Friday, November 8, 2013

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

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

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

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

Works by Dan Shanahan
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Dan's work includes cartoons and portraits drawn from life. He fills in the background of many of his drawings with imaginary action scenes or whatever comes to mind, including but not limited to robots, cars, spiders and sound effects. Dan's media of choice are pastel, ink and watercolor. His sources of inspiration are kids' book illustrations, old cartoons and comics, and vague memories from past lives.

Drawing on Talent: 5th Annual Members Group Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Group art exhibit featuring work in all media by members of the Baltimore Woods member community.

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Re-emergence
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

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

Water Below, Sky Above
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Diane Menzies: landscape oil paintings
Deeann vonHunke and Robert vonHunke: collaborative pieces with Robert's painting and Dee's metalwork
Wes Weiss: ceramic sculptural forms
Deeann vonHunke: jewelry
Karen Burns: oil on canvas landscape paintings

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

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

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

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The Beauty Within: A Collection of Metal and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by featured artists Donna Smith and Sallie Thompson.

Boughs and Branches
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Boughs and Branches" is an exhibition of paintings by cousins Joyce Burgess Snavlin and Linda Davis Reed.

For "Boughs and Branches," Reed and Snavlin have contributed small paintings by their mothers to hang above their own works. "Our mothers were the boughs, and we are the branches from them," Reed says.

Reed illustrated, and Snavlin wrote, "Adirondack ABCs," which introduces children to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited at Imagine in September.

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Artist's Statement:

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

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

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

Jackie Nickerson: Terrain
Light Work Gallery

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

Jackie Nickerson makes photographs that examine the essential nature of people and their relationship to the natural world, through personal identity and the physical and psychological condition of living and working. With "Terrain," Nickerson revisits eastern and southern Africa, focusing on how the exertions of labor leave psychic and material traces on people and the environment.

Somewhere in the 20th Century: Still Life and Landscape Watercolors by Kyle Mort
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Holiday Festival of Crafts
Rochester Folk Art Guild

Price: $2
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

Pottery, wood furniture and turnings, folk toys, weaving, natural fiber clothing, and books for all ages.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

All Creatures Great and Small
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Print Making Revolution: Mexican Prints and the Taller de Grafica Popular
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of over 130 original prints drawn from the SU Art Collection, as well as lenders including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Library of Congress, and the Blanton Museum of Art. The exhibition features important Mexican artists and post-Mexican Revolution artwork, with emphasis on the prints produced at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (The People's Graphic Workshop), or TGP. This influential workshop advanced a variety of revolutionary ideals and causes, including the formation of organized labor, the fight for civil rights, and an active campaign against fascism.

Print Making Revolution is organized into four subjects. The first acts as precursor to the TGP, highlighting the work of artists that helped to define the Mexican print landscape early in the 20th century. These figures include José Gaudalupe Posada, Jean Charlot, and the "Big Three": Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Siqueiros.

The exhibition then transitions into the artists of the TGP, with emphasis on the Taller's director Leopoldo Méndez, but also includes Ángel Bracho, Isidoro Ocampo, and Alfredo Zalce, among others.

The third part of the exhibition focuses on the linocut portfolio Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana, a vividly illustrated narration of the Mexican Revolution, published by the workshop in 1947. Shown in its entirety, the portfolio contains 84 original prints by 16 artists.

Finally, the exhibition highlights the gringos—Americans working at the TGP during the early and influential days of the prolific workshop, Angel Bracho, Victoria! Los Artistas de Taller de Grafica Popular, 1945 University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque including John Woodrow Wilson, Mariana Yampolsky and Elizabeth Catlett. The impact of the TGP reached well beyond the conventional boundaries of art making, affecting political and social movements in Mexico and the United States.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition presents Paul Strand's famous Mexican Portfolio, which includes photogravure impressions of people, landscapes, architecture, and religious objects that he encountered in Mexico during his travels there in 1932.

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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The Art of Video Games
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Part of a ten-city national tour, "The Art of Video Games" is one of the first major exhibitions to explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking graphics, creative storytelling, and player interactivity. The exhibition features some of the most influential artists and designers across five eras of game development, from early pioneers to contemporary designers. Video games use player participation to tell stories and engage audiences. In the same way as film, animation and performance, video games are a compelling and influential form of narrative art.

"The Art of Video Games" focuses on the interplay of graphics, technology and storytelling through some of the best games for 20 gaming systems ranging from the Atari VCS to the PlayStation 3. The exhibition features 80 video games that demonstrate the evolution of the medium. The games are presented through still images and video footage. In addition, the galleries include video interviews with developers and artists, historic game consoles and large prints of in-game screen shots.

New technologies allow designers to create increasingly interactive and sophisticated game environments while staying grounded in traditional game types. Five featured games, one from each era, are available in the exhibition galleries for visitors to play for a few minutes, to gain some feel for the interactivity. The playable gamesPac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst and Flowershow how players interact with the virtual worlds, highlighting innovative new techniques that set the standard for many subsequent games.

Visitors to the exhibition are greeted by excerpts from selected games projected 12 feet high, accompanied by a chipmusic soundtrack by 8 Bit Weapon and ComputeHer, including "The Art of Video Games Anthem" recorded by 8 Bit Weapon specifically for the exhibition. These multimedia elements convey the excitement and complexity of the featured video games. An interior gallery includes a series of short videos showing the range of emotional responses players have while interacting with games. Excerpts from interviews with 20 influential figures in the gaming world also are presented in the galleries.

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Between the Spaces: Works by Cecile Gray Bazelon
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Distinguished artist and alumna Cecile Gray Bazelon's work has been described as surreal, Precisionist and hard-edged, as well as elegant and dislocating. A defining aesthetic in her paintings is the stylistic manipulation of space; she often uses wide-angle perspective to delineate her many images of the New York skyline, resulting in a striking series of conceptual viewpoints.

"Between the Spaces" was developed by graduate students enrolled in the "Advanced Curatorship" course in the graduate museum studies program in VPA's Department of Design, under the guidance of Professor Edward A. Aiken. The students also acted as associate curators.

Nourish: An Exploration of Consumption
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

Opening: Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Fine art and crafts handmade by local guild and independent artists. Find unique pottery, stained glass, paintings, jewelry, hand-crafted soaps and candles, and much more.

Open Studios and Holiday Sale

Price: $ regular, $ students/seniors
Delavan Studios
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

More than 40 participating artists and businesses in the Delavan Center will open their doors to the public. Visitors will have the opportunity to shop, chat, and tour the building at their leisure. Each studio is different from the next, and the event will showcase some of Syracuse's best artists, small businesses, and craftspeople.

For more information, visit delavancenter.com/openstudio/artists.html.

A Woman's World
Onondaga Community College
New York State Baroque Ensemble

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Women composers in the baroque were professionals, nuns, entrepreneurs, travelers, and courtiers. Music of Barbara Strozzi, Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Francesca Caccini, and Isabella Leonarda, names that we wish were more familiar.

NYS Baroque Ensemble: Laura Heimes, soprano; Dongmyung Ahn, Daniel Lee, violins; Emily Walhout, gamba; Michael Beattie, harpsichord; Deborah Fox, theorbo.

Jazz@Sitrus: Grupo Lite
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

A Woman's World
NYS Baroque

Price: $25 regular, $20 seniors, $10 college students, children free
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Women composers in the baroque were professionals, nuns, entrepreneurs, travelers, and courtiers. Music of Barbara Strozzi, Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Francesca Caccini, and Isabella Leonarda, names that we wish were more familiar.

