Wednesday, November 8, 2023

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

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

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

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

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.

Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.

Pick and Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art—but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you "Pick & Mix," a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.

Disney’s Aladdin
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Discover a whole new world at Disney's Aladdin, the hit Broadway musical.

From the producer of The Lion King comes the timeless story of Aladdin, a thrilling new production filled with unforgettable beauty, magic, comedy and breathtaking spectacle. It's an extraordinary theatrical event where one lamp and three wishes make the possibilities infinite.

Hailed by USA Today as "Pure Genie-Us," Aladdin features all your favorite songs from the film as well as new music written by Tony- and Academy Award-winner Alan Menken with lyrics penned by the legendary Howard Ashman, Tony Award winner Tim Rice, and book writer Chad Beguelin.

Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw, this "Fabulous" and "Extravagant" (The New York Times) new musical boasts an incomparable design team, with sets, costumes and lighting from Tony Award winners Bob Crowley, Gregg Barnes, and Natasha Katz. See why audiences and critics agree, Aladdin is "Exactly What You Wish For!" (NBC-TV).

Thursday, November 9, 2023

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

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

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

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

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Pick and Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art—but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you "Pick & Mix," a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.

Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.

Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.

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

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Institute of Queer Ecology: Hysteria
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.

CFAC Legacy Speaker Jasmine P. White
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Join us as S.I Newhouse School of Public Communications alumna Jasmine P. White shares her artistic journey and how to create your own buzz in the film industry.

*SOLD OUT* Dead to the Core
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Dead to the Core, an acoustic celebration of the Grateful Dead, is a collective of singer-songwriters and acoustic musicians, led by musician/author Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, that celebrates the music of the Grateful Dead — not through note-for-note re-creations but by playing the songs their own way, letting them grow and evolve collaboratively in the true spirit of the Dead.

Dead to the Core grew out of a series of Jerry Garcia birthday shows hosted by Rodgers at the legendary Club Passim in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and now tours around the northeast. This show at the 443 features an all-star local band. Joining Rodgers (guitar, Strumstick) are Tim Burns of Two Hour Delay (guitar, mandolin), Wendy Sassafras Ramsay (flute, clarinet, accordion), Josh Dekaney (percussion kit), and John Dancks (upright bass).

Syracuse University Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Disney’s Aladdin
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Discover a whole new world at Disney's Aladdin, the hit Broadway musical.

From the producer of The Lion King comes the timeless story of Aladdin, a thrilling new production filled with unforgettable beauty, magic, comedy and breathtaking spectacle. It's an extraordinary theatrical event where one lamp and three wishes make the possibilities infinite.

Hailed by USA Today as "Pure Genie-Us," Aladdin features all your favorite songs from the film as well as new music written by Tony- and Academy Award-winner Alan Menken with lyrics penned by the legendary Howard Ashman, Tony Award winner Tim Rice, and book writer Chad Beguelin.

Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw, this "Fabulous" and "Extravagant" (The New York Times) new musical boasts an incomparable design team, with sets, costumes and lighting from Tony Award winners Bob Crowley, Gregg Barnes, and Natasha Katz. See why audiences and critics agree, Aladdin is "Exactly What You Wish For!" (NBC-TV).

Homestyle Homicide: The Freagan Family Reunion
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Come a runnin', cousins, 'cause it's time again for the annual family reunion and the whole Freagan family is gonna be there! We're gonna have vittles, singin', hootin' and hollerin' and, of course, no family gathering would be complete without the annual pig-calling contest! Dang, you might even win a big ol' slop bucket full of money! Yeehaw! Best watch your step on the farm this year, though. Pa's been hitting the moonshine a might too hard and is about to lose the farm to that no good snake, Beauregard Hogwallerin! When the girls find out, somebody could end up on the barbecue!

Disney’s Aladdin
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Discover a whole new world at Disney's Aladdin, the hit Broadway musical.

