Sunday, May 11, 2014

Student Architecture & Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics
Light Work Gallery

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

Michael Buhler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Bühler-Rose uses western painting styles: still lifes, landscapes, portraits, to play with previous political notions of Hindu and Indic aesthetics: representations of gods and goddesses, incense, flowers, or the saris or bharatnaytam outfits worn by young women of European descent who live in a Hindu community in Florida. These pictures create a dialogue between the Orient and the Occident, creating a game of mirrors and reflections that interact endlessly, creating a juxtaposition of territories.

Dan Wetmore: Golden Dawn
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present Dan Wetmore's exhibition Golden Dawn, a series of pictures made from 2009-2012, in and between Flint, MI, Binghamton, NY, Cleveland, OH, Wheeling, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA.

Artist statement: I grew up in Pittsburgh. My parents enjoyed driving around and hunting for furniture on the weekends and I got to see much of the city this way. I was taken by the furnaces and mills that lined the rivers--these giant, dark carcasses. At home, the only photo book my parents had was a paperback of Becher typologies and I looked at the blast furnaces and mineheads for hours. Once mobile at sixteen, I explored these places intimately. With a developing fondness and understanding, I began to photograph in the surrounding neighborhoods.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Wings Over Gallery 54: An Artful Collection of Things That Fly
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Spring has sprung at Gallery 54 and we are celebrating with a show featuring creations of things that fly in a variety of mediums.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

The Way Out: MFA 2014
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual master of fine arts exhibition features 21 artists from the Departments of Art and Transmedia. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of media, including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, film, and site-specific installation.

What sets the artists in The Way Out apart is the reinterpretation of traditional media into a contemporary context. Painting and drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, and film--all familiar instruments in the foundation of art making--have been introduced in a fresh milieu of concept and craft. Oil on canvas partnered with documentary video, works on paper that combine printmaking, drawing, and painting, and site-specific installations of ceramic sculpture and photography. They are fused with both familiar and previously unexplored concepts that range from notions of gender, family, and place to abstract narratives and sensory interaction.

Max Ginsburg: Master of Social Realism
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Max Ginsburg is a New York City artist with a conscience who earned his BFA from Syracuse University. He is regarded as one of the most respected and accomplished contemporary realist painters who paints the provocative issues of our time to comment on issues of class, gender and race. A Social Realist, he is outraged by war, the hypocrisy of our leaders and the social policies of a government leaving its people behind. His concern for social justice makes him a humanist but not a sentimentalist.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Constructivism: Photos by Robert Graham
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

The photographs in Constructivism are inspired by some of the great movements in early 20th century art. Photographer Robert Graham cites specifically works by Kasimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky and Alexander Rodchenko as having major influence behind this new series. Graham's "Constructivism" exhibition coincides with the release of his book by the same title. For this occasion Graham states, "I put this exhibit and companion book under the Constructivist umbrella in part because of an affinity for Russian art, music, and literature."

Graham, who lives in Rochester, has published images from Syracuse in his book, and included them in this exhibition.

Nathan Avakian: Outside the Box II
Syracuse Wurlitzer

Price: Adults $15, students $2
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

ATOS Young Artist of the Year Nathan Avakian performing organ soundtracks for high school produced silent movie shorts.

On Golden Pond
Appleseed Productions
CJ Young, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The play is a classic American comedy/drama that's every bit as touching, warm, and witty today as when it debuted on Broadway in 1979. Retired couple Ethel and Norman Thayer spend every summer at their home on Golden Pond. This year, their adult daughter visits, bringing along her new boyfriend and his 13-year-old son.

In this anniversary production for Appleseed, Tom Minion reprises his role from 2001, along with original director CJ Young and, joining the 2013-14 production, Anne Fitzgerald as Ethel Thayer.

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Sondheim's Putting It Together
Celebration of the Arts
Abel J. Searor, director

Price: $10
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Featuring Bob Brown and Cathleen O'Brien Brown, with Liam Fitzpatrick, Ceara Windhausen, Stephond Brunson.

Words and music by Stephen Sondheim, devised by Stephen Sondheim and Julia McKenzie, orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick.

Monday, May 12, 2014

Art Exhibit by Deborah Walsh
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Working predominately in the medium of acrylic painting, Deborah Walsh also works in pastel, collage, and printmaking. Her artworks engage the viewer in a celebration of light, color, and movement.

Student Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

A variety of nature-inspired art celebrating the achievements of young artists from the elementary through high school levels in the Auburn, Marcellus, West Genesee and Skaneateles school districts.

Student Architecture & Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Yourself Inevitable: Abstract Drawings by Daniel Franco
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics
Light Work Gallery

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

Michael Buhler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Bühler-Rose uses western painting styles: still lifes, landscapes, portraits, to play with previous political notions of Hindu and Indic aesthetics: representations of gods and goddesses, incense, flowers, or the saris or bharatnaytam outfits worn by young women of European descent who live in a Hindu community in Florida. These pictures create a dialogue between the Orient and the Occident, creating a game of mirrors and reflections that interact endlessly, creating a juxtaposition of territories.

