Saturday, December 8, 2012

Inspired Tidings: Annual Holiday Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artists from Gallery 54 present new pieces inspired by the holiday season.

Mark Povinelli: Post Cambrian Explosion
LeMoyne College

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

This exhibition explores the artist's interest in mathematics, written language, and the diversity of forms in nature by using sycamore, hemlock, paper, and copper to create transformative space.

December Art Exhibit: Lisa Noviasky

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

Lisa Noviasky exhibits her artwork, which is primarily plein air paintings created on locations in Central New York. For more information, phone 315-435-1900.

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Works by more than 25 local artists will be on display. The exhibit includes watercolors by Susi Buschbacher, Judy Hand, Jill Newton, Bob Ripley and Nancy Scanlon, oil paintings by Barbara Bratt, Karen Burns and Hetty Easter, gouache by Chris Baker, and pastels by Barbara Delmonico and Ruth Anne Reagan, among many others. The exhibit also showcases jewelry by Deborah Laun, in addition to photography and sculptures. The majority of the artwork is for sale, featuring unique gifts just in time for the holidays. Many pieces depict local images and scenes.

Participating artists are all members of Baltimore Woods Nature Center, which is a member supported organization.

Dream Weavers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Sarah Saulson: "Relics of the 20th Century" wall hangings incorporating obsolete, non-traditional objects
Judi Witkin: woven bead jewelry
Lauren Bristol: sculptural basketry made from Egyptian cotton, both standing and wall hanging
Sherry Gordon: traditional woven wall hangings and scarves
Suzanne Loveland: traditional Nantucket basketry made of cane and cherrywood

27th Annual Gingerbread Gallery: 50 Years of Fun
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

One of Syracuse's oldest holiday traditions returns this year with the theme "50 Years of Fun" in honor of the Museum's anniversary. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s street scene with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers.

Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular; $8 seniors/students/military with ID/members; children under 10 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The 27th Annual Festival of Trees brings the sights and sounds of the holidays to the galleries and gathering spaces of the Museum. Each item is generously donated by local businesses, community groups and individuals, and all items are sold to benefit the Everson Museum of Art. Visitors to the Festival take in the beautiful sights, and can purchase items to decorate their homes and offices, and pick up tips for their own creations. The presentation of art and décor alongside activities and musical entertainment will make the Festival truly special.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Prophecy" is a timely exhibition pertaining to Indigenous prophecies. By incorporating themes of ecology, creation, demise and the future according to the Mayan calendar, traditional Iroquois teachings and other cultural beliefs, Jones provides a visual representation of the foretold truths.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage-The Norton Putter Gallery, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Grant Dolge Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of watercolor and soft pastel paintings by Tully artist Grant Dolge. Dolge, the owner of Dolge Studio, paints landscapes from his travels in Italy, England and France, along with landscapes of Central New York. Other subjects include florals, seascapes, abstracts and still life.

This will be Imagine's last show of the season; exhibitions and openings will resume in May 2013.

Pepper Market

812 N. State St.
Syracuse

The makers of the Salt Market are debuting a new one-day-only market called the Pepper Market. (Get it -- salt and pepper?) The market will feature 30 CNY designers and artists selling their wares for $30 and under. You'll find tons of great affordable handmade gifts from screen-printed t-shirts for the whole family, metalsmith and recycled jewelry, letterpress stationary, hand-bound books, natural make-up and body care, plush toys, unique ornaments, wall prints, hand spun yarn, ceramics, bow ties, photography, Syracuse neighborhood prints, and more.

Visit www.saltmarketsyracuse.com for a list of vendors and more information.

Baskets with Sculpture by Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman

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

Bringing together their art and cultural knowledge, Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman create one-of-a-kind black ash baskets with sculptural finials. Ronni-Leigh uses the age old tradition of black ash and sweet grass basket making she learned from Mae Bigtree, a world renowned basketmaker from the Mohawk nation of Akwesasne. Although there are many traditional aspects to her baskets, Ronni-Leigh weaves her individuality into each by embellishing with moose hair and plaited porcupine quills. Stonehorse completes the basket by using white tail deer, moose antler or fossilized ivory to sculpt detailed finials and basket stands that are inspired by stories of the Haudenosaunee.

The Art of Gifting
Szozda Gallery

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

Ray Trudell: Green Lakes photography
Alan D. Hart: photo-realistic acrylic wildlife paintings
C J Hodge III: different views of everyday objects
Diana Godfrey: abstract collages

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, and the City of Syracuse. Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Community Folk Art Center TONY 2012 featured artists are Elizabeth Leader, Michael Moody, Abisay Puentes, Sandra Stephens, who each use their art to engage in a larger conversation about significant but often overlooked social issues, including racial identity and urban decay.

Rupture: Works by Joe Lingeman
Echo

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

A series of photographs by Joe Lingeman, who says:
"My work deals with absurdity, beauty, and the tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life and material culture. Working in the genres of portraiture, landscape and still life, my work attempts to thwart viewers expectations of each, leaving the viewer off balance, without a clear sense of boundary between fantasy and reality."

Holiday Group Show 2012
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit and to shop locally.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, photography, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include: MaryAnn Carroll, Ed Feldman, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Marie LoParco, Colleen McCall, Laurel Moranz, Bill Perrine, Tim Reese, Time See, Peter Valenti, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Featuring the works of 50 artists, including paintings, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, and more.

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

100 posters celebrating 30 years. Since 1982, SCW has published and distributed over 700 posters across North America and a bit on other continents. This selection of 100 titles represents the best, the boldest, and the oldest.

TONY: 2012: "Manifest Destiny and the American West" and "Last House"
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

These exhibits are mounted as part of the The Other New York (TONY): 2012, Syracuse's art biennial. OHA's TONY: 2012 exhibits are artistically presented interpretations of dynamic social trends that are part of the historic legacy of Central New York.

In a three-dimensional display employing nearly 1,000 images set in glass jars, "Manifest Destiny and the American West," an exhibit by Buffalo artist Robert Hirsch, asks the visitor to think about how our nation's geographic progression across the continent has shaped American culture. The desire to exploit the salt brine reserves on Onondaga Lake contributed to a westward migration of settlers across Central New York in the post-American Revolution era, while the construction of the Erie Canal enhanced this movement through the 19th century and enabled many travelers to reach lands in the farther reaches of the American continent.

"Last House" is a multi-channel video installation by media artist Carl Lee that explores the aesthetics and means of a house demolition in Buffalo. Cities like Buffalo and Syracuse are faced with a large number of abandoned houses. This video asks us to think about what we gain and lose in demolishing them. This installation will be accompanied by three paintings by Western New York artist Amy Greenan of vacant houses in Syracuse awaiting an uncertain future, including "Not Here, Not Now," her interpretation of 711 Tully Street, which seems poised to have a different fate on Syracuse's Near West Side than that if the house in Last House.

Onondaga Historical Association is proud to be one of 14 Central New York venues for TONY: 2012. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

Jeff Davies: Straight from the Heart
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Jeff Davies (1938-2006) was a Syracuse area self-taught artist who gained a near-cult status among local collectors. Davies developed a style that incorporated elements of Surrealism with Rube Goldberg-inspired machines often in service to a sexually charged visual theme. As he gained experience he enlarged the size of the images, ultimately making murals, the most famous of which are on the interior and exterior walls of the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que restaurant in downtown Syracuse.

Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

From the 1930s to the 1980s the printed image in American art went through profound changes. Beginning with the black and white lithographs that were popularized by the regionalists and urban realists, and continuing through the experimental intaglio prints of the 1940s and 1950s, the "Pop" explosion of screenprints in the 1960s, and the precision of super realism in the 1970s, printmaking has captured the imagination of countless American artists.

This exhibition of 50 American prints surveys the activities of artists who put designs on paper during this exciting period. Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Anne Ryan, Milton Avery, Dorothy Dehner, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Richard Estes are a few of the artists represented in this examination of the growth in popularity of printmaking among American artists during this 50 year period. Especially significant are the contributions of women to printmaking during this period as well as the impact of African-American artists on the graphic arts. Combined with artists who immigrated to the United States during these decades and the increased numbers of painters and sculptors who took up the medium, this exhibition makes the egalitarian nature of the print abundantly clear.

Cutting Up Capitalism: The Collage Art of Deborah Faye Lawrence
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A sharp pair of scissors is a powerful tool for Seattle-based artist Deborah Faye Lawrence. Since the mid 1990s, she has been creating intricately-detailed collages that explore themes such as war, nationalism, sexism, and corporate globalization, all with great wit and satire. She has gone so far as to create an activist alter-ego, known as Dee-Dee Lorenzo, who appears in her art. Dee-Dee stands up for justice and the oppressed as she attends demonstrations such as the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle or supports the dumping of four tons of manure on the World Bank in Washington, DC.

ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7" is the first solo exhibition in New York by Rochester-based artist duo Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint. The exhibition, which will be presented in the Main Gallery as well as the Windows Project, explores the context of an urban campsite that is also a participatory lab for Central New York hikers exploring Syracuse's immediate neighborhood. Curated by Anja Chávez, Curator of Contemporary Art, the exhibition expands traditional gallery practice by focusing on today's environmental issues and the arts, inviting the spectators to participate and incorporating their feedback into the artwork.

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Transitive Flux
XL Projects

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

XL Projects presents the exhibition "Transitive Flux," a conversation about the location of thoughts and objects on the transitional plane. The four-person exhibition is the work of Rebecca Aloisio, Michael Giannattasio, Sarah Camille Wilson, and Davana Wilkins. Each artist's work is a visual negotiation of physical and psychological spaces. Through diverse media and practices, the artists question time, space and the nature of human interaction with objects.

