Monday, February 11, 2013

Important Persons Project
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Students from Henniger High School are exhibiting their own "Significant Souls" artwork in our gallery windows. The work was done by the art students of Ms. Lizzio in a workshop conducted by visiting artist Gail Hoffman. The work will be on view throughout the Significant Souls exhibition.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Juan A. Cruz's "Mini Retrospective of the '80s, '90s and '00s," takes a look at the artist's journeys to Spain, Mexico, Central America and Cuba. The works reflect his search for his past and an understanding of where tribal and modern worlds meet.

Cruz is the artist-in-residence of the Near West Side Initiative, an urban revitalization program in the Near Westside neighborhood in Syracuse. Cruz lives and works in his "Patch-Up Studio" hoping to provide a community place for children and adults to learn art.

Cruz's work has shown extensively in Upstate New York, California, and Puerto Rico and some are now in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, the Gifford Foundation, and the Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Upstate New York.

Agents of Expression
LeMoyne College

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

The sculptures and assemblages of Sharon BuMann and Gail V. Hoffman.

Sacred Paradox: Photography by Willson Cummer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs by local artist Willson Cummer focus on exploring humanity's place in the environment. This group of photographs depicts images of Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, taken from a canoe and from the shore. The exhibit title, Sacred Paradox, refers to the conflicting reality of Onondaga Lake -- it is both a Superfund cleanup site and a holy lake for the nearby Onondaga Indian Nation.

CNY Scholastic Arts Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A mixed media exhibit featuring award-winning work from high school students across Central New York.
The Scholastic Art Awards recognize nearly 30,000 teen artists and writers. One thousand of these artists receive national awards. Each piece is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Neil Chowdhury Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Neil Chowdhury will showcase two photographic series exploring Indian heritage and culture. Chowdhury's body of work depicts laborers and vendors eking out a living on the street of India's biggest city.

Skin Contention: Works by Olivia Morrow
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Olivia Morrow presents her first solo show, a series of sculptural forms accompanied by video, reflecting on issues of femininity and sexuality. The artist is a recent SU graduate in sculpture from VPA's Department of Art.

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press. Founded by Barney Rosset in 1951, Grove Press became one of the 20th-century's great avant-garde publishing houses. What began as a small independent publisher on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village grew into a multimillion dollar publishing company that has been credited with introducing important authors from around the world to American readers during the postwar period.

Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable Victorian Library. Each book published by Grove, the exhibition reveals, was in its own way, a "strange victory." For while Grove altered the American literary landscape and its relationship to social mores, equality, and freedom of expression, Grove also aggressively deployed savvy marketing strategies, became embroiled in labor union battles, floundered in its own success, and offended the sensibilities of not only "squares," but feminists, Marxists, academics, and many others. Strange Victories tells the complicated story of Grove's many literary and political achievements, whose profound influence on American culture endures today.

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist statement: "The cast resin works of 'Within' represent both mystery and metaphor. The use of clear resin and lost wax surfaces allows me to capture, reflect and diffract light to create a constantly changing vision. The surfaces of the sculpture act as a mirror or prism and offer the contrast of surprise yet familiarity. I find a strong connection between the material and myself. Time disappears. There is a kind of magic that takes place during the act of creating art."

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Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

The Design Impact of Robert Blaich
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition showcasing the distinguished career of Robert Blaich and the importance and impact of his 60 years in the design field.

After earning a bachelor of fine arts degree in design from SU, Blaich worked for Herman Miller Inc., where he eventually became vice president of corporate design and communications. He went on to become senior managing director of design at Royal Philips Electronics in the Netherlands and established himself as an innovator in the industrial design field. In 1991, he founded his own company, Blaich Associates. He is a past member and chair of the board at Teague and a fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America.

"The Design Impact of Robert Blaich" is curated, designed and installed by first-year graduate museum studies students in VPA. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson, exhibition facilitator, at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Annual Gospel Fest
Onondaga Community College

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Important Persons Project
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Students from Henniger High School are exhibiting their own "Significant Souls" artwork in our gallery windows. The work was done by the art students of Ms. Lizzio in a workshop conducted by visiting artist Gail Hoffman. The work will be on view throughout the Significant Souls exhibition.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Juan A. Cruz's "Mini Retrospective of the '80s, '90s and '00s," takes a look at the artist's journeys to Spain, Mexico, Central America and Cuba. The works reflect his search for his past and an understanding of where tribal and modern worlds meet.

Cruz is the artist-in-residence of the Near West Side Initiative, an urban revitalization program in the Near Westside neighborhood in Syracuse. Cruz lives and works in his "Patch-Up Studio" hoping to provide a community place for children and adults to learn art.

Cruz's work has shown extensively in Upstate New York, California, and Puerto Rico and some are now in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, the Gifford Foundation, and the Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Upstate New York.

Agents of Expression
LeMoyne College

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

The sculptures and assemblages of Sharon BuMann and Gail V. Hoffman.

Sacred Paradox: Photography by Willson Cummer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs by local artist Willson Cummer focus on exploring humanity's place in the environment. This group of photographs depicts images of Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, taken from a canoe and from the shore. The exhibit title, Sacred Paradox, refers to the conflicting reality of Onondaga Lake -- it is both a Superfund cleanup site and a holy lake for the nearby Onondaga Indian Nation.

Neil Chowdhury Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Neil Chowdhury will showcase two photographic series exploring Indian heritage and culture. Chowdhury's body of work depicts laborers and vendors eking out a living on the street of India's biggest city.

CNY Scholastic Arts Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A mixed media exhibit featuring award-winning work from high school students across Central New York.
The Scholastic Art Awards recognize nearly 30,000 teen artists and writers. One thousand of these artists receive national awards. Each piece is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Skin Contention: Works by Olivia Morrow
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Olivia Morrow presents her first solo show, a series of sculptural forms accompanied by video, reflecting on issues of femininity and sexuality. The artist is a recent SU graduate in sculpture from VPA's Department of Art.

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press. Founded by Barney Rosset in 1951, Grove Press became one of the 20th-century's great avant-garde publishing houses. What began as a small independent publisher on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village grew into a multimillion dollar publishing company that has been credited with introducing important authors from around the world to American readers during the postwar period.

Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable Victorian Library. Each book published by Grove, the exhibition reveals, was in its own way, a "strange victory." For while Grove altered the American literary landscape and its relationship to social mores, equality, and freedom of expression, Grove also aggressively deployed savvy marketing strategies, became embroiled in labor union battles, floundered in its own success, and offended the sensibilities of not only "squares," but feminists, Marxists, academics, and many others. Strange Victories tells the complicated story of Grove's many literary and political achievements, whose profound influence on American culture endures today.

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Collage/Assemblage
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Collage works of Michael Sickler and Roy Simmons Jr.
Assemblage 3D pieces and jewelry of Linda Esterley

Stone Canoe Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Stone Canoe annual exhibition, in tandem with the launch of the 2013 issue of Stone Canoe Journal, will feature the work of 29 artists, some emerging and some well-established, with connections to the Upstate New York region. The show is curated by Amy Cheng, professor of art at SUNY New Paltz and visual arts editor for Stone Canoe 7. Stone Canoe, an award-winning journal of arts, literature and social commentary, is published each January by University College of Syracuse University.

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist statement: "The cast resin works of 'Within' represent both mystery and metaphor. The use of clear resin and lost wax surfaces allows me to capture, reflect and diffract light to create a constantly changing vision. The surfaces of the sculpture act as a mirror or prism and offer the contrast of surprise yet familiarity. I find a strong connection between the material and myself. Time disappears. There is a kind of magic that takes place during the act of creating art."

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Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Neil Welliver Prints is an exhibition of over 60 examples of the artist's woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and screen prints. Welliver was regarded as one of the preeminent American landscape painters of the 20th century and from the late 1970s to his death in 2005 he considered printmaking an integral part of his artistic activity. Neil Welliver Prints provides an overview of the artist's prolific graphic career, assembling signature wildlife and landscape impressions from over 30 years. Welliver's compelling, larger-than-life paintings of Maine's natural landscape often became series of intimate woodcuts using traditional Japanese methods in collaboration with the noted printmaker Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi. All of the works are on loan from the Alexandre Gallery, New York City, which represented Welliver for years.

Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress" is an exhibition that investigates the impact that work, recreational activities, and independent living had on women during the turn of the 19th to 20th century. The exhibition will feature more than 70 original objects, including color lithography posters from the Arts and Crafts movement, accompanied by examples of furniture, lamps, vases, clothing and other accessories.

The guest curators for this exhibition are graduate students enrolled in the Syracuse University Museum Studies Advanced Curatorship class, under the guidance of Professor Edward Aiken. The works in the exhibition are drawn from a variety of Central New York lenders, including the SU Art Collection, The Stickley Museum, Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center, Dalton's American Decorative Arts, the Cortland County Historical Society, and Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center.

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

In her first solo exhibition at the Everson, Yvonne Buchanan presents a sound installation entitled Strange Tongue, a contemporary altered version of a well-known American gospel song by Mahalia Jackson. All associations to the lyrics have been excised, leaving a wordless voice, emphasizing the expression of sorrow and hope. The audio track can be accessed by dialing (315) 703-3063 and pressing 13.

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

The Design Impact of Robert Blaich
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition showcasing the distinguished career of Robert Blaich and the importance and impact of his 60 years in the design field.

After earning a bachelor of fine arts degree in design from SU, Blaich worked for Herman Miller Inc., where he eventually became vice president of corporate design and communications. He went on to become senior managing director of design at Royal Philips Electronics in the Netherlands and established himself as an innovator in the industrial design field. In 1991, he founded his own company, Blaich Associates. He is a past member and chair of the board at Teague and a fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America.

"The Design Impact of Robert Blaich" is curated, designed and installed by first-year graduate museum studies students in VPA. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson, exhibition facilitator, at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Sing Your Song
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Documentary directed by Susanne Rostock with Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Marge Champion.
"Sing Your Song" is an up-close look at a great American, Harry Belafonte. A patriot to the last and a champion for worldwide human rights, Belafonte is one of the truly heroic cultural and political figures of the past 60 years. Told from Harry's point of view, the film charts his life from a boy born in New York and raised in Jamaica, who returns to Harlem in his early teens where he discovers the American Negro Theater and the magic of performing. "Sing Your Song" takes us on a journey through Harry Belafonte's life, work, and most of all, his conscience, as it inspires us all to action. (2011, 103 minutes)

Choral Collage
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The 2013 Choral Collage concert will feature five of the six choral ensembles within the Setnor School of Music, including the Concert Choir, Hendricks Chapel Choir, University Singers, Windjammer Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and Women's Choir. The performance will feature individual performances by each choir and the choirs will combine to begin and end the concert. Come hear 190 singers making beautiful music!

For more information about this event, contact the choral department at suchoral@gmail.com.

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

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Syracuse Opera

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

A tortured soul returns to London in search of the family he has lost. A master barber, he yields his sharpened razor with laudable precision as he surgically removes the obstacles in his way. Crafted by the brilliant Stephen Sondheim, your laughter will increase with every wince you make. The intimacy of our own Carrier Theater offers you the perfect seat for this touching fable. This night of musical drama will renew your faith in the human spirit -- and change your view of shepherd's pie -- for the rest of your life.

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Two Trains Running
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

"Glorious storytelling...a penetrating revelation of a world hidden from view to those outside it." -- The New York Times

Timothy Bond's previous Syracuse productions from August Wilson's 20th-Century Cycle (Radio Golf, Fences, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) prove that this two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright is indeed the voice of a century. His dialogue soars with the music and power of operatic arias and his characters inspire great performances. In Two Trains Running, an optimistic ex-con enters the insular confines of Memphis Lee's diner and awakens a cast of older and skeptical characters to the possibilities of a new era. Set in the turbulence of 1969, a time much like today, Two Trains Running is one of the most humorous and politically potent of Wilson's plays.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Important Persons Project
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Students from Henniger High School are exhibiting their own "Significant Souls" artwork in our gallery windows. The work was done by the art students of Ms. Lizzio in a workshop conducted by visiting artist Gail Hoffman. The work will be on view throughout the Significant Souls exhibition.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Juan A. Cruz's "Mini Retrospective of the '80s, '90s and '00s," takes a look at the artist's journeys to Spain, Mexico, Central America and Cuba. The works reflect his search for his past and an understanding of where tribal and modern worlds meet.

Cruz is the artist-in-residence of the Near West Side Initiative, an urban revitalization program in the Near Westside neighborhood in Syracuse. Cruz lives and works in his "Patch-Up Studio" hoping to provide a community place for children and adults to learn art.

Cruz's work has shown extensively in Upstate New York, California, and Puerto Rico and some are now in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, the Gifford Foundation, and the Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Upstate New York.

Agents of Expression
LeMoyne College

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

The sculptures and assemblages of Sharon BuMann and Gail V. Hoffman.

Sacred Paradox: Photography by Willson Cummer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs by local artist Willson Cummer focus on exploring humanity's place in the environment. This group of photographs depicts images of Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, taken from a canoe and from the shore. The exhibit title, Sacred Paradox, refers to the conflicting reality of Onondaga Lake -- it is both a Superfund cleanup site and a holy lake for the nearby Onondaga Indian Nation.

Neil Chowdhury Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Neil Chowdhury will showcase two photographic series exploring Indian heritage and culture. Chowdhury's body of work depicts laborers and vendors eking out a living on the street of India's biggest city.

CNY Scholastic Arts Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A mixed media exhibit featuring award-winning work from high school students across Central New York.
The Scholastic Art Awards recognize nearly 30,000 teen artists and writers. One thousand of these artists receive national awards. Each piece is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Skin Contention: Works by Olivia Morrow
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Olivia Morrow presents her first solo show, a series of sculptural forms accompanied by video, reflecting on issues of femininity and sexuality. The artist is a recent SU graduate in sculpture from VPA's Department of Art.

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press. Founded by Barney Rosset in 1951, Grove Press became one of the 20th-century's great avant-garde publishing houses. What began as a small independent publisher on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village grew into a multimillion dollar publishing company that has been credited with introducing important authors from around the world to American readers during the postwar period.

Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable Victorian Library. Each book published by Grove, the exhibition reveals, was in its own way, a "strange victory." For while Grove altered the American literary landscape and its relationship to social mores, equality, and freedom of expression, Grove also aggressively deployed savvy marketing strategies, became embroiled in labor union battles, floundered in its own success, and offended the sensibilities of not only "squares," but feminists, Marxists, academics, and many others. Strange Victories tells the complicated story of Grove's many literary and political achievements, whose profound influence on American culture endures today.

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Collage/Assemblage
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Collage works of Michael Sickler and Roy Simmons Jr.
Assemblage 3D pieces and jewelry of Linda Esterley

Stone Canoe Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Stone Canoe annual exhibition, in tandem with the launch of the 2013 issue of Stone Canoe Journal, will feature the work of 29 artists, some emerging and some well-established, with connections to the Upstate New York region. The show is curated by Amy Cheng, professor of art at SUNY New Paltz and visual arts editor for Stone Canoe 7. Stone Canoe, an award-winning journal of arts, literature and social commentary, is published each January by University College of Syracuse University.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist statement: "The cast resin works of 'Within' represent both mystery and metaphor. The use of clear resin and lost wax surfaces allows me to capture, reflect and diffract light to create a constantly changing vision. The surfaces of the sculpture act as a mirror or prism and offer the contrast of surprise yet familiarity. I find a strong connection between the material and myself. Time disappears. There is a kind of magic that takes place during the act of creating art."

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Salon Style 2
Szozda Gallery

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

In a continuing "mix & match" mode, walls at Szozda Gallery in February will be enveloped in a salon-style exhibit of diverse works by a number of artists; however, this second rendering differs from the last in that works shown are mostly all new pieces created by those artists.