Performers include Laura Heimes, soprano; Dongmyung Ahn, Daniel Lee, violins; Emily Walhout, gamba; Michael Beattie, harpsichord; Deborah Fox, theorbo.

Lotus, with Cosby Sweater
Creative Concerts

Price: $22-$25
F Shed at The Regional Market
2100 Park St., Syracuse

Tickets available online.

Contemporary Music Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Stephen Ferre, conductor

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

Featuring works by William Brooks, Stephen Ferre, William Duckworth, Philip Glass, and Igor Stravinsky.

*POSTPONED* Author Roy Kesey
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Roy Kesey appearance has been postponed for one week until 11/15.

Roy Kesey's latest book is a short story collection called Any Deadly Thing, published in February 2013 by Dzanc Books. His other books include a novel called Pacazo (winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award), a collection of short stories called All Over (one of The L Magazine's Best Books of the Decade), a novella called Nothing in the World (winner of the Bullfight Media Little Book Award), and two historical guidebooks. His short stories, essays, translations and poems have appeared in more than a hundred magazines and anthologies, including Best American Short Stories and The Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology. He currently lives in Maryland with his wife and children.

Harvey
Appleseed Productions
Roy Van Norstrand, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is the story of Elwood P. Dowd, a polite and friendly man with a very strange best friend—a six-foot, three-and-one-half-inch invisible rabbit named Harvey. Elwood's sister Veta is concerned the rabbit will interfere with her life as a socialite, so she tries to have Elwood committed at the local sanatorium.

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No Exit
Black Box Players

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

In Jean-Paul Sartre's classic, three damned souls, Garcin, Inés, and Estelle are brought to the same room in Hell by a mysterious valet. Despite their expectations of medieval torture devices as punishment, they are shocked to find just a plain room furnished in the style of the Second French Empire. None of them will admit the reason for their damnation. Will they find salvation in each other or live out Sartre's view that Hell truly is other people?

Reserve tickets at blackboxplayers.ticketleap.com/noexit.

Reservoir Dogs
Central New York Playhouse
J. Brazil, director

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

Our next screen-to-stage adaptation, adapted for the stage by J. Brazil.

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Dog Sees God
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Student-directed tragicomedy in the Marren Theatre taking "Peanuts" characters in unexpected directions.

The World of Ray Bradbury
Rarely Done Productions
Ty Marshal, C.J. Young and Liam Fitzpatrick, director

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

Most known for his science fiction novels (The Martian Chronicles, Farenheit 451, Dandelion Wine) "The World of Ray Bradbury" presents a chrestomathy containing three short plays by acclaimed author, Ray Bradbury. "The Pedestrian" tells of a television-centered world in the year 2131, "The Veldt" explores a "virtual playroom" that is able to telepathically connect with children, and "To The Chicago Abyss" takes place in the bleakness of the future as an old man remembers the little pleasures of yesterday. Originally debuted by Bradbury's own "Pandemonium Theater Company" in Los Angeles in 1965.

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Scorched
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

An epic mystery that has captivated and stunned audiences around the globe. After their mother's death, twins Janine and Simon, guided by letters the mother has left each, travel to the Middle East to untangle family roots entwined in a war-ravaged past. A play of raw power and poetic resonance, the Syracuse Stage production will feature original music by the world renowned Kronos Quartet. Written by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau.

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Saturday, November 9, 2013

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Works by Dan Shanahan
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Dan's work includes cartoons and portraits drawn from life. He fills in the background of many of his drawings with imaginary action scenes or whatever comes to mind, including but not limited to robots, cars, spiders and sound effects. Dan's media of choice are pastel, ink and watercolor. His sources of inspiration are kids' book illustrations, old cartoons and comics, and vague memories from past lives.

Drawing on Talent: 5th Annual Members Group Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

Group art exhibit featuring work in all media by members of the Baltimore Woods member community.

Water Below, Sky Above
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Diane Menzies: landscape oil paintings
Deeann vonHunke and Robert vonHunke: collaborative pieces with Robert's painting and Dee's metalwork
Wes Weiss: ceramic sculptural forms
Deeann vonHunke: jewelry
Karen Burns: oil on canvas landscape paintings

The Art of Video Games
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Part of a ten-city national tour, "The Art of Video Games" is one of the first major exhibitions to explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking graphics, creative storytelling, and player interactivity. The exhibition features some of the most influential artists and designers across five eras of game development, from early pioneers to contemporary designers. Video games use player participation to tell stories and engage audiences. In the same way as film, animation and performance, video games are a compelling and influential form of narrative art.

"The Art of Video Games" focuses on the interplay of graphics, technology and storytelling through some of the best games for 20 gaming systems ranging from the Atari VCS to the PlayStation 3. The exhibition features 80 video games that demonstrate the evolution of the medium. The games are presented through still images and video footage. In addition, the galleries include video interviews with developers and artists, historic game consoles and large prints of in-game screen shots.

New technologies allow designers to create increasingly interactive and sophisticated game environments while staying grounded in traditional game types. Five featured games, one from each era, are available in the exhibition galleries for visitors to play for a few minutes, to gain some feel for the interactivity. The playable gamesPac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst and Flowershow how players interact with the virtual worlds, highlighting innovative new techniques that set the standard for many subsequent games.

Visitors to the exhibition are greeted by excerpts from selected games projected 12 feet high, accompanied by a chipmusic soundtrack by 8 Bit Weapon and ComputeHer, including "The Art of Video Games Anthem" recorded by 8 Bit Weapon specifically for the exhibition. These multimedia elements convey the excitement and complexity of the featured video games. An interior gallery includes a series of short videos showing the range of emotional responses players have while interacting with games. Excerpts from interviews with 20 influential figures in the gaming world also are presented in the galleries.

Read a review!

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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The Beauty Within: A Collection of Metal and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by featured artists Donna Smith and Sallie Thompson.

Boughs and Branches
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Boughs and Branches" is an exhibition of paintings by cousins Joyce Burgess Snavlin and Linda Davis Reed.

For "Boughs and Branches," Reed and Snavlin have contributed small paintings by their mothers to hang above their own works. "Our mothers were the boughs, and we are the branches from them," Reed says.

Reed illustrated, and Snavlin wrote, "Adirondack ABCs," which introduces children to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited at Imagine in September.

Somewhere in the 20th Century: Still Life and Landscape Watercolors by Kyle Mort
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Holiday Festival of Crafts
Rochester Folk Art Guild

Price: $2
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

Pottery, wood furniture and turnings, folk toys, weaving, natural fiber clothing, and books for all ages.

Open Studios and Holiday Sale

Price: $ regular, $ students/seniors
Delavan Studios
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

More than 40 participating artists and businesses in the Delavan Center will open their doors to the public. Visitors will have the opportunity to shop, chat, and tour the building at their leisure. Each studio is different from the next, and the event will showcase some of Syracuse's best artists, small businesses, and craftspeople.

For more information, visit delavancenter.com/openstudio/artists.html.

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

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

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

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All Creatures Great and Small
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Fine art and crafts handmade by local guild and independent artists. Find unique pottery, stained glass, paintings, jewelry, hand-crafted soaps and candles, and much more.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Print Making Revolution: Mexican Prints and the Taller de Grafica Popular
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of over 130 original prints drawn from the SU Art Collection, as well as lenders including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Library of Congress, and the Blanton Museum of Art. The exhibition features important Mexican artists and post-Mexican Revolution artwork, with emphasis on the prints produced at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (The People's Graphic Workshop), or TGP. This influential workshop advanced a variety of revolutionary ideals and causes, including the formation of organized labor, the fight for civil rights, and an active campaign against fascism.

