Saturday, November 10, 2012

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit will feature vestigial jewelry by Donna Smith and vessels by Sallie Thompson.

Donna Smith uses traditional metalsmithing techniques to create contemporary heirloom pieces. The use of found objects are central to her work.

Sallie Thompson creates vessels of clay that are influenced by the diversity of texture and form found in the Finger Lakes area.

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

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

Dream Weavers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The works of 67 amateur artists in media such as metal, fiber art, marble, watercolors, acrylics, oils, ink, and photography is featured.

On My Own Time was created by the Cultural Resources Council to encourage local businesses, nonprofits, government and civic organizations to celebrate the artistic talents of their employees.

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Forms of Function," an exhibition of new works by gallery co-owner Sarah Panzarella, will feature ceramic vessels, mugs, pie plates, candlesticks and butter bells.

Although Panzarella says nature is the primary inspiration for her work, she also draws from the Arts and Crafts Movement and its focus on craftsmanship, function and quality, and the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

Her works have been featured in exhibitions at Baltimore Clayworks, Gulf Coast Community College, Cazenovia Art Park, the Thrown Together Gallery in Louisville, Ky., the Chiaroscuro Galleries in Chicago and the Media Image Gallery in Gainesville, Fla., and appear in the permanent collections of Nottingham Arts in San Marcos, Calif., and the Meyerhoff Family in Baltimore.

The Big Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Comstock Art Facility
1055 Comstock Ave., Syracuse

The Big Show features student work from Art Workshops for Young People, an offering of the art education dual program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and SU's School of Education. The semester-long Art Workshops for Young People are taught by undergraduate and graduate art education students. Nine workshops in two different time sessions are offered each semester for children ages 5-14. The Big Show is the culminating exhibition. Patrons have the opportunity to view work in a variety of mediums and meet the student teachers, instructors and program staff.

For more information, contact Patti Gavigan, 315-443-2355 or pagaviga@syr.edu

By Way of Thanks
Szozda Gallery

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

Works by Lydia Benscher, Roscha Folger, Carmel Nicoletti, and and Fred Wellner

Pieces include still-life encaustic paintings by Lydia Benscher, richly shaded patina bronze wall reliefs by Nicoletti, surrealistic commentary works by Wellner, and realistic pastels by Folger. In a couple of instances, pieces for display in this show reflect the artists' shift to a different medium, while others extend the mood in a given style for which he or she is well-known.

Nicoletti was represented last at Szozda Gallery with her unique, exquisitely-colored glass works. This time around, emphasis is on her one-of-a-kind bronzes that also depict her interpretation of motion that she calls "A System of Verbs: A Range of Motion."

Folger is a multi-talented artist noted especially for her mixed media, but here she concentrates on pastels.

Bencher and Wellner delve deeply into their continuing art forms -- Bencher through her encaustics finds multiple possibilities with color, texture and the calligraphic line; Wellner, in his abstracts of nature, reaches further into the universe that, he says, "Sometimes expects us to act directly, for we are its instruments."

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

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

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

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

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

Rupture: Works by Joe Lingeman
Echo

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

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

Harvest
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A group exhibition of Central New York artists which explores the inherit beauty of food and farming. It is during this time of year that the fruits of a farmer's labor are most appreciated, and preparation for winter, a time of hibernation and dormancy in the natural world, commences. The artists in Harvest celebrate this annual transition. The show will include photography, painting, pastel, and ceramics. Participating artists include Lisa Barker, Bob Gates, Wendy Harris, Jeremy Randall, Lucie Wellner, and Jamie Young.

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Jeff Davies: Straight from the Heart
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

Habitual
XL Projects

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

"Habitual" features work by a group of artists who explore the very notion of the habitual. They include City Meditation Crew and VPA students Emily Dunlap, Lily Fein, Nicholas Krapf, Cayla Lockwood, Joel Weissman, and Jian Zhong.

Artists' statement: However overt or latent, we are faced with constructing, continuing or terminating habits every day. Within the liminal space between compulsion and regiment, awareness of our practices becomes vague. As habits become repetitive and repetition becomes habit, we find ourselves in a cyclical relationship. So often this relationship is externalized and projected onto the places, objects and thoughts that construct our lived environment. As our desires erupt into actions, they become mitigated experiences between our needs and the objects meant to satisfy them. Actions become the affect and creators of our recurrent behaviors, helping to define our modes of existence. Showing how we each respond to our individual practice, our habits and repetitions will be seen in a multitude of ways.

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

Shimon Attie: Sightings (2012)
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

Annual "Stand Up for Education" Comedy Show

Price: $12 regular, $8 with SU ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Well-known comedians Aries Spears, DeRay Davis, and John Witherspoon will perform. A percent of the proceeds will be going to SU's Say Yes to Education campaign.

This event is hosted by Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. in collaboration with the Orange Central Planning Committee.

Artist Talk: Deborah Faye Lawrence
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Join us one hour before the Cutting Up Capitalism Opening Reception to meet the artist, Deborah Faye Lawrence, and hear her talk about her life's work. Lawrence's satirical collages have been exhibited in one-person shows at Lincoln Center in New York City; Provisions Library Resource Center for Activism and the Arts, Washington, DC; Catherine Person Gallery, Seattle, and many other venues.

Haunted History
Erie Canal Museum
Featuring the Shadow Chasers

Price: $15 (space is limited)
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Learn the history of the Museum, the only existing Weighlock Building, and then you will have the chance to investigate the Erie Canal Museum for paranormal activity! Conduct your own investigation with the latest equipment and methods provided by the Shadow Chasers.

Tickets available at Brown Paper Tickets. Proceeds from the event go towards the historic preservation of the site.

Student Recital Series: Kal Ridley, guitar
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Setnor School of Music Graduate Student, Kal Ridley, is a student of Dr. Ken Meyer.

Leo Brouwer Un dia de Noviembre
J.S. Bach, arr. Yates Cello Suite No. 1, BWV 1007
Maximo Diego Pujol Two Preludes
Roland Dyens Song Capricorne, Saudade No. 3
D. Scarlatti (arr. Russell) Two Sonatas
Federico Moreno Torroba, Miguel Llobet Three Miniatures
Agustin Barrios Mangore Vals Op. 8 No. 4

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

Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Joe Riposo, conductor

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

The group is joined by the newly formed Monday Night Jazz Combo.

