Thursday, July 12, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Native Hands: Claywork by Tammy Tarbell
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

Natural Abstractions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Fernando Llosa: oil paintings, sumi ink drawings, stone assemblage
David Harper: wood and mixed media sculpture
Carol Ackles: ceramic bead jewelry

The Unexpected Journey: Works By Beverly McIver and How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our summer exhibition will feature acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and California-based weaver Spencer McClay. These two artists offer different and refreshing perspectives on disability.

"The Unexpected Journey: Works by Beverly McIver" is a selection of paintings that examine McIver's unpredictable relationship with her mentally disabled sister, Renee.

"How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay" is a collection of vibrant hand-woven wall sculptures by an artist with a unique vision and sensibility for the materials he uses.

Read a review!

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Fire and Water
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Vibrant new watercolors, acrylics, and gold leaf paintings by Kathleen Schneider and hot new sculptural glass jewelry by Heather Hennigan.

Soul Cages: An Exploration of Change, Time and Process
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibition showcases R. Jason Howard's flame-worked glass sculptures, ornaments and functional pieces.

Art by Virginia Vilchis

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

An exhibit of the dreamy, inward, otherworldly scapes by local artist Virginia Vilchis.

A native of Mexico, Vilchis received her associate's degree in fine arts from Onondaga Community College in 2009 and her bachelor's degree in fine arts from Syracuse University in 2011. She works in ceramics, oils, acrylics, and mixed media.

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

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

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

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

When Night Falls
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In its July offering, Szozda Gallery takes a different approach in featuring two young newcomers to the gallery, Cayetano Valenzuela and Isaac Bidwell, in a mounting of their works that are a little darker than most shown here.

"When Night Falls" is composed of oil paintings plus acrylic and ink paintings by Valenzuela and ink or digital drawings by Bidwell. Most pieces submitted by the two bear an aura of the mystique. Valenzuela explores ideas about death, magic and storytelling in America; Bidwell's newest series, "Skeleton Ladies" represent control, mortality, destruction and beauty.

Though new to Szozda Gallery and still young in their careers, the two local artists have earned acclaim in some notable exhibitions throughout Central New York and beyond. Valenzuela's credits include galleries in San Francisco, San Diego, St. Louis, San Antonio, Atlanta and Chicago. He has been published in several art and culture magazines including Baron Magazine (Canada), IDN the New Twenties and Small Press publication, Atlas. Bidwell's work has appeared in San Diego, Chicago, Long Beach, and New York City.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Celebrating 90 Years of Design at Syracuse University
XL Projects

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

An exhibition of work by current students in the environmental and interior design and industrial and interaction design programs in the Department of Design. The programs are celebrating their 90th anniversaries.

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

Portals of Perception: Works of Barry Grose
Echo

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

The series combines a mix of pure aesthetic floral beauty with subtle seduction. The paintings evoke mystery and curiosity with their strong glows of color that peer from the darkness.

In Our View: A Community Perspective
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is the culmination of a community art project in which ArtRage worked with community members and organizations in the Hawley-Green and Northside neighborhoods. ArtRage got cameras into the hands of neighborhood residents and asked them to capture their lives and community through documentary photography. A professional photographer and Syracuse University graduate student, Daniel Aguilera, worked with residents to guide them on the social documentary process. Curated by a community panel, this exhibition is not only a testimony to the times in which we live, but a social-bonding experience for our diverse neighborhood -- a neighborhood whose current residents include refugees from many war-torn nations, long time city dwellers of mixed income, and a population of people new to the area working to establish roots in a community of their choice -- all living side-by-side as neighbors.

Exhibition Partners: Catholic Charities, Hawley-Green Neighbors, NEDHA, Northeast Community Center, Northside UP.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

UVP Annual Summer Review 2012
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This year's Annual Summer Review will feature all the past videos from the 2011-2012 programming year running together in a continuous loop. If you missed one of the past year's artists, now's your chance! On view will be works by Pae White, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, John Knecht, and William Wegman.

Jonah Smith CD Release Party

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

Syracuse native and Brooklyn resident, Jonah Smith returns to Syracuse to present his new album "Little Known Cure." Joining Smith is guitarist Andy Stack. This will be an intimate show at Jazz Central, a building once owned by Smith's father and grandfather, when it was a paint store. There will be a CD signing after the show.

For tickets or more information, visit jonahsmith.com.

Homestyle Homicide: The Freagan Family Reunion
Acme Mystery Company

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

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

For reservations, phone 315-475-1807 or email syracuse@meatballs.com.