Wilkins and Aloisio are second-year M.F.A. candidates at SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts; Wilson is a third-year M.F.A. candidate. Giannattasio received his M.F.A. from VPA in 2012. "Transitive Flux" arose from exchanges about the shared concerns in their studio practices.

The theme of the transitive and an underlying connection to the human body are present in the work of each artist. Drawing, clay, electronics and large-scale sculpture form the language with which they express ineffable moments in space and time. The exhibition addresses these issues through complex visual and physical systems that resonate with consciousness.

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

Shimon Attie: Sightings (2012)
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Sightings" is the fruit of Shimon Attie's residency at UVP in 2012. For this piece, Attie revisits and re-contextualizes footage that was shot for a three channel piece originally created for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. (Total run time: 11:32)

Attie describes his process:
"For Sightings, I created a video installation exploring the heightened moment of mutual encounter between art viewer and art object, between works of art and museum visitors and employees. I selected 40 objects from the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and asked individuals to participate in a dialogue with a work of art, each taking an expressive gesture and gaze that embodied their emotional response to the art object& Slow-motion cinematography, frozen gestures, and an unseen moving stage comment on the active/passive quality of the interactions.

"For the UVP iteration, this source footage was radically re-edited into a single channel piece that emphasizes rhythm and dynamic tension between the viewer and the viewed. Orbiting like twin stars around a shared focus, the two punctually eclipse one another, occluding our own view and reminding us that we, too, are part of this dialogue."

Born in Los Angeles in 1957, Shimon Attie has received international recognition for his installations that incorporate a variety of media including installation art, video, photography, performance, new media, and public art. His work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Jewish Museum, New York; and Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, among many others. The artist has lived and worked in New York City since 1997.

Our "Holiday, Lease-Renewal" Show
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $5
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

Christmas stockings ... check. Chanukah candles ... yep. Kwanzaa corn ... sure thing (look it up.) Re-signed lease, for another year at the mall ... OMIGOD YES! December is not just a month with far too many holidays. It's also the time when we, at Salt City Improv, renew our promise to fork over buckets of cash to our (wonderful) landlord ... in exchange for the privilege of being able to do shows indoors for another year. So, throw another yule log on the menorah; and join us as we look at various holiday celebrations. Best of all: 12 more months of mall-centric entertainment.

Providing the hilarious seasonal revelry will be the SCiT house team, Pork Pie Hat (improv comedy, in the style of the hit TV show, "Whose Line Is It, Anyway").

Great Expectations
ArtRage Gallery

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

How did a humble orphan in Victorian London become a gentleman in society? Charles Dickens' timeless tale of class and connivery -- and fate -- comes to exquisite life in this rarely-seen screen classic. Directed by David Lean with John Mills and Alec Guiness. (1946, 118 minutes)

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Featured in this eclectic display are the bookshelf, counter, calliope, and international doll collection from The Magic Toy Shop, Syracuse's local children's TV show from the 1950s through 1980s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see hand-carved trains and boats, Punch & Judy marionettes, Victorian dolls, 1950s board games, and many other vintage toys, some made in central New York. The exhibit also includes historic photos of downtown Syracuse, and boxes from bygone stores such as Chappell's, Dey Bros., Flah's, Madame Netter, and E. W. Edwards.

The Adventures of Rudolph
CNY Arts
Dance Centre North

Price: $10-$19
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A holiday tradition in Central New York, The Adventures of Rudolph is a narrated ballet for the whole family presented by the Cultural Resources Council, directed by Deborah Boughton, and performed by students from Dance Centre North.

"Bells & Motley Revels of Christmas Past" Holiday Concert
Kellish Hill Farm

Price: $10
Kellish Hill Farm
3192 Pompey Center Rd., Pompey

Celebrate the music of Christmas Past in the perfect old-timey setting at Kellish Hill Farm! Sondra and John Bromka perform on a full complement of early instruments ranging from harp and hammered dulcimer to bagpipes and hurdy gurdy. Their Yuletide music brings to life the Medieval, Renaissance, French, Celtic, and Merry Olde England traditions, and resonates with evocative symbolic mystery songs, glorious rustic sing-alongs, and spirited participatory pageantry. Good people young and old, come share a Holiday Wassail toast and a song together in this intimate, interactive heated-barn setting that makes everyone feel right at home. After the concert, you can stay on and continue in the spirit of the season with a pot-luck dinner and open mic session.

For more information, phone the Bromkas at 315-673-2995 Bromkas or the Farm at 315-682-1578, or visit www.bellsandmotley.com.

A Mystical Christmas Pie
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor

Price: $20 regular, $17 seniors, $5 students
Holy Cross Church
4112 E. Genesee St., Dewitt

The annual Christmas Pie concert will explore the ways that composers from the Renaissance to the present day have imbued their music with the mystical elements of the Christmas Story. Hear wonderful choral works, join in carol singing, and enjoy the traditional pie reception following the concert.

Winter Concert: Season of Peace
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Glenn Kime, conductor

Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Student Graduate Recital: Benjamin Ellis, guitar
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

Second Saturday Series: Tony Trischka
Westcott Community Center

Price: $17 regular; $15 WCC members
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

One of the world's most dynamic and influential banjo players, Syracuse native Tony Trischka returns to his hometown. For more than 35 years, his stylings have inspired a whole generation of bluegrass and acoustic musicians. Trischka's ability to write captivating melodies perfectly suited for the versatile and charismatic banjo, coupled with his unrivaled knowledge of banjo history and technique, have inspired a whole generation of progressive bluegrass musicians.

Pentatonix, with Alexander Cardinale
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Dickens Christmas

Price: Free
Village of Skaneateles
Skaneateles

More than 60 actors in Victorian-era apparel entertain visitors with scenes from Dickens' A Christmas Carol, along with sing-alongs, horse-drawn carriage rides, and more.

For more information, phone 315-685-0552.

A Thousand Cranes
Syracuse University Drama Department
Syracuse Stage
Lauren Unbekant, director

Price: $8
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This year's Bank of America Children's Show, A Thousand Cranes, performed in striking visual terms with puppetry and movement, is based on the true story of a 12-year-old Japanese girl named Sadako. Ten years after the atomic bomb was dropped on her town, Hiroshima, Sadako fell mysteriously ill. Wishing that she would be cured, she started folding paper cranes, as an old Japanese legend says that if a child can fold one thousand paper cranes then her wish will be granted by the gods.

In telling Sadakos story, director Unbekant has employed various forms of physical theatre, incorporating Japanese theatre styles -- Kabuki, Japanese Noh theatre, hip-hop and contemporary Japanese movement. The work also features masks and human-size puppets designed by artist Gabriel Q.

The show is 45 minutes in length and recommended for ages six and up.

Cinderella
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

In this interactive version of the children's classic, kids are invited to the ball and help Cinderella and the Prince.

The Dumb Waiter
Black Box Players
Will Pullen, director

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter is about two hitmen who wait in a basement for the next mark. As time creeps by, a sinister game of cat and mouse ensues. But the question remains: Who is the cat?

Seating is limited. To reserve tickets, email blackboxplayerstickets@gmail.com or call 315-308-1227 with the following information:
* Your full name and the names of the people joining you
* Date of Show you wish to attend
* How many seats you wish to reserve

You will receive a confirmation e-mail verifying your reservation. Ticket reservations will not be honored if they are made after 7:00 pm the day before the performance. You will lose your reserved seat if you are not present 10 minutes before performance.

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One--born with emerald green skin--is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

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Amahl and the Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

Price: $15
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

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*SOLD OUT* Hairspray
Redhouse

Price: $25 regular, $15 members, $10 students
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Hairspray delights audiences by sweeping them away to 1960s Baltimore, where the 50s are out  and change is in the air. Loveable plus-size heroine Tracy Turnblad has a passion for dancing and wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corny Collins Show." Overnight she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. Can a larger-than-life adolescent manage to vanquish the program's reigning princess, integrate the television show, and find true love without mussing her hair? Of course! This production features professional comedian Steve Hayes along with a cast of professional and local actors, and inner city students from our partnership with the Hillside Family of Agencies. Music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan.

Stand-By Tickets: At any performance there are last minute cancellations and "no shows." Come to the Box Office when it opens at 7:00 pm and get your name on the waiting list. We will do our best to seat you. If we do get you in, your tickets will be just $10.

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White Christmas
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Paul Barnes, director

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

Irving Berlin's beloved and heartwarming musical with a score of American standards, based on the Paramount Pictures film.

The title song alone is a holiday celebration and a reminder of a time when the simplest pleasures mattered most and having a big heart was genuinely considered a virtue. Two successful showmen join forces to help out their old army commander. Along the way they find, lose, and find romance, have plenty of laughs, and demonstrate what it means to be loyal. The score is filled with favorites -- "Happy Holiday," "Sisters," "Blue Skies," "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" -- and the choreography calls for plenty of tap. Winter may not deliver a White Christmas, but director Paul Barnes (The Miracle Worker) and a talented cast sure will.

Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by David Ives and Paul Blake.
Musical Direction by Christopher Drobny, choreography by David Wanstreet.

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The Dumb Waiter
Black Box Players
Will Pullen, director

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter is about two hitmen who wait in a basement for the next mark. As time creeps by, a sinister game of cat and mouse ensues. But the question remains: Who is the cat?

Seating is limited. To reserve tickets, email blackboxplayerstickets@gmail.com or call 315-308-1227 with the following information:
* Your full name and the names of the people joining you
* Date of Show you wish to attend
* How many seats you wish to reserve

You will receive a confirmation e-mail verifying your reservation. Ticket reservations will not be honored if they are made after 7:00 pm the day before the performance. You will lose your reserved seat if you are not present 10 minutes before performance.

