Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

Through Time and Space: Quilts and Collage by Sharon Bottle Souva

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

Sharon's work includes elements of the tradition of quilt making while exploring contemporary design.

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Paintings by Karen Burns and photography by David LoParco depict local landscapes.

Past Abstractions: Works by Diana Godfrey

St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

"Past Abstractions" highlights some of the abstract pastel/collages and mixed-media paintings of Diana Godfrey. The artist's colorful, nonrepresentational art has been shown in many galleries and venues in Central New York and the Northeast.

Note that the venue is closed daily 12:00-1:00 pm.

Gallery Exhibit: Vessels Ceremonial and Mundane: Works by David MacDonald
Onondaga Community College

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

This gallery exhibit by celebrated sculptor David MacDonald features several vessel forms of varying sizes, including both intimate and large scale pieces.

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

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

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

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

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jeff Robinson: metal and glass sculpture
Charles Golden: mixed media wall hangings
Sharon Alama: mixed media jewelry

Crossings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Crossings" is a multi-faceted outcome of how the work of two artists, Nayda Collazo-Lloréns and Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, relates to each other in terms of location, mapping, identity, memory and multiplicity. "Crossings" is a first-time collaboration, convergence, and juxtaposition of these two artistic practices. The show will present a series of 13 works on paper, and a two-channel video installation titled PLEXUS13NP.

Nayda Collazo-Lloréns: Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, she is a New York City based artist engaged in a multi-disciplinary practice that includes drawing, print, installation, video, text-based works and public interventions. Through her practice, she examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, language and hyper-connectivity.

Patricia Villalobos Echeverría Born in Tennessee to Salvadoran parents and raised in Managua, Nicaragua, Villalobos describes her work as a hybrid. Her print, video and installation work explores how reproducible forms of representation can alter our notions of singularity and the various states of flux that we enter: some physical, others virtual. She a Professor of Art at Western Michigan University.

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Corporeal Contours" features the work of two distinguished artists, Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, each displaying their personal ideas of identity in relation to the world around them. A large part of the exhibition also seeks to expose the hyper-exoticism of tourism companies, while also confronting issues of racial identity in Caribbean and American societies.

The artists each use very personal experiences to create an array of compelling silhouetted forms and prints. For her on-going series Can I Pass (2010), Baez incorporates aspects from her transcultural background to examine the United States' "brown paper bag test" and the Dominican Republic's "fan test." She uses art as a medium to challenge these tests, tracing her outline and painting her skin tone for each day within the form over the course of an entire month. Within her works, Baez is able to explore idealized body types, race, and skin tones within the greater social scheme across both countries.

For her series, Chung analyzes post colonial culture by using old logos and slogans from tourist advertisements, and archival photographs to create her thought-provoking prints. She focuses on race, class, and contemporary society in Jamaica and Trinidad, as well as the exotic identity assumed by tourist companies. Chung is also able to address the increasingly popular skin bleaching practices in Jamaica, exposing a deeper dimension of self image and controversy in her work.

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her exhibit "When We Just Existed," artist Deborah Roberts investigates children's innocence, and how their sense of self is shaped by their environments, as well as the residual effects this may have on adults. In many of her paintings, Roberts uses her prepubescent self as the subject, adding a personal dimension to her pieces that will help you think of your own childhood. In her work, she makes references to the lynching in African American history and the racial tensions that children may experience.

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

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Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Messages of Sisterhood: Works by Favianna Rodríguez
La Casita Cultural Center

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

A native of Oakland, CA, Favianna Rodriguez is renowned for her vibrant posters about issues of war, immigration, globalization, workers' rights, racism, homophobia, sexism and other contemporary issues. "Messages of Sisterhood" commemorates Women's History Month, focusing on the role of women in the struggles for social justice.