Leonard Bernstein West Side Story
Harry Edison Beaver A Junction
Terry Gibbs The Fat Man
Benny Golson I Remember Clifford
Thad Jones US
Steve Brown Captain Hook

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

Mini Folk Festival
Steeple Coffeehouse

Price: $7 in advance, $10 at the door
Fayetteville United Church
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Admission includes beverage and dessert.

For more information, phone 315-663-7415.

Tales from the Forgotten Kingdom
Redhouse
The Guy Mendilow Ensemble

Price: $20 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Get ready for an emotionally powerful, artistic voyage awash with warm harmonies, intricate textures and spellbinding rhythms. Starting in ancient Spain and winding through Sarajevo, Salonica and Jerusalem, the award-winning Guy Mendilow Ensemble brings to life the adventures and legends of traditional Sephardi songs, sung in the endangered Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino.

Guy Mendilow is on the vanguard of a new wave sparking a resurgence of traditional Sephardi songs from the Jewish communities expelled from Spain in 1492 and that settled across the Ottoman Empire. Composer, researcher and seasoned performer at home on world-class stages since early childhood, Mendilow's gift is in connecting audiences from many cultures and languages with the captivating magic of Ladino songs.

The Guy Mendilow Ensemble is an award winning sextet comprised of world-class musicians representing a variety of national backgrounds: the USA, Israel, Palestine, Japan and the UK. Formed in 2004, the Ensemble has been enthusiastically received in venues ranging from world and traditional music festivals to performing arts centers, progressive Jewish organizations and universities.

Alongside touring with the Guy Mendilow Ensemble, members are on the faculty of leading music schools like the New England Conservatory and Boston's Berklee School of Music, and they tour/record with the likes of Bobby McFerrin, Yo Yo Ma, the Assad Brothers, Christian McBride, and Simon Shaheen. The Ensemble is currently based in Boston and Brooklyn.

Faculty Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Janet Brown, soprano; Fred karpoff, piano

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

The program will include songs by Handel, Richard Strauss, Barber, Musto and a sonnet for the piano by Liszt.

Free and accessible parking is available in the Q1 lot. Additional parking is available in the Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change; call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Second Saturday Series: Annie & the Hedonists
Westcott Community Center

Price: $15 regular; $12 WCC members
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Annie & the Hedonists is a band that knows no musical boundaries. This eclectic group from the Albany area offers something for everyone. Anchored by the incomparable voice of band namesake Annie Rosen, this diverse ensemble gives audiences everything from jazz, swing, torchy blues, standards, bluegrass, gospel, and folk, with a sampling of honky tonk country thrown in for good measure. Each of their concerts is like a lesson in American roots music history.

Conspirator, with Boombox, Pax Effex
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Cinderella
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

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

'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Syracuse University Drama Department
Celia Madeoy, director

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

After the death of her mother, Annabella is left to face adolescence alone. When her elder brother Giovanni returns home, he propels them both into a dangerous world of sexual transgression and youthful revolt. Together they crash through the boundaries of what can be said, what can be read, what to believe, and who can be loved. This passionate Jacobean drama is as shocking and controversial today as it was almost 400 years ago.

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The Sunshine Boys
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Pat Bridenbaker, director

Price: $15 adults, $13 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Dessert is included with your ticket price. Please call 315-877-4183 to reserve your seats.

The Choice
Appleseed Productions
Pat Marzola, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The Choice, by Pat Marzola, tells the story of a couple expecting their first child. They learn that the child will have one chromosome too many (Down Syndrome). Should they continue the pregnancy? The decision is examined through a writer who presents a picture of her own warm relationship with her Down Syndrome brother, set against the anguish of the couple.

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Don't Talk to the Actors
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Stevens, director

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

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

The best laid plans go awry when the cast and crew of a Broadway-bound play resort to manipulation,
diva-like behavior, and chaotic abandon to get what they want. Fledgling playwright Jerry Przpezniak and his fiancee are a couple of Buffalo greenhorns suddenly swept up in the whirlwind of New York's theater scene when Jerry's play is optioned for the big money, ego-driven world of Broadway. It's a young playwright's dream, but the crazy characters and dilemmas they encounter are the things theatrical nightmares are made of. A CNY premiere.

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Playing God
Covey Theatre Company

BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Three disparate authors are coerced into co-authoring a new book through veiled motives by their agent. Paul, a brash new talent whose premiere semi-autobiographical work has garnered international acclaim is dismayed to find himself creatively lashed to Ann, a stalwart author of successful thrillers, and Ken, a craftsman of 'chick lit' whose mass appeal is on the wane. Suspicious from the start, the three authors claw for creative dominance as the book begins to take shape, while their egos and shifting alliances are constantly called into question. Alternately hilarious and heart-breaking, Playing God channels the muses of creative genesis and the price of artistic integrity.

This performance will star Karis Wiggins, Lou Balestra, Darian Sundberg, Julia Berger, and Jordan Glaski.

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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Syracuse University Drama Department
Celia Madeoy, director

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

After the death of her mother, Annabella is left to face adolescence alone. When her elder brother Giovanni returns home, he propels them both into a dangerous world of sexual transgression and youthful revolt. Together they crash through the boundaries of what can be said, what can be read, what to believe, and who can be loved. This passionate Jacobean drama is as shocking and controversial today as it was almost 400 years ago.

Read a Review!

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

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

By Way of Thanks
Szozda Gallery

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

Works by Lydia Benscher, Roscha Folger, Carmel Nicoletti, and and Fred Wellner

Pieces include still-life encaustic paintings by Lydia Benscher, richly shaded patina bronze wall reliefs by Nicoletti, surrealistic commentary works by Wellner, and realistic pastels by Folger. In a couple of instances, pieces for display in this show reflect the artists' shift to a different medium, while others extend the mood in a given style for which he or she is well-known.