Dan Wetmore: Golden Dawn
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present Dan Wetmore's exhibition Golden Dawn, a series of pictures made from 2009-2012, in and between Flint, MI, Binghamton, NY, Cleveland, OH, Wheeling, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA.

Artist statement: I grew up in Pittsburgh. My parents enjoyed driving around and hunting for furniture on the weekends and I got to see much of the city this way. I was taken by the furnaces and mills that lined the rivers--these giant, dark carcasses. At home, the only photo book my parents had was a paperback of Becher typologies and I looked at the blast furnaces and mineheads for hours. Once mobile at sixteen, I explored these places intimately. With a developing fondness and understanding, I began to photograph in the surrounding neighborhoods.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

The Photography of J.R. Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

J.R. Hughto is a filmmaker and photographer whose work explores duality, principally the friction between nostalgia/modernity and documentary/lyricism. Hughto's photography has appeared in print in the German edition of Wired Magazine, and has shown in Los Angeles and San Diego, CA, and Syracuse and Buffalo.

Wings Over Gallery 54: An Artful Collection of Things That Fly
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Spring has sprung at Gallery 54 and we are celebrating with a show featuring creations of things that fly in a variety of mediums.

Learning to See
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Join us for Learning to See, an exhibition of work produced by students participating in EL PUNTO Art Studio 2014, a contemporary arts workshop hosted by Point of Contact. Exhibited works include photography, video, and performance arts. This innovative arts program is facilitated to local youths in close collaboration with local Latino artists and community organizations including La Casita Cultural Center, The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, the Near West Side Initiative, and the Pal Project.

Flashback Mondays Movie Series: MASH

Price: $5
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Bela Lugosi/Boris Karloff Double Feature
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Night of Terror (1933)
Directed by Ben Stollof. Cast features Bela Lugosi, Sally Blane, Wallace Ford, Tully Marshall, George Meeker.
Lugosi plays a mysterious turbaned servant in this tale of a homicidal madman on the loose, complete with an old dark mansion, a family séance, suspicious characters and other creepy elements.

The Walking Dead (1936)
Directed by Michael Curtiz. Cast features Boris Karloff, Edmund Gwenn, Marguerite Churchill, Ricardo Cortez, Barton MacLane, Warren Hull.
An ex-convict (Karloff) is framed and executed for a murder that he did not commit. When a professor (Gwenn) brings him back to life, the revived man seeks out the people who framed him. A well-done blend of gangster and horror genres.

Student Recital Series: Yuzhou Zhang, piano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

Alice in Chains
Landmark Theatre

Price: $69.50, $49.50, $39.50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Known best for '90s alt-rock hits such as "Rooster," "Man in the Box" and "Would", Alice in Chains are touring in support of their 2013 album "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here," which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart when it was released in May. It has also spawned two No. 1 singles: "Hollow" and "Stone" and topped Loudwire's list of the 10 Best Rock Albums of 2013.

Tickets can be purchased by calling the Landmark Theatre Box Office at 315-475-7979 or online at TicketMaster.com.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Art Exhibit by Deborah Walsh
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Working predominately in the medium of acrylic painting, Deborah Walsh also works in pastel, collage, and printmaking. Her artworks engage the viewer in a celebration of light, color, and movement.

Student Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

A variety of nature-inspired art celebrating the achievements of young artists from the elementary through high school levels in the Auburn, Marcellus, West Genesee and Skaneateles school districts.

Student Architecture & Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Yourself Inevitable: Abstract Drawings by Daniel Franco
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Passages In Time
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Marna Bell: Four photography series eliciting imagery of memories
Chris Irick: Internationally recognized jeweler exhibiting her series referencing machinery
Jonathan Kirk: Britis- born sculptor who utilizes forms from the Industrial Revolution, combining abstraction with narrative

Three in Harmony
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Three in Harmony" is an expressive collection of contemporary pieces that are artfully inspired from the Korean ceramic tradition. The artists, Eunjung Shin-Vargas, Jee Eun Lee, and Veronica Byun, have used their modern consciousness to create a deeply sensory experience with gentle Korean traditions. They've articulated a universal relevancy to the human condition, personal relationships, culture, and womanhood in each of their pieces. Even with each artist possessing a distinct personal style, the pieces fuse seamlessly to create this compelling, striking exhibition.

Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics
Light Work Gallery

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

Michael Buhler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Bühler-Rose uses western painting styles: still lifes, landscapes, portraits, to play with previous political notions of Hindu and Indic aesthetics: representations of gods and goddesses, incense, flowers, or the saris or bharatnaytam outfits worn by young women of European descent who live in a Hindu community in Florida. These pictures create a dialogue between the Orient and the Occident, creating a game of mirrors and reflections that interact endlessly, creating a juxtaposition of territories.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Dan Wetmore: Golden Dawn
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present Dan Wetmore's exhibition Golden Dawn, a series of pictures made from 2009-2012, in and between Flint, MI, Binghamton, NY, Cleveland, OH, Wheeling, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA.

Artist statement: I grew up in Pittsburgh. My parents enjoyed driving around and hunting for furniture on the weekends and I got to see much of the city this way. I was taken by the furnaces and mills that lined the rivers--these giant, dark carcasses. At home, the only photo book my parents had was a paperback of Becher typologies and I looked at the blast furnaces and mineheads for hours. Once mobile at sixteen, I explored these places intimately. With a developing fondness and understanding, I began to photograph in the surrounding neighborhoods.

The Photography of J.R. Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

J.R. Hughto is a filmmaker and photographer whose work explores duality, principally the friction between nostalgia/modernity and documentary/lyricism. Hughto's photography has appeared in print in the German edition of Wired Magazine, and has shown in Los Angeles and San Diego, CA, and Syracuse and Buffalo.

Wings Over Gallery 54: An Artful Collection of Things That Fly
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Spring has sprung at Gallery 54 and we are celebrating with a show featuring creations of things that fly in a variety of mediums.

Learning to See
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Join us for Learning to See, an exhibition of work produced by students participating in EL PUNTO Art Studio 2014, a contemporary arts workshop hosted by Point of Contact. Exhibited works include photography, video, and performance arts. This innovative arts program is facilitated to local youths in close collaboration with local Latino artists and community organizations including La Casita Cultural Center, The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, the Near West Side Initiative, and the Pal Project.

Spring Concert
Central New York Flute Choir

Price: Free
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Music from stage and screen, including works by Mozart, Bernstein, Mancini, Bizet, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and more.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Art Exhibit by Deborah Walsh
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Working predominately in the medium of acrylic painting, Deborah Walsh also works in pastel, collage, and printmaking. Her artworks engage the viewer in a celebration of light, color, and movement.

Student Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

A variety of nature-inspired art celebrating the achievements of young artists from the elementary through high school levels in the Auburn, Marcellus, West Genesee and Skaneateles school districts.

Student Architecture & Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Yourself Inevitable: Abstract Drawings by Daniel Franco
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Passages In Time
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Marna Bell: Four photography series eliciting imagery of memories
Chris Irick: Internationally recognized jeweler exhibiting her series referencing machinery
Jonathan Kirk: Britis- born sculptor who utilizes forms from the Industrial Revolution, combining abstraction with narrative

Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics
Light Work Gallery

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

Michael Buhler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Bühler-Rose uses western painting styles: still lifes, landscapes, portraits, to play with previous political notions of Hindu and Indic aesthetics: representations of gods and goddesses, incense, flowers, or the saris or bharatnaytam outfits worn by young women of European descent who live in a Hindu community in Florida. These pictures create a dialogue between the Orient and the Occident, creating a game of mirrors and reflections that interact endlessly, creating a juxtaposition of territories.

Dan Wetmore: Golden Dawn
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present Dan Wetmore's exhibition Golden Dawn, a series of pictures made from 2009-2012, in and between Flint, MI, Binghamton, NY, Cleveland, OH, Wheeling, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA.

Artist statement: I grew up in Pittsburgh. My parents enjoyed driving around and hunting for furniture on the weekends and I got to see much of the city this way. I was taken by the furnaces and mills that lined the rivers--these giant, dark carcasses. At home, the only photo book my parents had was a paperback of Becher typologies and I looked at the blast furnaces and mineheads for hours. Once mobile at sixteen, I explored these places intimately. With a developing fondness and understanding, I began to photograph in the surrounding neighborhoods.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

The Photography of J.R. Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

J.R. Hughto is a filmmaker and photographer whose work explores duality, principally the friction between nostalgia/modernity and documentary/lyricism. Hughto's photography has appeared in print in the German edition of Wired Magazine, and has shown in Los Angeles and San Diego, CA, and Syracuse and Buffalo.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Wings Over Gallery 54: An Artful Collection of Things That Fly
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Spring has sprung at Gallery 54 and we are celebrating with a show featuring creations of things that fly in a variety of mediums.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Learning to See
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Join us for Learning to See, an exhibition of work produced by students participating in EL PUNTO Art Studio 2014, a contemporary arts workshop hosted by Point of Contact. Exhibited works include photography, video, and performance arts. This innovative arts program is facilitated to local youths in close collaboration with local Latino artists and community organizations including La Casita Cultural Center, The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, the Near West Side Initiative, and the Pal Project.