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One--born with emerald green skin--is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

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The Man Who Came to Dinner
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

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

The performance is preceded by dinner at 6:30 pm.

Sheridan Whiteside, having dined at the home of the Stanleys, slips on their doorstep, breaking his hip. A tumultuous six weeks of confinement follow. The Stanley living room is monopolized by the irascible invalid, ex-convicts are invited to meals, and transatlantic calls bring a $784 phone bill. Throw in an octopus, penguins, rewrites, unrequited love,and a boys' choir and you have a riotous evening of holiday laughter.

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Amahl and the Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

Price: $15
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

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Bernstein on Broadway
Rarely Done Productions

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

Rarely Done Productions presents a celebration of Broadway music legend Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein on Broadway showcases songs from one of the most gifted musicians of the 20th century, including selections from On The Town, Wonderful Town, Candide, West Side Story, Peter Pan, and more. This review is a tribute to the brilliant art of Bernstein, who elevated Broadway musical theater forever.

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*SOLD OUT* Hairspray
Redhouse

Price: $25 regular, $15 members, $10 students
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Hairspray delights audiences by sweeping them away to 1960s Baltimore, where the 50s are out  and change is in the air. Loveable plus-size heroine Tracy Turnblad has a passion for dancing and wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corny Collins Show." Overnight she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. Can a larger-than-life adolescent manage to vanquish the program's reigning princess, integrate the television show, and find true love without mussing her hair? Of course! This production features professional comedian Steve Hayes along with a cast of professional and local actors, and inner city students from our partnership with the Hillside Family of Agencies. Music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan.

Stand-By Tickets: At any performance there are last minute cancellations and "no shows." Come to the Box Office when it opens at 7:00 pm and get your name on the waiting list. We will do our best to seat you. If we do get you in, your tickets will be just $10.

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White Christmas
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Paul Barnes, director

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

Irving Berlin's beloved and heartwarming musical with a score of American standards, based on the Paramount Pictures film.

The title song alone is a holiday celebration and a reminder of a time when the simplest pleasures mattered most and having a big heart was genuinely considered a virtue. Two successful showmen join forces to help out their old army commander. Along the way they find, lose, and find romance, have plenty of laughs, and demonstrate what it means to be loyal. The score is filled with favorites -- "Happy Holiday," "Sisters," "Blue Skies," "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" -- and the choreography calls for plenty of tap. Winter may not deliver a White Christmas, but director Paul Barnes (The Miracle Worker) and a talented cast sure will.

Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by David Ives and Paul Blake.
Musical Direction by Christopher Drobny, choreography by David Wanstreet.

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Always ... Patsy Cline
The Talent Company
James D. Meech, director
Featuring Becky Bottrill

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors, $20 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Based on a true story, Always...Patsy Cline is about the legendary friendship of Patsy Cline with a worshipful fan from Houston named Louise Seger. This rollicking musical comedy includes many of Patsy's unforgettable hits including Your Cheatin' Heart, You Belong To Me, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams, She's Got You, True Love, Walkin' After Midnight, Anytime, and of course, Crazy. At just 30 years old, the tough-as-nails Cline had already made what would become some of the most memorable records in country, pop, and rock n' roll music history. She had also survived two car accidents and told many of her closest friends that she feared she would not live long. On March 5, 1963, Patsy, along with singers Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and pilot Randy Hughes were killed when their plane crashed approximately 90 miles outside Nashville. Like Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and James Dean, Patsy Cline flamed early and died young, the first requirements for legend building. Becky Bottrill is reprising what has become her signature role as legendary performer Patsy Cline. Sing along with over 24 of the tunes that made her famous, and get ready to dance in your seats with a live, foot-stompin' 7-piece band and backup singers known as The Bodacious Bobcats," featuring Syracuse's own John Cadley & The Lost Boys. Playing the role of Louise Seger is Mollie Marie Brown.

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Sunday, December 9, 2012

27th Annual Gingerbread Gallery: 50 Years of Fun
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

One of Syracuse's oldest holiday traditions returns this year with the theme "50 Years of Fun" in honor of the Museum's anniversary. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s street scene with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers.

Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular; $8 seniors/students/military with ID/members; children under 10 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The 27th Annual Festival of Trees brings the sights and sounds of the holidays to the galleries and gathering spaces of the Museum. Each item is generously donated by local businesses, community groups and individuals, and all items are sold to benefit the Everson Museum of Art. Visitors to the Festival take in the beautiful sights, and can purchase items to decorate their homes and offices, and pick up tips for their own creations. The presentation of art and décor alongside activities and musical entertainment will make the Festival truly special.

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

Chinese artist Shen Wei uses his self-portrait series "I Miss You Already" as a place for self-discovery and contemplation. Each image captures a momentary experience that describes the coming together of person and place. Many of the photographs are intensely sexual. His images invite others into his solitude by quietly beckoning or openly drawing the viewer in. They tease the camera, and therefore the viewer, in various degrees. That Wei is an attractive and physically fit young Asian man plays an important part in how his work addresses desire in the context of identity and bridges cultural and sexual barriers.

His overtly sexual photographs push against the boundaries of Wei's conservative Chinese upbringing, which occurred at a time when even art students did not get to study the nude body and would learn to draw the body from sculptural busts. Moving to the United States in 2000, Wei was confronted with very different societal attitudes toward the naked body and sexuality, and his response to these issues has become central to his work. It is not important to Wei that his photographs be understood in only one way, and he acknowledges that his work may be interpreted differently from country to country. He has also seen a shifting of social norms. Even in China it is now increasingly acceptable to depict the naked body, especially in art.

Wei uses his series to push against cultural boundaries, but in image after image he also explores his own comfort level with expressing his sexuality. Throughout the series we observe Wei trying on one environment and identity at a time. Although the images are constructed, the emotions are authentic. We see a young man asserting himself in front of the camera and claiming his right to define himself and his sexuality.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Dennis Krukowski, Tice Lerner, and Sayler/Morris.

The Art of Gifting
Szozda Gallery

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

Ray Trudell: Green Lakes photography
Alan D. Hart: photo-realistic acrylic wildlife paintings
C J Hodge III: different views of everyday objects
Diana Godfrey: abstract collages

Inspired Tidings: Annual Holiday Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artists from Gallery 54 present new pieces inspired by the holiday season.

Holiday Group Show 2012
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit and to shop locally.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, photography, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include: MaryAnn Carroll, Ed Feldman, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Marie LoParco, Colleen McCall, Laurel Moranz, Bill Perrine, Tim Reese, Time See, Peter Valenti, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Grant Dolge Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of watercolor and soft pastel paintings by Tully artist Grant Dolge. Dolge, the owner of Dolge Studio, paints landscapes from his travels in Italy, England and France, along with landscapes of Central New York. Other subjects include florals, seascapes, abstracts and still life.

This will be Imagine's last show of the season; exhibitions and openings will resume in May 2013.

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

TONY: 2012: "Manifest Destiny and the American West" and "Last House"
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

These exhibits are mounted as part of the The Other New York (TONY): 2012, Syracuse's art biennial. OHA's TONY: 2012 exhibits are artistically presented interpretations of dynamic social trends that are part of the historic legacy of Central New York.

In a three-dimensional display employing nearly 1,000 images set in glass jars, "Manifest Destiny and the American West," an exhibit by Buffalo artist Robert Hirsch, asks the visitor to think about how our nation's geographic progression across the continent has shaped American culture. The desire to exploit the salt brine reserves on Onondaga Lake contributed to a westward migration of settlers across Central New York in the post-American Revolution era, while the construction of the Erie Canal enhanced this movement through the 19th century and enabled many travelers to reach lands in the farther reaches of the American continent.

"Last House" is a multi-channel video installation by media artist Carl Lee that explores the aesthetics and means of a house demolition in Buffalo. Cities like Buffalo and Syracuse are faced with a large number of abandoned houses. This video asks us to think about what we gain and lose in demolishing them. This installation will be accompanied by three paintings by Western New York artist Amy Greenan of vacant houses in Syracuse awaiting an uncertain future, including "Not Here, Not Now," her interpretation of 711 Tully Street, which seems poised to have a different fate on Syracuse's Near West Side than that if the house in Last House.

Onondaga Historical Association is proud to be one of 14 Central New York venues for TONY: 2012. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

100 posters celebrating 30 years. Since 1982, SCW has published and distributed over 700 posters across North America and a bit on other continents. This selection of 100 titles represents the best, the boldest, and the oldest.

Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

From the 1930s to the 1980s the printed image in American art went through profound changes. Beginning with the black and white lithographs that were popularized by the regionalists and urban realists, and continuing through the experimental intaglio prints of the 1940s and 1950s, the "Pop" explosion of screenprints in the 1960s, and the precision of super realism in the 1970s, printmaking has captured the imagination of countless American artists.

This exhibition of 50 American prints surveys the activities of artists who put designs on paper during this exciting period. Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Anne Ryan, Milton Avery, Dorothy Dehner, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Richard Estes are a few of the artists represented in this examination of the growth in popularity of printmaking among American artists during this 50 year period. Especially significant are the contributions of women to printmaking during this period as well as the impact of African-American artists on the graphic arts. Combined with artists who immigrated to the United States during these decades and the increased numbers of painters and sculptors who took up the medium, this exhibition makes the egalitarian nature of the print abundantly clear.