Rodriguez has lectured widely on the use of art in civic engagement and on the work of artists who are bridging the community and museum. Her works appear in collections at Bellas Artes (Mexico City), The Glasgow Print Studio (Glasgow, Scotland) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

Film Artists in Conversation: The Art of Film Scoring
Syracuse International Film Festival
Featuring Thomas Newman

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

In a presentation and conversation format, Thomas Newman will present personal stories about his art.
Newman has received a total of 11 Academy Award nominations and has won a BAFTA, five Grammys, an Emmy, and has been nominated for a Golden Globe. His movie scores include Skyfall 007, The Newsroom, The Help, WALL-E, Revolutionary Road, Cinderella Man, Finding Nemo, Road to Perdition, Erin Brockovich, The Horse Whisperer, and many more.

Dixie's Tupperware Party
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $38
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Dixie Longate, the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, packed up her catalogues, left her children in an Alabama trailer park and took Off-Broadway by storm! Now, join Dixie as she travels the country throwing good ol'fashioned Tupperware Parties filled with outrageously funny tales, heartfelt accounts, FREE giveaways, audience participation, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware ever sold on a theater stage. Loaded with the most up-to-date products available for purchase, see for yourself how Ms. Longate became the #1 Tupperware seller in the U.S. & Canada as she educates her guests on the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products! Not your grandmother's Tupperware Party! (Please note: Adult humor -- not recommended for anyone under the age of 16.) Learn more at www.dixiestupperwareparty.com.

Running time: Approx 1 hour 40 minutes, no intermission.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
William Fennelly, director

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

In Shakespeare's hands, magic and romance and the very midsummer madness make for intoxication, enchantment, and rollicking, frolicking comedy. Get on your mud boots and your donkey ears (is there any character more wonderfully over-the-top than Bottom?) 'cause it's off to the woods with four eager young lovers, a band of hapless rustics, and rival camps of puckish sprites. "All will be well!" Oberon bellows, but it will be a myriad of magical moments and a few hours of laughter before that happens.

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

Through Time and Space: Quilts and Collage by Sharon Bottle Souva

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

Sharon's work includes elements of the tradition of quilt making while exploring contemporary design.

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Paintings by Karen Burns and photography by David LoParco depict local landscapes.

Past Abstractions: Works by Diana Godfrey

St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

"Past Abstractions" highlights some of the abstract pastel/collages and mixed-media paintings of Diana Godfrey. The artist's colorful, nonrepresentational art has been shown in many galleries and venues in Central New York and the Northeast.

Note that the venue is closed daily 12:00-1:00 pm.

Gallery Exhibit: Vessels Ceremonial and Mundane: Works by David MacDonald
Onondaga Community College

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

This gallery exhibit by celebrated sculptor David MacDonald features several vessel forms of varying sizes, including both intimate and large scale pieces.

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

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

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

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

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jeff Robinson: metal and glass sculpture
Charles Golden: mixed media wall hangings
Sharon Alama: mixed media jewelry

Crossings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Crossings" is a multi-faceted outcome of how the work of two artists, Nayda Collazo-Lloréns and Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, relates to each other in terms of location, mapping, identity, memory and multiplicity. "Crossings" is a first-time collaboration, convergence, and juxtaposition of these two artistic practices. The show will present a series of 13 works on paper, and a two-channel video installation titled PLEXUS13NP.

Nayda Collazo-Lloréns: Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, she is a New York City based artist engaged in a multi-disciplinary practice that includes drawing, print, installation, video, text-based works and public interventions. Through her practice, she examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, language and hyper-connectivity.

Patricia Villalobos Echeverría Born in Tennessee to Salvadoran parents and raised in Managua, Nicaragua, Villalobos describes her work as a hybrid. Her print, video and installation work explores how reproducible forms of representation can alter our notions of singularity and the various states of flux that we enter: some physical, others virtual. She a Professor of Art at Western Michigan University.

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her exhibit "When We Just Existed," artist Deborah Roberts investigates children's innocence, and how their sense of self is shaped by their environments, as well as the residual effects this may have on adults. In many of her paintings, Roberts uses her prepubescent self as the subject, adding a personal dimension to her pieces that will help you think of your own childhood. In her work, she makes references to the lynching in African American history and the racial tensions that children may experience.