Nicoletti was represented last at Szozda Gallery with her unique, exquisitely-colored glass works. This time around, emphasis is on her one-of-a-kind bronzes that also depict her interpretation of motion that she calls "A System of Verbs: A Range of Motion."

Folger is a multi-talented artist noted especially for her mixed media, but here she concentrates on pastels.

Bencher and Wellner delve deeply into their continuing art forms -- Bencher through her encaustics finds multiple possibilities with color, texture and the calligraphic line; Wellner, in his abstracts of nature, reaches further into the universe that, he says, "Sometimes expects us to act directly, for we are its instruments."

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit will feature vestigial jewelry by Donna Smith and vessels by Sallie Thompson.

Donna Smith uses traditional metalsmithing techniques to create contemporary heirloom pieces. The use of found objects are central to her work.

Sallie Thompson creates vessels of clay that are influenced by the diversity of texture and form found in the Finger Lakes area.

Harvest
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A group exhibition of Central New York artists which explores the inherit beauty of food and farming. It is during this time of year that the fruits of a farmer's labor are most appreciated, and preparation for winter, a time of hibernation and dormancy in the natural world, commences. The artists in Harvest celebrate this annual transition. The show will include photography, painting, pastel, and ceramics. Participating artists include Lisa Barker, Bob Gates, Wendy Harris, Jeremy Randall, Lucie Wellner, and Jamie Young.

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Forms of Function," an exhibition of new works by gallery co-owner Sarah Panzarella, will feature ceramic vessels, mugs, pie plates, candlesticks and butter bells.

Although Panzarella says nature is the primary inspiration for her work, she also draws from the Arts and Crafts Movement and its focus on craftsmanship, function and quality, and the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

Her works have been featured in exhibitions at Baltimore Clayworks, Gulf Coast Community College, Cazenovia Art Park, the Thrown Together Gallery in Louisville, Ky., the Chiaroscuro Galleries in Chicago and the Media Image Gallery in Gainesville, Fla., and appear in the permanent collections of Nottingham Arts in San Marcos, Calif., and the Meyerhoff Family in Baltimore.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Jeff Davies: Straight from the Heart
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The works of 67 amateur artists in media such as metal, fiber art, marble, watercolors, acrylics, oils, ink, and photography is featured.

On My Own Time was created by the Cultural Resources Council to encourage local businesses, nonprofits, government and civic organizations to celebrate the artistic talents of their employees.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Habitual
XL Projects

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

"Habitual" features work by a group of artists who explore the very notion of the habitual. They include City Meditation Crew and VPA students Emily Dunlap, Lily Fein, Nicholas Krapf, Cayla Lockwood, Joel Weissman, and Jian Zhong.

Artists' statement: However overt or latent, we are faced with constructing, continuing or terminating habits every day. Within the liminal space between compulsion and regiment, awareness of our practices becomes vague. As habits become repetitive and repetition becomes habit, we find ourselves in a cyclical relationship. So often this relationship is externalized and projected onto the places, objects and thoughts that construct our lived environment. As our desires erupt into actions, they become mitigated experiences between our needs and the objects meant to satisfy them. Actions become the affect and creators of our recurrent behaviors, helping to define our modes of existence. Showing how we each respond to our individual practice, our habits and repetitions will be seen in a multitude of ways.

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

Brian Regan Live in Concert

Price: $37.75
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Comedian Brian Regan has appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman" at least 20 times, has released several Comedy Central DVDs, and has performed in over 80 cities. He is one of the premier comedians in the country.

Tickets can be purchased in person at The Oncenter Box Office, over the phone at 315-435-2121, or online at Ticketmaster.com.

J.S. Bach Extravaganza
Central New York Association of Music Teachers
Featuring Sean Duggan, piano

Price: Concert only: $15 adult, $10 students; concert and talk: $25 adults, $10 students
Holy Cross Church
4112 E. Genesee St., Dewitt

Fr. Sean Duggan, internationally celebrated Bach player, has performed the complete cycle of the keyboard works of J. S. Bach eight times in various American and European cities. He is now in the midst of recording the complete works which will comprise 24 CDs.

The recital will be followed by a talk on the teaching of Bach's music for teachers and all who want to hone their practicing skills, followed by a mini master class. Fr. Duggan will make suggestions to a few proficient students on their Bach performances.

Reserve your tickets by calling 315-446-0473, or purchase at the door.

SU Oratorio Society
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
John Warren, conductor

Price: $5 for adults, students free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Felix Mendelssohn Richte mich, Gott, op, 78
Johannes Brahms Vier Zigeunerlieder, from Sechs Quartette
Z. Randall Stroope Amor de mi alma
Dominick Argento Gloria, from the opera The Masque of Angels
Robert Shaw (arr.) Set Down Servant
Herbert Howells Requiem

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

Sonatas in Style
Joyful Noise Concert Series
Featuring Sara Mastrangelo, violin; Ida Trebicka, piano

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Liverpool First United Methodist Church
604 Oswego St., Liverpool

SU Saxophone Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Ronald Caravan, conductor

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

The Ensemble performs an evening of saxophone music. The concert features arrangements of works but also champions works written for this unique instrumentation.

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

Ensemble Nordlys
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Copenhagen-based Ensemble Nordlys (the Northern Lights Ensemble) will present the U.S. premiere of Andrew Waggoner's Summer, which they commissioned; Danish composer Per Nørgard's Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking; the Fantasy Pieces of Robert Schumann; the Piano Trio in d minor of Mendelssohn; and a chamber version of the Double Concerto for violin and oboe of J.S. Bach, performed here on violin and clarinet.

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

Tea Leaf Green, with American Babies, The Folkadelics
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

"The Getaway" and "Half a Cookie"
Armory Square Playwrights

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

Armory Square Playhouse opens its 2012-2013 season with a staged reading of new plays by two veteran playwrights.

"The Getaway" by Richard Harris will bring you to the American Southwest where a band of hapless thespians decide the only way to finance their production of "Romeo and Juliet" is to ... you guessed it ... rob a bank. Directed by Peter Moller.

"Half a Cookie" by Kathy Kramer asks what does a cookie ... actually, half a cookie ... have to do with an elderly man and his encounter with a mysterious light? Directed by Len Fonte.