Jeff Davies: Straight from the Heart
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Jeff Davies (1938-2006) was a Syracuse area self-taught artist who gained a near-cult status among local collectors. Davies developed a style that incorporated elements of Surrealism with Rube Goldberg-inspired machines often in service to a sexually charged visual theme. As he gained experience he enlarged the size of the images, ultimately making murals, the most famous of which are on the interior and exterior walls of the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que restaurant in downtown Syracuse.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage-The Norton Putter Gallery, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Prophecy" is a timely exhibition pertaining to Indigenous prophecies. By incorporating themes of ecology, creation, demise and the future according to the Mayan calendar, traditional Iroquois teachings and other cultural beliefs, Jones provides a visual representation of the foretold truths.

Mark Povinelli: Post Cambrian Explosion
LeMoyne College

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

This exhibition explores the artist's interest in mathematics, written language, and the diversity of forms in nature by using sycamore, hemlock, paper, and copper to create transformative space.

Transitive Flux
XL Projects

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

XL Projects presents the exhibition "Transitive Flux," a conversation about the location of thoughts and objects on the transitional plane. The four-person exhibition is the work of Rebecca Aloisio, Michael Giannattasio, Sarah Camille Wilson, and Davana Wilkins. Each artist's work is a visual negotiation of physical and psychological spaces. Through diverse media and practices, the artists question time, space and the nature of human interaction with objects.

Wilkins and Aloisio are second-year M.F.A. candidates at SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts; Wilson is a third-year M.F.A. candidate. Giannattasio received his M.F.A. from VPA in 2012. "Transitive Flux" arose from exchanges about the shared concerns in their studio practices.

The theme of the transitive and an underlying connection to the human body are present in the work of each artist. Drawing, clay, electronics and large-scale sculpture form the language with which they express ineffable moments in space and time. The exhibition addresses these issues through complex visual and physical systems that resonate with consciousness.

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

Scrooge
Cinema Syracuse

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Celebrate the holiday season with this brilliant 1970 musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic 1843 story, A Christmas Carol. It was filmed in London, directed by Ronald Neame, and starred Albert Finney in the title role. With 11 musical arrangements interspersed throughout (all retaining a traditional British air about them), the award-winning motion picture is a faithful musical retelling of the original. Albert Finney won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy in 1971.

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Featured in this eclectic display are the bookshelf, counter, calliope, and international doll collection from The Magic Toy Shop, Syracuse's local children's TV show from the 1950s through 1980s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see hand-carved trains and boats, Punch & Judy marionettes, Victorian dolls, 1950s board games, and many other vintage toys, some made in central New York. The exhibit also includes historic photos of downtown Syracuse, and boxes from bygone stores such as Chappell's, Dey Bros., Flah's, Madame Netter, and E. W. Edwards.

Out of the Ashes: Liberia in Recovery
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Mardea Warner

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

Mardea Warner was born and raised in Liberia, West Africa. She came to the United States in the late '70s and studied in Texas and Oklahoma before moving to Syracuse. Her long-term association with the Syracuse Community Choir, the Syracuse Peace Council, and Beyond Boundaries has helped to shape her multicultural approach to community service. In 2009, after a 30-year absence from Liberia, Mardea traveled back to a homeland transformed by years of military rule, civil war, and the election of Africa's first female president. She is presently working with her father on the New Hope Academy in Nyamahn Blee, Liberia—a school building project near the village of his birth.

Holiday Harmony
Spirit of Syracuse Chorus
Nancy Field, conductor

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors, $5 students
St. Matthew's Catholic Church
229 W. Yates St., East Syracuse

With special guests including SU's Orange Appeal, Manlius Pebble Hill Varsity Choir, St. Joseph's Church Bell Choir, and the Spirit of Syracuse Quartets.

Handel's Messiah
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Syracuse University Oratorio Society
John Warren, conductor
Featuring Laura Enslin, Dawn Pierce, Jonathan English, and Marc Webster, soloists

Price: $22 regular, $18 seniors, $10 students
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Tickets available online or by calling 315-435-2121.

A Berwald Christmas
Berwald Singers
Ian Kirkpatrick, conductor

Price: $5 regular, children 5 and under free
Trinity Lutheran Church
140 Swansea Dr., Syracuse

Songs of the season, a sing-a-long, and dessert to follow. For more information, phone 315-412-4012.

Christmas Pops
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Bryan Burdick, tenor; United Church Handbell Choir

Drivers Village (formerly Penn Can Mall)
5885 E. Circle Dr., Cicero

A Mystical Christmas Pie
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor

Price: $20 regular, $17 seniors, $5 students
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
2840 Cold Springs Rd., Baldwinsville

The annual Christmas Pie concert will explore the ways that composers from the Renaissance to the present day have imbued their music with the mystical elements of the Christmas Story. Hear wonderful choral works, join in carol singing, and enjoy the traditional pie reception following the concert.

Navan Celtic Vocal Quartet
First Unitarian Universalist Society Music Series

Price: $15 suggested donation
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Since 1999, the Madison, WI-based ensemble Navan has given new voice to old languages. While the four-member a capella group aims to entertain audiences, they also work to keep their music faithful and authentic to the original Gaelic, Welsh, Irish, and Celtic versions through painstaking research and practice.

They will give their first CNY concert before heading on to WGBH Boston's "A Christmas Celtic Sojourn."

Nappy Roots, with Mir Fontane, Xelmoe
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Dickens Christmas

Price: Free
Village of Skaneateles
Skaneateles

More than 60 actors in Victorian-era apparel entertain visitors with scenes from Dickens' A Christmas Carol, along with sing-alongs, horse-drawn carriage rides, and more.

For more information, phone 315-685-0552.

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One--born with emerald green skin--is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

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The Man Who Came to Dinner
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

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

Sheridan Whiteside, having dined at the home of the Stanleys, slips on their doorstep, breaking his hip. A tumultuous six weeks of confinement follow. The Stanley living room is monopolized by the irascible invalid, ex-convicts are invited to meals, and transatlantic calls bring a $784 phone bill. Throw in an octopus, penguins, rewrites, unrequited love,and a boys' choir and you have a riotous evening of holiday laughter.

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Amahl and the Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

Price: $15
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

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White Christmas
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Paul Barnes, director

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

Irving Berlin's beloved and heartwarming musical with a score of American standards, based on the Paramount Pictures film.

The title song alone is a holiday celebration and a reminder of a time when the simplest pleasures mattered most and having a big heart was genuinely considered a virtue. Two successful showmen join forces to help out their old army commander. Along the way they find, lose, and find romance, have plenty of laughs, and demonstrate what it means to be loyal. The score is filled with favorites -- "Happy Holiday," "Sisters," "Blue Skies," "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" -- and the choreography calls for plenty of tap. Winter may not deliver a White Christmas, but director Paul Barnes (The Miracle Worker) and a talented cast sure will.

Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by David Ives and Paul Blake.
Musical Direction by Christopher Drobny, choreography by David Wanstreet.

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Always ... Patsy Cline
The Talent Company
James D. Meech, director
Featuring Becky Bottrill

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors, $20 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Based on a true story, Always...Patsy Cline is about the legendary friendship of Patsy Cline with a worshipful fan from Houston named Louise Seger. This rollicking musical comedy includes many of Patsy's unforgettable hits including Your Cheatin' Heart, You Belong To Me, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams, She's Got You, True Love, Walkin' After Midnight, Anytime, and of course, Crazy. At just 30 years old, the tough-as-nails Cline had already made what would become some of the most memorable records in country, pop, and rock n' roll music history. She had also survived two car accidents and told many of her closest friends that she feared she would not live long. On March 5, 1963, Patsy, along with singers Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and pilot Randy Hughes were killed when their plane crashed approximately 90 miles outside Nashville. Like Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and James Dean, Patsy Cline flamed early and died young, the first requirements for legend building. Becky Bottrill is reprising what has become her signature role as legendary performer Patsy Cline. Sing along with over 24 of the tunes that made her famous, and get ready to dance in your seats with a live, foot-stompin' 7-piece band and backup singers known as The Bodacious Bobcats," featuring Syracuse's own John Cadley & The Lost Boys. Playing the role of Louise Seger is Mollie Marie Brown.

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Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One--born with emerald green skin--is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

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Monday, December 10, 2012

Mark Povinelli: Post Cambrian Explosion
LeMoyne College

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

This exhibition explores the artist's interest in mathematics, written language, and the diversity of forms in nature by using sycamore, hemlock, paper, and copper to create transformative space.

December Art Exhibit: Lisa Noviasky

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

Lisa Noviasky exhibits her artwork, which is primarily plein air paintings created on locations in Central New York. For more information, phone 315-435-1900.

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Works by more than 25 local artists will be on display. The exhibit includes watercolors by Susi Buschbacher, Judy Hand, Jill Newton, Bob Ripley and Nancy Scanlon, oil paintings by Barbara Bratt, Karen Burns and Hetty Easter, gouache by Chris Baker, and pastels by Barbara Delmonico and Ruth Anne Reagan, among many others. The exhibit also showcases jewelry by Deborah Laun, in addition to photography and sculptures. The majority of the artwork is for sale, featuring unique gifts just in time for the holidays. Many pieces depict local images and scenes.

Participating artists are all members of Baltimore Woods Nature Center, which is a member supported organization.

Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

27th Annual Gingerbread Gallery: 50 Years of Fun
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

One of Syracuse's oldest holiday traditions returns this year with the theme "50 Years of Fun" in honor of the Museum's anniversary. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s street scene with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers.

Inspired Tidings: Annual Holiday Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artists from Gallery 54 present new pieces inspired by the holiday season.

Grant Dolge Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of watercolor and soft pastel paintings by Tully artist Grant Dolge. Dolge, the owner of Dolge Studio, paints landscapes from his travels in Italy, England and France, along with landscapes of Central New York. Other subjects include florals, seascapes, abstracts and still life.