Among the works included in "Salon Style 2" are figurative oil paintings by Phil Parsons, Stephen Perrone, Cayetano Valenzuela, and John Fitzsimmons; pastel and mixed media paintings by Roscha Folger, media by Laura J. Wellner and Linda Esterley; works of societal commentaries expressed by Fred Wellner in his acrylic surrealistic series; archival fiber print photography by Barbara Conte-Gaugel; and more beautiful renderings of Central New York landscapes created by Rob Glisson's plein air painting and Bob Niedzwiecki's oils.

Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress" is an exhibition that investigates the impact that work, recreational activities, and independent living had on women during the turn of the 19th to 20th century. The exhibition will feature more than 70 original objects, including color lithography posters from the Arts and Crafts movement, accompanied by examples of furniture, lamps, vases, clothing and other accessories.

The guest curators for this exhibition are graduate students enrolled in the Syracuse University Museum Studies Advanced Curatorship class, under the guidance of Professor Edward Aiken. The works in the exhibition are drawn from a variety of Central New York lenders, including the SU Art Collection, The Stickley Museum, Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center, Dalton's American Decorative Arts, the Cortland County Historical Society, and Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center.

Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Neil Welliver Prints is an exhibition of over 60 examples of the artist's woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and screen prints. Welliver was regarded as one of the preeminent American landscape painters of the 20th century and from the late 1970s to his death in 2005 he considered printmaking an integral part of his artistic activity. Neil Welliver Prints provides an overview of the artist's prolific graphic career, assembling signature wildlife and landscape impressions from over 30 years. Welliver's compelling, larger-than-life paintings of Maine's natural landscape often became series of intimate woodcuts using traditional Japanese methods in collaboration with the noted printmaker Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi. All of the works are on loan from the Alexandre Gallery, New York City, which represented Welliver for years.

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

In her first solo exhibition at the Everson, Yvonne Buchanan presents a sound installation entitled Strange Tongue, a contemporary altered version of a well-known American gospel song by Mahalia Jackson. All associations to the lyrics have been excised, leaving a wordless voice, emphasizing the expression of sorrow and hope. The audio track can be accessed by dialing (315) 703-3063 and pressing 13.

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

Synchronized Mélange
XL Projects

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

"Synchronized Mélange" features a variety of works from international graduate students from across the Departments of Art and Transmedia. The show is co-organized by Stephen Zaima, VPA associate dean of global academic programs and initiatives and a professor of painting in the Department of Art, and Alex Mendez, assistant professor in the Department of Transmedia.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand.

The Design Impact of Robert Blaich
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition showcasing the distinguished career of Robert Blaich and the importance and impact of his 60 years in the design field.

After earning a bachelor of fine arts degree in design from SU, Blaich worked for Herman Miller Inc., where he eventually became vice president of corporate design and communications. He went on to become senior managing director of design at Royal Philips Electronics in the Netherlands and established himself as an innovator in the industrial design field. In 1991, he founded his own company, Blaich Associates. He is a past member and chair of the board at Teague and a fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America.

"The Design Impact of Robert Blaich" is curated, designed and installed by first-year graduate museum studies students in VPA. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson, exhibition facilitator, at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Significant Souls: Paintings by Patrick Fiore
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Utica-native Patrick Fiore has created a series of 34 paintings inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States 1492-Present, which will be on exhibit.

Patrick does not conceal his intention. He wants, by putting the people and events of the People's History into graphic, startling form, to draw attention to the history of our nation, to the stories omitted, the heroes of dissent missing from the pages of the textbooks. He wants to reach people by his paintings and to inspire them to think for themselves about our society, to tell them about the way people through the centuries have behaved with compassion and kindness, against all odds, have thought for themselves, have organized and agitated, and refused obedience to laws and practices that offend common decency.

This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation.

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

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

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

Syracuse Chorale Chamber Singers
Civic Morning Musicals
Warren Ottey, conductor

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

Program TBA.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Syracuse Opera

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

A tortured soul returns to London in search of the family he has lost. A master barber, he yields his sharpened razor with laudable precision as he surgically removes the obstacles in his way. Crafted by the brilliant Stephen Sondheim, your laughter will increase with every wince you make. The intimacy of our own Carrier Theater offers you the perfect seat for this touching fable. This night of musical drama will renew your faith in the human spirit -- and change your view of shepherd's pie -- for the rest of your life.

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Patrick Lawler
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Patrick Lawler is the author of five collections of poetry and a new novel, Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds (University of Alabama Press, 2012).

The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session 3:45-4:30 pm. Parking is available in SU's paid lots.

Two Trains Running
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

"Glorious storytelling...a penetrating revelation of a world hidden from view to those outside it." -- The New York Times

Timothy Bond's previous Syracuse productions from August Wilson's 20th-Century Cycle (Radio Golf, Fences, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) prove that this two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright is indeed the voice of a century. His dialogue soars with the music and power of operatic arias and his characters inspire great performances. In Two Trains Running, an optimistic ex-con enters the insular confines of Memphis Lee's diner and awakens a cast of older and skeptical characters to the possibilities of a new era. Set in the turbulence of 1969, a time much like today, Two Trains Running is one of the most humorous and politically potent of Wilson's plays.

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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Important Persons Project
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Students from Henniger High School are exhibiting their own "Significant Souls" artwork in our gallery windows. The work was done by the art students of Ms. Lizzio in a workshop conducted by visiting artist Gail Hoffman. The work will be on view throughout the Significant Souls exhibition.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Juan A. Cruz's "Mini Retrospective of the '80s, '90s and '00s," takes a look at the artist's journeys to Spain, Mexico, Central America and Cuba. The works reflect his search for his past and an understanding of where tribal and modern worlds meet.

Cruz is the artist-in-residence of the Near West Side Initiative, an urban revitalization program in the Near Westside neighborhood in Syracuse. Cruz lives and works in his "Patch-Up Studio" hoping to provide a community place for children and adults to learn art.

Cruz's work has shown extensively in Upstate New York, California, and Puerto Rico and some are now in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, the Gifford Foundation, and the Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Upstate New York.

Agents of Expression
LeMoyne College

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

The sculptures and assemblages of Sharon BuMann and Gail V. Hoffman.

Sacred Paradox: Photography by Willson Cummer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs by local artist Willson Cummer focus on exploring humanity's place in the environment. This group of photographs depicts images of Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, taken from a canoe and from the shore. The exhibit title, Sacred Paradox, refers to the conflicting reality of Onondaga Lake -- it is both a Superfund cleanup site and a holy lake for the nearby Onondaga Indian Nation.

Neil Chowdhury Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Neil Chowdhury will showcase two photographic series exploring Indian heritage and culture. Chowdhury's body of work depicts laborers and vendors eking out a living on the street of India's biggest city.

CNY Scholastic Arts Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A mixed media exhibit featuring award-winning work from high school students across Central New York.
The Scholastic Art Awards recognize nearly 30,000 teen artists and writers. One thousand of these artists receive national awards. Each piece is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Skin Contention: Works by Olivia Morrow
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Olivia Morrow presents her first solo show, a series of sculptural forms accompanied by video, reflecting on issues of femininity and sexuality. The artist is a recent SU graduate in sculpture from VPA's Department of Art.

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press. Founded by Barney Rosset in 1951, Grove Press became one of the 20th-century's great avant-garde publishing houses. What began as a small independent publisher on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village grew into a multimillion dollar publishing company that has been credited with introducing important authors from around the world to American readers during the postwar period.

Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable Victorian Library. Each book published by Grove, the exhibition reveals, was in its own way, a "strange victory." For while Grove altered the American literary landscape and its relationship to social mores, equality, and freedom of expression, Grove also aggressively deployed savvy marketing strategies, became embroiled in labor union battles, floundered in its own success, and offended the sensibilities of not only "squares," but feminists, Marxists, academics, and many others. Strange Victories tells the complicated story of Grove's many literary and political achievements, whose profound influence on American culture endures today.

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Collage/Assemblage
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Collage works of Michael Sickler and Roy Simmons Jr.
Assemblage 3D pieces and jewelry of Linda Esterley

Stone Canoe Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Stone Canoe annual exhibition, in tandem with the launch of the 2013 issue of Stone Canoe Journal, will feature the work of 29 artists, some emerging and some well-established, with connections to the Upstate New York region. The show is curated by Amy Cheng, professor of art at SUNY New Paltz and visual arts editor for Stone Canoe 7. Stone Canoe, an award-winning journal of arts, literature and social commentary, is published each January by University College of Syracuse University.

