Tuesday, September 10, 2013

LeMoyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of new work by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore and Zach Dunn will be on display. The four artists are all members of LeMoyne's visual and performing arts department.

Waking Dreams: Word and Image: Works by Terry McMaster
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Terry McMaster is a social worker for Catholic Charities and teaches human services for Columbia College. His painted images manifest from the realm of the unconscious both personal and collective. His photographs take images from the built environment and from nature, and attempt to reveal a deeper reality than what is visible on the surface.

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.

Gallery Exhibit: David A. Ludwig, Structures
Onondaga Community College

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

David Ludwig began his career as a painter and slowly evolved from two-dimensional color field paintings on canvas to three-dimensional wall reliefs or structures constructed of plywood. His work as a model builder for an architecture firm in Philadelphia had a major impact on his working method as well as on the direction his work would take.

At first glance, Ludwig's colorful abstract structures are minimal in means. Closer observation reveals, however, each structure's complexity. Controlled completely, the artist sets up a dialogue between form, light, color and texture from the very beginning.

Fictional Reality and Radical Sanity: A Girl in Progress
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

A solo show that celebrates the art of Syracuse-based Pop Surreal/Lowbrow painter Eugenia Mancini Horan.

"Using fingers instead of brushes, my goal is to use color, subject, and simplicity to try to tap back into the psyche we had as children. The world was bold and vibrant. We were playful, devious, and mischievous without fear. And the world was ours, just ours, for the asking. Time teaches us to color in the lines; aging expects us to act like adults. I reject that stigma in my life and in my work," says Mancini.

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

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

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

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

Ray Trudell Photography
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Ray is a lifelong local resident whom describes himself as a disgruntled union thug... a better description might be a man who thinks for himself, lives life to his own beat and in his own unique skewed style shows us the way he sees life, through the lens of his camera. He finds those peaceful refuges that are tucked in between the chaos and the hectic. Those bites of peace and nature that make living in Central New York worth all the rain, shoveling and construction!

i think i know you the best when I sleep
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of dreams and the people who made them matter, by Erin Fassinger.

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Out on a Limb
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

New work by ceramist Terry Askey-Cole and painter Lisa Noviasky.

Adirondack ABCs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of original artwork from the children's book Adirondack ABCs, written by Joyce Burgess Snavlin and illustrated by Linda Davis Reed. The book introduces young readers to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons, such as bears and beavers, frogs and ferns, lean-tos and loons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited this past spring at View Art Center's Eco Gallery, in Old Forge.

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

Read a review!

2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their art.

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

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

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

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Rabbit and Pantheon
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Angie Co

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Architect and educator Angie Co is founder and principal of Co + LeCavalier (Brooklyn), coordinator of Syracuse's NYC architecture program, and a visiting critic in Syracuse this semester. Her lecture will focus on superlogical form, vaults, chimeras, and balloons.

Faculty Recital Series: AMIDA Piano Duo
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Ida Tili-Trebicka and Amy Heyman, piano

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

The duo will perform with a Vocal Octet (Janet Brown and Julianna Sabol, Soprano; Carolyn Weber and Kathleen Roland-Silverstein, Alto; Robert Allen and John Warren, Tenor; Eric Johnson and Peppie Calvar, Baritone), Forty Fingers (with Steven Heyman and Kathleen Haddock, piano), and a String Quartet (Shelby Dems and Matteo Longhi, Violins; Emily Bredermeyer, Viola; Greg Wood, Cello)

The concert will feature works by Schubert, Smetana, Britten, Brahms, Khatchaturian, and Gershwin.

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 updates.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

LeMoyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of new work by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore and Zach Dunn will be on display. The four artists are all members of LeMoyne's visual and performing arts department.

Waking Dreams: Word and Image: Works by Terry McMaster
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Terry McMaster is a social worker for Catholic Charities and teaches human services for Columbia College. His painted images manifest from the realm of the unconscious both personal and collective. His photographs take images from the built environment and from nature, and attempt to reveal a deeper reality than what is visible on the surface.

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.

Gallery Exhibit: David A. Ludwig, Structures
Onondaga Community College

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

David Ludwig began his career as a painter and slowly evolved from two-dimensional color field paintings on canvas to three-dimensional wall reliefs or structures constructed of plywood. His work as a model builder for an architecture firm in Philadelphia had a major impact on his working method as well as on the direction his work would take.

At first glance, Ludwig's colorful abstract structures are minimal in means. Closer observation reveals, however, each structure's complexity. Controlled completely, the artist sets up a dialogue between form, light, color and texture from the very beginning.

Fictional Reality and Radical Sanity: A Girl in Progress
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

A solo show that celebrates the art of Syracuse-based Pop Surreal/Lowbrow painter Eugenia Mancini Horan.

"Using fingers instead of brushes, my goal is to use color, subject, and simplicity to try to tap back into the psyche we had as children. The world was bold and vibrant. We were playful, devious, and mischievous without fear. And the world was ours, just ours, for the asking. Time teaches us to color in the lines; aging expects us to act like adults. I reject that stigma in my life and in my work," says Mancini.

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

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

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

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

Ray Trudell Photography
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Ray is a lifelong local resident whom describes himself as a disgruntled union thug... a better description might be a man who thinks for himself, lives life to his own beat and in his own unique skewed style shows us the way he sees life, through the lens of his camera. He finds those peaceful refuges that are tucked in between the chaos and the hectic. Those bites of peace and nature that make living in Central New York worth all the rain, shoveling and construction!

i think i know you the best when I sleep
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of dreams and the people who made them matter, by Erin Fassinger.