This will be Imagine's last show of the season; exhibitions and openings will resume in May 2013.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Dennis Krukowski, Tice Lerner, and Sayler/Morris.

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

Chinese artist Shen Wei uses his self-portrait series "I Miss You Already" as a place for self-discovery and contemplation. Each image captures a momentary experience that describes the coming together of person and place. Many of the photographs are intensely sexual. His images invite others into his solitude by quietly beckoning or openly drawing the viewer in. They tease the camera, and therefore the viewer, in various degrees. That Wei is an attractive and physically fit young Asian man plays an important part in how his work addresses desire in the context of identity and bridges cultural and sexual barriers.

His overtly sexual photographs push against the boundaries of Wei's conservative Chinese upbringing, which occurred at a time when even art students did not get to study the nude body and would learn to draw the body from sculptural busts. Moving to the United States in 2000, Wei was confronted with very different societal attitudes toward the naked body and sexuality, and his response to these issues has become central to his work. It is not important to Wei that his photographs be understood in only one way, and he acknowledges that his work may be interpreted differently from country to country. He has also seen a shifting of social norms. Even in China it is now increasingly acceptable to depict the naked body, especially in art.

Wei uses his series to push against cultural boundaries, but in image after image he also explores his own comfort level with expressing his sexuality. Throughout the series we observe Wei trying on one environment and identity at a time. Although the images are constructed, the emotions are authentic. We see a young man asserting himself in front of the camera and claiming his right to define himself and his sexuality.

Baskets with Sculpture by Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman

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

Bringing together their art and cultural knowledge, Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman create one-of-a-kind black ash baskets with sculptural finials. Ronni-Leigh uses the age old tradition of black ash and sweet grass basket making she learned from Mae Bigtree, a world renowned basketmaker from the Mohawk nation of Akwesasne. Although there are many traditional aspects to her baskets, Ronni-Leigh weaves her individuality into each by embellishing with moose hair and plaited porcupine quills. Stonehorse completes the basket by using white tail deer, moose antler or fossilized ivory to sculpt detailed finials and basket stands that are inspired by stories of the Haudenosaunee.

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Featuring the works of 50 artists, including paintings, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, and more.

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Angels on the Border" is an exhibition of religious paintings commissioned by Mexican immigrants from 1912 to 1996.

Retablos are Mexican folk paintings, usually created on small pieces of tin, offered as votives to the Christ and the Virgin Mary in gratitude for a miracle granted or a favor received. Made by professional retablo artists, immigrant relatives or the immigrants themselves, the artwork is posted on walls inside Catholic churches in Mexico.

T.C. Boyle
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

Price: $25
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of 22 books of fiction. He received a Ph.D. in 19th-Century British Literature from the University of Iowa, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and his B.A. in English and History from SUNY Potsdam. He has been a member of the English Department at the University of Southern California since 1978, where he is a professor of English. His stories have appeared in most major American magazines including The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, and GQ to name only a few. He received the PEN/Faulkner for best novel of the year in 1988 with his bookWorld's End. He also received the PEN/Malamud Prize for T.C.Boyle's Stories in 1999, and the Prix Medicis Etranger for The Tortilla Curtain, best foreign novel in France.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Mark Povinelli: Post Cambrian Explosion
LeMoyne College

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

This exhibition explores the artist's interest in mathematics, written language, and the diversity of forms in nature by using sycamore, hemlock, paper, and copper to create transformative space.

December Art Exhibit: Lisa Noviasky

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

Lisa Noviasky exhibits her artwork, which is primarily plein air paintings created on locations in Central New York. For more information, phone 315-435-1900.

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Works by more than 25 local artists will be on display. The exhibit includes watercolors by Susi Buschbacher, Judy Hand, Jill Newton, Bob Ripley and Nancy Scanlon, oil paintings by Barbara Bratt, Karen Burns and Hetty Easter, gouache by Chris Baker, and pastels by Barbara Delmonico and Ruth Anne Reagan, among many others. The exhibit also showcases jewelry by Deborah Laun, in addition to photography and sculptures. The majority of the artwork is for sale, featuring unique gifts just in time for the holidays. Many pieces depict local images and scenes.

Participating artists are all members of Baltimore Woods Nature Center, which is a member supported organization.

Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

Dream Weavers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Sarah Saulson: "Relics of the 20th Century" wall hangings incorporating obsolete, non-traditional objects
Judi Witkin: woven bead jewelry
Lauren Bristol: sculptural basketry made from Egyptian cotton, both standing and wall hanging
Sherry Gordon: traditional woven wall hangings and scarves
Suzanne Loveland: traditional Nantucket basketry made of cane and cherrywood

27th Annual Gingerbread Gallery: 50 Years of Fun
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

One of Syracuse's oldest holiday traditions returns this year with the theme "50 Years of Fun" in honor of the Museum's anniversary. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s street scene with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers.

Inspired Tidings: Annual Holiday Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artists from Gallery 54 present new pieces inspired by the holiday season.

Grant Dolge Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of watercolor and soft pastel paintings by Tully artist Grant Dolge. Dolge, the owner of Dolge Studio, paints landscapes from his travels in Italy, England and France, along with landscapes of Central New York. Other subjects include florals, seascapes, abstracts and still life.

This will be Imagine's last show of the season; exhibitions and openings will resume in May 2013.

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

Chinese artist Shen Wei uses his self-portrait series "I Miss You Already" as a place for self-discovery and contemplation. Each image captures a momentary experience that describes the coming together of person and place. Many of the photographs are intensely sexual. His images invite others into his solitude by quietly beckoning or openly drawing the viewer in. They tease the camera, and therefore the viewer, in various degrees. That Wei is an attractive and physically fit young Asian man plays an important part in how his work addresses desire in the context of identity and bridges cultural and sexual barriers.

His overtly sexual photographs push against the boundaries of Wei's conservative Chinese upbringing, which occurred at a time when even art students did not get to study the nude body and would learn to draw the body from sculptural busts. Moving to the United States in 2000, Wei was confronted with very different societal attitudes toward the naked body and sexuality, and his response to these issues has become central to his work. It is not important to Wei that his photographs be understood in only one way, and he acknowledges that his work may be interpreted differently from country to country. He has also seen a shifting of social norms. Even in China it is now increasingly acceptable to depict the naked body, especially in art.

Wei uses his series to push against cultural boundaries, but in image after image he also explores his own comfort level with expressing his sexuality. Throughout the series we observe Wei trying on one environment and identity at a time. Although the images are constructed, the emotions are authentic. We see a young man asserting himself in front of the camera and claiming his right to define himself and his sexuality.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Dennis Krukowski, Tice Lerner, and Sayler/Morris.

Baskets with Sculpture by Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman

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

Bringing together their art and cultural knowledge, Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman create one-of-a-kind black ash baskets with sculptural finials. Ronni-Leigh uses the age old tradition of black ash and sweet grass basket making she learned from Mae Bigtree, a world renowned basketmaker from the Mohawk nation of Akwesasne. Although there are many traditional aspects to her baskets, Ronni-Leigh weaves her individuality into each by embellishing with moose hair and plaited porcupine quills. Stonehorse completes the basket by using white tail deer, moose antler or fossilized ivory to sculpt detailed finials and basket stands that are inspired by stories of the Haudenosaunee.

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Featuring the works of 50 artists, including paintings, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, and more.

Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

From the 1930s to the 1980s the printed image in American art went through profound changes. Beginning with the black and white lithographs that were popularized by the regionalists and urban realists, and continuing through the experimental intaglio prints of the 1940s and 1950s, the "Pop" explosion of screenprints in the 1960s, and the precision of super realism in the 1970s, printmaking has captured the imagination of countless American artists.

This exhibition of 50 American prints surveys the activities of artists who put designs on paper during this exciting period. Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Anne Ryan, Milton Avery, Dorothy Dehner, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Richard Estes are a few of the artists represented in this examination of the growth in popularity of printmaking among American artists during this 50 year period. Especially significant are the contributions of women to printmaking during this period as well as the impact of African-American artists on the graphic arts. Combined with artists who immigrated to the United States during these decades and the increased numbers of painters and sculptors who took up the medium, this exhibition makes the egalitarian nature of the print abundantly clear.

Jeff Davies: Straight from the Heart
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Jeff Davies (1938-2006) was a Syracuse area self-taught artist who gained a near-cult status among local collectors. Davies developed a style that incorporated elements of Surrealism with Rube Goldberg-inspired machines often in service to a sexually charged visual theme. As he gained experience he enlarged the size of the images, ultimately making murals, the most famous of which are on the interior and exterior walls of the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que restaurant in downtown Syracuse.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Prophecy" is a timely exhibition pertaining to Indigenous prophecies. By incorporating themes of ecology, creation, demise and the future according to the Mayan calendar, traditional Iroquois teachings and other cultural beliefs, Jones provides a visual representation of the foretold truths.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage-The Norton Putter Gallery, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Angels on the Border" is an exhibition of religious paintings commissioned by Mexican immigrants from 1912 to 1996.

Retablos are Mexican folk paintings, usually created on small pieces of tin, offered as votives to the Christ and the Virgin Mary in gratitude for a miracle granted or a favor received. Made by professional retablo artists, immigrant relatives or the immigrants themselves, the artwork is posted on walls inside Catholic churches in Mexico.

ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7" is the first solo exhibition in New York by Rochester-based artist duo Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint. The exhibition, which will be presented in the Main Gallery as well as the Windows Project, explores the context of an urban campsite that is also a participatory lab for Central New York hikers exploring Syracuse's immediate neighborhood. Curated by Anja Chávez, Curator of Contemporary Art, the exhibition expands traditional gallery practice by focusing on today's environmental issues and the arts, inviting the spectators to participate and incorporating their feedback into the artwork.