Don't Talk to the Actors
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Stevens, director

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

The best laid plans go awry when the cast and crew of a Broadway-bound play resort to manipulation,
diva-like behavior, and chaotic abandon to get what they want. Fledgling playwright Jerry Przpezniak and his fiancee are a couple of Buffalo greenhorns suddenly swept up in the whirlwind of New York's theater scene when Jerry's play is optioned for the big money, ego-driven world of Broadway. It's a young playwright's dream, but the crazy characters and dilemmas they encounter are the things theatrical nightmares are made of. A CNY premiere.

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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Syracuse University Drama Department
Celia Madeoy, director

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

After the death of her mother, Annabella is left to face adolescence alone. When her elder brother Giovanni returns home, he propels them both into a dangerous world of sexual transgression and youthful revolt. Together they crash through the boundaries of what can be said, what can be read, what to believe, and who can be loved. This passionate Jacobean drama is as shocking and controversial today as it was almost 400 years ago.

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The Sunshine Boys
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Pat Bridenbaker, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Dessert is included with your ticket price. Please call 315-877-4183 to reserve your seats.

Monday, November 12, 2012

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

Meditation on Video (&) Language, a show by Tom Sherman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A selection of new and previous works on video and drawings by artist Tom Sherman.

Reflecting on the work, the artist states: "The representation may be almost like a constellation of moments of awareness. It's impossible to summarize what you think in a video, but it is possible to create a veil of a series of works that contribute to the aggregate consciousness of a society, like a transparent curtain of events, of sub consciousness."

Sherman is a Professor of Arts, Design, and Transmedia at Syracuse University. He was a founding co-editor of Fuse magazine, Toronto (1980); founding director of Media Arts for the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa (1983-87), and co-founder of Nerve Theory, an international performance art/recording collaborative (1997). In 1980, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale, and in 1986, was appointed international commissioner for that same Biennale that is one of the worlds major contemporary art exhibitions every two years in Venice, Italy. Among numerous distinctions, Sherman received the Bell Canada prize for excellence in video art in 2003, and Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2010.

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

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

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

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

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Propaganda images generated during the Cultural Revolution in China have been remixed to create commentary on the modern Cultural Revolution society is undergoing in the form of music, art, and media. Elements of the old and new are mixed together to evolve into something new.

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit will feature vestigial jewelry by Donna Smith and vessels by Sallie Thompson.

Donna Smith uses traditional metalsmithing techniques to create contemporary heirloom pieces. The use of found objects are central to her work.

Sallie Thompson creates vessels of clay that are influenced by the diversity of texture and form found in the Finger Lakes area.

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Forms of Function," an exhibition of new works by gallery co-owner Sarah Panzarella, will feature ceramic vessels, mugs, pie plates, candlesticks and butter bells.

Although Panzarella says nature is the primary inspiration for her work, she also draws from the Arts and Crafts Movement and its focus on craftsmanship, function and quality, and the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

Her works have been featured in exhibitions at Baltimore Clayworks, Gulf Coast Community College, Cazenovia Art Park, the Thrown Together Gallery in Louisville, Ky., the Chiaroscuro Galleries in Chicago and the Media Image Gallery in Gainesville, Fla., and appear in the permanent collections of Nottingham Arts in San Marcos, Calif., and the Meyerhoff Family in Baltimore.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

An exhibition of artists with a dual practice, featuring Abby Carter, Samantha Harmon, Lori Hawke, Stephanie Koenig, Lynette K Stephenson, and Marion Wilson.

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

Emilio Pucci: Master of Print
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition of pieces by Italian designer Emilio Pucci curated by Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design in the Department of Design and head of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center.

For more information, phone 315-443-4644.

Homecoming; Camp Unity
Syracuse International Film Festival

Mawhinney Hall, Second Floor, Room 245
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Homecoming (Gursimran Sandhu, 26 minutes, fiction, USA)
When 12-year-old Nina Patel is nominated by her classmates to represent her seventh grade class at Homecoming, she's thrilled. However, Nina's Indian heritage comes with pride and restrictions, and her traditional parents refuse to let their daughter assimilate into such an American tradition. Beautifully made, powerful, and very well acted.

Camp Unity (Ryan White, 83 minutes, documentary, USA)
A diverse group of Iraqi performing arts students unite through hip hop, jazz, orchestra, and Broadway at an American arts academy in Iraqi Kurdistan. Arabs and Kurds, Christians and Muslims, Americans and Iraqis, everyone must work together to prepare for the big show. Along the way, cultures collide, egos clash, dreams come true, and the viewer is offered a candid and revealing look at the troubles and triumphs of this life-changing event.

House of Rothschild (1934)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Alfred L. Werker. Cast includes George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, Robert Young, C. Aubrey Smith.

The dramatic story of the famed banking family of Rothschild and the prejudices that they encounter. A superb cast, an intelligent, well-written screenplay and excellent performances make this a classic film not to be missed.

Tim Egan
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

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

Tim Egan is a columnist and author. His recent book, The Big Burn -- Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, was a New York Times Bestseller and winner of the 2009 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. In 2006 he won the 2006 National Book Award for nonfiction with his book The Worst Hard Time. He also shares the Pulitzer Prize, from 2001, with a team of New York Times reporters for their series, "How Race is Lived in America."  Egan worked as a national correspondent for the Times covering stories from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, to the O.J. Simpson trial, to the collapse of small town America in the Great Plains.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

Meditation on Video (&) Language, a show by Tom Sherman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A selection of new and previous works on video and drawings by artist Tom Sherman.

Reflecting on the work, the artist states: "The representation may be almost like a constellation of moments of awareness. It's impossible to summarize what you think in a video, but it is possible to create a veil of a series of works that contribute to the aggregate consciousness of a society, like a transparent curtain of events, of sub consciousness."

Sherman is a Professor of Arts, Design, and Transmedia at Syracuse University. He was a founding co-editor of Fuse magazine, Toronto (1980); founding director of Media Arts for the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa (1983-87), and co-founder of Nerve Theory, an international performance art/recording collaborative (1997). In 1980, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale, and in 1986, was appointed international commissioner for that same Biennale that is one of the worlds major contemporary art exhibitions every two years in Venice, Italy. Among numerous distinctions, Sherman received the Bell Canada prize for excellence in video art in 2003, and Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2010.

