction by Brian Cimmet.

Almost, Maine
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Chris Spring, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

A woman carries her heart, broken into 19 pieces, in a small paper bag. A man shrinks to half his former size, after losing hope in love. A couple keep the love they have given each other in large red bags, or compress the mass into the size of a diamond.

These playful and surreal experiences are commonplace in the world of John Cariani's Almost, Maine, where on one deeply cold and magical midwinter night, the citizens of Almost — not organized enough for a town, too populated for a wilderness — experience the life-altering power of the human heart. Relationships end, begin, or change beyond recognition, as strangers become friends, friends become lovers, and lovers turn into strangers. Propelled by the mystical energy of the aurora borealis and populated with characters who are humorous, plain-spoken, thoughtful, and sincere, Almost, Maine is a series of loosely connected tales about love, each with a compelling couple at its center, each with its own touch of sorcery.

Guys and Dolls
Syracuse University Drama Department
Banji Aborisade, director

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

Topping Entertainment Weekly's list of the "Greatest Musicals of All Time," Guys and Dolls is everything we love about musical theater. Nathan Detroit needs serious dough to keep his craps game afloat and his marriage-minded girlfriend, Adelaide, happy. When Nathan makes a bet with high-roller Sky Masterson, his problems appear to be solved. Featuring unforgettable showtunes like "Luck Be a Lady" and the irrepressible "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat," Guys and Dolls will put a spring in your step and a smile on your face.

Based on story and characters by Damon Runyon, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. Choreographed by Banji Aborisade; music direction by Brian Cimmet.