Read a review!

Rupture: Works by Joe Lingeman
Echo

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

A series of photographs by Joe Lingeman, who says:
"My work deals with absurdity, beauty, and the tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life and material culture. Working in the genres of portraiture, landscape and still life, my work attempts to thwart viewers expectations of each, leaving the viewer off balance, without a clear sense of boundary between fantasy and reality."

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Mark Povinelli: Post Cambrian Explosion
LeMoyne College

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

This exhibition explores the artist's interest in mathematics, written language, and the diversity of forms in nature by using sycamore, hemlock, paper, and copper to create transformative space.

December Art Exhibit: Lisa Noviasky

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

Lisa Noviasky exhibits her artwork, which is primarily plein air paintings created on locations in Central New York. For more information, phone 315-435-1900.

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Works by more than 25 local artists will be on display. The exhibit includes watercolors by Susi Buschbacher, Judy Hand, Jill Newton, Bob Ripley and Nancy Scanlon, oil paintings by Barbara Bratt, Karen Burns and Hetty Easter, gouache by Chris Baker, and pastels by Barbara Delmonico and Ruth Anne Reagan, among many others. The exhibit also showcases jewelry by Deborah Laun, in addition to photography and sculptures. The majority of the artwork is for sale, featuring unique gifts just in time for the holidays. Many pieces depict local images and scenes.

Participating artists are all members of Baltimore Woods Nature Center, which is a member supported organization.

Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

Dream Weavers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Sarah Saulson: "Relics of the 20th Century" wall hangings incorporating obsolete, non-traditional objects
Judi Witkin: woven bead jewelry
Lauren Bristol: sculptural basketry made from Egyptian cotton, both standing and wall hanging
Sherry Gordon: traditional woven wall hangings and scarves
Suzanne Loveland: traditional Nantucket basketry made of cane and cherrywood

27th Annual Gingerbread Gallery: 50 Years of Fun
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

One of Syracuse's oldest holiday traditions returns this year with the theme "50 Years of Fun" in honor of the Museum's anniversary. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s street scene with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers.

Inspired Tidings: Annual Holiday Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artists from Gallery 54 present new pieces inspired by the holiday season.

Grant Dolge Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of watercolor and soft pastel paintings by Tully artist Grant Dolge. Dolge, the owner of Dolge Studio, paints landscapes from his travels in Italy, England and France, along with landscapes of Central New York. Other subjects include florals, seascapes, abstracts and still life.

This will be Imagine's last show of the season; exhibitions and openings will resume in May 2013.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Dennis Krukowski, Tice Lerner, and Sayler/Morris.

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

Chinese artist Shen Wei uses his self-portrait series "I Miss You Already" as a place for self-discovery and contemplation. Each image captures a momentary experience that describes the coming together of person and place. Many of the photographs are intensely sexual. His images invite others into his solitude by quietly beckoning or openly drawing the viewer in. They tease the camera, and therefore the viewer, in various degrees. That Wei is an attractive and physically fit young Asian man plays an important part in how his work addresses desire in the context of identity and bridges cultural and sexual barriers.

His overtly sexual photographs push against the boundaries of Wei's conservative Chinese upbringing, which occurred at a time when even art students did not get to study the nude body and would learn to draw the body from sculptural busts. Moving to the United States in 2000, Wei was confronted with very different societal attitudes toward the naked body and sexuality, and his response to these issues has become central to his work. It is not important to Wei that his photographs be understood in only one way, and he acknowledges that his work may be interpreted differently from country to country. He has also seen a shifting of social norms. Even in China it is now increasingly acceptable to depict the naked body, especially in art.

Wei uses his series to push against cultural boundaries, but in image after image he also explores his own comfort level with expressing his sexuality. Throughout the series we observe Wei trying on one environment and identity at a time. Although the images are constructed, the emotions are authentic. We see a young man asserting himself in front of the camera and claiming his right to define himself and his sexuality.

Baskets with Sculpture by Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman

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

Bringing together their art and cultural knowledge, Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman create one-of-a-kind black ash baskets with sculptural finials. Ronni-Leigh uses the age old tradition of black ash and sweet grass basket making she learned from Mae Bigtree, a world renowned basketmaker from the Mohawk nation of Akwesasne. Although there are many traditional aspects to her baskets, Ronni-Leigh weaves her individuality into each by embellishing with moose hair and plaited porcupine quills. Stonehorse completes the basket by using white tail deer, moose antler or fossilized ivory to sculpt detailed finials and basket stands that are inspired by stories of the Haudenosaunee.

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

100 posters celebrating 30 years. Since 1982, SCW has published and distributed over 700 posters across North America and a bit on other continents. This selection of 100 titles represents the best, the boldest, and the oldest.

TONY: 2012: "Manifest Destiny and the American West" and "Last House"
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

These exhibits are mounted as part of the The Other New York (TONY): 2012, Syracuse's art biennial. OHA's TONY: 2012 exhibits are artistically presented interpretations of dynamic social trends that are part of the historic legacy of Central New York.

In a three-dimensional display employing nearly 1,000 images set in glass jars, "Manifest Destiny and the American West," an exhibit by Buffalo artist Robert Hirsch, asks the visitor to think about how our nation's geographic progression across the continent has shaped American culture. The desire to exploit the salt brine reserves on Onondaga Lake contributed to a westward migration of settlers across Central New York in the post-American Revolution era, while the construction of the Erie Canal enhanced this movement through the 19th century and enabled many travelers to reach lands in the farther reaches of the American continent.

"Last House" is a multi-channel video installation by media artist Carl Lee that explores the aesthetics and means of a house demolition in Buffalo. Cities like Buffalo and Syracuse are faced with a large number of abandoned houses. This video asks us to think about what we gain and lose in demolishing them. This installation will be accompanied by three paintings by Western New York artist Amy Greenan of vacant houses in Syracuse awaiting an uncertain future, including "Not Here, Not Now," her interpretation of 711 Tully Street, which seems poised to have a different fate on Syracuse's Near West Side than that if the house in Last House.

Onondaga Historical Association is proud to be one of 14 Central New York venues for TONY: 2012. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

The Art of Gifting
Szozda Gallery

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

Ray Trudell: Green Lakes photography
Alan D. Hart: photo-realistic acrylic wildlife paintings
C J Hodge III: different views of everyday objects
Diana Godfrey: abstract collages

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Featuring the works of 50 artists, including paintings, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, and more.

Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

From the 1930s to the 1980s the printed image in American art went through profound changes. Beginning with the black and white lithographs that were popularized by the regionalists and urban realists, and continuing through the experimental intaglio prints of the 1940s and 1950s, the "Pop" explosion of screenprints in the 1960s, and the precision of super realism in the 1970s, printmaking has captured the imagination of countless American artists.

This exhibition of 50 American prints surveys the activities of artists who put designs on paper during this exciting period. Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Anne Ryan, Milton Avery, Dorothy Dehner, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Richard Estes are a few of the artists represented in this examination of the growth in popularity of printmaking among American artists during this 50 year period. Especially significant are the contributions of women to printmaking during this period as well as the impact of African-American artists on the graphic arts. Combined with artists who immigrated to the United States during these decades and the increased numbers of painters and sculptors who took up the medium, this exhibition makes the egalitarian nature of the print abundantly clear.

Jeff Davies: Straight from the Heart
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Jeff Davies (1938-2006) was a Syracuse area self-taught artist who gained a near-cult status among local collectors. Davies developed a style that incorporated elements of Surrealism with Rube Goldberg-inspired machines often in service to a sexually charged visual theme. As he gained experience he enlarged the size of the images, ultimately making murals, the most famous of which are on the interior and exterior walls of the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que restaurant in downtown Syracuse.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage-The Norton Putter Gallery, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Prophecy" is a timely exhibition pertaining to Indigenous prophecies. By incorporating themes of ecology, creation, demise and the future according to the Mayan calendar, traditional Iroquois teachings and other cultural beliefs, Jones provides a visual representation of the foretold truths.

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Angels on the Border" is an exhibition of religious paintings commissioned by Mexican immigrants from 1912 to 1996.

Retablos are Mexican folk paintings, usually created on small pieces of tin, offered as votives to the Christ and the Virgin Mary in gratitude for a miracle granted or a favor received. Made by professional retablo artists, immigrant relatives or the immigrants themselves, the artwork is posted on walls inside Catholic churches in Mexico.

ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7" is the first solo exhibition in New York by Rochester-based artist duo Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint. The exhibition, which will be presented in the Main Gallery as well as the Windows Project, explores the context of an urban campsite that is also a participatory lab for Central New York hikers exploring Syracuse's immediate neighborhood. Curated by Anja Chávez, Curator of Contemporary Art, the exhibition expands traditional gallery practice by focusing on today's environmental issues and the arts, inviting the spectators to participate and incorporating their feedback into the artwork.

Read a review!

Transitive Flux
XL Projects

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

XL Projects presents the exhibition "Transitive Flux," a conversation about the location of thoughts and objects on the transitional plane. The four-person exhibition is the work of Rebecca Aloisio, Michael Giannattasio, Sarah Camille Wilson, and Davana Wilkins. Each artist's work is a visual negotiation of physical and psychological spaces. Through diverse media and practices, the artists question time, space and the nature of human interaction with objects.

Wilkins and Aloisio are second-year M.F.A. candidates at SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts; Wilson is a third-year M.F.A. candidate. Giannattasio received his M.F.A. from VPA in 2012. "Transitive Flux" arose from exchanges about the shared concerns in their studio practices.