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Out on a Limb
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

New work by ceramist Terry Askey-Cole and painter Lisa Noviasky.

Adirondack ABCs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of original artwork from the children's book Adirondack ABCs, written by Joyce Burgess Snavlin and illustrated by Linda Davis Reed. The book introduces young readers to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons, such as bears and beavers, frogs and ferns, lean-tos and loons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited this past spring at View Art Center's Eco Gallery, in Old Forge.

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

Read a review!

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their art.

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

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

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

Read a review!

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

Advanced Painting
XL Projects

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

Advanced Painting is an exhibition of recent work by senior and graduate painting students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts Department of Art.

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

Combat Paper Redux
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, we have brought "Combat Paper" back to Syracuse! An earlier version of this exhibit featuring images on paper made out of shredded combat uniforms was our Grand Opening exhibition in October 2008. The Combat Paper project began as art therapy utilizing paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and yes...Vietnam.

While anti-war activists are portrayed as unpatriotic and focused only on the negative, the project has proven to have a positive impact on veterans, serving as a visceral statement of the long-lasting effects of combat and as a catalyst for community discussion and activism. The art comes to us from all across this country with a special nod to the work from the Combat Paper Studio in Ithaca.

A companion piece to the paper-making project is the Warrior Writers' Project where veterans are encouraged through workshops to write about their feelings since coming home. The words have been printed on hand-made combat paper and bound into books. This project provides an opportunity for veterans to come together and connect, reconcile and heal through sharing their words with each other. We will feature a Warrior Writers' event and journal making workshop with vets from Ithaca during the exhibition.

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The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

Lunchtime Lecture: Nyumba ya Sanaa gallery tour with Domenic Iacono
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Join Domenic Iacono, Director, SUArt Galleries, as he tours his selections from The Maryknoll Collection of Tanzanian Art, a recent addition to the University Art Collection.

Wednesdays on Walton: 9/11 Tribute with Parrotbeach

Price: Free
Walton and Franklin St.
Armory Square, Syracuse

The event will also feature local street performers including jugglers, giant festival puppets, marching bands, and musicians. Local merchants will sell food and beverages.

Daniel O'Donnell

Price: $88, $78, $68, $58, $48
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Sarah Lee & Johnny
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Thursday, September 12, 2013

LeMoyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of new work by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore and Zach Dunn will be on display. The four artists are all members of LeMoyne's visual and performing arts department.

Waking Dreams: Word and Image: Works by Terry McMaster
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Terry McMaster is a social worker for Catholic Charities and teaches human services for Columbia College. His painted images manifest from the realm of the unconscious both personal and collective. His photographs take images from the built environment and from nature, and attempt to reveal a deeper reality than what is visible on the surface.

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.

Gallery Exhibit: David A. Ludwig, Structures
Onondaga Community College

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

David Ludwig began his career as a painter and slowly evolved from two-dimensional color field paintings on canvas to three-dimensional wall reliefs or structures constructed of plywood. His work as a model builder for an architecture firm in Philadelphia had a major impact on his working method as well as on the direction his work would take.

At first glance, Ludwig's colorful abstract structures are minimal in means. Closer observation reveals, however, each structure's complexity. Controlled completely, the artist sets up a dialogue between form, light, color and texture from the very beginning.

Fictional Reality and Radical Sanity: A Girl in Progress
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

A solo show that celebrates the art of Syracuse-based Pop Surreal/Lowbrow painter Eugenia Mancini Horan.

"Using fingers instead of brushes, my goal is to use color, subject, and simplicity to try to tap back into the psyche we had as children. The world was bold and vibrant. We were playful, devious, and mischievous without fear. And the world was ours, just ours, for the asking. Time teaches us to color in the lines; aging expects us to act like adults. I reject that stigma in my life and in my work," says Mancini.

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

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

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

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

Ray Trudell Photography
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Ray is a lifelong local resident whom describes himself as a disgruntled union thug... a better description might be a man who thinks for himself, lives life to his own beat and in his own unique skewed style shows us the way he sees life, through the lens of his camera. He finds those peaceful refuges that are tucked in between the chaos and the hectic. Those bites of peace and nature that make living in Central New York worth all the rain, shoveling and construction!

i think i know you the best when I sleep
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of dreams and the people who made them matter, by Erin Fassinger.

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Out on a Limb
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

New work by ceramist Terry Askey-Cole and painter Lisa Noviasky.

Adirondack ABCs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of original artwork from the children's book Adirondack ABCs, written by Joyce Burgess Snavlin and illustrated by Linda Davis Reed. The book introduces young readers to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons, such as bears and beavers, frogs and ferns, lean-tos and loons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited this past spring at View Art Center's Eco Gallery, in Old Forge.

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

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2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their art.

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

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

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

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Advanced Painting
XL Projects

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

Advanced Painting is an exhibition of recent work by senior and graduate painting students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts Department of Art.

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

Combat Paper Redux
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, we have brought "Combat Paper" back to Syracuse! An earlier version of this exhibit featuring images on paper made out of shredded combat uniforms was our Grand Opening exhibition in October 2008. The Combat Paper project began as art therapy utilizing paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and yes...Vietnam.

While anti-war activists are portrayed as unpatriotic and focused only on the negative, the project has proven to have a positive impact on veterans, serving as a visceral statement of the long-lasting effects of combat and as a catalyst for community discussion and activism. The art comes to us from all across this country with a special nod to the work from the Combat Paper Studio in Ithaca.