Print Making Revolution is organized into four subjects. The first acts as precursor to the TGP, highlighting the work of artists that helped to define the Mexican print landscape early in the 20th century. These figures include José Gaudalupe Posada, Jean Charlot, and the "Big Three": Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Siqueiros.

The exhibition then transitions into the artists of the TGP, with emphasis on the Taller's director Leopoldo Méndez, but also includes Ángel Bracho, Isidoro Ocampo, and Alfredo Zalce, among others.

The third part of the exhibition focuses on the linocut portfolio Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana, a vividly illustrated narration of the Mexican Revolution, published by the workshop in 1947. Shown in its entirety, the portfolio contains 84 original prints by 16 artists.

Finally, the exhibition highlights the gringos—Americans working at the TGP during the early and influential days of the prolific workshop, Angel Bracho, Victoria! Los Artistas de Taller de Grafica Popular, 1945 University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque including John Woodrow Wilson, Mariana Yampolsky and Elizabeth Catlett. The impact of the TGP reached well beyond the conventional boundaries of art making, affecting political and social movements in Mexico and the United States.

Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition presents Paul Strand's famous Mexican Portfolio, which includes photogravure impressions of people, landscapes, architecture, and religious objects that he encountered in Mexico during his travels there in 1932.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Nourish: An Exploration of Consumption
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

Spoken Threads: Craftivist Fiber Art
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 7:00-9:00 pm. The exhibition includes the presentation of Mary Giehl's "Connecting With Something Warm" project where the artist left knitted items created by kitting groups and individuals from all over the Syracuse area in public places to be found and kept as a gift. Knitters and gift recipients will be present to meet for the first time.

Spoken Threads is a collection of fiber art that takes its inspiration from the traditional women-made crafts such as quilting, knitting, weaving, sewing, and cross-stitch. It features women artists from across the USA, including Central New York, as well as those from Canada and the UK who use their art to speak wisdom on a variety of social and environmental issues. During the time of year that many consumers reach for something mass-produced off an end-cap display, this exhibition is a celebration of the handmade.

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Second Saturday Series: Marie Burns & Mac Benford
Westcott Community Center

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

Two legends of the Ithaca-area music scene team up again—but for the first time as a duo in Syracuse. Marie Burns is known to most as a member of the Burns Sisters, but has long also pursued her interest in country and traditional music forms. Mac Benford, whose main instrument is the clawhammer banjo, has been a substantial figure in traditional Appalachian music for half a century. In the mid-90s, Burns served as a vocalist with Benford's Woodshed All-Stars, and has appeared with him off and on through the years.

11th Annual SU Women's Choir Festival
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Sandra Snow, conductor

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

Approximately 200 high school and collegiate women singers from New York State will join forces to present the 11th Annual Invitational Women's Choir Festival and concert on the theme "Toward Light and Love."

The festival is hosted by the SU Women's Choir under the artistic direction of Barbara M. Tagg. Participating choirs will include the Eastman School of Music/University of Rochester Women's Chorus with Philip E. Silvey, director; the Williamsville North High School Choraleers with Marnie R. Salvatore, director; and the Westhill High School Women's Ensemble with Joseph R. Buchmann, director.

The combined choirs will sing "Moon Goddess" by Jocelyn Hagen, "Watching the Moon at Midnight" and "I Cannot Dance, O Lord" by Stephen Paulus and "I See the Heaven's Glories Shine" by Andrea Ramsey.

Performances by the individual choirs will include "Beati in domo Domini" by James G. Kantor, "I Shall Keep Singing" by Silvey, "Heart We Will Forget Him" by James Mulholland and "Ad Amore" by Lee Kesselman.

Free and accessible parking is available in the Q-1 lot; additional parking is available in the Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change; call 315-443-2191 for current information.

For more information about the festival and concert, contact Tagg at 315-443-5750 or btagg@syr.edu.

Sweet Sensations IX

Price: $25
Franciscan Center
2500 Grant Blvd., Syracuse

Local singer Moe Harrington and special guests Elizabeth Fern, Randy Andre, Liam Fitzpatrick, and saxophonist Dave Frateschi salute the Rat Pack era at the Franciscan Ministries' annual cabaret.

For more information, phone 315-423-9961.

Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives
LeMoyne College

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Five-time Grammy Award winner, platinum recording artist, and Grand Ole Opry star Marty Stuart and his band bring their foot-stompin', tail-shakin', honky-tonkin' music to the Jesuit Theater..

For tickets, visit www.lemoyne.edu/vpa or phone 315-445-4200.

Dan Berggren

Price: $10 in advance, $12 at the door, includes coffee and dessert
Robinson Memorial Church
126 Terry Rd. (corner of Granger), Syracuse

Adirondack folk singer. For more information, phone 315-468-2509.

Chad Darou and Stealing Time
Steeple Coffee House

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

Hot Tuna

Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Leo Crandall in Concert
Redhouse

Price: $15
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Crandall is a singer songwriter, musician and composer. He primarily performs on the requinto and cello, and records both as a solo artist and as the lead singer/songwriter for the Gonstermachers. He recently toured Africa, has been nominated for Australia's Bluestar Award, charted #14 nationally in Roots and Blues airplay and was the recipient of a Meet the Composer Grant. He has performed in many local venues in Syracuse before and is excited to be back! The concert will also feature various acoustic artists and video projections.

Video Games Live
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

Price: $15-$75
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Video Games Live is an immersive concert event featuring music from the most popular video games of all time, created, produced and hosted by well-known game industry veteran and superstar Tommy Tallarico. Symphoria will perform with exclusive synchronized video footage and music arrangements, synchronized lighting, well-known internet solo performers, electronic percussion, live action and unique interactive segments to create an explosive one-of-a-kind entertainment experience.

Special events surround the show, including a pre-show experience where guests can enjoy a costume contest, Guitar Hero competition, prize give-a-ways and interactive game demos. Post-show event includes the very popular meet-and-greet with top game composers and designers. All pre- and post-show events are open to all ticket holders.

Presented in conjunction with the Everson Museum exhibit The Art of Video Games.

Jack and the Beanstalk
Open Hand Theater
Jim Napolitano

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

More very silly puppets by Jim "Nappy" Napolitano, a master artist with a slightly outrageous sense of performing that brings out the kid in all of us. In this American classic there is a roller coaster ride of short stories from children's literature with Nappy's incredible shadow figures. Known for his puppetry work in the television PBS show "Between the Lions," Jim has performed around the world.

Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic tale.

No Exit
Black Box Players

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

In Jean-Paul Sartre's classic, three damned souls, Garcin, Inés, and Estelle are brought to the same room in Hell by a mysterious valet. Despite their expectations of medieval torture devices as punishment, they are shocked to find just a plain room furnished in the style of the Second French Empire. None of them will admit the reason for their damnation. Will they find salvation in each other or live out Sartre's view that Hell truly is other people?

Reserve tickets at blackboxplayers.ticketleap.com/noexit.

Scorched
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

An epic mystery that has captivated and stunned audiences around the globe. After their mother's death, twins Janine and Simon, guided by letters the mother has left each, travel to the Middle East to untangle family roots entwined in a war-ravaged past. A play of raw power and poetic resonance, the Syracuse Stage production will feature original music by the world renowned Kronos Quartet. Written by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau.

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Harvey
Appleseed Productions
Roy Van Norstrand, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is the story of Elwood P. Dowd, a polite and friendly man with a very strange best friend—a six-foot, three-and-one-half-inch invisible rabbit named Harvey. Elwood's sister Veta is concerned the rabbit will interfere with her life as a socialite, so she tries to have Elwood committed at the local sanatorium.