Max Ginsburg: Master of Social Realism
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Max Ginsburg is a New York City artist with a conscience who earned his BFA from Syracuse University. He is regarded as one of the most respected and accomplished contemporary realist painters who paints the provocative issues of our time to comment on issues of class, gender and race. A Social Realist, he is outraged by war, the hypocrisy of our leaders and the social policies of a government leaving its people behind. His concern for social justice makes him a humanist but not a sentimentalist.

"What If...?" Film Series: Gaining Ground
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Foreclosures. Unemployment. Childhood poverty. All these problems have hit American cities hard since the Great Recession. "Gaining Ground," a follow-up to the award-winning documentary "Holding Ground" (1996), shows how one diverse Boston neighborhood has stemmed the tide against enormous odds. In the midst of the economic meltdown, "Gaining Ground" explores the innovative, grassroots organizing efforts of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) in Boston. DSNI was created 25 years ago when the community had been devastated by bank redlining, arson-for-profit, and illegal dumping, and has become one of the preeminent models for community-based change. Over the course of two years, we watch a new generation of leaders working to prevent foreclosures and bring jobs and opportunities for young people to one of the city's most diverse and economically challenged neighborhoods. (2013, 58 minutes)

Stephen Brew, guitar
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Brazilian and Spanish guitar music.

Metamorphoses
Redhouse

Price: $30 regular, $20 members, $15 student rush starting one hour before show
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the myths of Ovid, this dazzling production of Mary Zimmermen's award winning play takes place in an actual pool of water on stage. Don't miss this breathtaking adaptation of various Greek Myths told voice, movement and sheer magic. Time Out magazine called it "a glimpse of the divine."

Read a Review!

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Art Exhibit by Deborah Walsh
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Working predominately in the medium of acrylic painting, Deborah Walsh also works in pastel, collage, and printmaking. Her artworks engage the viewer in a celebration of light, color, and movement.

Student Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

A variety of nature-inspired art celebrating the achievements of young artists from the elementary through high school levels in the Auburn, Marcellus, West Genesee and Skaneateles school districts.

Student Architecture & Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Yourself Inevitable: Abstract Drawings by Daniel Franco
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Passages In Time
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Marna Bell: Four photography series eliciting imagery of memories
Chris Irick: Internationally recognized jeweler exhibiting her series referencing machinery
Jonathan Kirk: Britis- born sculptor who utilizes forms from the Industrial Revolution, combining abstraction with narrative

Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics
Light Work Gallery

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

Michael Buhler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Bühler-Rose uses western painting styles: still lifes, landscapes, portraits, to play with previous political notions of Hindu and Indic aesthetics: representations of gods and goddesses, incense, flowers, or the saris or bharatnaytam outfits worn by young women of European descent who live in a Hindu community in Florida. These pictures create a dialogue between the Orient and the Occident, creating a game of mirrors and reflections that interact endlessly, creating a juxtaposition of territories.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Dan Wetmore: Golden Dawn
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present Dan Wetmore's exhibition Golden Dawn, a series of pictures made from 2009-2012, in and between Flint, MI, Binghamton, NY, Cleveland, OH, Wheeling, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA.

Artist statement: I grew up in Pittsburgh. My parents enjoyed driving around and hunting for furniture on the weekends and I got to see much of the city this way. I was taken by the furnaces and mills that lined the rivers--these giant, dark carcasses. At home, the only photo book my parents had was a paperback of Becher typologies and I looked at the blast furnaces and mineheads for hours. Once mobile at sixteen, I explored these places intimately. With a developing fondness and understanding, I began to photograph in the surrounding neighborhoods.

The Photography of J.R. Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

J.R. Hughto is a filmmaker and photographer whose work explores duality, principally the friction between nostalgia/modernity and documentary/lyricism. Hughto's photography has appeared in print in the German edition of Wired Magazine, and has shown in Los Angeles and San Diego, CA, and Syracuse and Buffalo.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Wings Over Gallery 54: An Artful Collection of Things That Fly
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Spring has sprung at Gallery 54 and we are celebrating with a show featuring creations of things that fly in a variety of mediums.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Learning to See
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Join us for Learning to See, an exhibition of work produced by students participating in EL PUNTO Art Studio 2014, a contemporary arts workshop hosted by Point of Contact. Exhibited works include photography, video, and performance arts. This innovative arts program is facilitated to local youths in close collaboration with local Latino artists and community organizations including La Casita Cultural Center, The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, the Near West Side Initiative, and the Pal Project.

Max Ginsburg: Master of Social Realism
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Max Ginsburg is a New York City artist with a conscience who earned his BFA from Syracuse University. He is regarded as one of the most respected and accomplished contemporary realist painters who paints the provocative issues of our time to comment on issues of class, gender and race. A Social Realist, he is outraged by war, the hypocrisy of our leaders and the social policies of a government leaving its people behind. His concern for social justice makes him a humanist but not a sentimentalist.