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Corporeal Contours" features the work of two distinguished artists, Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, each displaying their personal ideas of identity in relation to the world around them. A large part of the exhibition also seeks to expose the hyper-exoticism of tourism companies, while also confronting issues of racial identity in Caribbean and American societies.

The artists each use very personal experiences to create an array of compelling silhouetted forms and prints. For her on-going series Can I Pass (2010), Baez incorporates aspects from her transcultural background to examine the United States' "brown paper bag test" and the Dominican Republic's "fan test." She uses art as a medium to challenge these tests, tracing her outline and painting her skin tone for each day within the form over the course of an entire month. Within her works, Baez is able to explore idealized body types, race, and skin tones within the greater social scheme across both countries.

For her series, Chung analyzes post colonial culture by using old logos and slogans from tourist advertisements, and archival photographs to create her thought-provoking prints. She focuses on race, class, and contemporary society in Jamaica and Trinidad, as well as the exotic identity assumed by tourist companies. Chung is also able to address the increasingly popular skin bleaching practices in Jamaica, exposing a deeper dimension of self image and controversy in her work.

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

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Oh My! Works by Ken Nichols and Steve Nyland
Szozda Gallery

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

"Zombies and colors and mugs, oh my!"

The March show displays the colorful works of two diversely different styled artists who are new to this space. Ken Nichols' visceral paintings and Steve Nyland's audacious ones contrast intricately to produce "Oh My!"

Of the two artists in this show, Nichols has been at his craft for a much longer time than Nyland, but both share common ground in that they each found renewed voice in painting again after time away. However, in doing so, it is the personal motivation that compels the difference between the two along with their startling unusual styles that are being paired in the same exhibit.

Nyland, the younger artist, took up the palette again after working in various internet related ventures. He says that after "misplacing painting" for awhile, his return to it is like "the science fiction fantasy of a young boy with purple blue hair who just learned to paint again."

Nichols also began painting again after a somewhat long hiatus. And also like Nyland, the return brought with it some form of freed expression, but the similarity between the two ends there. Nichols, being a graphic designer for the last 35 years, calls himself a "Decorative Expressionist" and "paints for the fun of it, not to unburden my soul," he says.

Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival
Szozda Gallery

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

Delavan Center and Szozda Gallery are pleased to present a portion of the Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival. The key purpose of the Veterans Creative Arts competition and Festival is to recognize Veterans for their creative accomplishments and to educate and demonstrate to communities throughout the country the therapeutic benefits of the arts.

Nationwide, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities use the creative arts as one form of rehabilitative treatment to help Veterans recover from and cope with physical and emotional disabilities. Across the country each year, Veterans treated at VA facilities compete in a local creative arts competition. The competition includes 53 categories in the visual arts division this year that range from oil painting to leatherwork to paint-by-number kits. In addition, there are 120 categories in the performing arts pertaining to all aspects of music, dance, drama and creative writing. A national selection committee chooses first, second and third place winners among all of the entries. Select winners are invited to attend the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival each year.

Join us in honoring the hard work and creativity of some of our area vets!

Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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Messages of Sisterhood: Works by Favianna Rodríguez
La Casita Cultural Center

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

A native of Oakland, CA, Favianna Rodriguez is renowned for her vibrant posters about issues of war, immigration, globalization, workers' rights, racism, homophobia, sexism and other contemporary issues. "Messages of Sisterhood" commemorates Women's History Month, focusing on the role of women in the struggles for social justice.

Rodriguez has lectured widely on the use of art in civic engagement and on the work of artists who are bridging the community and museum. Her works appear in collections at Bellas Artes (Mexico City), The Glasgow Print Studio (Glasgow, Scotland) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

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

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

Lunchtime Lecture: Forbidden Fruit: The Art of Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

David Prince, Associate Director and Curator at the SU Art Galleries, will discuss the work of Japanese-American master Yasuo Kuniyoshi, including the noted painting Forbidden Fruit from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

Stephen Brew, guitar
Civic Morning Musicals

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

J.S. Bach C Major Violin Sonata, Hetu Suite, Pixinghuinha selections

Book Talk and Signing: M.M. Silver
Onondaga Historical Association

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

A book talk and signing by M.M. Silver, who will discuss his work, Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America.