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist statement: "The cast resin works of 'Within' represent both mystery and metaphor. The use of clear resin and lost wax surfaces allows me to capture, reflect and diffract light to create a constantly changing vision. The surfaces of the sculpture act as a mirror or prism and offer the contrast of surprise yet familiarity. I find a strong connection between the material and myself. Time disappears. There is a kind of magic that takes place during the act of creating art."

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Salon Style 2
Szozda Gallery

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

In a continuing "mix & match" mode, walls at Szozda Gallery in February will be enveloped in a salon-style exhibit of diverse works by a number of artists; however, this second rendering differs from the last in that works shown are mostly all new pieces created by those artists.

Among the works included in "Salon Style 2" are figurative oil paintings by Phil Parsons, Stephen Perrone, Cayetano Valenzuela, and John Fitzsimmons; pastel and mixed media paintings by Roscha Folger, media by Laura J. Wellner and Linda Esterley; works of societal commentaries expressed by Fred Wellner in his acrylic surrealistic series; archival fiber print photography by Barbara Conte-Gaugel; and more beautiful renderings of Central New York landscapes created by Rob Glisson's plein air painting and Bob Niedzwiecki's oils.

The Connective Thread: Wearable to Sculptural Fibers
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"The Connective Thread" aims to bring together wearable and sculptural fiber artists who incorporate a range of different techniques into their artwork. Ultimately, goal of the exhibition is to allow the audience to appreciate the almost limitless possibilities of the medium. Participating artists include Kathy Barry, Sharon Bottle-Souva, Lauren Bristol, Mary Giehl, Jean Henry, Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, Nancy Kramer, Laurel Moranz, Rebecca Mushtare, Jen Pepper, Sarah Saulson, Kim Waale, and Davana Wilkins.

Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Neil Welliver Prints is an exhibition of over 60 examples of the artist's woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and screen prints. Welliver was regarded as one of the preeminent American landscape painters of the 20th century and from the late 1970s to his death in 2005 he considered printmaking an integral part of his artistic activity. Neil Welliver Prints provides an overview of the artist's prolific graphic career, assembling signature wildlife and landscape impressions from over 30 years. Welliver's compelling, larger-than-life paintings of Maine's natural landscape often became series of intimate woodcuts using traditional Japanese methods in collaboration with the noted printmaker Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi. All of the works are on loan from the Alexandre Gallery, New York City, which represented Welliver for years.

Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress" is an exhibition that investigates the impact that work, recreational activities, and independent living had on women during the turn of the 19th to 20th century. The exhibition will feature more than 70 original objects, including color lithography posters from the Arts and Crafts movement, accompanied by examples of furniture, lamps, vases, clothing and other accessories.

The guest curators for this exhibition are graduate students enrolled in the Syracuse University Museum Studies Advanced Curatorship class, under the guidance of Professor Edward Aiken. The works in the exhibition are drawn from a variety of Central New York lenders, including the SU Art Collection, The Stickley Museum, Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center, Dalton's American Decorative Arts, the Cortland County Historical Society, and Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center.

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

In her first solo exhibition at the Everson, Yvonne Buchanan presents a sound installation entitled Strange Tongue, a contemporary altered version of a well-known American gospel song by Mahalia Jackson. All associations to the lyrics have been excised, leaving a wordless voice, emphasizing the expression of sorrow and hope. The audio track can be accessed by dialing (315) 703-3063 and pressing 13.

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

Synchronized Mélange
XL Projects

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

"Synchronized Mélange" features a variety of works from international graduate students from across the Departments of Art and Transmedia. The show is co-organized by Stephen Zaima, VPA associate dean of global academic programs and initiatives and a professor of painting in the Department of Art, and Alex Mendez, assistant professor in the Department of Transmedia.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand.

The Design Impact of Robert Blaich
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition showcasing the distinguished career of Robert Blaich and the importance and impact of his 60 years in the design field.

After earning a bachelor of fine arts degree in design from SU, Blaich worked for Herman Miller Inc., where he eventually became vice president of corporate design and communications. He went on to become senior managing director of design at Royal Philips Electronics in the Netherlands and established himself as an innovator in the industrial design field. In 1991, he founded his own company, Blaich Associates. He is a past member and chair of the board at Teague and a fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America.

"The Design Impact of Robert Blaich" is curated, designed and installed by first-year graduate museum studies students in VPA. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson, exhibition facilitator, at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Significant Souls: Paintings by Patrick Fiore
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Utica-native Patrick Fiore has created a series of 34 paintings inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States 1492-Present, which will be on exhibit.

Patrick does not conceal his intention. He wants, by putting the people and events of the People's History into graphic, startling form, to draw attention to the history of our nation, to the stories omitted, the heroes of dissent missing from the pages of the textbooks. He wants to reach people by his paintings and to inspire them to think for themselves about our society, to tell them about the way people through the centuries have behaved with compassion and kindness, against all odds, have thought for themselves, have organized and agitated, and refused obedience to laws and practices that offend common decency.

This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation.

Yvonne Buchanan: in Court (Basketball)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Yvonne Buchanan's video work creates micro-narratives of the ghostly presence of histories. Individual, family and community experiences of otherness, and the perpetual small and large traumas sustained, is the focus of her recent work. She is particularly interested in the strategies employed to endure these experiences, especially ideas of religiosity and beliefs in the afterlife. Her subject is often the black body as object and symbol, the embodiment of curiosity, and a "dark" and weighty presence. In constructing her work, she frequently uses the loop, in creating a circular story, one that can be read differently, as scenes repeat.

The piece in Court features a basketball court, where the hopes and dreams of young black men are played out, at the same time as it seems to fluctuate between a site for sport and a cage. The projection of the piece at the UVP Everson venue, with its close proximity to the Onondaga County jail, takes on a special and literal resonance with the audible but invisible play of the inmates on the rooftop court of the correctional facility.

Total runtime: 13:22

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

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

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

A Valentine Wish
Redhouse
Featuring Karen Oberlin

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

Karen Oberlin, a jazz-pop singer and recording artist -- and Syracuse native -- is a Back Stage Bistro Award winner and Nightlife Award finalist for Outstanding Vocalist of the Year. For her recent tribute to lyricist Yip Harburg, The New York Times praised Oberlin as having "musical intelligence...purity, naturalness and polished phrasing, with added colors and a jazzy spontaneity. (Oberlin is) a jazzier inheritor of (Doris) Day's impeccable pop style." Rex Reed called her performance "thrilling," and continued, "Oberlin is as lovely to look at as she is to hear...(her singing) rings true and funny and flawless."

Don't miss this ideal evening for Valentines Day!

Allegro Youth Wind Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Justin Mertz, conductor

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

The youth wind ensemble is a community music program that presents local high school students the opportunity to audition and play in an advanced Wind Ensemble.

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

The Werks, with Second Dam, The Methodist Bells
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Montana Smith and the Curse of the Golden Crocodile
Acme Mystery Company

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

Montana Smith has snatched the Golden Crocodile of the Amazon from its South American home. Now it's about to be unveiled at the Municipal Museum of Natural History, but everyone's been acting rather strangely. Could it be the dreaded Curse of the Golden Crocodile? Hmm? Join us for the gala event of the season to find out (but don't turn your back on the museum staff).

Two Trains Running
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

"Glorious storytelling...a penetrating revelation of a world hidden from view to those outside it." -- The New York Times

Timothy Bond's previous Syracuse productions from August Wilson's 20th-Century Cycle (Radio Golf, Fences, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) prove that this two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright is indeed the voice of a century. His dialogue soars with the music and power of operatic arias and his characters inspire great performances. In Two Trains Running, an optimistic ex-con enters the insular confines of Memphis Lee's diner and awakens a cast of older and skeptical characters to the possibilities of a new era. Set in the turbulence of 1969, a time much like today, Two Trains Running is one of the most humorous and politically potent of Wilson's plays.