A companion piece to the paper-making project is the Warrior Writers' Project where veterans are encouraged through workshops to write about their feelings since coming home. The words have been printed on hand-made combat paper and bound into books. This project provides an opportunity for veterans to come together and connect, reconcile and heal through sharing their words with each other. We will feature a Warrior Writers' event and journal making workshop with vets from Ithaca during the exhibition.

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Opening: Meet the Pen Women
Gallery One Fourteen

Gallery One Fourteen
114 Helen St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm, with poetry readings and Mediterranean fare.

An exhibit of the visual and literary work of members of the CNY Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.

Platonic: Dani Leventhal
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Dani Leventhal's Platonic, geometric specters twirl in space; pet cats foam at the mouth; a little boy mistakes his junkie dad for a superhero; and a confused adolescent worries he has sired a centaur. Platonic references both the ancient philosopher's metaphysics of ideal Forms, which simultaneously exist outside our perceptions and yet give rise to them, and the related meaning in common parlance of non-romantic love. Leventhal trains her searching lens on the distance separating bodies, moments, and perspectives. The result is a study in the awkward gaps between appearance and reality, seeing and understanding, desire and its object. (21:33 minutes)

The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

Gala Opening Night with Jane Monheit
LeMoyne College

Price: $25 (reservations suggested)
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A leading light in the world of jazz and cabaret, Grammy-nominated vocalist Jane Monheit offers an intimate evening of jazz. The event will also feature a silent auction and champagne toast, with proceeds benefitting the LeMoyne College music program.

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

Monty Python's Spamalot
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

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

Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and features a bevy of beautiful show girls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits, and French people. Did we mention the bevy of beautiful show girls?

Book and lyrics by Eric Idle; music by Johd Du Prez and Eric Idle. Abel Searor, music director; Kaleigh Pfohl and Stephfond Brunson, choreographers; starring Bob Brown and Cathleen O'Brien Brown.

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Friday, September 13, 2013

LeMoyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of new work by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore and Zach Dunn will be on display. The four artists are all members of LeMoyne's visual and performing arts department.

Waking Dreams: Word and Image: Works by Terry McMaster
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Terry McMaster is a social worker for Catholic Charities and teaches human services for Columbia College. His painted images manifest from the realm of the unconscious both personal and collective. His photographs take images from the built environment and from nature, and attempt to reveal a deeper reality than what is visible on the surface.

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.

Afro-Brazilian Syncretism: Works by Oscar Manjarres

Price: Free
Beauchamp Public Library
Corner S. Salina & Colvin Sts., Syracuse

This collection represents a natural human garden of emotions. Oscar starts making art properly after he recognizes what is reflected on the paper, finishing it with color on mixed media to obtain the desired results.

Gallery Exhibit: David A. Ludwig, Structures
Onondaga Community College

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

David Ludwig began his career as a painter and slowly evolved from two-dimensional color field paintings on canvas to three-dimensional wall reliefs or structures constructed of plywood. His work as a model builder for an architecture firm in Philadelphia had a major impact on his working method as well as on the direction his work would take.

At first glance, Ludwig's colorful abstract structures are minimal in means. Closer observation reveals, however, each structure's complexity. Controlled completely, the artist sets up a dialogue between form, light, color and texture from the very beginning.

Fictional Reality and Radical Sanity: A Girl in Progress
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

A solo show that celebrates the art of Syracuse-based Pop Surreal/Lowbrow painter Eugenia Mancini Horan.

"Using fingers instead of brushes, my goal is to use color, subject, and simplicity to try to tap back into the psyche we had as children. The world was bold and vibrant. We were playful, devious, and mischievous without fear. And the world was ours, just ours, for the asking. Time teaches us to color in the lines; aging expects us to act like adults. I reject that stigma in my life and in my work," says Mancini.

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

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

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

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

Ray Trudell Photography
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Ray is a lifelong local resident whom describes himself as a disgruntled union thug... a better description might be a man who thinks for himself, lives life to his own beat and in his own unique skewed style shows us the way he sees life, through the lens of his camera. He finds those peaceful refuges that are tucked in between the chaos and the hectic. Those bites of peace and nature that make living in Central New York worth all the rain, shoveling and construction!

i think i know you the best when I sleep
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of dreams and the people who made them matter, by Erin Fassinger.

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Out on a Limb
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

New work by ceramist Terry Askey-Cole and painter Lisa Noviasky.

Meet the Pen Women
Gallery One Fourteen

Gallery One Fourteen
114 Helen St., Syracuse

An exhibit of the visual and literary work of members of the CNY Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.

Adirondack ABCs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of original artwork from the children's book Adirondack ABCs, written by Joyce Burgess Snavlin and illustrated by Linda Davis Reed. The book introduces young readers to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons, such as bears and beavers, frogs and ferns, lean-tos and loons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited this past spring at View Art Center's Eco Gallery, in Old Forge.

2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

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Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their art.

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

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

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

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20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

Advanced Painting
XL Projects

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

Advanced Painting is an exhibition of recent work by senior and graduate painting students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts Department of Art.

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

Combat Paper Redux
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, we have brought "Combat Paper" back to Syracuse! An earlier version of this exhibit featuring images on paper made out of shredded combat uniforms was our Grand Opening exhibition in October 2008. The Combat Paper project began as art therapy utilizing paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and yes...Vietnam.