Louis Marshall was the driving force in the establishment and administration of what may have been America's first degree-conferring institution for environmental studies, the NYS College of Forestry at Syracuse University. Marshall Street on the University campus is named after him. Marshall was also a Trustee of Syracuse University.

A milestone in modern Jewish history and American ethnic history, the sweeping influence of Louis Marshall's career through the 1920s is unprecedented. A tireless advocate for and leader of an array of notable American Jewish organizations and institutions, Marshall also spearheaded civil rights campaigns for other ethnic groups, blazing the trail for the NAACP, Native American groups, and environmental protection causes in the early 20th century. No comprehensive biography has been published that does justice to Marshall's richly diverse life as an impassioned defender of Jewish communal interests and as a prominent attorney who reportedly argued more cases before the Supreme Court than any other attorney of his era.

Author M. M. Silver is a modern Jewish history scholar at Max Stern College of Emek Yezreel in Israel. He is the author of several books and articles, including Our Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel's Founding Story.

Dixie's Tupperware Party
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $38
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Dixie Longate, the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, packed up her catalogues, left her children in an Alabama trailer park and took Off-Broadway by storm! Now, join Dixie as she travels the country throwing good ol'fashioned Tupperware Parties filled with outrageously funny tales, heartfelt accounts, FREE giveaways, audience participation, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware ever sold on a theater stage. Loaded with the most up-to-date products available for purchase, see for yourself how Ms. Longate became the #1 Tupperware seller in the U.S. & Canada as she educates her guests on the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products! Not your grandmother's Tupperware Party! (Please note: Adult humor -- not recommended for anyone under the age of 16.) Learn more at www.dixiestupperwareparty.com.

Running time: Approx 1 hour 40 minutes, no intermission.

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

Through Time and Space: Quilts and Collage by Sharon Bottle Souva

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

Sharon's work includes elements of the tradition of quilt making while exploring contemporary design.

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Paintings by Karen Burns and photography by David LoParco depict local landscapes.

Past Abstractions: Works by Diana Godfrey

St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

"Past Abstractions" highlights some of the abstract pastel/collages and mixed-media paintings of Diana Godfrey. The artist's colorful, nonrepresentational art has been shown in many galleries and venues in Central New York and the Northeast.

Note that the venue is closed daily 12:00-1:00 pm.

Gallery Exhibit: Vessels Ceremonial and Mundane: Works by David MacDonald
Onondaga Community College

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

This gallery exhibit by celebrated sculptor David MacDonald features several vessel forms of varying sizes, including both intimate and large scale pieces.

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

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

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

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

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jeff Robinson: metal and glass sculpture
Charles Golden: mixed media wall hangings
Sharon Alama: mixed media jewelry

Crossings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Crossings" is a multi-faceted outcome of how the work of two artists, Nayda Collazo-Lloréns and Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, relates to each other in terms of location, mapping, identity, memory and multiplicity. "Crossings" is a first-time collaboration, convergence, and juxtaposition of these two artistic practices. The show will present a series of 13 works on paper, and a two-channel video installation titled PLEXUS13NP.

Nayda Collazo-Lloréns: Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, she is a New York City based artist engaged in a multi-disciplinary practice that includes drawing, print, installation, video, text-based works and public interventions. Through her practice, she examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, language and hyper-connectivity.

Patricia Villalobos Echeverría Born in Tennessee to Salvadoran parents and raised in Managua, Nicaragua, Villalobos describes her work as a hybrid. Her print, video and installation work explores how reproducible forms of representation can alter our notions of singularity and the various states of flux that we enter: some physical, others virtual. She a Professor of Art at Western Michigan University.

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Corporeal Contours" features the work of two distinguished artists, Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, each displaying their personal ideas of identity in relation to the world around them. A large part of the exhibition also seeks to expose the hyper-exoticism of tourism companies, while also confronting issues of racial identity in Caribbean and American societies.