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A Streetcar Named Desire
Central New York Playhouse
Patricia Catchouny, director

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

The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject--so far as possible--the realities of life with which she is faced and which she consistently ignores. The pressure brought to bear upon her by her sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, intensified by the earthy and extremely "normal" young husband of the latter, leads to a revelation of her tragic self-delusion and, in the end, to madness.

Starring Sara Caliva as Stella, Jordan Glaski as Stanley, and Jodie Baum as Blanche.

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Friday, February 15, 2013

Important Persons Project
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Students from Henniger High School are exhibiting their own "Significant Souls" artwork in our gallery windows. The work was done by the art students of Ms. Lizzio in a workshop conducted by visiting artist Gail Hoffman. The work will be on view throughout the Significant Souls exhibition.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Juan A. Cruz's "Mini Retrospective of the '80s, '90s and '00s," takes a look at the artist's journeys to Spain, Mexico, Central America and Cuba. The works reflect his search for his past and an understanding of where tribal and modern worlds meet.

Cruz is the artist-in-residence of the Near West Side Initiative, an urban revitalization program in the Near Westside neighborhood in Syracuse. Cruz lives and works in his "Patch-Up Studio" hoping to provide a community place for children and adults to learn art.

Cruz's work has shown extensively in Upstate New York, California, and Puerto Rico and some are now in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, the Gifford Foundation, and the Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Upstate New York.

Agents of Expression
LeMoyne College

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

The sculptures and assemblages of Sharon BuMann and Gail V. Hoffman.

Sacred Paradox: Photography by Willson Cummer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs by local artist Willson Cummer focus on exploring humanity's place in the environment. This group of photographs depicts images of Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, taken from a canoe and from the shore. The exhibit title, Sacred Paradox, refers to the conflicting reality of Onondaga Lake -- it is both a Superfund cleanup site and a holy lake for the nearby Onondaga Indian Nation.

Neil Chowdhury Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Neil Chowdhury will showcase two photographic series exploring Indian heritage and culture. Chowdhury's body of work depicts laborers and vendors eking out a living on the street of India's biggest city.

CNY Scholastic Arts Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A mixed media exhibit featuring award-winning work from high school students across Central New York.
The Scholastic Art Awards recognize nearly 30,000 teen artists and writers. One thousand of these artists receive national awards. Each piece is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Skin Contention: Works by Olivia Morrow
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Olivia Morrow presents her first solo show, a series of sculptural forms accompanied by video, reflecting on issues of femininity and sexuality. The artist is a recent SU graduate in sculpture from VPA's Department of Art.

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press. Founded by Barney Rosset in 1951, Grove Press became one of the 20th-century's great avant-garde publishing houses. What began as a small independent publisher on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village grew into a multimillion dollar publishing company that has been credited with introducing important authors from around the world to American readers during the postwar period.

Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable Victorian Library. Each book published by Grove, the exhibition reveals, was in its own way, a "strange victory." For while Grove altered the American literary landscape and its relationship to social mores, equality, and freedom of expression, Grove also aggressively deployed savvy marketing strategies, became embroiled in labor union battles, floundered in its own success, and offended the sensibilities of not only "squares," but feminists, Marxists, academics, and many others. Strange Victories tells the complicated story of Grove's many literary and political achievements, whose profound influence on American culture endures today.

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Collage/Assemblage
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Collage works of Michael Sickler and Roy Simmons Jr.
Assemblage 3D pieces and jewelry of Linda Esterley

Stone Canoe Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Stone Canoe annual exhibition, in tandem with the launch of the 2013 issue of Stone Canoe Journal, will feature the work of 29 artists, some emerging and some well-established, with connections to the Upstate New York region. The show is curated by Amy Cheng, professor of art at SUNY New Paltz and visual arts editor for Stone Canoe 7. Stone Canoe, an award-winning journal of arts, literature and social commentary, is published each January by University College of Syracuse University.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist statement: "The cast resin works of 'Within' represent both mystery and metaphor. The use of clear resin and lost wax surfaces allows me to capture, reflect and diffract light to create a constantly changing vision. The surfaces of the sculpture act as a mirror or prism and offer the contrast of surprise yet familiarity. I find a strong connection between the material and myself. Time disappears. There is a kind of magic that takes place during the act of creating art."

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Salon Style 2
Szozda Gallery

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

In a continuing "mix & match" mode, walls at Szozda Gallery in February will be enveloped in a salon-style exhibit of diverse works by a number of artists; however, this second rendering differs from the last in that works shown are mostly all new pieces created by those artists.

Among the works included in "Salon Style 2" are figurative oil paintings by Phil Parsons, Stephen Perrone, Cayetano Valenzuela, and John Fitzsimmons; pastel and mixed media paintings by Roscha Folger, media by Laura J. Wellner and Linda Esterley; works of societal commentaries expressed by Fred Wellner in his acrylic surrealistic series; archival fiber print photography by Barbara Conte-Gaugel; and more beautiful renderings of Central New York landscapes created by Rob Glisson's plein air painting and Bob Niedzwiecki's oils.

The Connective Thread: Wearable to Sculptural Fibers
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"The Connective Thread" aims to bring together wearable and sculptural fiber artists who incorporate a range of different techniques into their artwork. Ultimately, goal of the exhibition is to allow the audience to appreciate the almost limitless possibilities of the medium. Participating artists include Kathy Barry, Sharon Bottle-Souva, Lauren Bristol, Mary Giehl, Jean Henry, Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, Nancy Kramer, Laurel Moranz, Rebecca Mushtare, Jen Pepper, Sarah Saulson, Kim Waale, and Davana Wilkins.

Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress" is an exhibition that investigates the impact that work, recreational activities, and independent living had on women during the turn of the 19th to 20th century. The exhibition will feature more than 70 original objects, including color lithography posters from the Arts and Crafts movement, accompanied by examples of furniture, lamps, vases, clothing and other accessories.

The guest curators for this exhibition are graduate students enrolled in the Syracuse University Museum Studies Advanced Curatorship class, under the guidance of Professor Edward Aiken. The works in the exhibition are drawn from a variety of Central New York lenders, including the SU Art Collection, The Stickley Museum, Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center, Dalton's American Decorative Arts, the Cortland County Historical Society, and Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center.

Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Neil Welliver Prints is an exhibition of over 60 examples of the artist's woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and screen prints. Welliver was regarded as one of the preeminent American landscape painters of the 20th century and from the late 1970s to his death in 2005 he considered printmaking an integral part of his artistic activity. Neil Welliver Prints provides an overview of the artist's prolific graphic career, assembling signature wildlife and landscape impressions from over 30 years. Welliver's compelling, larger-than-life paintings of Maine's natural landscape often became series of intimate woodcuts using traditional Japanese methods in collaboration with the noted printmaker Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi. All of the works are on loan from the Alexandre Gallery, New York City, which represented Welliver for years.

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

In her first solo exhibition at the Everson, Yvonne Buchanan presents a sound installation entitled Strange Tongue, a contemporary altered version of a well-known American gospel song by Mahalia Jackson. All associations to the lyrics have been excised, leaving a wordless voice, emphasizing the expression of sorrow and hope. The audio track can be accessed by dialing (315) 703-3063 and pressing 13.

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

Synchronized Mélange
XL Projects

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

"Synchronized Mélange" features a variety of works from international graduate students from across the Departments of Art and Transmedia. The show is co-organized by Stephen Zaima, VPA associate dean of global academic programs and initiatives and a professor of painting in the Department of Art, and Alex Mendez, assistant professor in the Department of Transmedia.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand.

The Design Impact of Robert Blaich
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition showcasing the distinguished career of Robert Blaich and the importance and impact of his 60 years in the design field.

After earning a bachelor of fine arts degree in design from SU, Blaich worked for Herman Miller Inc., where he eventually became vice president of corporate design and communications. He went on to become senior managing director of design at Royal Philips Electronics in the Netherlands and established himself as an innovator in the industrial design field. In 1991, he founded his own company, Blaich Associates. He is a past member and chair of the board at Teague and a fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America.