The theme of the transitive and an underlying connection to the human body are present in the work of each artist. Drawing, clay, electronics and large-scale sculpture form the language with which they express ineffable moments in space and time. The exhibition addresses these issues through complex visual and physical systems that resonate with consciousness.

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

Rupture: Works by Joe Lingeman
Echo

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

A series of photographs by Joe Lingeman, who says:
"My work deals with absurdity, beauty, and the tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life and material culture. Working in the genres of portraiture, landscape and still life, my work attempts to thwart viewers expectations of each, leaving the viewer off balance, without a clear sense of boundary between fantasy and reality."

Cutting Up Capitalism: The Collage Art of Deborah Faye Lawrence
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A sharp pair of scissors is a powerful tool for Seattle-based artist Deborah Faye Lawrence. Since the mid 1990s, she has been creating intricately-detailed collages that explore themes such as war, nationalism, sexism, and corporate globalization, all with great wit and satire. She has gone so far as to create an activist alter-ego, known as Dee-Dee Lorenzo, who appears in her art. Dee-Dee stands up for justice and the oppressed as she attends demonstrations such as the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle or supports the dumping of four tons of manure on the World Bank in Washington, DC.

Creative Arts Academy Fall Showcase
Community Folk Art Center

Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Join us for an evening in celebration of young talent. The Fall 2012 CAA showcase highlights work by students in the academy's three disciplines: visual art, dance and theater.

Where Should the Birds Fly?
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Fida Qishta, a young Palestinian filmmaker and journalist from Rafah in Gaza has documented the horrific Israeli invasion and bombardment of Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009. Working with her crew of young Gazans, they have kept the cameras rolling for months, recording the struggle of the people of Gaza to retrieve some sense of normalcy from the absolute abnormality of life in the world's largest prison camp, sealed off on all sides by Israeli and Egyptian walls, barbed wire and military.

Sponsored by Working for A Just Peace in Palestine-Israel.

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Featured in this eclectic display are the bookshelf, counter, calliope, and international doll collection from The Magic Toy Shop, Syracuse's local children's TV show from the 1950s through 1980s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see hand-carved trains and boats, Punch & Judy marionettes, Victorian dolls, 1950s board games, and many other vintage toys, some made in central New York. The exhibit also includes historic photos of downtown Syracuse, and boxes from bygone stores such as Chappell's, Dey Bros., Flah's, Madame Netter, and E. W. Edwards.

Lunchtime Lectures: Gallery Talk for Collecting Focus: New Prints and Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum
Featuring Andrew Saluti and Emily Dittman

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

Annual Christmas Concert
Civic Morning Musicals
Dr. Jerry Exline, Irwin Goldberg, guests, and choral ensemble

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

Popular annual program featuring seasonal favorites and novelties.

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Mark Povinelli: Post Cambrian Explosion
LeMoyne College

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

This exhibition explores the artist's interest in mathematics, written language, and the diversity of forms in nature by using sycamore, hemlock, paper, and copper to create transformative space.

December Art Exhibit: Lisa Noviasky

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

Lisa Noviasky exhibits her artwork, which is primarily plein air paintings created on locations in Central New York. For more information, phone 315-435-1900.

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Works by more than 25 local artists will be on display. The exhibit includes watercolors by Susi Buschbacher, Judy Hand, Jill Newton, Bob Ripley and Nancy Scanlon, oil paintings by Barbara Bratt, Karen Burns and Hetty Easter, gouache by Chris Baker, and pastels by Barbara Delmonico and Ruth Anne Reagan, among many others. The exhibit also showcases jewelry by Deborah Laun, in addition to photography and sculptures. The majority of the artwork is for sale, featuring unique gifts just in time for the holidays. Many pieces depict local images and scenes.

Participating artists are all members of Baltimore Woods Nature Center, which is a member supported organization.

Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

Dream Weavers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Sarah Saulson: "Relics of the 20th Century" wall hangings incorporating obsolete, non-traditional objects
Judi Witkin: woven bead jewelry
Lauren Bristol: sculptural basketry made from Egyptian cotton, both standing and wall hanging
Sherry Gordon: traditional woven wall hangings and scarves
Suzanne Loveland: traditional Nantucket basketry made of cane and cherrywood

27th Annual Gingerbread Gallery: 50 Years of Fun
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

One of Syracuse's oldest holiday traditions returns this year with the theme "50 Years of Fun" in honor of the Museum's anniversary. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s street scene with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers.

Inspired Tidings: Annual Holiday Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artists from Gallery 54 present new pieces inspired by the holiday season.

Grant Dolge Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of watercolor and soft pastel paintings by Tully artist Grant Dolge. Dolge, the owner of Dolge Studio, paints landscapes from his travels in Italy, England and France, along with landscapes of Central New York. Other subjects include florals, seascapes, abstracts and still life.

This will be Imagine's last show of the season; exhibitions and openings will resume in May 2013.

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

Chinese artist Shen Wei uses his self-portrait series "I Miss You Already" as a place for self-discovery and contemplation. Each image captures a momentary experience that describes the coming together of person and place. Many of the photographs are intensely sexual. His images invite others into his solitude by quietly beckoning or openly drawing the viewer in. They tease the camera, and therefore the viewer, in various degrees. That Wei is an attractive and physically fit young Asian man plays an important part in how his work addresses desire in the context of identity and bridges cultural and sexual barriers.

His overtly sexual photographs push against the boundaries of Wei's conservative Chinese upbringing, which occurred at a time when even art students did not get to study the nude body and would learn to draw the body from sculptural busts. Moving to the United States in 2000, Wei was confronted with very different societal attitudes toward the naked body and sexuality, and his response to these issues has become central to his work. It is not important to Wei that his photographs be understood in only one way, and he acknowledges that his work may be interpreted differently from country to country. He has also seen a shifting of social norms. Even in China it is now increasingly acceptable to depict the naked body, especially in art.

Wei uses his series to push against cultural boundaries, but in image after image he also explores his own comfort level with expressing his sexuality. Throughout the series we observe Wei trying on one environment and identity at a time. Although the images are constructed, the emotions are authentic. We see a young man asserting himself in front of the camera and claiming his right to define himself and his sexuality.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Dennis Krukowski, Tice Lerner, and Sayler/Morris.

Baskets with Sculpture by Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman

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

Bringing together their art and cultural knowledge, Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman create one-of-a-kind black ash baskets with sculptural finials. Ronni-Leigh uses the age old tradition of black ash and sweet grass basket making she learned from Mae Bigtree, a world renowned basketmaker from the Mohawk nation of Akwesasne. Although there are many traditional aspects to her baskets, Ronni-Leigh weaves her individuality into each by embellishing with moose hair and plaited porcupine quills. Stonehorse completes the basket by using white tail deer, moose antler or fossilized ivory to sculpt detailed finials and basket stands that are inspired by stories of the Haudenosaunee.

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

100 posters celebrating 30 years. Since 1982, SCW has published and distributed over 700 posters across North America and a bit on other continents. This selection of 100 titles represents the best, the boldest, and the oldest.

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

TONY: 2012: "Manifest Destiny and the American West" and "Last House"
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

These exhibits are mounted as part of the The Other New York (TONY): 2012, Syracuse's art biennial. OHA's TONY: 2012 exhibits are artistically presented interpretations of dynamic social trends that are part of the historic legacy of Central New York.

In a three-dimensional display employing nearly 1,000 images set in glass jars, "Manifest Destiny and the American West," an exhibit by Buffalo artist Robert Hirsch, asks the visitor to think about how our nation's geographic progression across the continent has shaped American culture. The desire to exploit the salt brine reserves on Onondaga Lake contributed to a westward migration of settlers across Central New York in the post-American Revolution era, while the construction of the Erie Canal enhanced this movement through the 19th century and enabled many travelers to reach lands in the farther reaches of the American continent.

"Last House" is a multi-channel video installation by media artist Carl Lee that explores the aesthetics and means of a house demolition in Buffalo. Cities like Buffalo and Syracuse are faced with a large number of abandoned houses. This video asks us to think about what we gain and lose in demolishing them. This installation will be accompanied by three paintings by Western New York artist Amy Greenan of vacant houses in Syracuse awaiting an uncertain future, including "Not Here, Not Now," her interpretation of 711 Tully Street, which seems poised to have a different fate on Syracuse's Near West Side than that if the house in Last House.

Onondaga Historical Association is proud to be one of 14 Central New York venues for TONY: 2012. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

The Art of Gifting
Szozda Gallery

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

Ray Trudell: Green Lakes photography
Alan D. Hart: photo-realistic acrylic wildlife paintings
C J Hodge III: different views of everyday objects
Diana Godfrey: abstract collages

Holiday Group Show 2012
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit and to shop locally.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, photography, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include: MaryAnn Carroll, Ed Feldman, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Marie LoParco, Colleen McCall, Laurel Moranz, Bill Perrine, Tim Reese, Time See, Peter Valenti, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Featuring the works of 50 artists, including paintings, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, and more.

Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

From the 1930s to the 1980s the printed image in American art went through profound changes. Beginning with the black and white lithographs that were popularized by the regionalists and urban realists, and continuing through the experimental intaglio prints of the 1940s and 1950s, the "Pop" explosion of screenprints in the 1960s, and the precision of super realism in the 1970s, printmaking has captured the imagination of countless American artists.