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No Exit
Black Box Players

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

In Jean-Paul Sartre's classic, three damned souls, Garcin, Inés, and Estelle are brought to the same room in Hell by a mysterious valet. Despite their expectations of medieval torture devices as punishment, they are shocked to find just a plain room furnished in the style of the Second French Empire. None of them will admit the reason for their damnation. Will they find salvation in each other or live out Sartre's view that Hell truly is other people?

Reserve tickets at blackboxplayers.ticketleap.com/noexit.

Reservoir Dogs
Central New York Playhouse
J. Brazil, director

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

Our next screen-to-stage adaptation, adapted for the stage by J. Brazil.

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Dog Sees God
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Student-directed tragicomedy in the Marren Theatre taking "Peanuts" characters in unexpected directions.

The World of Ray Bradbury
Rarely Done Productions
Ty Marshal, C.J. Young and Liam Fitzpatrick, director

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

Most known for his science fiction novels (The Martian Chronicles, Farenheit 451, Dandelion Wine) "The World of Ray Bradbury" presents a chrestomathy containing three short plays by acclaimed author, Ray Bradbury. "The Pedestrian" tells of a television-centered world in the year 2131, "The Veldt" explores a "virtual playroom" that is able to telepathically connect with children, and "To The Chicago Abyss" takes place in the bleakness of the future as an old man remembers the little pleasures of yesterday. Originally debuted by Bradbury's own "Pandemonium Theater Company" in Los Angeles in 1965.

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Scorched
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

An epic mystery that has captivated and stunned audiences around the globe. After their mother's death, twins Janine and Simon, guided by letters the mother has left each, travel to the Middle East to untangle family roots entwined in a war-ravaged past. A play of raw power and poetic resonance, the Syracuse Stage production will feature original music by the world renowned Kronos Quartet. Written by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau.

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Sunday, November 10, 2013

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Artist's Statement:

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

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

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

Jackie Nickerson: Terrain
Light Work Gallery

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

Jackie Nickerson makes photographs that examine the essential nature of people and their relationship to the natural world, through personal identity and the physical and psychological condition of living and working. With "Terrain," Nickerson revisits eastern and southern Africa, focusing on how the exertions of labor leave psychic and material traces on people and the environment.

The Beauty Within: A Collection of Metal and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by featured artists Donna Smith and Sallie Thompson.

All Creatures Great and Small
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Boughs and Branches
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Boughs and Branches" is an exhibition of paintings by cousins Joyce Burgess Snavlin and Linda Davis Reed.

For "Boughs and Branches," Reed and Snavlin have contributed small paintings by their mothers to hang above their own works. "Our mothers were the boughs, and we are the branches from them," Reed says.

Reed illustrated, and Snavlin wrote, "Adirondack ABCs," which introduces children to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited at Imagine in September.

Holiday Festival of Crafts
Rochester Folk Art Guild

Price: $2
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

Pottery, wood furniture and turnings, folk toys, weaving, natural fiber clothing, and books for all ages.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition presents Paul Strand's famous Mexican Portfolio, which includes photogravure impressions of people, landscapes, architecture, and religious objects that he encountered in Mexico during his travels there in 1932.

Print Making Revolution: Mexican Prints and the Taller de Grafica Popular
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of over 130 original prints drawn from the SU Art Collection, as well as lenders including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Library of Congress, and the Blanton Museum of Art. The exhibition features important Mexican artists and post-Mexican Revolution artwork, with emphasis on the prints produced at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (The People's Graphic Workshop), or TGP. This influential workshop advanced a variety of revolutionary ideals and causes, including the formation of organized labor, the fight for civil rights, and an active campaign against fascism.

Print Making Revolution is organized into four subjects. The first acts as precursor to the TGP, highlighting the work of artists that helped to define the Mexican print landscape early in the 20th century. These figures include José Gaudalupe Posada, Jean Charlot, and the "Big Three": Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Siqueiros.

The exhibition then transitions into the artists of the TGP, with emphasis on the Taller's director Leopoldo Méndez, but also includes Ángel Bracho, Isidoro Ocampo, and Alfredo Zalce, among others.

The third part of the exhibition focuses on the linocut portfolio Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana, a vividly illustrated narration of the Mexican Revolution, published by the workshop in 1947. Shown in its entirety, the portfolio contains 84 original prints by 16 artists.

Finally, the exhibition highlights the gringos—Americans working at the TGP during the early and influential days of the prolific workshop, Angel Bracho, Victoria! Los Artistas de Taller de Grafica Popular, 1945 University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque including John Woodrow Wilson, Mariana Yampolsky and Elizabeth Catlett. The impact of the TGP reached well beyond the conventional boundaries of art making, affecting political and social movements in Mexico and the United States.

Spoken Threads: Craftivist Fiber Art
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Spoken Threads is a collection of fiber art that takes its inspiration from the traditional women-made crafts such as quilting, knitting, weaving, sewing, and cross-stitch. It features women artists from across the USA, including Central New York, as well as those from Canada and the UK who use their art to speak wisdom on a variety of social and environmental issues. During the time of year that many consumers reach for something mass-produced off an end-cap display, this exhibition is a celebration of the handmade.

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Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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The Art of Video Games
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Part of a ten-city national tour, "The Art of Video Games" is one of the first major exhibitions to explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking graphics, creative storytelling, and player interactivity. The exhibition features some of the most influential artists and designers across five eras of game development, from early pioneers to contemporary designers. Video games use player participation to tell stories and engage audiences. In the same way as film, animation and performance, video games are a compelling and influential form of narrative art.

"The Art of Video Games" focuses on the interplay of graphics, technology and storytelling through some of the best games for 20 gaming systems ranging from the Atari VCS to the PlayStation 3. The exhibition features 80 video games that demonstrate the evolution of the medium. The games are presented through still images and video footage. In addition, the galleries include video interviews with developers and artists, historic game consoles and large prints of in-game screen shots.

New technologies allow designers to create increasingly interactive and sophisticated game environments while staying grounded in traditional game types. Five featured games, one from each era, are available in the exhibition galleries for visitors to play for a few minutes, to gain some feel for the interactivity. The playable gamesPac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst and Flowershow how players interact with the virtual worlds, highlighting innovative new techniques that set the standard for many subsequent games.

Visitors to the exhibition are greeted by excerpts from selected games projected 12 feet high, accompanied by a chipmusic soundtrack by 8 Bit Weapon and ComputeHer, including "The Art of Video Games Anthem" recorded by 8 Bit Weapon specifically for the exhibition. These multimedia elements convey the excitement and complexity of the featured video games. An interior gallery includes a series of short videos showing the range of emotional responses players have while interacting with games. Excerpts from interviews with 20 influential figures in the gaming world also are presented in the galleries.

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Film Series: Orozco: Man of Fire (2007)
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A visually arresting and whimsical documentary portrait of Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949), whose dramatic life, iconoclastic personality and dynamic painting changed the way we see art and politics. Directed, written, and produced by Laurie Coyle and Rick Tejada-Flores, and featuring Will Barnet, Elizabeth Catlett, Carlos Fuentes, Laura González Matute, the Orozco family, Gobin Stair, and John Wilson.

My 2,000 Mile Walk through Syracuse
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring James MacKillop

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

Since arriving in Syracuse as a graduate student in the sixties, Jim MacKillop has been exploring his adopted city. As part of a cardiology regimen in 2006, he started walking an hour or more per day and by 2012 had covered 10 suburbs and every street in the city of Syracuse, including those thought "dangerous." Along the way he discovered lost villages, hidden paths, stupendous gardens, fabulous residences and bizarre characters, none visible from a car window. He is the author of eight books, including the Oxford Dictionary of Cellic Mythology, and has written for the New Times for a long, long time, winning the Syracuse Press Club Award 16 times.