While anti-war activists are portrayed as unpatriotic and focused only on the negative, the project has proven to have a positive impact on veterans, serving as a visceral statement of the long-lasting effects of combat and as a catalyst for community discussion and activism. The art comes to us from all across this country with a special nod to the work from the Combat Paper Studio in Ithaca.

A companion piece to the paper-making project is the Warrior Writers' Project where veterans are encouraged through workshops to write about their feelings since coming home. The words have been printed on hand-made combat paper and bound into books. This project provides an opportunity for veterans to come together and connect, reconcile and heal through sharing their words with each other. We will feature a Warrior Writers' event and journal making workshop with vets from Ithaca during the exhibition.

Read a review!

Creative Rapport
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Mary Padgett shows her pastel florals, still lifes, and landscapes reflecting her passion for color, light and texture.
Wendy Harris, a former student of Mary Padgett, exhibits her interpretations of light and texture through cloudscape and landscape pastel paintings.
Michelle DaRin exhibits enamel and mixed media jewelry.
Stephen Brucker displays his art glass forms drawing attention to the delicacy and impermanence of nature.

Platonic: Dani Leventhal
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Dani Leventhal's Platonic, geometric specters twirl in space; pet cats foam at the mouth; a little boy mistakes his junkie dad for a superhero; and a confused adolescent worries he has sired a centaur. Platonic references both the ancient philosopher's metaphysics of ideal Forms, which simultaneously exist outside our perceptions and yet give rise to them, and the related meaning in common parlance of non-romantic love. Leventhal trains her searching lens on the distance separating bodies, moments, and perspectives. The result is a study in the awkward gaps between appearance and reality, seeing and understanding, desire and its object. (21:33 minutes)

Festa Italiana

Price: Free
Washington St. (in front of City Hall)
Syracuse

4:30 pm: Nick Mulpagano
6:00 pm: Tre Bella
7:00 pm: Prime Time
9:00 pm: Atlas

The Invisible War (2012)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

From Oscar and Emmy nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick comes The Invisible War, a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America's most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem—today, a female soldier in combat zones is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. The Department of Defense estimates there were a staggering 22,800 violent sex crimes in the military in 2011. 20% of all active-duty female soldiers are sexually assaulted. Female soldiers aged 18 to 21 accounted for more than half of the victims. Focusing on the powerfully emotional stories of rape victims, The Invisible War is a moving indictment of the systemic cover-up of military sex crimes, chronicling the women's struggles to rebuild their lives and fight for justice. It also features hard-hitting interviews with high-ranking military officials and members of Congress that reveal the perfect storm of conditions that exist for rape in the military, its long-hidden history, and what can be done to bring about much-needed change.

Representatives from VERA House and the Veterans Administration Sexual Assault and Suicide Prevention division will be present.

The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

Kevin Moore Piano Recital
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Jazz@Sitrus: Nancy Kelly
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Keller Williams
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Los Dos Ruisenores: The Two Nightingales
Community Folk Art Center
La Joven Guardia Del Teatro Latino
Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado, director

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

Los Dos Ruisenores: The Two Nightingales, adapted by Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado, will creatively emphasize the importance of embracing love, respecting nature, and experiencing personal freedom.

For more information, phone 315-442-2230. Presented by the Spanish Action League.

The Birthday Party
Appleseed Productions
John Brackett, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

At a sleepy seaside boarding house, the humdrum routine of corn flakes, newspapers and naps is interrupted by the appearance of two mysterious strangers. Harold Pinter was a director, actor and one of the most influential modern British dramatists, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005. This celebrated, ultimately undefinable classic derives its power from Pinter's brilliantly mysterious yet comic riff on the absurd terrors of the everyday.

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Monty Python's Spamalot
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $25
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and features a bevy of beautiful show girls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits, and French people. Did we mention the bevy of beautiful show girls?

Book and lyrics by Eric Idle; music by Johd Du Prez and Eric Idle. Abel Searor, music director; Kaleigh Pfohl and Stephfond Brunson, choreographers; starring Bob Brown and Cathleen O'Brien Brown.

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Saturday, September 14, 2013

LeMoyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of new work by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore and Zach Dunn will be on display. The four artists are all members of LeMoyne's visual and performing arts department.

Afro-Brazilian Syncretism: Works by Oscar Manjarres

Price: Free
Beauchamp Public Library
Corner S. Salina & Colvin Sts., Syracuse

This collection represents a natural human garden of emotions. Oscar starts making art properly after he recognizes what is reflected on the paper, finishing it with color on mixed media to obtain the desired results.

Waking Dreams: Word and Image: Works by Terry McMaster
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Terry McMaster is a social worker for Catholic Charities and teaches human services for Columbia College. His painted images manifest from the realm of the unconscious both personal and collective. His photographs take images from the built environment and from nature, and attempt to reveal a deeper reality than what is visible on the surface.

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.

Creative Rapport
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Mary Padgett shows her pastel florals, still lifes, and landscapes reflecting her passion for color, light and texture.
Wendy Harris, a former student of Mary Padgett, exhibits her interpretations of light and texture through cloudscape and landscape pastel paintings.
Michelle DaRin exhibits enamel and mixed media jewelry.
Stephen Brucker displays his art glass forms drawing attention to the delicacy and impermanence of nature.

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

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

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

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Out on a Limb
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

New work by ceramist Terry Askey-Cole and painter Lisa Noviasky.

Adirondack ABCs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of original artwork from the children's book Adirondack ABCs, written by Joyce Burgess Snavlin and illustrated by Linda Davis Reed. The book introduces young readers to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons, such as bears and beavers, frogs and ferns, lean-tos and loons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited this past spring at View Art Center's Eco Gallery, in Old Forge.