The artists each use very personal experiences to create an array of compelling silhouetted forms and prints. For her on-going series Can I Pass (2010), Baez incorporates aspects from her transcultural background to examine the United States' "brown paper bag test" and the Dominican Republic's "fan test." She uses art as a medium to challenge these tests, tracing her outline and painting her skin tone for each day within the form over the course of an entire month. Within her works, Baez is able to explore idealized body types, race, and skin tones within the greater social scheme across both countries.

For her series, Chung analyzes post colonial culture by using old logos and slogans from tourist advertisements, and archival photographs to create her thought-provoking prints. She focuses on race, class, and contemporary society in Jamaica and Trinidad, as well as the exotic identity assumed by tourist companies. Chung is also able to address the increasingly popular skin bleaching practices in Jamaica, exposing a deeper dimension of self image and controversy in her work.

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her exhibit "When We Just Existed," artist Deborah Roberts investigates children's innocence, and how their sense of self is shaped by their environments, as well as the residual effects this may have on adults. In many of her paintings, Roberts uses her prepubescent self as the subject, adding a personal dimension to her pieces that will help you think of your own childhood. In her work, she makes references to the lynching in African American history and the racial tensions that children may experience.

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

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Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival
Szozda Gallery

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

Delavan Center and Szozda Gallery are pleased to present a portion of the Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival. The key purpose of the Veterans Creative Arts competition and Festival is to recognize Veterans for their creative accomplishments and to educate and demonstrate to communities throughout the country the therapeutic benefits of the arts.

Nationwide, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities use the creative arts as one form of rehabilitative treatment to help Veterans recover from and cope with physical and emotional disabilities. Across the country each year, Veterans treated at VA facilities compete in a local creative arts competition. The competition includes 53 categories in the visual arts division this year that range from oil painting to leatherwork to paint-by-number kits. In addition, there are 120 categories in the performing arts pertaining to all aspects of music, dance, drama and creative writing. A national selection committee chooses first, second and third place winners among all of the entries. Select winners are invited to attend the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival each year.

Join us in honoring the hard work and creativity of some of our area vets!

Oh My! Works by Ken Nichols and Steve Nyland
Szozda Gallery

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

"Zombies and colors and mugs, oh my!"

The March show displays the colorful works of two diversely different styled artists who are new to this space. Ken Nichols' visceral paintings and Steve Nyland's audacious ones contrast intricately to produce "Oh My!"

Of the two artists in this show, Nichols has been at his craft for a much longer time than Nyland, but both share common ground in that they each found renewed voice in painting again after time away. However, in doing so, it is the personal motivation that compels the difference between the two along with their startling unusual styles that are being paired in the same exhibit.

Nyland, the younger artist, took up the palette again after working in various internet related ventures. He says that after "misplacing painting" for awhile, his return to it is like "the science fiction fantasy of a young boy with purple blue hair who just learned to paint again."

Nichols also began painting again after a somewhat long hiatus. And also like Nyland, the return brought with it some form of freed expression, but the similarity between the two ends there. Nichols, being a graphic designer for the last 35 years, calls himself a "Decorative Expressionist" and "paints for the fun of it, not to unburden my soul," he says.

Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The tea bowl, with its seemingly inexhaustible form, is beloved by potters and collectors alike. Its intimate scale encourages spontaneity and experimentation. Today's ceramic artists connect to the ancient Japanese tradition of the Tea Ceremony and the countless unknown potters from the past while maintaining their unique aesthetic voice though the creation of the tea bowl. This exhibition represents contemporary voices in clay--from wood-fire to earthenware, traditional to unconventional. "Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach," is co-curated by John Jessiman and Jen Gandee.

Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Messages of Sisterhood: Works by Favianna Rodríguez
La Casita Cultural Center

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

A native of Oakland, CA, Favianna Rodriguez is renowned for her vibrant posters about issues of war, immigration, globalization, workers' rights, racism, homophobia, sexism and other contemporary issues. "Messages of Sisterhood" commemorates Women's History Month, focusing on the role of women in the struggles for social justice.