This exhibition of 50 American prints surveys the activities of artists who put designs on paper during this exciting period. Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Anne Ryan, Milton Avery, Dorothy Dehner, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Richard Estes are a few of the artists represented in this examination of the growth in popularity of printmaking among American artists during this 50 year period. Especially significant are the contributions of women to printmaking during this period as well as the impact of African-American artists on the graphic arts. Combined with artists who immigrated to the United States during these decades and the increased numbers of painters and sculptors who took up the medium, this exhibition makes the egalitarian nature of the print abundantly clear.

Jeff Davies: Straight from the Heart
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Jeff Davies (1938-2006) was a Syracuse area self-taught artist who gained a near-cult status among local collectors. Davies developed a style that incorporated elements of Surrealism with Rube Goldberg-inspired machines often in service to a sexually charged visual theme. As he gained experience he enlarged the size of the images, ultimately making murals, the most famous of which are on the interior and exterior walls of the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que restaurant in downtown Syracuse.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Prophecy" is a timely exhibition pertaining to Indigenous prophecies. By incorporating themes of ecology, creation, demise and the future according to the Mayan calendar, traditional Iroquois teachings and other cultural beliefs, Jones provides a visual representation of the foretold truths.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage-The Norton Putter Gallery, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Angels on the Border" is an exhibition of religious paintings commissioned by Mexican immigrants from 1912 to 1996.

Retablos are Mexican folk paintings, usually created on small pieces of tin, offered as votives to the Christ and the Virgin Mary in gratitude for a miracle granted or a favor received. Made by professional retablo artists, immigrant relatives or the immigrants themselves, the artwork is posted on walls inside Catholic churches in Mexico.

ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7" is the first solo exhibition in New York by Rochester-based artist duo Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint. The exhibition, which will be presented in the Main Gallery as well as the Windows Project, explores the context of an urban campsite that is also a participatory lab for Central New York hikers exploring Syracuse's immediate neighborhood. Curated by Anja Chávez, Curator of Contemporary Art, the exhibition expands traditional gallery practice by focusing on today's environmental issues and the arts, inviting the spectators to participate and incorporating their feedback into the artwork.

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Transitive Flux
XL Projects

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

XL Projects presents the exhibition "Transitive Flux," a conversation about the location of thoughts and objects on the transitional plane. The four-person exhibition is the work of Rebecca Aloisio, Michael Giannattasio, Sarah Camille Wilson, and Davana Wilkins. Each artist's work is a visual negotiation of physical and psychological spaces. Through diverse media and practices, the artists question time, space and the nature of human interaction with objects.

Wilkins and Aloisio are second-year M.F.A. candidates at SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts; Wilson is a third-year M.F.A. candidate. Giannattasio received his M.F.A. from VPA in 2012. "Transitive Flux" arose from exchanges about the shared concerns in their studio practices.

The theme of the transitive and an underlying connection to the human body are present in the work of each artist. Drawing, clay, electronics and large-scale sculpture form the language with which they express ineffable moments in space and time. The exhibition addresses these issues through complex visual and physical systems that resonate with consciousness.

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

Rupture: Works by Joe Lingeman
Echo

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

A series of photographs by Joe Lingeman, who says:
"My work deals with absurdity, beauty, and the tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life and material culture. Working in the genres of portraiture, landscape and still life, my work attempts to thwart viewers expectations of each, leaving the viewer off balance, without a clear sense of boundary between fantasy and reality."

Cutting Up Capitalism: The Collage Art of Deborah Faye Lawrence
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A sharp pair of scissors is a powerful tool for Seattle-based artist Deborah Faye Lawrence. Since the mid 1990s, she has been creating intricately-detailed collages that explore themes such as war, nationalism, sexism, and corporate globalization, all with great wit and satire. She has gone so far as to create an activist alter-ego, known as Dee-Dee Lorenzo, who appears in her art. Dee-Dee stands up for justice and the oppressed as she attends demonstrations such as the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle or supports the dumping of four tons of manure on the World Bank in Washington, DC.

Shimon Attie: Sightings (2012)
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Sightings" is the fruit of Shimon Attie's residency at UVP in 2012. For this piece, Attie revisits and re-contextualizes footage that was shot for a three channel piece originally created for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. (Total run time: 11:32)

Attie describes his process:
"For Sightings, I created a video installation exploring the heightened moment of mutual encounter between art viewer and art object, between works of art and museum visitors and employees. I selected 40 objects from the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and asked individuals to participate in a dialogue with a work of art, each taking an expressive gesture and gaze that embodied their emotional response to the art object& Slow-motion cinematography, frozen gestures, and an unseen moving stage comment on the active/passive quality of the interactions.

"For the UVP iteration, this source footage was radically re-edited into a single channel piece that emphasizes rhythm and dynamic tension between the viewer and the viewed. Orbiting like twin stars around a shared focus, the two punctually eclipse one another, occluding our own view and reminding us that we, too, are part of this dialogue."

Born in Los Angeles in 1957, Shimon Attie has received international recognition for his installations that incorporate a variety of media including installation art, video, photography, performance, new media, and public art. His work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Jewish Museum, New York; and Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, among many others. The artist has lived and worked in New York City since 1997.

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Featured in this eclectic display are the bookshelf, counter, calliope, and international doll collection from The Magic Toy Shop, Syracuse's local children's TV show from the 1950s through 1980s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see hand-carved trains and boats, Punch & Judy marionettes, Victorian dolls, 1950s board games, and many other vintage toys, some made in central New York. The exhibit also includes historic photos of downtown Syracuse, and boxes from bygone stores such as Chappell's, Dey Bros., Flah's, Madame Netter, and E. W. Edwards.

Americana Groove Night
Featuring Rosie Newton and Friends, with hosts Noah and Andrew VanNorstrand

Price: $5
Funk 'n Waffles University
727 S. Crouse Ave. (Campus Plaza, behind Marshall , Syracuse

Nick Saint, Private Elf
Acme Mystery Company

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

When night falls on Toyland Town, some elves play rough. But it's nothing compared to what happens on The Island of Misfit Toys, the seamy underbelly of the North Pole; Santa's dirty little secret. It's no place for an elf, especially on Christmas Eve. Nick's partner, Smiles Thirdly, just found that out. Twice, at close range. Nick needs your help to investigate, but if you come to The Island, don't be a sap. Act like a misfit and blend in. Better yet, just be yourself.

White Christmas
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Paul Barnes, director

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

Irving Berlin's beloved and heartwarming musical with a score of American standards, based on the Paramount Pictures film.

The title song alone is a holiday celebration and a reminder of a time when the simplest pleasures mattered most and having a big heart was genuinely considered a virtue. Two successful showmen join forces to help out their old army commander. Along the way they find, lose, and find romance, have plenty of laughs, and demonstrate what it means to be loyal. The score is filled with favorites -- "Happy Holiday," "Sisters," "Blue Skies," "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" -- and the choreography calls for plenty of tap. Winter may not deliver a White Christmas, but director Paul Barnes (The Miracle Worker) and a talented cast sure will.

Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by David Ives and Paul Blake.
Musical Direction by Christopher Drobny, choreography by David Wanstreet.

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The Man Who Came to Dinner
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

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

Sheridan Whiteside, having dined at the home of the Stanleys, slips on their doorstep, breaking his hip. A tumultuous six weeks of confinement follow. The Stanley living room is monopolized by the irascible invalid, ex-convicts are invited to meals, and transatlantic calls bring a $784 phone bill. Throw in an octopus, penguins, rewrites, unrequited love,and a boys' choir and you have a riotous evening of holiday laughter.

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Amahl and the Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

Price: $15
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

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*SOLD OUT* Hairspray
Redhouse

Price: $25 regular, $15 members, $10 students
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Hairspray delights audiences by sweeping them away to 1960s Baltimore, where the 50s are out  and change is in the air. Loveable plus-size heroine Tracy Turnblad has a passion for dancing and wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corny Collins Show." Overnight she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. Can a larger-than-life adolescent manage to vanquish the program's reigning princess, integrate the television show, and find true love without mussing her hair? Of course! This production features professional comedian Steve Hayes along with a cast of professional and local actors, and inner city students from our partnership with the Hillside Family of Agencies. Music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan.

Stand-By Tickets: At any performance there are last minute cancellations and "no shows." Come to the Box Office when it opens at 7:00 pm and get your name on the waiting list. We will do our best to seat you. If we do get you in, your tickets will be just $10.

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Friday, December 14, 2012

Mark Povinelli: Post Cambrian Explosion
LeMoyne College

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

This exhibition explores the artist's interest in mathematics, written language, and the diversity of forms in nature by using sycamore, hemlock, paper, and copper to create transformative space.

December Art Exhibit: Lisa Noviasky

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

Lisa Noviasky exhibits her artwork, which is primarily plein air paintings created on locations in Central New York. For more information, phone 315-435-1900.

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Works by more than 25 local artists will be on display. The exhibit includes watercolors by Susi Buschbacher, Judy Hand, Jill Newton, Bob Ripley and Nancy Scanlon, oil paintings by Barbara Bratt, Karen Burns and Hetty Easter, gouache by Chris Baker, and pastels by Barbara Delmonico and Ruth Anne Reagan, among many others. The exhibit also showcases jewelry by Deborah Laun, in addition to photography and sculptures. The majority of the artwork is for sale, featuring unique gifts just in time for the holidays. Many pieces depict local images and scenes.

Participating artists are all members of Baltimore Woods Nature Center, which is a member supported organization.

Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

Dream Weavers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Sarah Saulson: "Relics of the 20th Century" wall hangings incorporating obsolete, non-traditional objects
Judi Witkin: woven bead jewelry
Lauren Bristol: sculptural basketry made from Egyptian cotton, both standing and wall hanging
Sherry Gordon: traditional woven wall hangings and scarves
Suzanne Loveland: traditional Nantucket basketry made of cane and cherrywood