"The Design Impact of Robert Blaich" is curated, designed and installed by first-year graduate museum studies students in VPA. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson, exhibition facilitator, at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Significant Souls: Paintings by Patrick Fiore
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Utica-native Patrick Fiore has created a series of 34 paintings inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States 1492-Present, which will be on exhibit.

Patrick does not conceal his intention. He wants, by putting the people and events of the People's History into graphic, startling form, to draw attention to the history of our nation, to the stories omitted, the heroes of dissent missing from the pages of the textbooks. He wants to reach people by his paintings and to inspire them to think for themselves about our society, to tell them about the way people through the centuries have behaved with compassion and kindness, against all odds, have thought for themselves, have organized and agitated, and refused obedience to laws and practices that offend common decency.

This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation.

Yvonne Buchanan: in Court (Basketball)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Yvonne Buchanan's video work creates micro-narratives of the ghostly presence of histories. Individual, family and community experiences of otherness, and the perpetual small and large traumas sustained, is the focus of her recent work. She is particularly interested in the strategies employed to endure these experiences, especially ideas of religiosity and beliefs in the afterlife. Her subject is often the black body as object and symbol, the embodiment of curiosity, and a "dark" and weighty presence. In constructing her work, she frequently uses the loop, in creating a circular story, one that can be read differently, as scenes repeat.

The piece in Court features a basketball court, where the hopes and dreams of young black men are played out, at the same time as it seems to fluctuate between a site for sport and a cage. The projection of the piece at the UVP Everson venue, with its close proximity to the Onondaga County jail, takes on a special and literal resonance with the audible but invisible play of the inmates on the rooftop court of the correctional facility.

Total runtime: 13:22

The Gender Defenders

Price: $20 and up
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Enjoy some huge laughs with your sweetheart this Valentine's Day weekend with The Gender Defenders. This hilarious show features four headlining comedians. Carol Siskind, Helen Hong, Rodney Laney, and Nick Griffin each discuss their unique views on relationships, love, and life.

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

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

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

Grace Pettis
Folkus Project

Price: $15
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

With stories in her soul, a dash of courage, and a clear, strong voice, Grace Pettis is doing what she was born to do. In her short career she has built a reputation as a well-respected singer/songwriter among fellow artists and fans. Drawn from folk, country, pop, and blues roots, Pettis' music is authentically unique and full of complementary contradictions. Driving pop melodies and Americana twang balance each other nicely and murder ballads perch next to gut-wrenching confessionals with ease. Her songs are heartfelt and free from affectation, distinguished by her clear, emotive vocals. She displays a winning idealism and an awareness of the world's injustices, with a wisdom in her observations that makes her music go right to the heart.

A Valentine Wish
Redhouse
Featuring Karen Oberlin

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

Karen Oberlin, a jazz-pop singer and recording artist -- and Syracuse native -- is a Back Stage Bistro Award winner and Nightlife Award finalist for Outstanding Vocalist of the Year. For her recent tribute to lyricist Yip Harburg, The New York Times praised Oberlin as having "musical intelligence...purity, naturalness and polished phrasing, with added colors and a jazzy spontaneity. (Oberlin is) a jazzier inheritor of (Doris) Day's impeccable pop style." Rex Reed called her performance "thrilling," and continued, "Oberlin is as lovely to look at as she is to hear...(her singing) rings true and funny and flawless."

Don't miss this ideal evening for Valentines Day!

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Syracuse Opera

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

A tortured soul returns to London in search of the family he has lost. A master barber, he yields his sharpened razor with laudable precision as he surgically removes the obstacles in his way. Crafted by the brilliant Stephen Sondheim, your laughter will increase with every wince you make. The intimacy of our own Carrier Theater offers you the perfect seat for this touching fable. This night of musical drama will renew your faith in the human spirit -- and change your view of shepherd's pie -- for the rest of your life.

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Merchant of Venice
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: $12 regular, $10 seniors/students, $5 with SU ID
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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Lost in Yonkers
Appleseed Productions
CJ Young, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

By America's great comic playwright, Neil Simon, this memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942. Bella is in her early 30s, mentally challenged and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne'er-do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady's doorstep. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers.

Featuring Marcia Mele as “Grandma Kurnitz.

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A Streetcar Named Desire
Central New York Playhouse
Patricia Catchouny, director

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

The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject--so far as possible--the realities of life with which she is faced and which she consistently ignores. The pressure brought to bear upon her by her sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, intensified by the earthy and extremely "normal" young husband of the latter, leads to a revelation of her tragic self-delusion and, in the end, to madness.

Starring Sara Caliva as Stella, Jordan Glaski as Stanley, and Jodie Baum as Blanche.

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Reckless
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students
Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

It's Christmas Eve and Rachel is informed by her husband that he has hired a hitman to kill her -- and then things get really strange! This richly inventive and often startling dark comedy is a bittersweet fable for contemporary America.

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Spooky Dog and the Teenage Gang Mysteries
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

A "South Park" version of Scooby-Doo, written by Eric Pliner and Amy Rhodes. Uncover the hilarious secret subtext of your favorite cartoon! The uproarious and campy adventures of a dog detective named Spooky, his spaced-out hippie friend, and their gang.

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Two Trains Running
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

"Glorious storytelling...a penetrating revelation of a world hidden from view to those outside it." -- The New York Times

Timothy Bond's previous Syracuse productions from August Wilson's 20th-Century Cycle (Radio Golf, Fences, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) prove that this two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright is indeed the voice of a century. His dialogue soars with the music and power of operatic arias and his characters inspire great performances. In Two Trains Running, an optimistic ex-con enters the insular confines of Memphis Lee's diner and awakens a cast of older and skeptical characters to the possibilities of a new era. Set in the turbulence of 1969, a time much like today, Two Trains Running is one of the most humorous and politically potent of Wilson's plays.

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Top Girls
Syracuse University Drama Department
Tim Davis-Reed, director

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

A skeptical and comic look at the role of women in contemporary society, Top Girls flashes with Caryl Churchill's razor-sharp wit and ingenious theatricality. Set in the early days of Margaret Thatcher's England, the play follows two sisters: hard-nosed, successful businesswoman Marlene, and Joyce who has stayed true to their working class background in rural Suffolk. It famously opens with Marlene's fantastic dinner party, celebrating her promotion with women from myth and history. As the action swings from a smart London Women's Employment Agency to a cottage in rural East Anglia, Top Girls considers the personal sacrifices and compromises women must endure in the pursuit of "success."

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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Important Persons Project
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Students from Henniger High School are exhibiting their own "Significant Souls" artwork in our gallery windows. The work was done by the art students of Ms. Lizzio in a workshop conducted by visiting artist Gail Hoffman. The work will be on view throughout the Significant Souls exhibition.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Juan A. Cruz's "Mini Retrospective of the '80s, '90s and '00s," takes a look at the artist's journeys to Spain, Mexico, Central America and Cuba. The works reflect his search for his past and an understanding of where tribal and modern worlds meet.

Cruz is the artist-in-residence of the Near West Side Initiative, an urban revitalization program in the Near Westside neighborhood in Syracuse. Cruz lives and works in his "Patch-Up Studio" hoping to provide a community place for children and adults to learn art.

Cruz's work has shown extensively in Upstate New York, California, and Puerto Rico and some are now in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, the Gifford Foundation, and the Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Upstate New York.

Agents of Expression
LeMoyne College

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

The sculptures and assemblages of Sharon BuMann and Gail V. Hoffman.

CNY Scholastic Arts Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A mixed media exhibit featuring award-winning work from high school students across Central New York.
The Scholastic Art Awards recognize nearly 30,000 teen artists and writers. One thousand of these artists receive national awards. Each piece is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Sacred Paradox: Photography by Willson Cummer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs by local artist Willson Cummer focus on exploring humanity's place in the environment. This group of photographs depicts images of Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, taken from a canoe and from the shore. The exhibit title, Sacred Paradox, refers to the conflicting reality of Onondaga Lake -- it is both a Superfund cleanup site and a holy lake for the nearby Onondaga Indian Nation.