Ray Trudell Photography
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Ray is a lifelong local resident whom describes himself as a disgruntled union thug... a better description might be a man who thinks for himself, lives life to his own beat and in his own unique skewed style shows us the way he sees life, through the lens of his camera. He finds those peaceful refuges that are tucked in between the chaos and the hectic. Those bites of peace and nature that make living in Central New York worth all the rain, shoveling and construction!

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

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

There will be an opening reception this afternoon 1:00-3:00. In attendance will be the featured artist Dodard, his Excellency Paul Altidor Ambassador to Haiti, and acclaimed Chef Alain Lemaire. During the reception, Dodard will give a gallery talk and Chef Alain Lemaire who is catering the reception, will present a culinary conversation about Haitian cuisine.

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

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A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their art.

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Combat Paper Redux
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, we have brought "Combat Paper" back to Syracuse! An earlier version of this exhibit featuring images on paper made out of shredded combat uniforms was our Grand Opening exhibition in October 2008. The Combat Paper project began as art therapy utilizing paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and yes...Vietnam.

While anti-war activists are portrayed as unpatriotic and focused only on the negative, the project has proven to have a positive impact on veterans, serving as a visceral statement of the long-lasting effects of combat and as a catalyst for community discussion and activism. The art comes to us from all across this country with a special nod to the work from the Combat Paper Studio in Ithaca.

A companion piece to the paper-making project is the Warrior Writers' Project where veterans are encouraged through workshops to write about their feelings since coming home. The words have been printed on hand-made combat paper and bound into books. This project provides an opportunity for veterans to come together and connect, reconcile and heal through sharing their words with each other. We will feature a Warrior Writers' event and journal making workshop with vets from Ithaca during the exhibition.

Read a review!

Advanced Painting
XL Projects

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

Advanced Painting is an exhibition of recent work by senior and graduate painting students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts Department of Art.

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

Platonic: Dani Leventhal
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Dani Leventhal's Platonic, geometric specters twirl in space; pet cats foam at the mouth; a little boy mistakes his junkie dad for a superhero; and a confused adolescent worries he has sired a centaur. Platonic references both the ancient philosopher's metaphysics of ideal Forms, which simultaneously exist outside our perceptions and yet give rise to them, and the related meaning in common parlance of non-romantic love. Leventhal trains her searching lens on the distance separating bodies, moments, and perspectives. The result is a study in the awkward gaps between appearance and reality, seeing and understanding, desire and its object. (21:33 minutes)

"Teacher Appreciation" Show
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $7
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

We know...school just started. But let's face it, the teachers are probably sick of your kids already. You know that little celebratory dance you do, when the kids get on the bus that first day in September? Well, teachers do that same dance in June. We expect our teachers to have the wisdom of Yoda, the patience of Mother Theresa, and the crowd control skills of the Los Angeles S.W.A.T. team. So, teachers...we salute you! Hang in there. Only 288 more days until summer.

Come and get schooled with the hilarious improv comedy of the Salt City Improv house team, Pork Pie Hat (short-form improv in the style of the hit TV show "Whose Line Is It, Anyway.")

Festa Italiana

Price: Free
Washington St. (in front of City Hall)
Syracuse

2:15 pm: Highland Winds
3:15 pm: Canzoni d'Italia
4:30 pm: Dance Centre North
5:30 pm: Jimmy Cavallo
8:00 pm: Tre Bella
9:00 pm: Stroke

First Annual CNY Short Film Festival

SALT Quarters
113 Otisco St., Syracuse

The Film Festival will be showing short films created by filmmakers in the Central New York region. There will be two categories: short films of any genre that do not exceed 10 minutes, and "Flash Flicks," 60-second videos based on keywords of our choosing.

For more information, visit www.cnysff.com.

The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

Cricket Tell the Weather & Friends
Kellish Hill Farm

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

Based in the greater NYC area, Cricket Tell the Weather is a five-piece indie string band featuring bluegrass-inspired original music. Former Syracusans in the bands Atlantic Flyway and Boots n' Shorts, songwriters Andrea Asprelli, fiddle, and Jason Borisoff, guitar, are joined by Manhattan-based Doug Goldstein on the banjo, Dan Tressler on mandolin from Easton, CT, and bassist Jeff Picker from Portland, OR. The quintet has been featured at a slew of bluegrass and folk festivals in their first year, and is set to release their independent debut album in December 2013.

International Arts & Puppet Festival
Open Hand Theater

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

11:00 am: Open Hand Theater The Stone Cutter
11:00 am-1:30 pm: Children's Mask making workshops
11:00 am-1:30 pm: Henna Demonstrations by South Asian Center
11:30 pm: La Familia de la Salsa Latin Dance
12:00 noon: Catskill Puppet Theater Sister Rain, Brother Sun
12:45 pm: Brazilan Percussion Ensemble
1:00 pm: Juggling Workshop
1:45 pm: Puppet Parade with Brazilian Percussion
2:00 pm: Open Hand Theater's GIANT PUPPET CIRCUS
3:00 pm: String Quartet & Snow Queens Minuet
3:00 pm: Children's puppet making workshops
3:15 pm: Kung Fu Dragon
3:30 pm: Juggling workshops

Freckleface Strawberry
Rarely Done Productions

Price: $15 ages 13 and up, $12 ages 6-12, $10 children 5 and under
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Freckleface Strawberry was just like every other girl—except she had bright red hair and something worse...FRECKLES!