Mixed Media Medley: North Syracuse Art Guild
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

There will be an artist talk from 5:00-6:00 pm. North Syracuse Art Guild members will discuss the guild as well as their experiences and successes in the art field. Light refreshments provided.

Begin a New Day
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The exhibition features mixed media work by SUNY Oswego students that focuses on surviving domestic violence. "Begin a New Day" offers the viewer visual journeys that explore what surviving looks like.

Ann Hamilton: table of contents
Urban Video Project

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

World premiere of table of contents (2013-2014), a new piece by celebrated multimedia artist, Ann Hamilton.

When composer David Lang wrote the score for his notoriously difficult piece, "Table of Contents", he envisioned a nearly-impossible synchronization of two percussionists. After seeing a performance in 2011, Hamilton imagined attaching an array of low-resolution mini surveillance cameras to the hands of the percussionists and instruments. In the resulting piece, Hamilton's "table of contents", the cameras occupy the gap between hearing and seeing. The edit generates a counter-rhythm--a back-and-forth that brings us intimately into "impossible" virtuosity.

Word Thursday: Great Weather for MEDIA
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

With anthology contributors and editors Michelle Bonczek Evory, Robert Evory, Matthew Hupert, Karl Roulston, Mary McLaughlin Slechta, and Jane Ormerod. Great Weather for MEDIA is an independent press based in New York City and focusing on the unpredictable, the fearless, the bright, the dark, and the innovative.

Big Louie and the Gang that Couldn't Think Straight
Acme Mystery Company

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

You and the rest of the Bangalone Gang are in deep trouble. Big Louie's been beaned by a bocci ball and now he ain't thinking so good. The gang's got to figure out what to do before arch rival gang leader "Muscles" Marinara has you rubbed out. You better move fast. Word on the street is that ruthless hitman Jake "The Weasel" is on the way.

Metamorphoses
Redhouse

Price: $30 regular, $20 members, $15 student rush starting one hour before show
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the myths of Ovid, this dazzling production of Mary Zimmermen's award winning play takes place in an actual pool of water on stage. Don't miss this breathtaking adaptation of various Greek Myths told voice, movement and sheer magic. Time Out magazine called it "a glimpse of the divine."

Read a Review!

Friday, May 16, 2014

Art Exhibit by Deborah Walsh
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Working predominately in the medium of acrylic painting, Deborah Walsh also works in pastel, collage, and printmaking. Her artworks engage the viewer in a celebration of light, color, and movement.

Student Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

A variety of nature-inspired art celebrating the achievements of young artists from the elementary through high school levels in the Auburn, Marcellus, West Genesee and Skaneateles school districts.

Student Architecture & Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

Onondaga Art Guild's 50th Anniversary Show
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibit showcases the work of 32 Guild Artists representing a variety of mediums from watercolor, oil paintings and sculpture, including works by Linda Abbey, Carol Adamec, Angela Arrey-Wastavino, Joan Back, Maureen Barcza, Barbara Bickford, Susi Buschbacher, Deb Dahlin, Patrice Downes Centore, Donna Egan, Bonnie Goetske, Geraldine Greig, Judy Hand, Karen Harris, Mary Haven, Marge Hill, Elizabeth Hughes, Peter Huntington, Brian Madigan, Jane McCarthy, Geraldine Meday, Adriana Meiss, Susan Murphy, Candace O'Brien, Toloa Perry, Maria Rizzo, Allison Sarenski, Gale Shuba, Mary Beth Sorber, Tina Strutz, Mary Touchette, Kathryn Wehrung.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Yourself Inevitable: Abstract Drawings by Daniel Franco
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Passages In Time
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Marna Bell: Four photography series eliciting imagery of memories
Chris Irick: Internationally recognized jeweler exhibiting her series referencing machinery
Jonathan Kirk: Britis- born sculptor who utilizes forms from the Industrial Revolution, combining abstraction with narrative

Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics
Light Work Gallery

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

Michael Buhler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Bühler-Rose uses western painting styles: still lifes, landscapes, portraits, to play with previous political notions of Hindu and Indic aesthetics: representations of gods and goddesses, incense, flowers, or the saris or bharatnaytam outfits worn by young women of European descent who live in a Hindu community in Florida. These pictures create a dialogue between the Orient and the Occident, creating a game of mirrors and reflections that interact endlessly, creating a juxtaposition of territories.

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

Dan Wetmore: Golden Dawn
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present Dan Wetmore's exhibition Golden Dawn, a series of pictures made from 2009-2012, in and between Flint, MI, Binghamton, NY, Cleveland, OH, Wheeling, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA.