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

In her first solo exhibition at the Everson, Yvonne Buchanan presents a sound installation entitled Strange Tongue, a contemporary altered version of a well-known American gospel song by Mahalia Jackson. All associations to the lyrics have been excised, leaving a wordless voice, emphasizing the expression of sorrow and hope. The audio track can be accessed by dialing (315) 703-3063 and pressing 13.

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

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Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist statement: "The cast resin works of 'Within' represent both mystery and metaphor. The use of clear resin and lost wax surfaces allows me to capture, reflect and diffract light to create a constantly changing vision. The surfaces of the sculpture act as a mirror or prism and offer the contrast of surprise yet familiarity. I find a strong connection between the material and myself. Time disappears. There is a kind of magic that takes place during the act of creating art."

Read a review!

Salon Style 2
Szozda Gallery

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

In a continuing "mix & match" mode, walls at Szozda Gallery in February will be enveloped in a salon-style exhibit of diverse works by a number of artists; however, this second rendering differs from the last in that works shown are mostly all new pieces created by those artists.

Among the works included in "Salon Style 2" are figurative oil paintings by Phil Parsons, Stephen Perrone, Cayetano Valenzuela, and John Fitzsimmons; pastel and mixed media paintings by Roscha Folger, media by Laura J. Wellner and Linda Esterley; works of societal commentaries expressed by Fred Wellner in his acrylic surrealistic series; archival fiber print photography by Barbara Conte-Gaugel; and more beautiful renderings of Central New York landscapes created by Rob Glisson's plein air painting and Bob Niedzwiecki's oils.

Stone Canoe Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Stone Canoe annual exhibition, in tandem with the launch of the 2013 issue of Stone Canoe Journal, will feature the work of 29 artists, some emerging and some well-established, with connections to the Upstate New York region. The show is curated by Amy Cheng, professor of art at SUNY New Paltz and visual arts editor for Stone Canoe 7. Stone Canoe, an award-winning journal of arts, literature and social commentary, is published each January by University College of Syracuse University.

The Connective Thread: Wearable to Sculptural Fibers
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"The Connective Thread" aims to bring together wearable and sculptural fiber artists who incorporate a range of different techniques into their artwork. Ultimately, goal of the exhibition is to allow the audience to appreciate the almost limitless possibilities of the medium. Participating artists include Kathy Barry, Sharon Bottle-Souva, Lauren Bristol, Mary Giehl, Jean Henry, Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, Nancy Kramer, Laurel Moranz, Rebecca Mushtare, Jen Pepper, Sarah Saulson, Kim Waale, and Davana Wilkins.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Neil Welliver Prints is an exhibition of over 60 examples of the artist's woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and screen prints. Welliver was regarded as one of the preeminent American landscape painters of the 20th century and from the late 1970s to his death in 2005 he considered printmaking an integral part of his artistic activity. Neil Welliver Prints provides an overview of the artist's prolific graphic career, assembling signature wildlife and landscape impressions from over 30 years. Welliver's compelling, larger-than-life paintings of Maine's natural landscape often became series of intimate woodcuts using traditional Japanese methods in collaboration with the noted printmaker Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi. All of the works are on loan from the Alexandre Gallery, New York City, which represented Welliver for years.

Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress" is an exhibition that investigates the impact that work, recreational activities, and independent living had on women during the turn of the 19th to 20th century. The exhibition will feature more than 70 original objects, including color lithography posters from the Arts and Crafts movement, accompanied by examples of furniture, lamps, vases, clothing and other accessories.

The guest curators for this exhibition are graduate students enrolled in the Syracuse University Museum Studies Advanced Curatorship class, under the guidance of Professor Edward Aiken. The works in the exhibition are drawn from a variety of Central New York lenders, including the SU Art Collection, The Stickley Museum, Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center, Dalton's American Decorative Arts, the Cortland County Historical Society, and Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center.

Significant Souls: Paintings by Patrick Fiore
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Utica-native Patrick Fiore has created a series of 34 paintings inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States 1492-Present, which will be on exhibit.

Patrick does not conceal his intention. He wants, by putting the people and events of the People's History into graphic, startling form, to draw attention to the history of our nation, to the stories omitted, the heroes of dissent missing from the pages of the textbooks. He wants to reach people by his paintings and to inspire them to think for themselves about our society, to tell them about the way people through the centuries have behaved with compassion and kindness, against all odds, have thought for themselves, have organized and agitated, and refused obedience to laws and practices that offend common decency.

This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation.

Synchronized Mélange
XL Projects

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

"Synchronized Mélange" features a variety of works from international graduate students from across the Departments of Art and Transmedia. The show is co-organized by Stephen Zaima, VPA associate dean of global academic programs and initiatives and a professor of painting in the Department of Art, and Alex Mendez, assistant professor in the Department of Transmedia.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand.

SUArt Kids: Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A special SUArt Kids program for the current exhibition Neil Welliver Prints. Color, shape, line and form will be discussed using Welliver's prints of the Maine wilderness as a guide. You and your children will then be invited to create a color field collage based on one of Welliver's works in the exhibition. Designed for children ages 5-10, but open to art enthusiasts of all ages.

Yvonne Buchanan: in Court (Basketball)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Yvonne Buchanan's video work creates micro-narratives of the ghostly presence of histories. Individual, family and community experiences of otherness, and the perpetual small and large traumas sustained, is the focus of her recent work. She is particularly interested in the strategies employed to endure these experiences, especially ideas of religiosity and beliefs in the afterlife. Her subject is often the black body as object and symbol, the embodiment of curiosity, and a "dark" and weighty presence. In constructing her work, she frequently uses the loop, in creating a circular story, one that can be read differently, as scenes repeat.

The piece in Court features a basketball court, where the hopes and dreams of young black men are played out, at the same time as it seems to fluctuate between a site for sport and a cage. The projection of the piece at the UVP Everson venue, with its close proximity to the Onondaga County jail, takes on a special and literal resonance with the audible but invisible play of the inmates on the rooftop court of the correctional facility.

Total runtime: 13:22

Cinemagogue: Trembling Before God
Temple Society of Concord

Price: Free (donations welcome)
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

This award-winning film is built around intimately-told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian. The film portrays a group of people who face a profound dilemma--how to reconcile their passionate love of Judaism and the Divine with the drastic Biblical prohibitions that forbids homosexuality.

Milk
ArtRage Gallery

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

Directed by Gus Van Sant with Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, and Emile Hirsch.
Relive the last eight years of doomed politician and gay activist Harvey Milk whose brave life altered history, and whose courage still inspires. Magnetic Oscar-winning turn by Penn as Milk. 2008, 128 minutes.

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

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

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

Junior Clarinet Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Ashley Nichols, clarinet

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

Miss Nichols, a student of Dr. Jill Coggiola, will perform works by Max Reger, Paul Hindemith, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and a trio by Walter Hartley featuring Geoffry Sheldon, trumpet and Sabine Kranz, piano.

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

The Divinity of Purpose Tour: Hatebreed, with Shadows Fall, Dying Fetus, The Contortionist
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

A Cappella for the Fellas

Price: $20 to benefit the Housing and Homeless Coalition
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This year's concert will once again feature a wide variety of a cappella music. Award winning collegiate groups performing for the event include:
Orange Appeal from Syracuse University
The Crosbys and The Pegs from SUNY Binghamton
With Special Guests: The Geneva Convention and noXcuse

American Modern
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

Price: $85
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In collaboration with The Everson Museum of Art, Symphoria will present an evening of music from 1910-1960. The event with include a viewing of the "American Modern" exhibition, a variety of chamber music, and a small orchestral performance of Charles Ives' Unanswered Question. A reception will conclude the evening.

Tickets available at Ticketmaster.com, or with cash or check at the door.

Graduate Composition Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Paul Winchester, composer

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

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

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Snow on the Rooftop, Fire in the Furnace
DREAM Freedom Revival and the Ida Benderson Seniors Action Group

Price: Free
Grace Episcopal Church
819 Madison St., Syracuse

An intergenerational musical theater performance and democratic revival.