Freckleface Strawberry, The Musical, based on the beloved New York Times Best Selling book by celebrated actress Julianne Moore, is a brand new family musical. You and your family can step inside the book's pages with Freckleface and friends as they learn to love the skin they're in.

Freckleface Strawberry will do anything to get rid of her freckles—from scrubbing them with soap, to caking on makeup, and even wearing a ski mask to school! Will her schoolmates realize it's her under the mask? Will Freckleface be brave enough to finally face her complexion in the mirror?

With the help of her loveable school-mates, including an amazingly talented ballerina, a cutie jock, a charming ditz, and a totally kooky teacher, Freckleface learns that everyone is different—and that's what makes everyone special.

With soaring live music, awesome dancing, and a freckleface full of laughs, your whole family will love this brand new musical for all ages...freckles or not!

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Freckleface Strawberry
Rarely Done Productions

Price: $15 ages 13 and up, $12 ages 6-12, $10 children 5 and under
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Freckleface Strawberry was just like every other girl—except she had bright red hair and something worse...FRECKLES!

Freckleface Strawberry, The Musical, based on the beloved New York Times Best Selling book by celebrated actress Julianne Moore, is a brand new family musical. You and your family can step inside the book's pages with Freckleface and friends as they learn to love the skin they're in.

Freckleface Strawberry will do anything to get rid of her freckles—from scrubbing them with soap, to caking on makeup, and even wearing a ski mask to school! Will her schoolmates realize it's her under the mask? Will Freckleface be brave enough to finally face her complexion in the mirror?

With the help of her loveable school-mates, including an amazingly talented ballerina, a cutie jock, a charming ditz, and a totally kooky teacher, Freckleface learns that everyone is different—and that's what makes everyone special.

With soaring live music, awesome dancing, and a freckleface full of laughs, your whole family will love this brand new musical for all ages...freckles or not!

Read a review!

The Birthday Party
Appleseed Productions
John Brackett, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

At a sleepy seaside boarding house, the humdrum routine of corn flakes, newspapers and naps is interrupted by the appearance of two mysterious strangers. Harold Pinter was a director, actor and one of the most influential modern British dramatists, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005. This celebrated, ultimately undefinable classic derives its power from Pinter's brilliantly mysterious yet comic riff on the absurd terrors of the everyday.

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*SOLD OUT* Monty Python's Spamalot
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $39.95 dinner and show, $25 show only
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Tonight's performance will be preceded by dinner at 6:30 pm.

Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and features a bevy of beautiful show girls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits, and French people. Did we mention the bevy of beautiful show girls?

Book and lyrics by Eric Idle; music by Johd Du Prez and Eric Idle. Abel Searor, music director; Kaleigh Pfohl and Stephfond Brunson, choreographers; starring Bob Brown and Cathleen O'Brien Brown.

Read a Review!

Los Dos Ruisenores: The Two Nightingales
Community Folk Art Center
La Joven Guardia Del Teatro Latino
Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado, director

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

Los Dos Ruisenores: The Two Nightingales, adapted by Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado, will creatively emphasize the importance of embracing love, respecting nature, and experiencing personal freedom.

For more information, phone 315-442-2230. Presented by the Spanish Action League.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

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2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

Out on a Limb
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

New work by ceramist Terry Askey-Cole and painter Lisa Noviasky.

Adirondack ABCs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of original artwork from the children's book Adirondack ABCs, written by Joyce Burgess Snavlin and illustrated by Linda Davis Reed. The book introduces young readers to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons, such as bears and beavers, frogs and ferns, lean-tos and loons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited this past spring at View Art Center's Eco Gallery, in Old Forge.

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their art.

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

Combat Paper Redux
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, we have brought "Combat Paper" back to Syracuse! An earlier version of this exhibit featuring images on paper made out of shredded combat uniforms was our Grand Opening exhibition in October 2008. The Combat Paper project began as art therapy utilizing paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and yes...Vietnam.

While anti-war activists are portrayed as unpatriotic and focused only on the negative, the project has proven to have a positive impact on veterans, serving as a visceral statement of the long-lasting effects of combat and as a catalyst for community discussion and activism. The art comes to us from all across this country with a special nod to the work from the Combat Paper Studio in Ithaca.

A companion piece to the paper-making project is the Warrior Writers' Project where veterans are encouraged through workshops to write about their feelings since coming home. The words have been printed on hand-made combat paper and bound into books. This project provides an opportunity for veterans to come together and connect, reconcile and heal through sharing their words with each other. We will feature a Warrior Writers' event and journal making workshop with vets from Ithaca during the exhibition.

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An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

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

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

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20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

LeMoyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of new work by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore and Zach Dunn will be on display. The four artists are all members of LeMoyne's visual and performing arts department.

Advanced Painting
XL Projects

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

Advanced Painting is an exhibition of recent work by senior and graduate painting students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts Department of Art.

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

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Festa Italiana

Price: Free
Washington St. (in front of City Hall)
Syracuse

2:00 pm: Tallon Larham
3:15 pm: Entourage
5:00 pm: Jimmy Cavallo

The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

Westcott Street Cultural Fair

Price: Free
Westcott Business District
Westcott St., Syraucuse

An annual, one-day celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of the Westcott neighborhood through its culture, visual and performing arts, food, service organizations, and activities geared to families and university students returning to the neighborhood.