Friday, July 13, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Native Hands: Claywork by Tammy Tarbell
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

Natural Abstractions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Fernando Llosa: oil paintings, sumi ink drawings, stone assemblage
David Harper: wood and mixed media sculpture
Carol Ackles: ceramic bead jewelry

The Unexpected Journey: Works By Beverly McIver and How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our summer exhibition will feature acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and California-based weaver Spencer McClay. These two artists offer different and refreshing perspectives on disability.

"The Unexpected Journey: Works by Beverly McIver" is a selection of paintings that examine McIver's unpredictable relationship with her mentally disabled sister, Renee.

"How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay" is a collection of vibrant hand-woven wall sculptures by an artist with a unique vision and sensibility for the materials he uses.

Read a review!

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Fire and Water
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Vibrant new watercolors, acrylics, and gold leaf paintings by Kathleen Schneider and hot new sculptural glass jewelry by Heather Hennigan.

Soul Cages: An Exploration of Change, Time and Process
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibition showcases R. Jason Howard's flame-worked glass sculptures, ornaments and functional pieces.

Art by Virginia Vilchis

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

An exhibit of the dreamy, inward, otherworldly scapes by local artist Virginia Vilchis.

A native of Mexico, Vilchis received her associate's degree in fine arts from Onondaga Community College in 2009 and her bachelor's degree in fine arts from Syracuse University in 2011. She works in ceramics, oils, acrylics, and mixed media.

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

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

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

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

When Night Falls
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception with the artists this evening 5:00-8:00 pm.

In its July offering, Szozda Gallery takes a different approach in featuring two young newcomers to the gallery, Cayetano Valenzuela and Isaac Bidwell, in a mounting of their works that are a little darker than most shown here.

"When Night Falls" is composed of oil paintings plus acrylic and ink paintings by Valenzuela and ink or digital drawings by Bidwell. Most pieces submitted by the two bear an aura of the mystique. Valenzuela explores ideas about death, magic and storytelling in America; Bidwell's newest series, "Skeleton Ladies" represent control, mortality, destruction and beauty.

Though new to Szozda Gallery and still young in their careers, the two local artists have earned acclaim in some notable exhibitions throughout Central New York and beyond. Valenzuela's credits include galleries in San Francisco, San Diego, St. Louis, San Antonio, Atlanta and Chicago. He has been published in several art and culture magazines including Baron Magazine (Canada), IDN the New Twenties and Small Press publication, Atlas. Bidwell's work has appeared in San Diego, Chicago, Long Beach, and New York City.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Celebrating 90 Years of Design at Syracuse University
XL Projects

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

An exhibition of work by current students in the environmental and interior design and industrial and interaction design programs in the Department of Design. The programs are celebrating their 90th anniversaries.

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

Portals of Perception: Works of Barry Grose
Echo

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

The series combines a mix of pure aesthetic floral beauty with subtle seduction. The paintings evoke mystery and curiosity with their strong glows of color that peer from the darkness.

In Our View: A Community Perspective
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is the culmination of a community art project in which ArtRage worked with community members and organizations in the Hawley-Green and Northside neighborhoods. ArtRage got cameras into the hands of neighborhood residents and asked them to capture their lives and community through documentary photography. A professional photographer and Syracuse University graduate student, Daniel Aguilera, worked with residents to guide them on the social documentary process. Curated by a community panel, this exhibition is not only a testimony to the times in which we live, but a social-bonding experience for our diverse neighborhood -- a neighborhood whose current residents include refugees from many war-torn nations, long time city dwellers of mixed income, and a population of people new to the area working to establish roots in a community of their choice -- all living side-by-side as neighbors.

Exhibition Partners: Catholic Charities, Hawley-Green Neighbors, NEDHA, Northeast Community Center, Northside UP.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

UVP Annual Summer Review 2012
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This year's Annual Summer Review will feature all the past videos from the 2011-2012 programming year running together in a continuous loop. If you missed one of the past year's artists, now's your chance! On view will be works by Pae White, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, John Knecht, and William Wegman.

New York State Blues Festival

Price: $10/day; $25 three-day pass
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

4:30 pm: Anders Osborne with Johnny Sansone (acoustic)
5:30 pm: Mick Hayes, contemporary R&B and blues guitar player & singer
6:30 pm: Anders Osborne with Johnny Sansone (electric)
7:45 pm: MonkeyJunk, one of the hottest up and coming blues bands around
8:45 pm: Matt Schofield, British guitar player

For more information, visit www.nysbluesfest.com.

Stan Colella Orchestra
Dancing Under the Stars

Price: Free
Sunnycrest Rink
Sunnycrest Park, Syracuse

Swing and big band favorites.