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

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

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

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

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Propaganda images generated during the Cultural Revolution in China have been remixed to create commentary on the modern Cultural Revolution society is undergoing in the form of music, art, and media. Elements of the old and new are mixed together to evolve into something new.

Dream Weavers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit will feature vestigial jewelry by Donna Smith and vessels by Sallie Thompson.

Donna Smith uses traditional metalsmithing techniques to create contemporary heirloom pieces. The use of found objects are central to her work.

Sallie Thompson creates vessels of clay that are influenced by the diversity of texture and form found in the Finger Lakes area.

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Forms of Function," an exhibition of new works by gallery co-owner Sarah Panzarella, will feature ceramic vessels, mugs, pie plates, candlesticks and butter bells.

Although Panzarella says nature is the primary inspiration for her work, she also draws from the Arts and Crafts Movement and its focus on craftsmanship, function and quality, and the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

Her works have been featured in exhibitions at Baltimore Clayworks, Gulf Coast Community College, Cazenovia Art Park, the Thrown Together Gallery in Louisville, Ky., the Chiaroscuro Galleries in Chicago and the Media Image Gallery in Gainesville, Fla., and appear in the permanent collections of Nottingham Arts in San Marcos, Calif., and the Meyerhoff Family in Baltimore.

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

An exhibition of artists with a dual practice, featuring Abby Carter, Samantha Harmon, Lori Hawke, Stephanie Koenig, Lynette K Stephenson, and Marion Wilson.

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

Jeff Davies: Straight from the Heart
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

Rupture: Works by Joe Lingeman
Echo

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

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

Emilio Pucci: Master of Print
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition of pieces by Italian designer Emilio Pucci curated by Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design in the Department of Design and head of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center.

For more information, phone 315-443-4644.

Truck Farm
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Somewhere on the streets of Brooklyn, NY, a tiny farm-on-wheels is growing in the back of a 1986 Dodge pick-up truck. Filmmaker Ian Cheney planted his truck farm in 2009 after moving to New York City and realizing there was no space to grow food. The 1/1000th acre farm started as an experiment, using rooftop farming irrigation techniques to grow a variety of plants including parsley, broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes, and basil. The miniature yield is not enough to support large-scale consumption; however, the truck farm serves as a portable educational tool for urban students and a tribute to edible innovation. In just two years, the original project has expanded into 25 mobile truck farms across the country. Each truck in this "Truck Farm Fleet" is unique, but together this moving force is teaching people that growing food can be fun, easy, and rewarding despite a scarcity of land. (2011, 48 minutes, directed by Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney)

Visiting Artist Lecture
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Lecture presented in conjunction with the exhibit "ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7," opening Thurs. Nov. 15.

Film Artists in Conversation: The Art of Screenwriting
Syracuse International Film Festival
Featuring Rob Edwards

Price: $10 regular, free for LeMoyne and SU students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Rob Edwards is a graduate of Syracuse University's Film program. In addition to his work as a producer and actor, he recently received an Academy Award Nomination for his screenplay of Princess and the Frog, as well as writing Treasure Planet. His TV credits include writing for Roc, Fresh Prince of Belair, and In Living Color. In a presentation and conversation format, Edwards will present personal stories about his art.

Food Politics from Farm to Table: A Recipe for Change
University Lectures
Featuring Marion Nestle

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Marion Nestle is a consumer activist, nutritionist, award-winning author and academic who specializes in the politics of food and dietary choice. Her research examines scientific, economic and social influences on food choice and obesity, with an emphasis on the role of food marketing. Her books explore issues like the effects of food production on food safety, our environment, access to food and nutrition.

Nestle is the author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002) and Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety (2003). Her book What to Eat (2006) was named as one of Amazon.com's top 10 books of 2006 (Health, Mind, and Body). Her current book project, Why Calories Count: from Science to Politics, was published in March.

Nestle was senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services and managing editor of the 1988 Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health. She has been a member of the FDA Food Advisory Committee and Science Board, the USDA/DHHS Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, and American Cancer Society committees that issue dietary guidelines for cancer prevention. Her research focuses on how science and society influence dietary advice and practice. She writes the "Food Matters" column for the San Francisco Chronicle and blogs daily at www.foodpolitics.com.

SU Singers and SU Concert Choir
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Two of Setnor's choirs combine to present an evening of choral music.

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

Mansions on the Moon, with Phantom Chemistry
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

Meditation on Video (&) Language, a show by Tom Sherman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A selection of new and previous works on video and drawings by artist Tom Sherman.

Reflecting on the work, the artist states: "The representation may be almost like a constellation of moments of awareness. It's impossible to summarize what you think in a video, but it is possible to create a veil of a series of works that contribute to the aggregate consciousness of a society, like a transparent curtain of events, of sub consciousness."

Sherman is a Professor of Arts, Design, and Transmedia at Syracuse University. He was a founding co-editor of Fuse magazine, Toronto (1980); founding director of Media Arts for the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa (1983-87), and co-founder of Nerve Theory, an international performance art/recording collaborative (1997). In 1980, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale, and in 1986, was appointed international commissioner for that same Biennale that is one of the worlds major contemporary art exhibitions every two years in Venice, Italy. Among numerous distinctions, Sherman received the Bell Canada prize for excellence in video art in 2003, and Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2010.

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

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

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

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

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Propaganda images generated during the Cultural Revolution in China have been remixed to create commentary on the modern Cultural Revolution society is undergoing in the form of music, art, and media. Elements of the old and new are mixed together to evolve into something new.

Dream Weavers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit will feature vestigial jewelry by Donna Smith and vessels by Sallie Thompson.

Donna Smith uses traditional metalsmithing techniques to create contemporary heirloom pieces. The use of found objects are central to her work.

Sallie Thompson creates vessels of clay that are influenced by the diversity of texture and form found in the Finger Lakes area.

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Forms of Function," an exhibition of new works by gallery co-owner Sarah Panzarella, will feature ceramic vessels, mugs, pie plates, candlesticks and butter bells.