Artist statement: I grew up in Pittsburgh. My parents enjoyed driving around and hunting for furniture on the weekends and I got to see much of the city this way. I was taken by the furnaces and mills that lined the rivers--these giant, dark carcasses. At home, the only photo book my parents had was a paperback of Becher typologies and I looked at the blast furnaces and mineheads for hours. Once mobile at sixteen, I explored these places intimately. With a developing fondness and understanding, I began to photograph in the surrounding neighborhoods.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

The Photography of J.R. Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

J.R. Hughto is a filmmaker and photographer whose work explores duality, principally the friction between nostalgia/modernity and documentary/lyricism. Hughto's photography has appeared in print in the German edition of Wired Magazine, and has shown in Los Angeles and San Diego, CA, and Syracuse and Buffalo.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Wings Over Gallery 54: An Artful Collection of Things That Fly
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Spring has sprung at Gallery 54 and we are celebrating with a show featuring creations of things that fly in a variety of mediums.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

Constructivism: Photos by Robert Graham
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

The photographs in Constructivism are inspired by some of the great movements in early 20th century art. Photographer Robert Graham cites specifically works by Kasimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky and Alexander Rodchenko as having major influence behind this new series. Graham's "Constructivism" exhibition coincides with the release of his book by the same title. For this occasion Graham states, "I put this exhibit and companion book under the Constructivist umbrella in part because of an affinity for Russian art, music, and literature."

Graham, who lives in Rochester, has published images from Syracuse in his book, and included them in this exhibition.

Learning to See
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Join us for Learning to See, an exhibition of work produced by students participating in EL PUNTO Art Studio 2014, a contemporary arts workshop hosted by Point of Contact. Exhibited works include photography, video, and performance arts. This innovative arts program is facilitated to local youths in close collaboration with local Latino artists and community organizations including La Casita Cultural Center, The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, the Near West Side Initiative, and the Pal Project.

Max Ginsburg: Master of Social Realism
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Max Ginsburg is a New York City artist with a conscience who earned his BFA from Syracuse University. He is regarded as one of the most respected and accomplished contemporary realist painters who paints the provocative issues of our time to comment on issues of class, gender and race. A Social Realist, he is outraged by war, the hypocrisy of our leaders and the social policies of a government leaving its people behind. His concern for social justice makes him a humanist but not a sentimentalist.

Ann Hamilton: table of contents
Urban Video Project

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

World premiere of table of contents (2013-2014), a new piece by celebrated multimedia artist, Ann Hamilton.

When composer David Lang wrote the score for his notoriously difficult piece, "Table of Contents", he envisioned a nearly-impossible synchronization of two percussionists. After seeing a performance in 2011, Hamilton imagined attaching an array of low-resolution mini surveillance cameras to the hands of the percussionists and instruments. In the resulting piece, Hamilton's "table of contents", the cameras occupy the gap between hearing and seeing. The edit generates a counter-rhythm--a back-and-forth that brings us intimately into "impossible" virtuosity.

Cuse Comedy Showcase
Central New York Playhouse
Featuring Anna Phillips

Price: $5 in advance, $7 at the door
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Jazz@Sitrus: Nancy Kelly
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover
Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse

Pops Series: Symphoria Goes to the Movies
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Sean O'Loughlin, conductor

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

Tony Trischka
Folkus Project

Price: $20 regular, $17 members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The area's most famous almost-annual homecoming show is moving to May.

Tony Trischka is a) the world's most important and best banjo player and b) a native of Syracuse. For years, Tony has treated Syracuse with frequent homecoming shows, bringing with him some of the very best musicians in bluegrass/Americana music. In recent times, those shows were held at the Westcott Center, until the place nearly burst at its seams. Now the tradition moves to May Memorial, where things just get bigger and better.

Kat Wright and the Indomitable Soul Band
Westcott Theater

Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Performance rescheduled from 10/25/13. Tickets held for that date will be honored.

Metamorphoses
Redhouse

Price: $30 regular, $20 members, $15 student rush starting one hour before show
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the myths of Ovid, this dazzling production of Mary Zimmermen's award winning play takes place in an actual pool of water on stage. Don't miss this breathtaking adaptation of various Greek Myths told voice, movement and sheer magic. Time Out magazine called it "a glimpse of the divine."

Read a Review!

Saturday, May 17, 2014

Student Architecture & Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

Art Exhibit by Deborah Walsh
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Working predominately in the medium of acrylic painting, Deborah Walsh also works in pastel, collage, and printmaking. Her artworks engage the viewer in a celebration of light, color, and movement.

Student Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

A variety of nature-inspired art celebrating the achievements of young artists from the elementary through high school levels in the Auburn, Marcellus, West Genesee and Skaneateles school districts.

Passages In Time
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Marna Bell: Four photography series eliciting imagery of memories
Chris Irick: Internationally recognized jeweler exhibiting her series referencing machinery
Jonathan Kirk: Britis- born sculptor who utilizes forms from the Industrial Revolution, combining abstraction with narrative

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Wings Over Gallery 54: An Artful Collection of Things That Fly
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Spring has sprung at Gallery 54 and we are celebrating with a show featuring creations of things that fly in a variety of mediums.