Ancient Voices, Contemporary Contexts: Indigenous American Musical Updates
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors, $5 children under 12, free with SU student or faculty ID
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

World premieres of works by Native American composers (Peruvian and Mohican) that weave their heritage into new classical music, as a context for hearing our ancestors through a modern prism.

Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann Whistling Vessels, 2013 for chamber ensemble, indigenous Peruvian "whistling vessels," and electronics
Brent Michael Davids The Purchase of Manhattan, 2013, opera/oratorio for chamber orchestra, vocal ensemble, American Indian singers, featuring Laura Enslin, soprano; Jonathan Howell,
tenor; Steven Stull, baritone; and Brent Michael Davids, Native American wooden flute

Presented in conjunction with Syracuse University Humanities Center and the Syracuse Symposium series on Listening, and in collaboration with S.U. Arts Engage and La Liga.

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Syracuse Youth Orchestras
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: $10 adults, $5 students ages 6-18, free for ages 5 and under
Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

The Syracuse Youth Orchestra (SYO) and Syracuse Youth String Orchestra (SYSO) will present a concert.

The SYO will perform Hanson's Symphony No. 2, op. 30, "Romantic". The SYSO's program includes Purcell's "Rondo" from incidental music for "Abdelazer" ("The Moor's Revenge"), Newbold's Fantasia Espanola and Hovhaness' Psalm and Fugue for String Orchestra.

The SYO is conducted by James R. Tapia, and the SYSO is conducted by Karen Veverka.

For more information, contact Kim Rossi at SyracuseYouthOrchestras@gmail.com.

Os Mutantes
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Fresh Squeezed and All I Want For Christmas Staged Readings
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Staged readings of two new short plays.

Fresh Squeezed by Kathy Kramer
In this light-hearted look at one of the challenging tasks of growing older—namely, reinventing oneself—Luther and Rosalie meet and clash over the ethics involved in running a lemonade stand. Is there a future for these two people who find themselves at odds, yet swimming together against the tide of technology? Directed by Donna Stuccio and featuring Janice Scully and Ed Mastin.

All I Want For Christmas (or, Shut Up And Go Shopping) by songwriter and musician John Cadley
Sitting down to make out their annual Christmas shopping list, a married couple soon find themselves at odds over what to buy for whom—and why. A simple Christmas list becomes a comical commentary on marriage, family, friends, finances, artificial Christmas trees, plastic St. Josephs, and the sweet lady ringing the Salvation Army bell. Directed by Len Fonte and featuring Ed Mastin and Donna Stuccio.

A feedback and discussion session between audience and playwrights will follow the readings.

Scorched
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

An epic mystery that has captivated and stunned audiences around the globe. After their mother's death, twins Janine and Simon, guided by letters the mother has left each, travel to the Middle East to untangle family roots entwined in a war-ravaged past. A play of raw power and poetic resonance, the Syracuse Stage production will feature original music by the world renowned Kronos Quartet. Written by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau.

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Monday, November 11, 2013

Works by Dan Shanahan
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Dan's work includes cartoons and portraits drawn from life. He fills in the background of many of his drawings with imaginary action scenes or whatever comes to mind, including but not limited to robots, cars, spiders and sound effects. Dan's media of choice are pastel, ink and watercolor. His sources of inspiration are kids' book illustrations, old cartoons and comics, and vague memories from past lives.

Drawing on Talent: 5th Annual Members Group Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Group art exhibit featuring work in all media by members of the Baltimore Woods member community.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art & Photography Exhibition
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

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

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

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

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

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

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

The Beauty Within: A Collection of Metal and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by featured artists Donna Smith and Sallie Thompson.

Boughs and Branches
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Boughs and Branches" is an exhibition of paintings by cousins Joyce Burgess Snavlin and Linda Davis Reed.

For "Boughs and Branches," Reed and Snavlin have contributed small paintings by their mothers to hang above their own works. "Our mothers were the boughs, and we are the branches from them," Reed says.

Reed illustrated, and Snavlin wrote, "Adirondack ABCs," which introduces children to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited at Imagine in September.

Jackie Nickerson: Terrain
Light Work Gallery

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

Jackie Nickerson makes photographs that examine the essential nature of people and their relationship to the natural world, through personal identity and the physical and psychological condition of living and working. With "Terrain," Nickerson revisits eastern and southern Africa, focusing on how the exertions of labor leave psychic and material traces on people and the environment.

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Artist's Statement:

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

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

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

Somewhere in the 20th Century: Still Life and Landscape Watercolors by Kyle Mort
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Fine art and crafts handmade by local guild and independent artists. Find unique pottery, stained glass, paintings, jewelry, hand-crafted soaps and candles, and much more.

Between the Spaces: Works by Cecile Gray Bazelon
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Distinguished artist and alumna Cecile Gray Bazelon's work has been described as surreal, Precisionist and hard-edged, as well as elegant and dislocating. A defining aesthetic in her paintings is the stylistic manipulation of space; she often uses wide-angle perspective to delineate her many images of the New York skyline, resulting in a striking series of conceptual viewpoints.

"Between the Spaces" was developed by graduate students enrolled in the "Advanced Curatorship" course in the graduate museum studies program in VPA's Department of Design, under the guidance of Professor Edward A. Aiken. The students also acted as associate curators.

The Ghosts of Jeju
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A shocking documentary about the struggle of the people of Jeju Island, South Korea, and U.S. culpability in Korea since 1945. The film places the modern-day protest by the peaceful people of Jeju Island against the construction of a massive U.S. naval base in the tiny village of Gangjeong in the context of the horrible atrocities at the hands of the U.S. Military Government of Korea. (2013, 80 minutes)

Follow the Boys (1944)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: A. Edward Sutherland. Cast: George Raft, Vera Zorina and numerous stars.

In honor of Veterans Day, we bring you Universal's all-star WWII salute to the USO and our fighting troops, featuring special performances by Marlene Dietrich, Orson Welles, the Andrews Sisters, Jeanette MacDonald, Sophie Tucker, Donald O'Connor, Dinah Shore, W.C. Fields, and others.

Selections from "Anything Goes"
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Vocal students from the studio of Carol Jacobe will present selections from the Broadway musical Anything Goes.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Works by Dan Shanahan
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Dan's work includes cartoons and portraits drawn from life. He fills in the background of many of his drawings with imaginary action scenes or whatever comes to mind, including but not limited to robots, cars, spiders and sound effects. Dan's media of choice are pastel, ink and watercolor. His sources of inspiration are kids' book illustrations, old cartoons and comics, and vague memories from past lives.

Drawing on Talent: 5th Annual Members Group Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Group art exhibit featuring work in all media by members of the Baltimore Woods member community.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art & Photography Exhibition
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

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

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

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

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

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

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

Water Below, Sky Above
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Diane Menzies: landscape oil paintings
Deeann vonHunke and Robert vonHunke: collaborative pieces with Robert's painting and Dee's metalwork
Wes Weiss: ceramic sculptural forms
Deeann vonHunke: jewelry
Karen Burns: oil on canvas landscape paintings

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

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

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

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The Beauty Within: A Collection of Metal and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by featured artists Donna Smith and Sallie Thompson.

Boughs and Branches
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Boughs and Branches" is an exhibition of paintings by cousins Joyce Burgess Snavlin and Linda Davis Reed.