Lawn chairs recommended. Picnics welcome.

Skaneateles Community Band
Philip Krasicky, conductor

Price: Free
Clift Park
Genesee St., Skaneateles

Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating.

New York State Blues Festival Friday Night Club Crawl

Price: $10 for admission to all three Club Crawl venues
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

8:45 pm: Jimmy Wolf
10:00 pm: Oli Brown
12:00 am: Matt Schofield

New York State Blues Festival Friday Night Club Crawl

Price: $10 for admission to all three Club Crawl venues
Redfield's at the Crowne Plaza
701 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

8:45 pm: The Super Delinquents
10:00 pm: Mick Hayes
12:00 am: Billy Thompson

New York State Blues Festival Friday Night Club Crawl

Price: $10 for admission to all three Club Crawl venues
Lafayette Room at the Crowne Plaza
701 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Bluesfest Jam Session, open to all performers at the festival. You never know who's going to show up!

Avenue Q
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett Heater and Susan Blumer, director

Price: $25
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Covey Theatre brings you a CNY premiere with the riotous adult musical Avenue Q. This 2004 Tony award-winner for Best Musical is simultaneously a touching homage to children's television programming and an irreverent comedy about finding our purpose in life. Full of catchy tunes like "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist," "If You Were Gay," and "The Internet is for Porn," puppets and people shed hilarious and philosophical light on our shared hopes, dreams, and insecurities.

Not recommended for children as this show contains adult themes and content.

Starring Sara Weiler, David Cotter, Rob Lescarbeau, Josh Taylor, Garrett Heater, Jodie Baum, Josh Mele, Sunny Hernandez, Karin Franklin-King, Angel Santiago, Bethany Daniluk, Alexia Crescenzi, Kyle Johnson.

Musical direction by Bridget Moriarty, choreography by Jodi Bova-Mele, puppetry direction by David Cotter.

Read a Review!

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Native Hands: Claywork by Tammy Tarbell
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Natural Abstractions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Fernando Llosa: oil paintings, sumi ink drawings, stone assemblage
David Harper: wood and mixed media sculpture
Carol Ackles: ceramic bead jewelry

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

Fire and Water
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Vibrant new watercolors, acrylics, and gold leaf paintings by Kathleen Schneider and hot new sculptural glass jewelry by Heather Hennigan.

Soul Cages: An Exploration of Change, Time and Process
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibition showcases R. Jason Howard's flame-worked glass sculptures, ornaments and functional pieces.

Art by Virginia Vilchis

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

An exhibit of the dreamy, inward, otherworldly scapes by local artist Virginia Vilchis.

A native of Mexico, Vilchis received her associate's degree in fine arts from Onondaga Community College in 2009 and her bachelor's degree in fine arts from Syracuse University in 2011. She works in ceramics, oils, acrylics, and mixed media.

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

When Night Falls
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In its July offering, Szozda Gallery takes a different approach in featuring two young newcomers to the gallery, Cayetano Valenzuela and Isaac Bidwell, in a mounting of their works that are a little darker than most shown here.

"When Night Falls" is composed of oil paintings plus acrylic and ink paintings by Valenzuela and ink or digital drawings by Bidwell. Most pieces submitted by the two bear an aura of the mystique. Valenzuela explores ideas about death, magic and storytelling in America; Bidwell's newest series, "Skeleton Ladies" represent control, mortality, destruction and beauty.

Though new to Szozda Gallery and still young in their careers, the two local artists have earned acclaim in some notable exhibitions throughout Central New York and beyond. Valenzuela's credits include galleries in San Francisco, San Diego, St. Louis, San Antonio, Atlanta and Chicago. He has been published in several art and culture magazines including Baron Magazine (Canada), IDN the New Twenties and Small Press publication, Atlas. Bidwell's work has appeared in San Diego, Chicago, Long Beach, and New York City.

The Unexpected Journey: Works By Beverly McIver and How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our summer exhibition will feature acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and California-based weaver Spencer McClay. These two artists offer different and refreshing perspectives on disability.

"The Unexpected Journey: Works by Beverly McIver" is a selection of paintings that examine McIver's unpredictable relationship with her mentally disabled sister, Renee.

"How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay" is a collection of vibrant hand-woven wall sculptures by an artist with a unique vision and sensibility for the materials he uses.

Read a review!