Main Stage (at Dorian's)
12:30-1:30 pm: The Coachmen
2:10-3:10 pm: Sophistafunk
3:50-4:50 pm: Brownskin
5:30-6:30 pm: Los Blancos

Multicultural Stage (at Papa John's)
12:30-1:15 pm: Root Shock
1:45-2:30 pm: Salsa Son Timba
3:00-3:45 pm: The Syracuse Irish Session
4:15-5:00 pm: Jason Kessler and Friends
5:30-6:15 pm: Akuma Roots

Dance Stage (at Wacheva)
12:30-1:00 pm: Adanfo Ensemble
1:10-1:40 pm: Bassett Street Hounds/Thornden Morris Dancers
1:50-2:20 pm: Alegre Flamenco
2:30-2:50 pm: Johnston School of Irish Dance
3:00-3:20 pm: Aikido of CNY
3:30-4:15 pm: Syracuse Dance Project Breakdance/Hip Hop
4:30-6:00 pm: Wacheva Multicultural Dancers and Drummers

Acoustic Stage (at Taps)
12:45-1:15 pm: Duo L'Adour
1:30-2:10 pm: Tommy Connors
2:25-2:55 pm: Butternut Creek Revival
3:10-3:45 pm: One Black Voice
4:05-4:35 pm: Tim Herron Corporation
4:50-5:30 pm: Dos XX

Kids Stage (at Petit Library)
12:30-1:15 pm: Toddlers' Tango
1:30-2:00 pm: Yoga For Kids
2:15-3:00 pm: Bubblemania: Bubbling & Juggling & Mime
3:15-4:00 pm: Kids Races and Awards
4:15-4:45 pm: Merry Mischief
5:00-5:30 pm: Mad Science with Dr. Weird

Bellydance Stage (at Abdo's)
12:30-1:00 pm: Warm-up Yoga/Tribal Arc (All are welcome)
1:00-3:00 pm: Belly dance performances
3:00-3:30 pm: Belly dance class (All are welcome)
3:30-5:30 pm: Belly dance performances
5:30-6:00 pm: Drum circle/open dancing

For more information, visit www.westcottstreetfair.org.

Sunday Musicale: Bare Bones Trombone Quartet
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: $5 suggested donation
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

Come listen to the Bare Bones Trombone Quartet, featuring Bill Harris, Joe Colombo, Howie Lynn, and James Lamica.

Fall Concert Series: Symphoria String Quartet
Liverpool Public Library

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

The Symphoria String Quartet will feature popular selections, show tunes, and light classics. The ensemble includes Fred Klemperer on violin, Travis Newton on violin, Heather Fais on viola, and Walden Bass on cello.

SVE Extra! Jazz Benefit Concert
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble

Price: Freewill offering
Bellevue Heights United Methodist Church
2112 S. Geddes St., Syracuse

An hour of choral vocal jazz and solo standards, featuring ensemble singers and pianist Jerry Exline, directed by Jeff Welcher.

Donations benefit Syracuse Vocal Ensemble's 40th anniversary season.

Vincent Dubois, organ
Malmgren Concert Series

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Born in 1980, Vincent Dubois' international career as a concert artist was launched in 2002 when he won the Recital Gold Medal at the Calgary International Organ Competition and the Grand Prize at the International Competition of Toulouse, France. Since then, he has performed at music festivals and given concerts throughout Europe, North America, Asia and the Pacific. He has appeared as guest soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong-Kong Philharmonic and Orquesta Filharmonica del Gran Canaria. In March 2012, Mr. Dubois was appointed Director General of the Strasbourg National and Superior Conservatory of Music in France. He is also the titular organist at the Cathedral in Soissons, France.

One More Time: Tribute To Daft Punk, with T3CH
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Nine More Operas in 90 Minutes
Syracuse Opera

Price: Suggested donation: $10 adults, $8 students, free for children under 12
St. Stephen's Lutheran Church
DeWitt St. and Mertens Ave., Syracuse

This all-new production of "Nine More Operas in 90 Minutes" will feature operatic selections from Carmen, Faust, Julius Caesar, and Susannah, among others, plus selections from West Side Story and Sunday in the Park with George.

The performance will feature Syracuse Opera's 2013-14 Resident artists Raquel Suarez, soprano; Kevin Newell, tenor; Brandon Coleman, bass-baritone; Kristin Ditlow, principal coach/accompanist; and Trish HDSHT Patricia Weinmann, Stage Director.

Monty Python's Spamalot
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

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

Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and features a bevy of beautiful show girls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits, and French people. Did we mention the bevy of beautiful show girls?

Book and lyrics by Eric Idle; music by Johd Du Prez and Eric Idle. Abel Searor, music director; Kaleigh Pfohl and Stephfond Brunson, choreographers; starring Bob Brown and Cathleen O'Brien Brown.

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Freckleface Strawberry
Rarely Done Productions

Price: $15 ages 13 and up, $12 ages 6-12, $10 children 5 and under
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Freckleface Strawberry was just like every other girl—except she had bright red hair and something worse...FRECKLES!

Freckleface Strawberry, The Musical, based on the beloved New York Times Best Selling book by celebrated actress Julianne Moore, is a brand new family musical. You and your family can step inside the book's pages with Freckleface and friends as they learn to love the skin they're in.

Freckleface Strawberry will do anything to get rid of her freckles—from scrubbing them with soap, to caking on makeup, and even wearing a ski mask to school! Will her schoolmates realize it's her under the mask? Will Freckleface be brave enough to finally face her complexion in the mirror?