For "Boughs and Branches," Reed and Snavlin have contributed small paintings by their mothers to hang above their own works. "Our mothers were the boughs, and we are the branches from them," Reed says.

Reed illustrated, and Snavlin wrote, "Adirondack ABCs," which introduces children to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited at Imagine in September.

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Artist's Statement:

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

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

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

Jackie Nickerson: Terrain
Light Work Gallery

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

Jackie Nickerson makes photographs that examine the essential nature of people and their relationship to the natural world, through personal identity and the physical and psychological condition of living and working. With "Terrain," Nickerson revisits eastern and southern Africa, focusing on how the exertions of labor leave psychic and material traces on people and the environment.

Somewhere in the 20th Century: Still Life and Landscape Watercolors by Kyle Mort
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Fine art and crafts handmade by local guild and independent artists. Find unique pottery, stained glass, paintings, jewelry, hand-crafted soaps and candles, and much more.

Print Making Revolution: Mexican Prints and the Taller de Grafica Popular
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of over 130 original prints drawn from the SU Art Collection, as well as lenders including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Library of Congress, and the Blanton Museum of Art. The exhibition features important Mexican artists and post-Mexican Revolution artwork, with emphasis on the prints produced at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (The People's Graphic Workshop), or TGP. This influential workshop advanced a variety of revolutionary ideals and causes, including the formation of organized labor, the fight for civil rights, and an active campaign against fascism.

Print Making Revolution is organized into four subjects. The first acts as precursor to the TGP, highlighting the work of artists that helped to define the Mexican print landscape early in the 20th century. These figures include José Gaudalupe Posada, Jean Charlot, and the "Big Three": Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Siqueiros.

The exhibition then transitions into the artists of the TGP, with emphasis on the Taller's director Leopoldo Méndez, but also includes Ángel Bracho, Isidoro Ocampo, and Alfredo Zalce, among others.

The third part of the exhibition focuses on the linocut portfolio Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana, a vividly illustrated narration of the Mexican Revolution, published by the workshop in 1947. Shown in its entirety, the portfolio contains 84 original prints by 16 artists.

Finally, the exhibition highlights the gringos—Americans working at the TGP during the early and influential days of the prolific workshop, Angel Bracho, Victoria! Los Artistas de Taller de Grafica Popular, 1945 University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque including John Woodrow Wilson, Mariana Yampolsky and Elizabeth Catlett. The impact of the TGP reached well beyond the conventional boundaries of art making, affecting political and social movements in Mexico and the United States.

Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition presents Paul Strand's famous Mexican Portfolio, which includes photogravure impressions of people, landscapes, architecture, and religious objects that he encountered in Mexico during his travels there in 1932.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

The Art of Video Games
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibit will stay open this evening until the start of Urban Video Project's "Avant Gaming: Video Art on Video Games" screening and talk at 6:30 pm.

Part of a ten-city national tour, "The Art of Video Games" is one of the first major exhibitions to explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking graphics, creative storytelling, and player interactivity. The exhibition features some of the most influential artists and designers across five eras of game development, from early pioneers to contemporary designers. Video games use player participation to tell stories and engage audiences. In the same way as film, animation and performance, video games are a compelling and influential form of narrative art.

"The Art of Video Games" focuses on the interplay of graphics, technology and storytelling through some of the best games for 20 gaming systems ranging from the Atari VCS to the PlayStation 3. The exhibition features 80 video games that demonstrate the evolution of the medium. The games are presented through still images and video footage. In addition, the galleries include video interviews with developers and artists, historic game consoles and large prints of in-game screen shots.

New technologies allow designers to create increasingly interactive and sophisticated game environments while staying grounded in traditional game types. Five featured games, one from each era, are available in the exhibition galleries for visitors to play for a few minutes, to gain some feel for the interactivity. The playable gamesPac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst and Flowershow how players interact with the virtual worlds, highlighting innovative new techniques that set the standard for many subsequent games.

Visitors to the exhibition are greeted by excerpts from selected games projected 12 feet high, accompanied by a chipmusic soundtrack by 8 Bit Weapon and ComputeHer, including "The Art of Video Games Anthem" recorded by 8 Bit Weapon specifically for the exhibition. These multimedia elements convey the excitement and complexity of the featured video games. An interior gallery includes a series of short videos showing the range of emotional responses players have while interacting with games. Excerpts from interviews with 20 influential figures in the gaming world also are presented in the galleries.

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Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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Between the Spaces: Works by Cecile Gray Bazelon
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Distinguished artist and alumna Cecile Gray Bazelon's work has been described as surreal, Precisionist and hard-edged, as well as elegant and dislocating. A defining aesthetic in her paintings is the stylistic manipulation of space; she often uses wide-angle perspective to delineate her many images of the New York skyline, resulting in a striking series of conceptual viewpoints.

"Between the Spaces" was developed by graduate students enrolled in the "Advanced Curatorship" course in the graduate museum studies program in VPA's Department of Design, under the guidance of Professor Edward A. Aiken. The students also acted as associate curators.

Phil Solomon: Still Raining, Still Dreaming
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Still Raining, Still Dreaming" is part of Solomon's acclaimed "In Memorium" series, a body of work shot entirely within the virtual world of the Grand Theft Auto video game, and is shown in conjunction with the Everson's exhibition of the Smithsonian traveling show The Art of Video Games.

"Still Raining, Still Dreaming," with its haunting soundtrack, will also be the debut of UVP's new outdoor sound system and new projector, a milestone for UVP that will significantly expand programming options and provide a truly spectacular experience.

Avant Gaming: Video Art on Video Games
Urban Video Project
Featuring Chris Stults

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

Screening at 6:30 pm in the Everson's Hosmer Auditorium, followed by an opening reception at 7:45 pm on the plaza.

A special screening of video art created with video games and a curator talk in conjunction with the Everson Museum's exhibition of The Art of Video Games. Chris Stults, Associate Curator of Video and Film for the Wexner Center for the Arts, will appear in person to introduce the screening.

A reception will follow on the plaza where "Phil Solomon: Still Raining, Still Dreaming" will be on view for a special Tuesday night screening. Catering provided by Recess Coffee.

The screening program will include:
• Total Power-Dead Dead Dead by Stephanie Barber
• She Puppet by Peggy Ahwesh
• My Trip to Liberty City by Jim Munroe
• And We All Shine On by Michael Robinson
• Ceibas: Epilogue-the Well of Representation by Evan Meaney
• Crossroad by Phil Solomon
• Rehearsals for Retirement by Phil Solomon
• Last Days in a Lonely Place by Phil Solomon

Come early and view The Art of Video Games, which will stay open until the start of the screening.

Atomic Cafe (1982)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Atomic Cafe is a disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety. With no narration other than that provided by historical clips, this movie justly states how ludicrous the idea of nuclear war was, and is. Sponsored by Peace Action of CNY. (86 minutes)

Pan Am 103 and Our World 25 Years Later
University Lectures
Featuring Sen. George J. Mitchell

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This lecture is part of the University's Commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of Pan Am Flight 103

Sen. George J. Mitchell returns to Syracuse University to discuss prospects for global peace and how (or if) the world has changed in the 25 years since the bombing of Pan Am 103. A highly respected senator, he became Senate Majority Leader on Jan. 3, 1989, two weeks after the Pan Am 103 tragedy. He has also been a special envoy for Middle East peace (2009-11) and for peace in Northern Ireland. In early October 2001, less than a month after 9/11, Mitchell opened The University Lectures series by calmly and honestly addressing the September 11th terrorist attacks during his lecture.