Although Panzarella says nature is the primary inspiration for her work, she also draws from the Arts and Crafts Movement and its focus on craftsmanship, function and quality, and the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

Her works have been featured in exhibitions at Baltimore Clayworks, Gulf Coast Community College, Cazenovia Art Park, the Thrown Together Gallery in Louisville, Ky., the Chiaroscuro Galleries in Chicago and the Media Image Gallery in Gainesville, Fla., and appear in the permanent collections of Nottingham Arts in San Marcos, Calif., and the Meyerhoff Family in Baltimore.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

By Way of Thanks
Szozda Gallery

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

Works by Lydia Benscher, Roscha Folger, Carmel Nicoletti, and and Fred Wellner

Pieces include still-life encaustic paintings by Lydia Benscher, richly shaded patina bronze wall reliefs by Nicoletti, surrealistic commentary works by Wellner, and realistic pastels by Folger. In a couple of instances, pieces for display in this show reflect the artists' shift to a different medium, while others extend the mood in a given style for which he or she is well-known.

Nicoletti was represented last at Szozda Gallery with her unique, exquisitely-colored glass works. This time around, emphasis is on her one-of-a-kind bronzes that also depict her interpretation of motion that she calls "A System of Verbs: A Range of Motion."

Folger is a multi-talented artist noted especially for her mixed media, but here she concentrates on pastels.

Bencher and Wellner delve deeply into their continuing art forms -- Bencher through her encaustics finds multiple possibilities with color, texture and the calligraphic line; Wellner, in his abstracts of nature, reaches further into the universe that, he says, "Sometimes expects us to act directly, for we are its instruments."

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

An exhibition of artists with a dual practice, featuring Abby Carter, Samantha Harmon, Lori Hawke, Stephanie Koenig, Lynette K Stephenson, and Marion Wilson.

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Jeff Davies: Straight from the Heart
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

Habitual
XL Projects

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

"Habitual" features work by a group of artists who explore the very notion of the habitual. They include City Meditation Crew and VPA students Emily Dunlap, Lily Fein, Nicholas Krapf, Cayla Lockwood, Joel Weissman, and Jian Zhong.

Artists' statement: However overt or latent, we are faced with constructing, continuing or terminating habits every day. Within the liminal space between compulsion and regiment, awareness of our practices becomes vague. As habits become repetitive and repetition becomes habit, we find ourselves in a cyclical relationship. So often this relationship is externalized and projected onto the places, objects and thoughts that construct our lived environment. As our desires erupt into actions, they become mitigated experiences between our needs and the objects meant to satisfy them. Actions become the affect and creators of our recurrent behaviors, helping to define our modes of existence. Showing how we each respond to our individual practice, our habits and repetitions will be seen in a multitude of ways.

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

Rupture: Works by Joe Lingeman
Echo

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

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

Emilio Pucci: Master of Print
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition of pieces by Italian designer Emilio Pucci curated by Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design in the Department of Design and head of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center.

For more information, phone 315-443-4644.

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Israeli Film Festival: The Dreamers; Shalom
Syracuse International Film Festival

Jewish Community Center
5655 Thompson Rd., Dewitt

The Dreamers (Efrat Shalom Danon, 57 minutes, documentary)
Orthodox teacher and wigmaker, Ruchama and Tikva, embark on a journey to fulfill their dream of making movies within the closed society in which they live. Ruchama is writing and producing her first film while Tikva prepares for her first acting role. Like other Orthodox women who in recent years have started making films for strictly female audiences, they feel a strong need to express themselves despite strict rabbinical censorship. The Dreamers delicately sketches the portrait of women trying to break new ground as artists in a patriarchal world. Will they find freedom in their art?

Shalom (Lee Gilat, 30 minutes, fiction)
In a small house on the outskirts of a large city, Meiro and Mali Mugrabi live with their three children: Tami, Racheli, and little Shalom, a 9-year-old autistic boy who can only say the word "shalom." While Mali reconciles with her fate and the mystery of a boy like Shalom, his father Meiro sees his son as a grave personal failure and knows no solace. The symbiotic relationship between Mali and Shalom draws Meiro away from his wife and makes him feel like a stranger in his own house. Meiro sees a bitter enemy in Shalom, the boy who has stolen his beloved wife from him. The family's fragile balance is upset when Mali takes a night job and Shalom is left alone with his father.

Lunchtime Lectures: Gallery Talk for Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum
Featuring Domenic Iacono

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

David Berry, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

CNY pianist performs works by Rachmaninoff, George Walker, and George Skafidas.

This recital is presented in collaboration with The Other New York (TONY: 2012) art exhibits.

Ra Ra Riot, with Wired Strings
Arts Engage

Price: $10 in advance, $12 at the door
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Ra Ra Riot, an indie rock band featuring Syracuse University graduates, is a group that skillfully melds elements of new wave and classic indie with sweeping orchestral chamber pop. Their sound is epic, eloquent, dramatic, and graceful. Their last album, The Orchard, was released in 2010 by Barsuk Records. This album garnered them a nomination for The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards in the pop rock category. Founded in the winter of 2006 in Syracuse, Ra Ra Riot has played at large festivals such as Lollapalooza, and Coachella and at conferences nationwide, such as CMJ and SWSX.

Internationally-renowned quartet Wired Strings will join Ra Ra Riot on stage for much of the concert. Wired strings has toured or recorded with the likes of Adele, Nas, F.U.N, Jay-Z, Celine Dion, Kanye West, Lana Del Ray, Leona Lewis, The Script, and Pink. These talented musicians will bring a dynamically unique edge to Ra Ra Riot's performance.

Advance sale tickets are available at the Schine Box Office. Unsold tickets, if any, will be available at the door day of show.

For most events, free and accessible parking is available on campus in the Q1 lot, conveniently located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in the Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change.

Rubblebucket, with Reptar, Stepdad
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Poet B. H. Fairchild
Downtown Writer's Center
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

B. H. Fairchild's third book of poems, The Art of the Lathe, was a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry, and winner of the William Carlos Williams Award, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the California Book Award, and several other honors. His follow-up collection, Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest, was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His latest book is Usher (W.W. Norton, 2009). His many other awards and honors include two NEA Literature Fellowships, as well as fellowships from both the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations. He lives in California, and teaches at the University of North Texas.