From the producer of The Lion King comes the timeless story of Aladdin, a thrilling new production filled with unforgettable beauty, magic, comedy and breathtaking spectacle. It's an extraordinary theatrical event where one lamp and three wishes make the possibilities infinite.

Hailed by USA Today as "Pure Genie-Us," Aladdin features all your favorite songs from the film as well as new music written by Tony- and Academy Award-winner Alan Menken with lyrics penned by the legendary Howard Ashman, Tony Award winner Tim Rice, and book writer Chad Beguelin.

Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw, this "Fabulous" and "Extravagant" (The New York Times) new musical boasts an incomparable design team, with sets, costumes and lighting from Tony Award winners Bob Crowley, Gregg Barnes, and Natasha Katz. See why audiences and critics agree, Aladdin is "Exactly What You Wish For!" (NBC-TV).

Friday, November 10, 2023

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

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

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

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

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.

Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.

Pick and Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art—but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you "Pick & Mix," a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.

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

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

On My Own Time Retrospective
Art in the Atrium

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

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

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

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

Institute of Queer Ecology: Hysteria
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.

Setnor Ensemble Series: JCM Unified
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Sister Kate Taylor
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

"Fifty years ago, James Taylor's sister released her debut album, then promptly vanished from the scene. Now, decades after she traded rock stardom for life in a teepee, Kate Taylor is back." —Rolling Stone

Poets Michael Waters and Mihaela Moscaliuc
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Michael Waters' recent books include Sinnerman (Etruscan Press, 2023), Caw (BOA Editions, 2020), and The Dean of Discipline (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). Darling Vulgarity (BOA Editions, 2006) was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His co-edited anthologies include Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Knopf, 2020), Reel Verse: Poems About the Movies (Knopf, 2019) and Contemporary American Poetry (Houghton Mifflin, 2006). His poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Yale Review, and Kenyon Review. A 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, recipient of five Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright Foundation, and NJ State Council on the Arts, Waters lives without a cell phone in Ocean, NJ.

Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of the poetry collections Cemetery Ink (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), Immigrant Model (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010), translator of Liliana Ursu's Clay and Star (Etruscan Press, 2019) and Carmelia Leonte's The Hiss of the Viper (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015), editor of Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern (Trinity University Press, 2016), and co-editor (with Michael Waters) of Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Knopf, 2020). She has received two Glenna Luschei Awards from Prairie Schooner, residency fellowships from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and MacDowell, two Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and a Fulbright fellowship to Romania. She is the Translation Editor for Plume and graduate program director and associate professor of English at Monmouth University (New Jersey).

This event will take place in person and on Zoom.

Issues of Color
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Mookey Van Orden, director

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

Issues of Color, a powerful monologue play by Anne-Margaret Childress, sheds light on the experiences of Black people growing up and living in the Syracuse area.

The show draws inspiration from heartfelt interviews conducted with Syracuse residents, explicitly focusing on the stories of people of color in Central New York. Ms. Childress, an esteemed educator in Syracuse University's African American Studies department, expertly weaves together the narratives of nine characters, providing an intimate glimpse into their lives, dreams, and aspirations in the region. The production features two songs written by local composer John M. Canino, for the production.

The Game of Life
Breadcrumbs Productions
Tanner Efinger, director

Price: Suggested donation $30
Wunderbar
201 S. West St., Syracuse

The Game of Life is a brand new f*cked up immersive adventure by Tanner Efinger which invites you to play a game ... which you are already playing. You'll choose your own path or your path will choose you on this absurdist's spin of the American Dream. Everyone has "equal opportunity" to win it big in Millionaire Acres — or lose it all and die alone. And whether you like it or not, we're all playing the fantastically fun, not-so-family-friendly fun fun FUN for all, The Game of Life.

Disney’s Aladdin
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Discover a whole new world at Disney's Aladdin, the hit Broadway musical.