Mitchell was appointed to the United States Senate in 1980 from Maine to complete the unexpired term of Sen. Edmund S. Muskie. He was elected to a full term in the Senate in 1982, and went on to an illustrious career in the Senate spanning 15 years. In 1988, he was re-elected with 81 percent of the vote, the largest margin in Maine history.

Within his Senate tenure, during which time he garnered bipartisan respect, Mitchell served on the Finance, Veterans Affairs and Environment and Public Works Committees. He led the successful 1990 reauthorization of the Clean Air Act and was the author of the first national oil spill prevention and clean-up law. Mitchell led the Senate to passage of the nation's first child care bill and was principal author of the low-income housing tax credit program. He was instrumental in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Mitchell's efforts led to the passage of a higher education bill that expanded opportunities for millions of Americans. He was a leader in opening markets to trade and led the Senate to ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement and creation of the World Trade Organization.

He left the Senate in 1995 and served as a special advisor to President Clinton on Ireland. From 1996 to 2000 he served as the Independent Chairman of the Northern Ireland Peace Talks. Under his leadership the Good Friday Agreement, an historic accord ending decades of conflict, was agreed to by the governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom and the political parties of Northern Ireland. For his service in Northern Ireland Mitchell received numerous awards and honors, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor given by the U.S. Government; the Philadelphia Liberty Medal; the Truman Institute Peace Prize and the United Nations (UNESCO) Peace Prize.

In 2000 and 2001, Mitchell served as chairman of an International Fact-Finding Committee on violence in the Middle East. The Committee's recommendation, widely known as The Mitchell Report, was endorsed by the Bush Administration, the European Union and by many other governments.

In 2006 and 2007, he led the investigation into the use of performance enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball. He also served as chairman of the Special Commission investigating allegations of impropriety in the bidding process for the Olympic Games; and was the independent overseer of the American Red Cross Liberty Fund, which provided relief for September 11 attack victims and their families.

In 2008, TIME magazine named Mitchell one of the 100 most influential persons in the world. The George J. Mitchell Scholarship is given annually by the U.S.-Ireland Alliance to 12 Americans ages 18-30 to fund one year or graduate study in Ireland. The scholarship is one of the most selective in the United States.

Ensemble Series: Percussion Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Works by Cage, Beck, Colgrass, Varése, Harrison, and Prokofiev arr. Múzquiz

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.

The Rebel Era Tour: GRiZ, with The Floozies
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

50 Shades! The Musical
Broadway in Syracuse

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

50 Shades! The Musical, the hilarious parody of the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon, is coming to a city near you! A sexy, hysterical musical romp, 50 Shades! The Musical is a laugh-out-loud night of fun that you won't want to miss!

A resounding hit in Chicago and New York, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 50 Shades! The Musical opens with a ladies book club deciding to read Fifty Shades of Grey. Through their interpretation of the novel, the audience is led on an uproarious roller-coaster ride of this unlikely bestseller. The show is full of dance numbers and original songs delivered by an outrageous cast with a live, on-stage band.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Works by Dan Shanahan
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Dan's work includes cartoons and portraits drawn from life. He fills in the background of many of his drawings with imaginary action scenes or whatever comes to mind, including but not limited to robots, cars, spiders and sound effects. Dan's media of choice are pastel, ink and watercolor. His sources of inspiration are kids' book illustrations, old cartoons and comics, and vague memories from past lives.

Drawing on Talent: 5th Annual Members Group Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Group art exhibit featuring work in all media by members of the Baltimore Woods member community.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art & Photography Exhibition
Onondaga Community College

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

There will be an artist reception today 11:30 am-12:30 pm.

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

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

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

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

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

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

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

Water Below, Sky Above
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Diane Menzies: landscape oil paintings
Deeann vonHunke and Robert vonHunke: collaborative pieces with Robert's painting and Dee's metalwork
Wes Weiss: ceramic sculptural forms
Deeann vonHunke: jewelry
Karen Burns: oil on canvas landscape paintings

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

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

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

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The Beauty Within: A Collection of Metal and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by featured artists Donna Smith and Sallie Thompson.

Boughs and Branches
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Boughs and Branches" is an exhibition of paintings by cousins Joyce Burgess Snavlin and Linda Davis Reed.

For "Boughs and Branches," Reed and Snavlin have contributed small paintings by their mothers to hang above their own works. "Our mothers were the boughs, and we are the branches from them," Reed says.

Reed illustrated, and Snavlin wrote, "Adirondack ABCs," which introduces children to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited at Imagine in September.

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Artist's Statement:

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

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

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

Jackie Nickerson: Terrain
Light Work Gallery

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

Jackie Nickerson makes photographs that examine the essential nature of people and their relationship to the natural world, through personal identity and the physical and psychological condition of living and working. With "Terrain," Nickerson revisits eastern and southern Africa, focusing on how the exertions of labor leave psychic and material traces on people and the environment.

Somewhere in the 20th Century: Still Life and Landscape Watercolors by Kyle Mort
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Fine art and crafts handmade by local guild and independent artists. Find unique pottery, stained glass, paintings, jewelry, hand-crafted soaps and candles, and much more.

Print Making Revolution: Mexican Prints and the Taller de Grafica Popular
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of over 130 original prints drawn from the SU Art Collection, as well as lenders including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Library of Congress, and the Blanton Museum of Art. The exhibition features important Mexican artists and post-Mexican Revolution artwork, with emphasis on the prints produced at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (The People's Graphic Workshop), or TGP. This influential workshop advanced a variety of revolutionary ideals and causes, including the formation of organized labor, the fight for civil rights, and an active campaign against fascism.

Print Making Revolution is organized into four subjects. The first acts as precursor to the TGP, highlighting the work of artists that helped to define the Mexican print landscape early in the 20th century. These figures include José Gaudalupe Posada, Jean Charlot, and the "Big Three": Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Siqueiros.

The exhibition then transitions into the artists of the TGP, with emphasis on the Taller's director Leopoldo Méndez, but also includes Ángel Bracho, Isidoro Ocampo, and Alfredo Zalce, among others.

The third part of the exhibition focuses on the linocut portfolio Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana, a vividly illustrated narration of the Mexican Revolution, published by the workshop in 1947. Shown in its entirety, the portfolio contains 84 original prints by 16 artists.

Finally, the exhibition highlights the gringos—Americans working at the TGP during the early and influential days of the prolific workshop, Angel Bracho, Victoria! Los Artistas de Taller de Grafica Popular, 1945 University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque including John Woodrow Wilson, Mariana Yampolsky and Elizabeth Catlett. The impact of the TGP reached well beyond the conventional boundaries of art making, affecting political and social movements in Mexico and the United States.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition presents Paul Strand's famous Mexican Portfolio, which includes photogravure impressions of people, landscapes, architecture, and religious objects that he encountered in Mexico during his travels there in 1932.

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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The Art of Video Games
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Part of a ten-city national tour, "The Art of Video Games" is one of the first major exhibitions to explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking graphics, creative storytelling, and player interactivity. The exhibition features some of the most influential artists and designers across five eras of game development, from early pioneers to contemporary designers. Video games use player participation to tell stories and engage audiences. In the same way as film, animation and performance, video games are a compelling and influential form of narrative art.

"The Art of Video Games" focuses on the interplay of graphics, technology and storytelling through some of the best games for 20 gaming systems ranging from the Atari VCS to the PlayStation 3. The exhibition features 80 video games that demonstrate the evolution of the medium. The games are presented through still images and video footage. In addition, the galleries include video interviews with developers and artists, historic game consoles and large prints of in-game screen shots.