In this show with DREAM Freedom Revival, the Ida Benderson Seniors Action Group, tells their story and celebrates the vitality, contributions, and self-determination of older people. We welcome you to join in song and conversation about how to build a more senior-friendly community.

The Ida Benderson Seniors Action Group formed just after the Ida Benderson Senior Center, a busy drop-in center for older Syracusans since 1975, was defunding and shuttered by the City of Syracuse in September, 2011. We are a community of older people and allies who are working to open a new senior center downtown, keep our community together, and raise awareness of issues that older people face.

The DREAM Freedom Revival is a collaborative, inclusive, and participatory political theater company comprised of about 30 residents of Syracuse and Central New York. Its work is grounded in theories about political and community-based performance and in Central New Yorks rich history of freedom struggles and 19th century tent revivals, At the heart of the group is The Sound of Freedom, a 20 person choir backed by a 9-piece rock/reggae/pop/gospel/salsa/musical theater band.

Meal and community dialogue to follow the performance.

Two Trains Running
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

"Glorious storytelling...a penetrating revelation of a world hidden from view to those outside it." -- The New York Times

Timothy Bond's previous Syracuse productions from August Wilson's 20th-Century Cycle (Radio Golf, Fences, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) prove that this two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright is indeed the voice of a century. His dialogue soars with the music and power of operatic arias and his characters inspire great performances. In Two Trains Running, an optimistic ex-con enters the insular confines of Memphis Lee's diner and awakens a cast of older and skeptical characters to the possibilities of a new era. Set in the turbulence of 1969, a time much like today, Two Trains Running is one of the most humorous and politically potent of Wilson's plays.

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Merchant of Venice
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: $12 regular, $10 seniors/students, $5 with SU ID
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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Lost in Yonkers
Appleseed Productions
CJ Young, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

By America's great comic playwright, Neil Simon, this memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942. Bella is in her early 30s, mentally challenged and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne'er-do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady's doorstep. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers.

Featuring Marcia Mele as “Grandma Kurnitz.

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A Streetcar Named Desire
Central New York Playhouse
Patricia Catchouny, director

Price: $34.95 dinner and show, $20 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.

The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject--so far as possible--the realities of life with which she is faced and which she consistently ignores. The pressure brought to bear upon her by her sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, intensified by the earthy and extremely "normal" young husband of the latter, leads to a revelation of her tragic self-delusion and, in the end, to madness.

Starring Sara Caliva as Stella, Jordan Glaski as Stanley, and Jodie Baum as Blanche.

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Reckless
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students
Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

It's Christmas Eve and Rachel is informed by her husband that he has hired a hitman to kill her -- and then things get really strange! This richly inventive and often startling dark comedy is a bittersweet fable for contemporary America.

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Spooky Dog and the Teenage Gang Mysteries
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

A "South Park" version of Scooby-Doo, written by Eric Pliner and Amy Rhodes. Uncover the hilarious secret subtext of your favorite cartoon! The uproarious and campy adventures of a dog detective named Spooky, his spaced-out hippie friend, and their gang.

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Two Trains Running
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

"Glorious storytelling...a penetrating revelation of a world hidden from view to those outside it." -- The New York Times

Timothy Bond's previous Syracuse productions from August Wilson's 20th-Century Cycle (Radio Golf, Fences, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) prove that this two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright is indeed the voice of a century. His dialogue soars with the music and power of operatic arias and his characters inspire great performances. In Two Trains Running, an optimistic ex-con enters the insular confines of Memphis Lee's diner and awakens a cast of older and skeptical characters to the possibilities of a new era. Set in the turbulence of 1969, a time much like today, Two Trains Running is one of the most humorous and politically potent of Wilson's plays.

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Top Girls
Syracuse University Drama Department
Tim Davis-Reed, director

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

A skeptical and comic look at the role of women in contemporary society, Top Girls flashes with Caryl Churchill's razor-sharp wit and ingenious theatricality. Set in the early days of Margaret Thatcher's England, the play follows two sisters: hard-nosed, successful businesswoman Marlene, and Joyce who has stayed true to their working class background in rural Suffolk. It famously opens with Marlene's fantastic dinner party, celebrating her promotion with women from myth and history. As the action swings from a smart London Women's Employment Agency to a cottage in rural East Anglia, Top Girls considers the personal sacrifices and compromises women must endure in the pursuit of "success."

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Important Persons Project
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Students from Henniger High School are exhibiting their own "Significant Souls" artwork in our gallery windows. The work was done by the art students of Ms. Lizzio in a workshop conducted by visiting artist Gail Hoffman. The work will be on view throughout the Significant Souls exhibition.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Juan A. Cruz's "Mini Retrospective of the '80s, '90s and '00s," takes a look at the artist's journeys to Spain, Mexico, Central America and Cuba. The works reflect his search for his past and an understanding of where tribal and modern worlds meet.

Cruz is the artist-in-residence of the Near West Side Initiative, an urban revitalization program in the Near Westside neighborhood in Syracuse. Cruz lives and works in his "Patch-Up Studio" hoping to provide a community place for children and adults to learn art.

Cruz's work has shown extensively in Upstate New York, California, and Puerto Rico and some are now in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, the Gifford Foundation, and the Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Upstate New York.

CNY Scholastic Arts Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A mixed media exhibit featuring award-winning work from high school students across Central New York.
The Scholastic Art Awards recognize nearly 30,000 teen artists and writers. One thousand of these artists receive national awards. Each piece is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

Salon Style 2
Szozda Gallery

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

In a continuing "mix & match" mode, walls at Szozda Gallery in February will be enveloped in a salon-style exhibit of diverse works by a number of artists; however, this second rendering differs from the last in that works shown are mostly all new pieces created by those artists.

Among the works included in "Salon Style 2" are figurative oil paintings by Phil Parsons, Stephen Perrone, Cayetano Valenzuela, and John Fitzsimmons; pastel and mixed media paintings by Roscha Folger, media by Laura J. Wellner and Linda Esterley; works of societal commentaries expressed by Fred Wellner in his acrylic surrealistic series; archival fiber print photography by Barbara Conte-Gaugel; and more beautiful renderings of Central New York landscapes created by Rob Glisson's plein air painting and Bob Niedzwiecki's oils.

The Connective Thread: Wearable to Sculptural Fibers
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"The Connective Thread" aims to bring together wearable and sculptural fiber artists who incorporate a range of different techniques into their artwork. Ultimately, goal of the exhibition is to allow the audience to appreciate the almost limitless possibilities of the medium. Participating artists include Kathy Barry, Sharon Bottle-Souva, Lauren Bristol, Mary Giehl, Jean Henry, Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, Nancy Kramer, Laurel Moranz, Rebecca Mushtare, Jen Pepper, Sarah Saulson, Kim Waale, and Davana Wilkins.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress" is an exhibition that investigates the impact that work, recreational activities, and independent living had on women during the turn of the 19th to 20th century. The exhibition will feature more than 70 original objects, including color lithography posters from the Arts and Crafts movement, accompanied by examples of furniture, lamps, vases, clothing and other accessories.

The guest curators for this exhibition are graduate students enrolled in the Syracuse University Museum Studies Advanced Curatorship class, under the guidance of Professor Edward Aiken. The works in the exhibition are drawn from a variety of Central New York lenders, including the SU Art Collection, The Stickley Museum, Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center, Dalton's American Decorative Arts, the Cortland County Historical Society, and Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center.

Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Neil Welliver Prints is an exhibition of over 60 examples of the artist's woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and screen prints. Welliver was regarded as one of the preeminent American landscape painters of the 20th century and from the late 1970s to his death in 2005 he considered printmaking an integral part of his artistic activity. Neil Welliver Prints provides an overview of the artist's prolific graphic career, assembling signature wildlife and landscape impressions from over 30 years. Welliver's compelling, larger-than-life paintings of Maine's natural landscape often became series of intimate woodcuts using traditional Japanese methods in collaboration with the noted printmaker Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi. All of the works are on loan from the Alexandre Gallery, New York City, which represented Welliver for years.