From the producer of The Lion King comes the timeless story of Aladdin, a thrilling new production filled with unforgettable beauty, magic, comedy and breathtaking spectacle. It's an extraordinary theatrical event where one lamp and three wishes make the possibilities infinite.

Hailed by USA Today as "Pure Genie-Us," Aladdin features all your favorite songs from the film as well as new music written by Tony- and Academy Award-winner Alan Menken with lyrics penned by the legendary Howard Ashman, Tony Award winner Tim Rice, and book writer Chad Beguelin.

Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw, this "Fabulous" and "Extravagant" (The New York Times) new musical boasts an incomparable design team, with sets, costumes and lighting from Tony Award winners Bob Crowley, Gregg Barnes, and Natasha Katz. See why audiences and critics agree, Aladdin is "Exactly What You Wish For!" (NBC-TV).

Co-op(erative)
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett August Heater, director

Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A new comedy written and directed by Covey artistic director Garrett August Heater.

A brash new artist shakes up a sleepy artisan's co-operative with her scandalous artwork. Due to adult themes, this comedy is not recommended for persons under 16 years of age.

Starring Aubry Panek, Jodi Bova, Edward Mastin, Jordan Glaski, Kate Huddleston, Binaifer Dabu, Kathryn Guyette, Amy Bader, and Stephfond Brunson, with Josh Gadek, Emmilly Budge, Shane Stensland, and Derek Sager.

Shop original art on stage by artisans of Wildflowers Armory before and after the show.

Preview: Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Preview: Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Preview: Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Saturday, November 11, 2023

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

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

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

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

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.

Pick and Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art—but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you "Pick & Mix," a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.

Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

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

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

On My Own Time Retrospective
Art in the Atrium

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

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

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

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

William Mazza: Forest for Trees
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

William Mazza, a collective member of Syracuse's Altered Space gallery (1991-1996) and currently an artist based in New York City, uses chance, duration, and accumulation to interpret landscape as the relationship of people to mediated environments. The most material expressions of his wide-ranging projects are drawings, paintings, animations, and video created by translating subjects such as lived environments, spatial relocations, television programs, or text into constructions of landscape.

While Mazza responds to his surroundings in many exploratory ways, in this, his Literary Landscape series exhibited with us, he mines the words from texts written by such authors as Angela Davis, Cecilia Vicuna, Anne Waldman, and Susan Sontag. He then separates them into the letters that fill one written page ... and one painting.

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

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

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

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Institute of Queer Ecology: Hysteria
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.

Candlelight Series: Vivaldi's Four Seasons & More

Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Candlelight Concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations in Syracuse. Discover Vivaldi's Four Seasons & More under the gentle glow of candlelight.

Tentative Program:
Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor, "Spring"
Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor, "Summer"
Jules Massenet Thaïs: Méditation
Max Richter Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: "Spring 3"
Astor Piazzolla The Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas: Verano Porteño"
Astor Piazzolla Libertango
Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor, "Autumn"
Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor, "Winter"

Katie Henry
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Katie Henry is on her way. The New Jersey songwriter might have started out banging on doors, gigging at New York City's blues clubs, playing piano until her fingers bled and winning over the city one show at a time. But lately, the multi-instrumentalist has raced through career milestones at a rocket pace.

Dave Novak and his All Star Band
Steeple Coffee House

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

Candlelight Series: Vivaldi's Four Seasons & More

Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Candlelight Concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations in Syracuse. Discover Vivaldi's Four Seasons & More under the gentle glow of candlelight.

Tentative Program:
Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor, "Spring"
Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor, "Summer"
Jules Massenet Thaïs: Méditation
Max Richter Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: "Spring 3"
Astor Piazzolla The Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas: Verano Porteño"
Astor Piazzolla Libertango
Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor, "Autumn"
Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor, "Winter"

Issues of Color
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Mookey Van Orden, director

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

Issues of Color, a powerful monologue play by Anne-Margaret Childress, sheds light on the experiences of Black people growing up and living in the Syracuse area.