Portals of Perception: Works of Barry Grose
Echo

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

The series combines a mix of pure aesthetic floral beauty with subtle seduction. The paintings evoke mystery and curiosity with their strong glows of color that peer from the darkness.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

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

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

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

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

In Our View: A Community Perspective
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is the culmination of a community art project in which ArtRage worked with community members and organizations in the Hawley-Green and Northside neighborhoods. ArtRage got cameras into the hands of neighborhood residents and asked them to capture their lives and community through documentary photography. A professional photographer and Syracuse University graduate student, Daniel Aguilera, worked with residents to guide them on the social documentary process. Curated by a community panel, this exhibition is not only a testimony to the times in which we live, but a social-bonding experience for our diverse neighborhood -- a neighborhood whose current residents include refugees from many war-torn nations, long time city dwellers of mixed income, and a population of people new to the area working to establish roots in a community of their choice -- all living side-by-side as neighbors.

Exhibition Partners: Catholic Charities, Hawley-Green Neighbors, NEDHA, Northeast Community Center, Northside UP.

Celebrating 90 Years of Design at Syracuse University
XL Projects

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

An exhibition of work by current students in the environmental and interior design and industrial and interaction design programs in the Department of Design. The programs are celebrating their 90th anniversaries.

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

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

UVP Annual Summer Review 2012
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This year's Annual Summer Review will feature all the past videos from the 2011-2012 programming year running together in a continuous loop. If you missed one of the past year's artists, now's your chance! On view will be works by Pae White, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, John Knecht, and William Wegman.

New York State Blues Festival

Price: $10/day; $25 three-day pass
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

2:00 pm: Jimmy Cavallo and the Houserockers, Syracuse native and musical pioneer
3:15 pm: Ron Spencer, contemporary jump blues
4:15 pm: Deanna Bogart, blues-infused boogie woogie, jazz, R&B, country, gospel and soul
5:30 pm: Big D and The Tasty Café, southern style blues and rock
6:30 pm: Mitch Kashmar, widely regarded as one of the best harmonica players around
7:45 pm: Billy Thompson, world-class slide guitar player, combining blues, rock, funk, R&B
8:45 pm: Brooks Family Blues Dynasty, "Voodoo Blues"

For more information, visit www.nysbluesfest.com.

From California to the New York Island: Woody Guthrie Day
Kellish Hill Farm

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

Come celebrate the music of a man that inspired so many folk songs! Music jam starts at 5 pm, we will be using the signup board for folks taking the stage at 6 pm. Then a treat at 8 pm, predetermined musicians will be doing Woody's music. Very special night of music indeed.

Candlelight Concert
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Cathy Gale

Price: Free
Armory Square
Clinton and Jefferson St., Syracuse

The Stan Colella Parks & Rec All-Star Big Band opens at 7:00 pm.
The CNY Jazz Orchestra takes the stage at 8:00 pm with Cathy Gale, who's back by popular demand.

Bring blankets or lawn chairs for seating.

Summer Pops Concert
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

Price: Free
Beard Park
Fayetteville

New York State Blues Festival Saturday Night Club Crawl

Price: $10 for admission to all three Club Crawl venues
Redfield's at the Crowne Plaza
701 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

8:45 pm: Tom Townsley
10:00 pm: Dennis Gruenling
12:00 am: Mitch Kashmar

New York State Blues Festival Saturday Night Club Crawl

Price: $10 for admission to all three Club Crawl venues
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

8:45 pm: Bernie Clarke and his All-Stars
10:00 pm: MonkeyJunk
12:00 am: Kenny Neal Band

New York State Blues Festival Saturday Night Club Crawl

Price: $10 for admission to all three Club Crawl venues
Lafayette Room at the Crowne Plaza
701 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

9:00-11:30 pm: Bluesfest Jam Session, open to all performers at the festival. You never know who's going to show up!
12:00 am: Wayne Baker Brooks

The Three Little Princess Pigs
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Our own original, interactive, comedic version of the traditional three little pigs story, starring Mae-Mae, Dixie, and Priscilla Pig, who foil the big bad wolf with their combination of southern charm, and, of course, help from the children in the audience.

Avenue Q
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett Heater and Susan Blumer, director

Price: $25
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Covey Theatre brings you a CNY premiere with the riotous adult musical Avenue Q. This 2004 Tony award-winner for Best Musical is simultaneously a touching homage to children's television programming and an irreverent comedy about finding our purpose in life. Full of catchy tunes like "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist," "If You Were Gay," and "The Internet is for Porn," puppets and people shed hilarious and philosophical light on our shared hopes, dreams, and insecurities.

Not recommended for children as this show contains adult themes and content.