Presented by the SU Humanities Center as part of the 2012 Syracuse Symposium on Memory, Media, Archive.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

30th Anniversary Sale and Open House
Syracuse Cultural Workers

Syracuse Cultural Workers
400 Lodi St. at N. Crouse, Syracuse

Meditation on Video (&) Language, a show by Tom Sherman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A selection of new and previous works on video and drawings by artist Tom Sherman.

Reflecting on the work, the artist states: "The representation may be almost like a constellation of moments of awareness. It's impossible to summarize what you think in a video, but it is possible to create a veil of a series of works that contribute to the aggregate consciousness of a society, like a transparent curtain of events, of sub consciousness."

Sherman is a Professor of Arts, Design, and Transmedia at Syracuse University. He was a founding co-editor of Fuse magazine, Toronto (1980); founding director of Media Arts for the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa (1983-87), and co-founder of Nerve Theory, an international performance art/recording collaborative (1997). In 1980, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale, and in 1986, was appointed international commissioner for that same Biennale that is one of the worlds major contemporary art exhibitions every two years in Venice, Italy. Among numerous distinctions, Sherman received the Bell Canada prize for excellence in video art in 2003, and Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2010.

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

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

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

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

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Propaganda images generated during the Cultural Revolution in China have been remixed to create commentary on the modern Cultural Revolution society is undergoing in the form of music, art, and media. Elements of the old and new are mixed together to evolve into something new.

Dream Weavers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit will feature vestigial jewelry by Donna Smith and vessels by Sallie Thompson.

Donna Smith uses traditional metalsmithing techniques to create contemporary heirloom pieces. The use of found objects are central to her work.

Sallie Thompson creates vessels of clay that are influenced by the diversity of texture and form found in the Finger Lakes area.

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Forms of Function," an exhibition of new works by gallery co-owner Sarah Panzarella, will feature ceramic vessels, mugs, pie plates, candlesticks and butter bells.

Although Panzarella says nature is the primary inspiration for her work, she also draws from the Arts and Crafts Movement and its focus on craftsmanship, function and quality, and the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

Her works have been featured in exhibitions at Baltimore Clayworks, Gulf Coast Community College, Cazenovia Art Park, the Thrown Together Gallery in Louisville, Ky., the Chiaroscuro Galleries in Chicago and the Media Image Gallery in Gainesville, Fla., and appear in the permanent collections of Nottingham Arts in San Marcos, Calif., and the Meyerhoff Family in Baltimore.

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Way of Thanks
Szozda Gallery

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

Works by Lydia Benscher, Roscha Folger, Carmel Nicoletti, and and Fred Wellner

Pieces include still-life encaustic paintings by Lydia Benscher, richly shaded patina bronze wall reliefs by Nicoletti, surrealistic commentary works by Wellner, and realistic pastels by Folger. In a couple of instances, pieces for display in this show reflect the artists' shift to a different medium, while others extend the mood in a given style for which he or she is well-known.

Nicoletti was represented last at Szozda Gallery with her unique, exquisitely-colored glass works. This time around, emphasis is on her one-of-a-kind bronzes that also depict her interpretation of motion that she calls "A System of Verbs: A Range of Motion."

Folger is a multi-talented artist noted especially for her mixed media, but here she concentrates on pastels.

Bencher and Wellner delve deeply into their continuing art forms -- Bencher through her encaustics finds multiple possibilities with color, texture and the calligraphic line; Wellner, in his abstracts of nature, reaches further into the universe that, he says, "Sometimes expects us to act directly, for we are its instruments."

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

An exhibition of artists with a dual practice, featuring Abby Carter, Samantha Harmon, Lori Hawke, Stephanie Koenig, Lynette K Stephenson, and Marion Wilson.

Harvest
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A group exhibition of Central New York artists which explores the inherit beauty of food and farming. It is during this time of year that the fruits of a farmer's labor are most appreciated, and preparation for winter, a time of hibernation and dormancy in the natural world, commences. The artists in Harvest celebrate this annual transition. The show will include photography, painting, pastel, and ceramics. Participating artists include Lisa Barker, Bob Gates, Wendy Harris, Jeremy Randall, Lucie Wellner, and Jamie Young.

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

Jeff Davies: Straight from the Heart
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7
The Warehouse Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm. As a part of the reception, at 7:00 pm, the artists will lead an Indeterminate Hike (IH) through downtown Syracuse. The hike will originate at the Fayette entrance to the Warehouse Gallery, where the Urban Video Project will debut a video projection created by ecoarttech.

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

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Habitual
XL Projects

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

There will be a reception this evening 6:00-8:00 pm as part of Th3, the Third Thursday citywide art open.

"Habitual" features work by a group of artists who explore the very notion of the habitual. They include City Meditation Crew and VPA students Emily Dunlap, Lily Fein, Nicholas Krapf, Cayla Lockwood, Joel Weissman, and Jian Zhong.

Artists' statement: However overt or latent, we are faced with constructing, continuing or terminating habits every day. Within the liminal space between compulsion and regiment, awareness of our practices becomes vague. As habits become repetitive and repetition becomes habit, we find ourselves in a cyclical relationship. So often this relationship is externalized and projected onto the places, objects and thoughts that construct our lived environment. As our desires erupt into actions, they become mitigated experiences between our needs and the objects meant to satisfy them. Actions become the affect and creators of our recurrent behaviors, helping to define our modes of existence. Showing how we each respond to our individual practice, our habits and repetitions will be seen in a multitude of ways.

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

Rupture: Works by Joe Lingeman
Echo

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

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

Emilio Pucci: Master of Print
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition of pieces by Italian designer Emilio Pucci curated by Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design in the Department of Design and head of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center.

For more information, phone 315-443-4644.

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Works by Deborah Dougherty Wester
bc Restaurant

bc Restaurant
247 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

November Featured Artist: Painter Deborah Dougherty Wester lives in Cazenovia and finds the location ideal for painting landscapes, still lifes, village scenes, chickens, and cows.