The Photography of J.R. Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

J.R. Hughto is a filmmaker and photographer whose work explores duality, principally the friction between nostalgia/modernity and documentary/lyricism. Hughto's photography has appeared in print in the German edition of Wired Magazine, and has shown in Los Angeles and San Diego, CA, and Syracuse and Buffalo.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Max Ginsburg: Master of Social Realism
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Max Ginsburg is a New York City artist with a conscience who earned his BFA from Syracuse University. He is regarded as one of the most respected and accomplished contemporary realist painters who paints the provocative issues of our time to comment on issues of class, gender and race. A Social Realist, he is outraged by war, the hypocrisy of our leaders and the social policies of a government leaving its people behind. His concern for social justice makes him a humanist but not a sentimentalist.

Constructivism: Photos by Robert Graham
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

The photographs in Constructivism are inspired by some of the great movements in early 20th century art. Photographer Robert Graham cites specifically works by Kasimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky and Alexander Rodchenko as having major influence behind this new series. Graham's "Constructivism" exhibition coincides with the release of his book by the same title. For this occasion Graham states, "I put this exhibit and companion book under the Constructivist umbrella in part because of an affinity for Russian art, music, and literature."

Graham, who lives in Rochester, has published images from Syracuse in his book, and included them in this exhibition.

Ann Hamilton: table of contents
Urban Video Project

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

World premiere of table of contents (2013-2014), a new piece by celebrated multimedia artist, Ann Hamilton.

When composer David Lang wrote the score for his notoriously difficult piece, "Table of Contents", he envisioned a nearly-impossible synchronization of two percussionists. After seeing a performance in 2011, Hamilton imagined attaching an array of low-resolution mini surveillance cameras to the hands of the percussionists and instruments. In the resulting piece, Hamilton's "table of contents", the cameras occupy the gap between hearing and seeing. The edit generates a counter-rhythm--a back-and-forth that brings us intimately into "impossible" virtuosity.

The "Spring Cleaning" Show
Salt City Improv Theater

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

Well, spring is finally here. The temperatures have soared into the 50s. The sun is shining, at least once or twice a week. It's that time of year, again, to spruce up things around the ol' homestead. It also means having to repair all those things we pretended to ignore throughout the winter. Be forewarned: do-it-yourself home improvements are nothing but trouble. Every time my dad tried to "fix" something around the house, I learned a new curse word (Home Depot's motto should actually be, "More Doing...More Swearing.")

Enjoy the highly-polished hilarity of Salt City Improv's house team, Pork Pie Hat (short-form improv comedy, in the style of the hit TV show "Whose Line Is It, Anyway.")

Jazz on Demand
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Paine Branch Library
113 Nichols, Syraucuse

Performed by the CNY Jazz Trio, Jazz on Demand will demonstrate how jazz musicians think about improvising by showing how they build their ideas on the basic architecture of the song. The one-hour, narrated, family program includes historic background, a call-and-response blues that invites the audience to co-create a blues melody, and a flash card experiment that gives the audience control over what song the combo plays, in what musical style, and at what tempo.

Annual Dinner Cabaret
Syracuse Community Choir

Price: Sliding scale: $12-$25 show only; $25-$50 dinner and show
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Thai food, a silent auction, music, singing, and dancing are all on the menu. Dance Theater of Syracuse, Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company, Al Zappala, Lenny Printup, Mardea and the Cluck Cluck Gals, Colleen Kattau, The Time Steps tap dancers and many more local performers will entertain at the event. Appetizers and jazz begin at 5:00 pm, and dinner, prepared by Chef Travis White, is served at 6:00 pm, followed by the show at 7:15 pm.

For tickets, phone Stephanie at 315-430-0372, or e-mail mscross@windstream.net, or purchase online at syracusecommunitychoir.org. Seating is limited.

The Princess and the Pea
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Metamorphoses
Redhouse

Price: $30 regular, $20 members, $15 student rush starting one hour before show
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the myths of Ovid, this dazzling production of Mary Zimmermen's award winning play takes place in an actual pool of water on stage. Don't miss this breathtaking adaptation of various Greek Myths told voice, movement and sheer magic. Time Out magazine called it "a glimpse of the divine."

Read a Review!

The Wild Party
Central New York Playhouse
Stephfond Brunson, director

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

Tonight's show will be preceded by dinner at 6:45 pm.

Adapted from a book-length poem by Joseph Moncure March written in and about the Roaring Twenties, Andrew Lippa's Wild Party tells the story of one wild evening in the Manhattan apartment shared by Queenie and Burrs, a vaudeville dancer and a vaudeville clown. In a relationship marked by vicious behavior and recklessness (mirroring the time in which they live), they decide to throw a party to end all parties.