Starring Sara Weiler, David Cotter, Rob Lescarbeau, Josh Taylor, Garrett Heater, Jodie Baum, Josh Mele, Sunny Hernandez, Karin Franklin-King, Angel Santiago, Bethany Daniluk, Alexia Crescenzi, Kyle Johnson.

Musical direction by Bridget Moriarty, choreography by Jodi Bova-Mele, puppetry direction by David Cotter.

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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

When Night Falls
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In its July offering, Szozda Gallery takes a different approach in featuring two young newcomers to the gallery, Cayetano Valenzuela and Isaac Bidwell, in a mounting of their works that are a little darker than most shown here.

"When Night Falls" is composed of oil paintings plus acrylic and ink paintings by Valenzuela and ink or digital drawings by Bidwell. Most pieces submitted by the two bear an aura of the mystique. Valenzuela explores ideas about death, magic and storytelling in America; Bidwell's newest series, "Skeleton Ladies" represent control, mortality, destruction and beauty.

Though new to Szozda Gallery and still young in their careers, the two local artists have earned acclaim in some notable exhibitions throughout Central New York and beyond. Valenzuela's credits include galleries in San Francisco, San Diego, St. Louis, San Antonio, Atlanta and Chicago. He has been published in several art and culture magazines including Baron Magazine (Canada), IDN the New Twenties and Small Press publication, Atlas. Bidwell's work has appeared in San Diego, Chicago, Long Beach, and New York City.

Fire and Water
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Vibrant new watercolors, acrylics, and gold leaf paintings by Kathleen Schneider and hot new sculptural glass jewelry by Heather Hennigan.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Soul Cages: An Exploration of Change, Time and Process
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibition showcases R. Jason Howard's flame-worked glass sculptures, ornaments and functional pieces.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

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

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

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

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Celebrating 90 Years of Design at Syracuse University
XL Projects

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

An exhibition of work by current students in the environmental and interior design and industrial and interaction design programs in the Department of Design. The programs are celebrating their 90th anniversaries.

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

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

New York State Blues Festival

Price: $10/day; $25 three-day pass
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

2:00 pm: Kenny Neal Band, guitarist and vocalist, harmonica and piano.
3:00 pm: Stevie Wolf & Blues Express, authentic Chicago-style blues
3:45 pm: The Chris O'Leary Band, vocalist, harmonica player, and mandolin player
4:45 pm: Double Barrel Blues Band, hard rocking blues
5:45 pm: Carolyn Wonderland, guitar, piano, lap steel, mandolin, and trumpet
7:00 pm: Soul of Syracuse, all-star group of Central New York musicians
8:00 pm: Low Rider Band, eclectic mix of Latin, R&B, rock and funk, with contemporary jazz and Jamaican reggae

For more information, visit www.nysbluesfest.com.

Art Songs and Afternoon Tea
Pro Musica Divina
Featuring Mary Molnar, soprano

Price: $12 adults, $8 students
St. Matthew's School
214 Kinne St., East Syracuse

Enjoy the informal and intimate setting at the Community Room at St. Matthew's while you hear word-class soprano Ms. Molnar sing some of the finest poetic texts set to music by the great composers of the genre.

Following the performance, afternoon tea is served during our social time with the artists.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Fire and Water
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Vibrant new watercolors, acrylics, and gold leaf paintings by Kathleen Schneider and hot new sculptural glass jewelry by Heather Hennigan.

Soul Cages: An Exploration of Change, Time and Process
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibition showcases R. Jason Howard's flame-worked glass sculptures, ornaments and functional pieces.

Art by Virginia Vilchis

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

An exhibit of the dreamy, inward, otherworldly scapes by local artist Virginia Vilchis.

A native of Mexico, Vilchis received her associate's degree in fine arts from Onondaga Community College in 2009 and her bachelor's degree in fine arts from Syracuse University in 2011. She works in ceramics, oils, acrylics, and mixed media.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Stroke
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Rhythm & blues

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Native Hands: Claywork by Tammy Tarbell
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

Natural Abstractions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Fernando Llosa: oil paintings, sumi ink drawings, stone assemblage
David Harper: wood and mixed media sculpture
Carol Ackles: ceramic bead jewelry

The Unexpected Journey: Works By Beverly McIver and How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our summer exhibition will feature acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and California-based weaver Spencer McClay. These two artists offer different and refreshing perspectives on disability.

"The Unexpected Journey: Works by Beverly McIver" is a selection of paintings that examine McIver's unpredictable relationship with her mentally disabled sister, Renee.

"How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay" is a collection of vibrant hand-woven wall sculptures by an artist with a unique vision and sensibility for the materials he uses.

Read a review!