The show draws inspiration from heartfelt interviews conducted with Syracuse residents, explicitly focusing on the stories of people of color in Central New York. Ms. Childress, an esteemed educator in Syracuse University's African American Studies department, expertly weaves together the narratives of nine characters, providing an intimate glimpse into their lives, dreams, and aspirations in the region. The production features two songs written by local composer John M. Canino, for the production.

Disney’s Aladdin
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Discover a whole new world at Disney's Aladdin, the hit Broadway musical.

From the producer of The Lion King comes the timeless story of Aladdin, a thrilling new production filled with unforgettable beauty, magic, comedy and breathtaking spectacle. It's an extraordinary theatrical event where one lamp and three wishes make the possibilities infinite.

Hailed by USA Today as "Pure Genie-Us," Aladdin features all your favorite songs from the film as well as new music written by Tony- and Academy Award-winner Alan Menken with lyrics penned by the legendary Howard Ashman, Tony Award winner Tim Rice, and book writer Chad Beguelin.

Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw, this "Fabulous" and "Extravagant" (The New York Times) new musical boasts an incomparable design team, with sets, costumes and lighting from Tony Award winners Bob Crowley, Gregg Barnes, and Natasha Katz. See why audiences and critics agree, Aladdin is "Exactly What You Wish For!" (NBC-TV).

The Game of Life
Breadcrumbs Productions
Tanner Efinger, director

Price: Suggested donation $30
Wunderbar
201 S. West St., Syracuse

The Game of Life is a brand new f*cked up immersive adventure by Tanner Efinger which invites you to play a game ... which you are already playing. You'll choose your own path or your path will choose you on this absurdist's spin of the American Dream. Everyone has "equal opportunity" to win it big in Millionaire Acres — or lose it all and die alone. And whether you like it or not, we're all playing the fantastically fun, not-so-family-friendly fun fun FUN for all, The Game of Life.

Co-op(erative)
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett August Heater, director

Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A new comedy written and directed by Covey artistic director Garrett August Heater.

A brash new artist shakes up a sleepy artisan's co-operative with her scandalous artwork. Due to adult themes, this comedy is not recommended for persons under 16 years of age.

Starring Aubry Panek, Jodi Bova, Edward Mastin, Jordan Glaski, Kate Huddleston, Binaifer Dabu, Kathryn Guyette, Amy Bader, and Stephfond Brunson, with Josh Gadek, Emmilly Budge, Shane Stensland, and Derek Sager.

Shop original art on stage by artisans of Wildflowers Armory before and after the show.

Girls Night: The Musical
The Oncenter

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

This touching and hilarious 'tell-it-like-it-is' musical takes audiences on a journey into the lives of a group of female friends. Audience members can't help but laugh, cry and even find themselves singing and dancing in the aisles as some of the most popular hit songs of the '80s and '90s make this musical a fan favorite!

Disney’s Aladdin
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Discover a whole new world at Disney's Aladdin, the hit Broadway musical.

From the producer of The Lion King comes the timeless story of Aladdin, a thrilling new production filled with unforgettable beauty, magic, comedy and breathtaking spectacle. It's an extraordinary theatrical event where one lamp and three wishes make the possibilities infinite.

Hailed by USA Today as "Pure Genie-Us," Aladdin features all your favorite songs from the film as well as new music written by Tony- and Academy Award-winner Alan Menken with lyrics penned by the legendary Howard Ashman, Tony Award winner Tim Rice, and book writer Chad Beguelin.

Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw, this "Fabulous" and "Extravagant" (The New York Times) new musical boasts an incomparable design team, with sets, costumes and lighting from Tony Award winners Bob Crowley, Gregg Barnes, and Natasha Katz. See why audiences and critics agree, Aladdin is "Exactly What You Wish For!" (NBC-TV).