As the guests arrive, we meet an assortment of people living on the edge. Queenie and Burrs set out to make each other jealous, but Queenie begins to fall in love with her conquest named Black. After a long night of decadence, Burrs' jealousy erupts and he comes to a violent end at Black's hand. In the stark light of a new day, Queenie moves out into a brighter world, although not necessarily a brighter future, leaving the passed-out revelers in her wake.

An award-winning score by Andrew Lippa provides excitement and drive for this tale of passions out of control. Capturing the sound of a bygone era with a nod to the present one, he makes us realize that moral decadence is not only limited to our past.

This CNY amateur premiere of the show is music directed by Abel Searor.

Read a Review!

Metamorphoses
Redhouse

Price: $30 regular, $20 members, $15 student rush starting one hour before show
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the myths of Ovid, this dazzling production of Mary Zimmermen's award winning play takes place in an actual pool of water on stage. Don't miss this breathtaking adaptation of various Greek Myths told voice, movement and sheer magic. Time Out magazine called it "a glimpse of the divine."

Read a Review!

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Student Architecture & Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics
Light Work Gallery

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

Michael Buhler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Bühler-Rose uses western painting styles: still lifes, landscapes, portraits, to play with previous political notions of Hindu and Indic aesthetics: representations of gods and goddesses, incense, flowers, or the saris or bharatnaytam outfits worn by young women of European descent who live in a Hindu community in Florida. These pictures create a dialogue between the Orient and the Occident, creating a game of mirrors and reflections that interact endlessly, creating a juxtaposition of territories.

Dan Wetmore: Golden Dawn
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present Dan Wetmore's exhibition Golden Dawn, a series of pictures made from 2009-2012, in and between Flint, MI, Binghamton, NY, Cleveland, OH, Wheeling, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA.

Artist statement: I grew up in Pittsburgh. My parents enjoyed driving around and hunting for furniture on the weekends and I got to see much of the city this way. I was taken by the furnaces and mills that lined the rivers--these giant, dark carcasses. At home, the only photo book my parents had was a paperback of Becher typologies and I looked at the blast furnaces and mineheads for hours. Once mobile at sixteen, I explored these places intimately. With a developing fondness and understanding, I began to photograph in the surrounding neighborhoods.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Wings Over Gallery 54: An Artful Collection of Things That Fly
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Spring has sprung at Gallery 54 and we are celebrating with a show featuring creations of things that fly in a variety of mediums.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Max Ginsburg: Master of Social Realism
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Max Ginsburg is a New York City artist with a conscience who earned his BFA from Syracuse University. He is regarded as one of the most respected and accomplished contemporary realist painters who paints the provocative issues of our time to comment on issues of class, gender and race. A Social Realist, he is outraged by war, the hypocrisy of our leaders and the social policies of a government leaving its people behind. His concern for social justice makes him a humanist but not a sentimentalist.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Constructivism: Photos by Robert Graham
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

The photographs in Constructivism are inspired by some of the great movements in early 20th century art. Photographer Robert Graham cites specifically works by Kasimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky and Alexander Rodchenko as having major influence behind this new series. Graham's "Constructivism" exhibition coincides with the release of his book by the same title. For this occasion Graham states, "I put this exhibit and companion book under the Constructivist umbrella in part because of an affinity for Russian art, music, and literature."

Graham, who lives in Rochester, has published images from Syracuse in his book, and included them in this exhibition.

Sunday Musicale: Jazz Concert
Fayetteville Free Library

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

A Bouquet of Aires and Fancies
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse
The Severall Friends Consort

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

A concert of spring music featuring early Baroque music for the dance by Couperin, Purcell, Bassano, Locke de la Guerre and others.

Seven Lions, with Direktor, Nicola,, DJ Izzy, Danger on the Dancefloor, DJ Chalmy
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Wild Party
Central New York Playhouse
Stephfond Brunson, director

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

Adapted from a book-length poem by Joseph Moncure March written in and about the Roaring Twenties, Andrew Lippa's Wild Party tells the story of one wild evening in the Manhattan apartment shared by Queenie and Burrs, a vaudeville dancer and a vaudeville clown. In a relationship marked by vicious behavior and recklessness (mirroring the time in which they live), they decide to throw a party to end all parties.

As the guests arrive, we meet an assortment of people living on the edge. Queenie and Burrs set out to make each other jealous, but Queenie begins to fall in love with her conquest named Black. After a long night of decadence, Burrs' jealousy erupts and he comes to a violent end at Black's hand. In the stark light of a new day, Queenie moves out into a brighter world, although not necessarily a brighter future, leaving the passed-out revelers in her wake.

An award-winning score by Andrew Lippa provides excitement and drive for this tale of passions out of control. Capturing the sound of a bygone era with a nod to the present one, he makes us realize that moral decadence is not only limited to our past.

This CNY amateur premiere of the show is music directed by Abel Searor.

Read a Review!