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Fire and Water
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Vibrant new watercolors, acrylics, and gold leaf paintings by Kathleen Schneider and hot new sculptural glass jewelry by Heather Hennigan.

Soul Cages: An Exploration of Change, Time and Process
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibition showcases R. Jason Howard's flame-worked glass sculptures, ornaments and functional pieces.

Art by Virginia Vilchis

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

An exhibit of the dreamy, inward, otherworldly scapes by local artist Virginia Vilchis.

A native of Mexico, Vilchis received her associate's degree in fine arts from Onondaga Community College in 2009 and her bachelor's degree in fine arts from Syracuse University in 2011. She works in ceramics, oils, acrylics, and mixed media.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

Portals of Perception: Works of Barry Grose
Echo

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

The series combines a mix of pure aesthetic floral beauty with subtle seduction. The paintings evoke mystery and curiosity with their strong glows of color that peer from the darkness.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Pops in the Park
Syracuse Parks Department

Price: Free
Upper Onondaga Park Gazebo
Roberts Avenue, Syracuse

Bring lawn chairs/blankets for seating. Gannon's ice cream will be available for purchase.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Native Hands: Claywork by Tammy Tarbell
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

Natural Abstractions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Fernando Llosa: oil paintings, sumi ink drawings, stone assemblage
David Harper: wood and mixed media sculpture
Carol Ackles: ceramic bead jewelry

The Unexpected Journey: Works By Beverly McIver and How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our summer exhibition will feature acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and California-based weaver Spencer McClay. These two artists offer different and refreshing perspectives on disability.

"The Unexpected Journey: Works by Beverly McIver" is a selection of paintings that examine McIver's unpredictable relationship with her mentally disabled sister, Renee.

"How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay" is a collection of vibrant hand-woven wall sculptures by an artist with a unique vision and sensibility for the materials he uses.

Read a review!

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Fire and Water
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Vibrant new watercolors, acrylics, and gold leaf paintings by Kathleen Schneider and hot new sculptural glass jewelry by Heather Hennigan.

Soul Cages: An Exploration of Change, Time and Process
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibition showcases R. Jason Howard's flame-worked glass sculptures, ornaments and functional pieces.

Art by Virginia Vilchis

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

An exhibit of the dreamy, inward, otherworldly scapes by local artist Virginia Vilchis.

A native of Mexico, Vilchis received her associate's degree in fine arts from Onondaga Community College in 2009 and her bachelor's degree in fine arts from Syracuse University in 2011. She works in ceramics, oils, acrylics, and mixed media.

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

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

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

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

When Night Falls
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In its July offering, Szozda Gallery takes a different approach in featuring two young newcomers to the gallery, Cayetano Valenzuela and Isaac Bidwell, in a mounting of their works that are a little darker than most shown here.

"When Night Falls" is composed of oil paintings plus acrylic and ink paintings by Valenzuela and ink or digital drawings by Bidwell. Most pieces submitted by the two bear an aura of the mystique. Valenzuela explores ideas about death, magic and storytelling in America; Bidwell's newest series, "Skeleton Ladies" represent control, mortality, destruction and beauty.

Though new to Szozda Gallery and still young in their careers, the two local artists have earned acclaim in some notable exhibitions throughout Central New York and beyond. Valenzuela's credits include galleries in San Francisco, San Diego, St. Louis, San Antonio, Atlanta and Chicago. He has been published in several art and culture magazines including Baron Magazine (Canada), IDN the New Twenties and Small Press publication, Atlas. Bidwell's work has appeared in San Diego, Chicago, Long Beach, and New York City.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Portals of Perception: Works of Barry Grose
Echo

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

The series combines a mix of pure aesthetic floral beauty with subtle seduction. The paintings evoke mystery and curiosity with their strong glows of color that peer from the darkness.

In Our View: A Community Perspective
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is the culmination of a community art project in which ArtRage worked with community members and organizations in the Hawley-Green and Northside neighborhoods. ArtRage got cameras into the hands of neighborhood residents and asked them to capture their lives and community through documentary photography. A professional photographer and Syracuse University graduate student, Daniel Aguilera, worked with residents to guide them on the social documentary process. Curated by a community panel, this exhibition is not only a testimony to the times in which we live, but a social-bonding experience for our diverse neighborhood -- a neighborhood whose current residents include refugees from many war-torn nations, long time city dwellers of mixed income, and a population of people new to the area working to establish roots in a community of their choice -- all living side-by-side as neighbors.

Exhibition Partners: Catholic Charities, Hawley-Green Neighbors, NEDHA, Northeast Community Center, Northside UP.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Bridesmaids
Flicks on the Crick

Price: Free
Sound Garden
310 W. Jefferson St., Syracuse

Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.