Opening: Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Sunday, November 12, 2023

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

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

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

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

Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.

Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.

Pick and Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art—but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you "Pick & Mix," a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

On My Own Time Retrospective
Art in the Atrium

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

November Harvest
Silverwood Clarinet Choir
Frederick Willard, conductor

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

The "November Harvest" will produce an abundance of music from classical to jazz, marches, ragtime, popular, and much more. Music will be selected from well-known composers like Chaminade, Glinka, Berlin, and Sousa, and lesser known composers of pieces from Broadway songs to clarinet choir original compositions.

Setnor Student Recital Series: Elizabeth Novak, bassoon
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Music Since 1945
Civic Morning Musicals
Lana Stafford, flute; Sabine Krantz, piano

Price: $20
Park Central Presbyterian Church
504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Ian Clarke Deep Blue, 2012, Hypnosis, 1994, and Orange Dawn, 2002
Yuko Uebayashi Calmato and Lento-Moderato from Flute Sonata No. 1, 2002
Ernst von Dohnányi Aria, Op. 48, No. 1, 1958
Howard Hanson Serenade, Op. 35, 1945
Alison Loggins-Hull Homeland, 2021

Casual Series: Mozart with Hannah White
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Featuring Hannah White, violin

St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Jessie Montgomery Strum
Mozart Concerto for Violin in G major, No. 3, K.216, "Strassburg"
Schumann Symphony No.1 in B-flat major, Op. 38, "Spring"

Malmgren Series: Syracuse University Singers Fall Concert
Hendricks Chapel

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Music of Brazil, Latin America, and the United States

In anticipation and excitement for a South American Concert Tour in May 2024, the SU Singers will perform a varied program of Brazilian and Hispanic traditions along with some contemporary music from the United States.

Parking is available in the Irving Garage.

Disney’s Aladdin
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Discover a whole new world at Disney's Aladdin, the hit Broadway musical.

From the producer of The Lion King comes the timeless story of Aladdin, a thrilling new production filled with unforgettable beauty, magic, comedy and breathtaking spectacle. It's an extraordinary theatrical event where one lamp and three wishes make the possibilities infinite.

Hailed by USA Today as "Pure Genie-Us," Aladdin features all your favorite songs from the film as well as new music written by Tony- and Academy Award-winner Alan Menken with lyrics penned by the legendary Howard Ashman, Tony Award winner Tim Rice, and book writer Chad Beguelin.

Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw, this "Fabulous" and "Extravagant" (The New York Times) new musical boasts an incomparable design team, with sets, costumes and lighting from Tony Award winners Bob Crowley, Gregg Barnes, and Natasha Katz. See why audiences and critics agree, Aladdin is "Exactly What You Wish For!" (NBC-TV).

The Game of Life
Breadcrumbs Productions
Tanner Efinger, director

Price: Suggested donation $30
Wunderbar
201 S. West St., Syracuse

The Game of Life is a brand new f*cked up immersive adventure by Tanner Efinger which invites you to play a game ... which you are already playing. You'll choose your own path or your path will choose you on this absurdist's spin of the American Dream. Everyone has "equal opportunity" to win it big in Millionaire Acres — or lose it all and die alone. And whether you like it or not, we're all playing the fantastically fun, not-so-family-friendly fun fun FUN for all, The Game of Life.

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Disney’s Aladdin
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Discover a whole new world at Disney's Aladdin, the hit Broadway musical.

From the producer of The Lion King comes the timeless story of Aladdin, a thrilling new production filled with unforgettable beauty, magic, comedy and breathtaking spectacle. It's an extraordinary theatrical event where one lamp and three wishes make the possibilities infinite.

Hailed by USA Today as "Pure Genie-Us," Aladdin features all your favorite songs from the film as well as new music written by Tony- and Academy Award-winner Alan Menken with lyrics penned by the legendary Howard Ashman, Tony Award winner Tim Rice, and book writer Chad Beguelin.

Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw, this "Fabulous" and "Extravagant" (The New York Times) new musical boasts an incomparable design team, with sets, costumes and lighting from Tony Award winners Bob Crowley, Gregg Barnes, and Natasha Katz. See why audiences and critics agree, Aladdin is "Exactly What You Wish For!" (NBC-TV).

Monday, November 13, 2023

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Horse Feathers (1932)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Cast: The Four Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo), Thelma Todd, David Landau, Nat Pendleton
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
The zany Paramount comedy with the Marxes running wild at dignified Huxley College. The version that we're screening is the recent studio restoration that has this Marx favorite looking terrific.

PLUS Charley Chase and Thelma Todd in the 1930 comedy short Looser Than Loose.

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Brendan Slocumb
Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series

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

Raised in Fayetteville, NC, Brendan Slocumb holds a degree in music education with concentrations in violin and viola from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. For the past 23 years, he has been a public and private school music educator, teaching general music, orchestra and guitar ensembles. His debut mystery thriller, The Violin Conspiracy, was published in 2022 to glowing reviews and was selected as a Good Morning America Book Club Pick. Due out in 2023, his follow up page turner, Symphony of Secrets, seeks to right a wrong when race intersects with the uncovering of a famous musical piece's true composer.

Jazz at Timber Banks: Ronnie Leigh
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Persimmons
3536 Timber Banks Pkwy., Baldwinsville

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.

Pick and Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art—but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you "Pick & Mix," a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.

Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.

William Mazza: Forest for Trees
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

William Mazza, a collective member of Syracuse's Altered Space gallery (1991-1996) and currently an artist based in New York City, uses chance, duration, and accumulation to interpret landscape as the relationship of people to mediated environments. The most material expressions of his wide-ranging projects are drawings, paintings, animations, and video created by translating subjects such as lived environments, spatial relocations, television programs, or text into constructions of landscape.

While Mazza responds to his surroundings in many exploratory ways, in this, his Literary Landscape series exhibited with us, he mines the words from texts written by such authors as Angela Davis, Cecilia Vicuna, Anne Waldman, and Susan Sontag. He then separates them into the letters that fill one written page ... and one painting.

Art Break: A Conversation with the Curators of Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Snaps & Taps Open Mic Hosted by Randum
Community Folk Art Center

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

Join us for an awesome evening of creativity and talent at the Community Folk Art Center. Get ready to be blown away by the incredible performances at this in-person event. Whether you're a poet, musician or just love to appreciate raw talent, this open mic is the place to be. Hosted by the one and only Randum, this event promises to be a night filled with laughter, inspiration and unforgettable moments. So grab your friends, bring your snaps and taps and let's make some magic together.

The Rock Orchestra By Candlelight
The Oncenter

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

Eleven classical instrument wielding musicians, breathing beautifully dark energy into legendary Rock and Metal tracks.

Bathed in a sea of candles, skeletal players with rhinestone masks effortlessly switch between sublime melodies & powerful walls of sound.

Crooked lurching towers, floating lanterns & giant head-banging puppets set the stage for an otherworldly musical experience.

George Saunders
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

George Saunders is the author of 12 books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the 2017 Man Booker Prize for best work of fiction in English, and was a finalist for the Golden Man Booker, in which one Booker winner was selected to represent each decade, from the 50 years since the Prize's inception.

His stories have appeared regularly in The New Yorker since 1992. The short story collection Tenth of December was a finalist for the National Book Award, and it won the inaugural Folio Prize in 2013 (for the best work of fiction in English) and the Story Prize (best short story collection).

He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships as well as the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013, he was named one of the world's 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. In support of his work, he has appeared on The Colbert Report, Late Night with David Letterman, All Things Considered, and The Diane Rehm Show.

He has taught, since 1997, in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University

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

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.