New technologies allow designers to create increasingly interactive and sophisticated game environments while staying grounded in traditional game types. Five featured games, one from each era, are available in the exhibition galleries for visitors to play for a few minutes, to gain some feel for the interactivity. The playable gamesPac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst and Flowershow how players interact with the virtual worlds, highlighting innovative new techniques that set the standard for many subsequent games.

Visitors to the exhibition are greeted by excerpts from selected games projected 12 feet high, accompanied by a chipmusic soundtrack by 8 Bit Weapon and ComputeHer, including "The Art of Video Games Anthem" recorded by 8 Bit Weapon specifically for the exhibition. These multimedia elements convey the excitement and complexity of the featured video games. An interior gallery includes a series of short videos showing the range of emotional responses players have while interacting with games. Excerpts from interviews with 20 influential figures in the gaming world also are presented in the galleries.

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Between the Spaces: Works by Cecile Gray Bazelon
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Distinguished artist and alumna Cecile Gray Bazelon's work has been described as surreal, Precisionist and hard-edged, as well as elegant and dislocating. A defining aesthetic in her paintings is the stylistic manipulation of space; she often uses wide-angle perspective to delineate her many images of the New York skyline, resulting in a striking series of conceptual viewpoints.

"Between the Spaces" was developed by graduate students enrolled in the "Advanced Curatorship" course in the graduate museum studies program in VPA's Department of Design, under the guidance of Professor Edward A. Aiken. The students also acted as associate curators.

Nourish: An Exploration of Consumption
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

Spoken Threads: Craftivist Fiber Art
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Spoken Threads is a collection of fiber art that takes its inspiration from the traditional women-made crafts such as quilting, knitting, weaving, sewing, and cross-stitch. It features women artists from across the USA, including Central New York, as well as those from Canada and the UK who use their art to speak wisdom on a variety of social and environmental issues. During the time of year that many consumers reach for something mass-produced off an end-cap display, this exhibition is a celebration of the handmade.

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Food Fight -- Food for Change: A Food Justice Film Series
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Handmade Nation (2009)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Faythe Levine traveled 19,000 miles to document what has emerged as a marriage between historical technique, punk culture, and the D.I.Y. ethos. Today's crafters are no longer interested in simply cross-stitching samplers or painting floral scrolls on china. Instead,the contemporary craft movement embraces emerging artists, crafters, and designers working in traditional and nontraditional media. Jenny Hart's Sublime Stitching has revolutionized the embroidery industry. Each year Nikki McClure sells thousands of her cut-paper wall calendars. Emily Kircher recycles vintage materials into purses. Stephanie Syjuco manufactures clothing under the tag line "Because Sweatshops Suck." These are just some of the fascinating makers united in the new wave of craft capturing the attention of the nation, the Handmade Nation. (90 minutes)

Lunchtime Lecture: Gallery Tour: Print Making Revolution
Syracuse University Art Museum
Featuring Andrew Saluti

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

Charis Dimaras, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

A celebration of Verdi and Wagner on the 200th anniversary of their births, featuring transcriptions of operatic works.

Redhouse Idol
Redhouse

Redhouse Cafe
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Redhouse and the Redhouse Café are thrilled to bring back Redhouse Idol! The winner of this four-week performance competition will win free recording time at SubCat Studios.

The competition begins on 10/30, and continues on consecutive Wednesday nights. Each night, six soloists will perform in Redhouse Café. At the end of the night, the audience will vote for their favorite performers and the top two will be invited to the finals on 11/20.

The finals will be decided upon by three judges and the winner will receive free recording time in SubCat Studios.

To sign up, email rachel@theredhouse.org with the performer's name, the song selection, and whether they will bring an accompanist or will need a karaoke track.

Ensemble Series: University Singers
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

Guest Artist Series: New Orford Quartet
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
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.

Stephen Dunn
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

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

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Works by Dan Shanahan
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Dan's work includes cartoons and portraits drawn from life. He fills in the background of many of his drawings with imaginary action scenes or whatever comes to mind, including but not limited to robots, cars, spiders and sound effects. Dan's media of choice are pastel, ink and watercolor. His sources of inspiration are kids' book illustrations, old cartoons and comics, and vague memories from past lives.

Drawing on Talent: 5th Annual Members Group Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Group art exhibit featuring work in all media by members of the Baltimore Woods member community.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art & Photography Exhibition
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

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

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

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

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

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

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

Water Below, Sky Above
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Diane Menzies: landscape oil paintings
Deeann vonHunke and Robert vonHunke: collaborative pieces with Robert's painting and Dee's metalwork
Wes Weiss: ceramic sculptural forms
Deeann vonHunke: jewelry
Karen Burns: oil on canvas landscape paintings

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

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

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

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The Beauty Within: A Collection of Metal and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by featured artists Donna Smith and Sallie Thompson.

Boughs and Branches
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Boughs and Branches" is an exhibition of paintings by cousins Joyce Burgess Snavlin and Linda Davis Reed.

For "Boughs and Branches," Reed and Snavlin have contributed small paintings by their mothers to hang above their own works. "Our mothers were the boughs, and we are the branches from them," Reed says.

Reed illustrated, and Snavlin wrote, "Adirondack ABCs," which introduces children to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited at Imagine in September.

Jackie Nickerson: Terrain
Light Work Gallery

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

Jackie Nickerson makes photographs that examine the essential nature of people and their relationship to the natural world, through personal identity and the physical and psychological condition of living and working. With "Terrain," Nickerson revisits eastern and southern Africa, focusing on how the exertions of labor leave psychic and material traces on people and the environment.

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Artist's Statement:

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

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

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

Somewhere in the 20th Century: Still Life and Landscape Watercolors by Kyle Mort
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

All Creatures Great and Small
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Fine art and crafts handmade by local guild and independent artists. Find unique pottery, stained glass, paintings, jewelry, hand-crafted soaps and candles, and much more.

Print Making Revolution: Mexican Prints and the Taller de Grafica Popular
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

An exhibition of over 130 original prints drawn from the SU Art Collection, as well as lenders including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Library of Congress, and the Blanton Museum of Art. The exhibition features important Mexican artists and post-Mexican Revolution artwork, with emphasis on the prints produced at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (The People's Graphic Workshop), or TGP. This influential workshop advanced a variety of revolutionary ideals and causes, including the formation of organized labor, the fight for civil rights, and an active campaign against fascism.

Print Making Revolution is organized into four subjects. The first acts as precursor to the TGP, highlighting the work of artists that helped to define the Mexican print landscape early in the 20th century. These figures include José Gaudalupe Posada, Jean Charlot, and the "Big Three": Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Siqueiros.

The exhibition then transitions into the artists of the TGP, with emphasis on the Taller's director Leopoldo Méndez, but also includes Ángel Bracho, Isidoro Ocampo, and Alfredo Zalce, among others.

The third part of the exhibition focuses on the linocut portfolio Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana, a vividly illustrated narration of the Mexican Revolution, published by the workshop in 1947. Shown in its entirety, the portfolio contains 84 original prints by 16 artists.

Finally, the exhibition highlights the gringos—Americans working at the TGP during the early and influential days of the prolific workshop, Angel Bracho, Victoria! Los Artistas de Taller de Grafica Popular, 1945 University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque including John Woodrow Wilson, Mariana Yampolsky and Elizabeth Catlett. The impact of the TGP reached well beyond the conventional boundaries of art making, affecting political and social movements in Mexico and the United States.

Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition presents Paul Strand's famous Mexican Portfolio, which includes photogravure impressions of people, landscapes, architecture, and religious objects that he encountered in Mexico during his travels there in 1932.