Starting at dusk, film will be projected on the side of Sound Garden's building. Blankets and lawn chairs are recommended.

For more information or to check for weather delays or cancellations, visit the Flicks on the Crick Facebook page.

Z-Bones
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Roots rock

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Native Hands: Claywork by Tammy Tarbell
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

Natural Abstractions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Fernando Llosa: oil paintings, sumi ink drawings, stone assemblage
David Harper: wood and mixed media sculpture
Carol Ackles: ceramic bead jewelry

The Unexpected Journey: Works By Beverly McIver and How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our summer exhibition will feature acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and California-based weaver Spencer McClay. These two artists offer different and refreshing perspectives on disability.

"The Unexpected Journey: Works by Beverly McIver" is a selection of paintings that examine McIver's unpredictable relationship with her mentally disabled sister, Renee.

"How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay" is a collection of vibrant hand-woven wall sculptures by an artist with a unique vision and sensibility for the materials he uses.

Read a review!

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Fire and Water
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Vibrant new watercolors, acrylics, and gold leaf paintings by Kathleen Schneider and hot new sculptural glass jewelry by Heather Hennigan.

Soul Cages: An Exploration of Change, Time and Process
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibition showcases R. Jason Howard's flame-worked glass sculptures, ornaments and functional pieces.

Art by Virginia Vilchis

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

An exhibit of the dreamy, inward, otherworldly scapes by local artist Virginia Vilchis.

A native of Mexico, Vilchis received her associate's degree in fine arts from Onondaga Community College in 2009 and her bachelor's degree in fine arts from Syracuse University in 2011. She works in ceramics, oils, acrylics, and mixed media.

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

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

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

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

Opening: Radiant Hues: Works by Therese Verley Strodel
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

There will be a gallery reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm.

Large-scale abstract paintings celebrate the use of color through myriad layering of acrylic paint.

When Night Falls
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In its July offering, Szozda Gallery takes a different approach in featuring two young newcomers to the gallery, Cayetano Valenzuela and Isaac Bidwell, in a mounting of their works that are a little darker than most shown here.

"When Night Falls" is composed of oil paintings plus acrylic and ink paintings by Valenzuela and ink or digital drawings by Bidwell. Most pieces submitted by the two bear an aura of the mystique. Valenzuela explores ideas about death, magic and storytelling in America; Bidwell's newest series, "Skeleton Ladies" represent control, mortality, destruction and beauty.

Though new to Szozda Gallery and still young in their careers, the two local artists have earned acclaim in some notable exhibitions throughout Central New York and beyond. Valenzuela's credits include galleries in San Francisco, San Diego, St. Louis, San Antonio, Atlanta and Chicago. He has been published in several art and culture magazines including Baron Magazine (Canada), IDN the New Twenties and Small Press publication, Atlas. Bidwell's work has appeared in San Diego, Chicago, Long Beach, and New York City.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Portals of Perception: Works of Barry Grose
Echo

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

The series combines a mix of pure aesthetic floral beauty with subtle seduction. The paintings evoke mystery and curiosity with their strong glows of color that peer from the darkness.

In Our View: A Community Perspective
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is the culmination of a community art project in which ArtRage worked with community members and organizations in the Hawley-Green and Northside neighborhoods. ArtRage got cameras into the hands of neighborhood residents and asked them to capture their lives and community through documentary photography. A professional photographer and Syracuse University graduate student, Daniel Aguilera, worked with residents to guide them on the social documentary process. Curated by a community panel, this exhibition is not only a testimony to the times in which we live, but a social-bonding experience for our diverse neighborhood -- a neighborhood whose current residents include refugees from many war-torn nations, long time city dwellers of mixed income, and a population of people new to the area working to establish roots in a community of their choice -- all living side-by-side as neighbors.

Exhibition Partners: Catholic Charities, Hawley-Green Neighbors, NEDHA, Northeast Community Center, Northside UP.

Karmin Schafer Hansen Exhibition
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

Karmin Schafer Hansen's oil paintings are a contrast between the geometric shape of a rectangle and of the more diffused background, intertwining the different planes of the images.

Posters!
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

A selection of posters for art exhibitions held at SUNY Oswego's Tyler Art Gallery. Documenting changes in graphic design styles, these posters cover a period of over three decades and most were designed by Oswego graphic design students.

Waterscapes of my Travels: Paintings by Domenico Gigante
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Watercolor landscapes.