Pottery Plus
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Delavan Center, #119
112 Wyoming St., Syracuse

Pottery Plus is the much-anticipated annual show and sale featuring the unique, artistic work of 19 Central New York artisans.

Shimon Attie: Sightings (2012)
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

UVP Mobile Debut: ecoarttech
Urban Video Project

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

UVP will debut the new UVP Mobile unit as part of the opening festivities for the Warehouse Gallery's exhibition "Wilderness 24/7," featuring the work of the art/theory collaborative ecoarttech. UVP Mobile will project the video "Wilderness Collider" onto the south facade of the Warehouse from 6:00-8:30pm. "Wilderness Collider" features video compiled from past users of ecoarttech's Indeterminate Hikes+ app.

Be there at 7:00 pm and be part of the art when the artists lead participants on a hike through the wilds of Syracuse with the help of their Indeterminate Hikes+ smartphone app using the projection as their point of departure.

Indeterminate Hikes+ is a mobile media app that transforms everyday landscapes into sites of bio-cultural diversity and wild happenings. The app works by importing the rhetoric of wilderness into virtually any place accessible by Google Maps and encouraging its users to treat these locales as spaces worthy of the attention accorded to sublime landscapes, such as canyons and gorges.

A Discussion on the exhibit "Angels on the Border"
La Casita Cultural Center

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

A discussion, led by Amy Lutz, associate professor of sociology in SU's College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School.

Gallery Talk: Hidden in Plain Sight
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Capturing poignant moments of the human experience and provocative environmental interventions, TONY: 2012 photographers Tilde Jensen, Doug Dubois, John Mannion, and Sean Hovendick will give a gallery talk to discuss their work and provide insight into how this medium invites us to reflect upon that which often goes unnoticed.

Journey through Music of the African Diaspora: Corn-Bred
Community Folk Art Center

Price: $5 donation appreciated
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Central New York's only all Native American blues band, Corn-Bred has played at The Harley Davidson 100th Anniversary, The National Museum of the American Indian, and The Taste of Syracuse, just to name a few. Corn-Bred has opened for national recording artists as The Beach Boys, Diamond Rio, Jana, Martha Redbone, and Los Lobos.

Women as Peace Makers, Women as Healers
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Women's Choir
Barbara Tagg, conductor

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

Following the semester-long theme of peace and reconciliation, the concert will include Mark Sirett's Shanti (Peace), David Brunner's Earthsongs, featuring oboist Philomena Duffy, and Amani (A Song for Peace). The second part of the concert will be dedicated to those affected by Hurricane Sandy and will include Jocelyn Hagen's Joy, featuring violinist Matteo Longhi, Kala Pierson's The Turning Earth, conducted by Gregg Smith Conducting Scholar Lauren Estes, and Joan Szymko's Vivos Voco, featuring the Park Central Presbyterian Church Handbell Choir.

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

Nick Saint, Private Elf
Acme Mystery Company

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

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

On Sale: Employers Get Good Workers Cheap!
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

As part of our exhibition programming for the exhibition "Cutting Up Capitalism," we are delighted to bring you a staged reading of Tracy Kinne's new book, On Sale!

The author, along with friends, will read from some of the workers' stories in the book. There will be a Q&A afterwards and an opportunity to buy a book and have Tracy sign it for you.

Concerned that the news media were backing away from hard news, Tracy L. Kinne took a buyout in 2007 and left the newspaper where she had worked for most of her 21-year career in journalism. Her timing couldn't have been better -- or worse. The Great Recession began six months later. She rode out the recession and the years after as a low-paid sales associate and cashier at a chain store. On Sale: Employers Get Good Workers Dirt Cheap is her first book, a memoir of her four years at the store she calls Big Box. On Sale! also is the story of her coworkers, an under-appreciated, underpaid, but intelligent, hard-working group of compassionate, down-to-earth individuals.

Don't Talk to the Actors
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Stevens, director

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

The best laid plans go awry when the cast and crew of a Broadway-bound play resort to manipulation,
diva-like behavior, and chaotic abandon to get what they want. Fledgling playwright Jerry Przpezniak and his fiancee are a couple of Buffalo greenhorns suddenly swept up in the whirlwind of New York's theater scene when Jerry's play is optioned for the big money, ego-driven world of Broadway. It's a young playwright's dream, but the crazy characters and dilemmas they encounter are the things theatrical nightmares are made of. A CNY premiere.

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Red Light Series: From Foster Care to Fabulous
Redhouse

Price: $20 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Patrick Burns's one-man autobiographical musical extravaganza that chronicles his teenage years in and out of foster care. The show features myriad songs, both well-known and original, with a plethora of jaw dropping anecdotes and side-splitting yarns, and an avalanche of horrifying, hilarious, and ultimately heartbreaking characters.

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Friday, November 16, 2012

Mark Povinelli: Post Cambrian Explosion
LeMoyne College

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

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

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

Meditation on Video (&) Language, a show by Tom Sherman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A selection of new and previous works on video and drawings by artist Tom Sherman.

Reflecting on the work, the artist states: "The representation may be almost like a constellation of moments of awareness. It's impossible to summarize what you think in a video, but it is possible to create a veil of a series of works that contribute to the aggregate consciousness of a society, like a transparent curtain of events, of sub consciousness."

Sherman is a Professor of Arts, Design, and Transmedia at Syracuse University. He was a founding co-editor of Fuse magazine, Toronto (1980); founding director of Media Arts for the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa (1983-87), and co-founder of Nerve Theory, an international performance art/recording collaborative (1997). In 1980, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale, and in 1986, was appointed international commissioner for that same Biennale that is one of the worlds major contemporary art exhibitions every two years in Venice, Italy. Among numerous distinctions, Sherman received the Bell Canada prize for excellence in video art in 2003, and Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2010.

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

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

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

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

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Propaganda images generated during the Cultural Revolution in China have been remixed to create commentary on the modern Cultural Revolution society is undergoing in the form of music, art, and media. Elements of the old and new are mixed together to evolve into something new.

Dream Weavers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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