With the help of her loveable school-mates, including an amazingly talented ballerina, a cutie jock, a charming ditz, and a totally kooky teacher, Freckleface learns that everyone is different—and that's what makes everyone special.

With soaring live music, awesome dancing, and a freckleface full of laughs, your whole family will love this brand new musical for all ages...freckles or not!

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Los Dos Ruisenores: The Two Nightingales
Community Folk Art Center
La Joven Guardia Del Teatro Latino
Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado, director

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

Los Dos Ruisenores: The Two Nightingales, adapted by Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado, will creatively emphasize the importance of embracing love, respecting nature, and experiencing personal freedom.

For more information, phone 315-442-2230. Presented by the Spanish Action League.

Freckleface Strawberry
Rarely Done Productions

Price: $15 ages 13 and up, $12 ages 6-12, $10 children 5 and under
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Freckleface Strawberry was just like every other girl—except she had bright red hair and something worse...FRECKLES!

Freckleface Strawberry, The Musical, based on the beloved New York Times Best Selling book by celebrated actress Julianne Moore, is a brand new family musical. You and your family can step inside the book's pages with Freckleface and friends as they learn to love the skin they're in.

Freckleface Strawberry will do anything to get rid of her freckles—from scrubbing them with soap, to caking on makeup, and even wearing a ski mask to school! Will her schoolmates realize it's her under the mask? Will Freckleface be brave enough to finally face her complexion in the mirror?

With the help of her loveable school-mates, including an amazingly talented ballerina, a cutie jock, a charming ditz, and a totally kooky teacher, Freckleface learns that everyone is different—and that's what makes everyone special.

With soaring live music, awesome dancing, and a freckleface full of laughs, your whole family will love this brand new musical for all ages...freckles or not!

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Monday, September 16, 2013

LeMoyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of new work by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore and Zach Dunn will be on display. The four artists are all members of LeMoyne's visual and performing arts department.

Waking Dreams: Word and Image: Works by Terry McMaster
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Terry McMaster is a social worker for Catholic Charities and teaches human services for Columbia College. His painted images manifest from the realm of the unconscious both personal and collective. His photographs take images from the built environment and from nature, and attempt to reveal a deeper reality than what is visible on the surface.

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.

Afro-Brazilian Syncretism: Works by Oscar Manjarres

Price: Free
Beauchamp Public Library
Corner S. Salina & Colvin Sts., Syracuse

This collection represents a natural human garden of emotions. Oscar starts making art properly after he recognizes what is reflected on the paper, finishing it with color on mixed media to obtain the desired results.

Gallery Exhibit: David A. Ludwig, Structures
Onondaga Community College

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

David Ludwig began his career as a painter and slowly evolved from two-dimensional color field paintings on canvas to three-dimensional wall reliefs or structures constructed of plywood. His work as a model builder for an architecture firm in Philadelphia had a major impact on his working method as well as on the direction his work would take.

At first glance, Ludwig's colorful abstract structures are minimal in means. Closer observation reveals, however, each structure's complexity. Controlled completely, the artist sets up a dialogue between form, light, color and texture from the very beginning.

Fictional Reality and Radical Sanity: A Girl in Progress
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

A solo show that celebrates the art of Syracuse-based Pop Surreal/Lowbrow painter Eugenia Mancini Horan.

"Using fingers instead of brushes, my goal is to use color, subject, and simplicity to try to tap back into the psyche we had as children. The world was bold and vibrant. We were playful, devious, and mischievous without fear. And the world was ours, just ours, for the asking. Time teaches us to color in the lines; aging expects us to act like adults. I reject that stigma in my life and in my work," says Mancini.

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

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

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

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

Ray Trudell Photography
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Ray is a lifelong local resident whom describes himself as a disgruntled union thug... a better description might be a man who thinks for himself, lives life to his own beat and in his own unique skewed style shows us the way he sees life, through the lens of his camera. He finds those peaceful refuges that are tucked in between the chaos and the hectic. Those bites of peace and nature that make living in Central New York worth all the rain, shoveling and construction!

i think i know you the best when I sleep
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of dreams and the people who made them matter, by Erin Fassinger.

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Out on a Limb
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

New work by ceramist Terry Askey-Cole and painter Lisa Noviasky.

Adirondack ABCs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of original artwork from the children's book Adirondack ABCs, written by Joyce Burgess Snavlin and illustrated by Linda Davis Reed. The book introduces young readers to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons, such as bears and beavers, frogs and ferns, lean-tos and loons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited this past spring at View Art Center's Eco Gallery, in Old Forge.

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

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We're Not Dressing (1934)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Norman Taurog. Cast: Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman, Leon Errol, Ray Milland.

A shipwreck results in a group of passengers being marooned on a desert island and forced to fend for themselves. This fun musical-comedy features the Crosby hits "Love Thy Neighbor", "May I?", "Goodnight, Lovely Little Lady" and others. One of Bing's most popular 1930s films.

Plus extra added comedy short: Charley Chase in "Young Ironsides" (1931). When a wealthy debutante enters a bathing beauty contest in Atlantic City, her disgraced parents hire Charley to find her and bring her home.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

LeMoyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of new work by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore and Zach Dunn will be on display. The four artists are all members of LeMoyne's visual and performing arts department.

Waking Dreams: Word and Image: Works by Terry McMaster
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Terry McMaster is a social worker for Catholic Charities and teaches human services for Columbia College. His painted images manifest from the realm of the unconscious both personal and collective. His photographs take images from the built environment and from nature, and attempt to reveal a deeper reality than what is visible on the surface.

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.