Artist Open: Westcott Community Center Open Figure Drawing
Everson Museum of Art

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

Enjoy an evening of figure drawing in the Everson's spacious sculpture court. The public is invited to create drawings through the study of a nude model. Bring your own sketchbooks and pencils (no charcoal, pastels, paint permitted). Easels will be provided.

UVP Annual Summer Review 2012
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This year's Annual Summer Review will feature all the past videos from the 2011-2012 programming year running together in a continuous loop. If you missed one of the past year's artists, now's your chance! On view will be works by Pae White, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, John Knecht, and William Wegman.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

The Lorax
Southside Film Festival

Price: Free
Key Bank (South Side) parking lot
Corner South Salina and East Colvin St., Syracuse

Cinema Under the Stars: Family Night: Wall-E
Urban Video Project

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

Pixar genius reigns in this funny romantic comedy, which stars a robot who says absolutely nothing for a full 25 minutes yet somehow completely transfixes and endears himself to the audience within the first few minutes of the film. As the last robot left on earth, Wall-E is one small robot—with a big, big heart—who holds the future of earth and mankind squarely in the palm of his metal hand. Robotic EVE probes to earth, Wall-E is instantly smitten and proceeds to try to impress EVE with his collection of human memorabilia. EVE's directive compels her to bring Wall-E's newly collected plant sprout to the captain of the Axiom and Wall-E follows in hot pursuit. Wall-E is a great family film with the most impressive aspect being the depth of emotion conveyed by a simple robot made so absolutely touching by the magic of Pixar animation. Directed by Andrew Stanton, 98 minutes.

Always On My Mind: Syracuse's Image of the Erie Canal
Everson Museum of Art
Onondaga Historical Association
Featuring Dennis Connors

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

In conjunction with the cooperative exhibition entitled "People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print," Onondaga Historical Association's Curator of History, Dennis Connors, will present an illustrated lecture. The talk will be a personal exploration of the city's long term physical and emotional relationship with the canal. Several of the art works in this exhibition at the Everson are canal scenes from the OHA collection. Connors' lecture will also explore the handful of the canal's remnants that still can be discovered inside the city.

Fritz's Polka Band

Price: Free
Lakeland Park
Alhadn Parkway, Solvay

Fayetteville Jazz Concert
Featuring Jane Monheit, Ronnie Leigh

Price: Free
Beard Park
Fayetteville

International jazz vocalist Jane Monheit will be joined by Central New York singer Ronnie Leigh, the Fayetteville Jazz All-Stars, and the Stan Colella All-Star Band.

The Fayetteville Jazz All-Stars will consist of Monheit's father-in-law, Rick Montalbano Sr., on keyboards and leading the musicians while her husband Rick Montalbano Jr. will be on drums. Bass player Jared Mulcahey, guitarist Tom Bronzetti, saxophonist Joe Carello, and trumpet player Jeff Stockham will round out the jazz ensemble.

Concertgoers should bring seating, lawn chairs and/or blankets.

Homestyle Homicide: The Freagan Family Reunion
Acme Mystery Company

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

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

For reservations, phone 315-475-1807 or email syracuse@meatballs.com.

A Chorus Line
Town of Manlius Recreation Department
David Brown, director

Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

In an empty theatre, on a bare stage, casting for a new Broadway musical is almost complete. For 17 dancers, this audition is the chance of a lifetime. It's what they've worked for--with every drop of sweat, every hour of training, every day of their lives. It's the one opportunity to do what they've always dreamed--to have the chance to dance. This is A Chorus Line, the musical for everyone who's ever had a dream and put it all on the line. Winner of nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and the Pulitzer Prize for drama, this singular sensation is one of the longest-running American Broadway musicals ever.

*SOLD OUT* Avenue Q
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett Heater and Susan Blumer, director

Price: $25
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Covey Theatre brings you a CNY premiere with the riotous adult musical Avenue Q. This 2004 Tony award-winner for Best Musical is simultaneously a touching homage to children's television programming and an irreverent comedy about finding our purpose in life. Full of catchy tunes like "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist," "If You Were Gay," and "The Internet is for Porn," puppets and people shed hilarious and philosophical light on our shared hopes, dreams, and insecurities.

Not recommended for children as this show contains adult themes and content.

Starring Sara Weiler, David Cotter, Rob Lescarbeau, Josh Taylor, Garrett Heater, Jodie Baum, Josh Mele, Sunny Hernandez, Karin Franklin-King, Angel Santiago, Bethany Daniluk, Alexia Crescenzi, Kyle Johnson.

Musical direction by Bridget Moriarty, choreography by Jodi Bova-Mele, puppetry direction by David Cotter.

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