Rodriguez has lectured widely on the use of art in civic engagement and on the work of artists who are bridging the community and museum. Her works appear in collections at Bellas Artes (Mexico City), The Glasgow Print Studio (Glasgow, Scotland) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

Yvonne Buchanan: in Court (Basketball)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Total runtime: 13:22

2013 Cinefest
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $30/day; $85/festival
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 am: Summer Daze (1931), with Dane and Arthur.
9:20 am: The Pursuit of Happiness (1934), with Francis Lederer, Joan Bennett, Charles Ruggles.

10:45 am: Lame Brains and Lunatics, Part 1: Silent Comedy Rarities from the Library of Congress presented by Rob Stone and Steve Massa:
An Incompetent Hero (1914) (Keystone) Roscoe Arbuckle
A Busy Night (1916) (Eagle) Marcel Perez
Dough Nuts (1917) (King-Bee) Billy West And Babe Hardy
Outs And Ins (1916) Harry Watson Jr.
Under A Spell (1925) (Universal) Alice Howell

LUNCH BREAK

1:00 pm: Trailer Mania 5 Show presented by Ray Faiola: Foxy Trailers of 20th Century-Fox
2:05 pm: Wild Beauty (1927), with Rex the Wonder Horse, June Marlowe
3:00 pm: The Whip (1917), directed by Maurice Tourneur

4:30 pm: Two Directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle:
Queenie of Hollywood (1931), Hollywood girls
The Honeymoon Trio (1931), with Walter Catlett, Al St. John, Dorothy Granger

5:00 pm: My Boy (1921), with Jackie Coogan, Claude Gillingwater

DINNER BREAK

8:00 pm: The Death House (1930), William J. Burns
8:10 pm: So Near, Yet So Far (1912), with Mary Pickford
8:20 pm: The Foundling (1916), with Mary Pickford
9:35 pm: A Song in the Dark 4: "Songs and Stars of the Early Movie Musical," hosted by Richard Barrios
11:00 pm: Passport to Heaven (Captain Of Koepenick)(I Was A Criminal) (1945), Albert Basserman

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

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

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

Journey through Music of the African Diaspora: Women in Music
Community Folk Art Center

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

Join us as we explore musical genres with roots in the African Diaspora, this month featuring women in funk, gospel, and R&B with Erika Lovette, Andrea Moore, and Tamar Smithers.

Deadly Inheritance
Acme Mystery Company

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

The matriarch of a wealthy family is gravely ill and wishing to settle her estate. First, her long lost younger son must be declared officially dead. That's where the fun begins! Join in as you and the other intensely greedy relatives gather to memorialize "Little Dickie" and battle for position to receive the lion's share of the family's $13 billion fortune. Be careful at this gathering, however, the next memorial could be for you.

Dixie's Tupperware Party
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $38
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Dixie Longate, the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, packed up her catalogues, left her children in an Alabama trailer park and took Off-Broadway by storm! Now, join Dixie as she travels the country throwing good ol'fashioned Tupperware Parties filled with outrageously funny tales, heartfelt accounts, FREE giveaways, audience participation, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware ever sold on a theater stage. Loaded with the most up-to-date products available for purchase, see for yourself how Ms. Longate became the #1 Tupperware seller in the U.S. & Canada as she educates her guests on the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products! Not your grandmother's Tupperware Party! (Please note: Adult humor -- not recommended for anyone under the age of 16.) Learn more at www.dixiestupperwareparty.com.

Running time: Approx 1 hour 40 minutes, no intermission.

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Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

As "the next best thing to seeing The Beatles!" (Associated Press), RAIN performs the full range of The Beatles' discography live onstage, including the most complex and challenging songs that The Beatles themselves recorded in the studio but never performed for an audience. Together longer than The Beatles, RAIN has mastered every song, gesture and nuance of the legendary foursome, delivering a totally live, note-for-note performance that's as infectious as it is transporting. From the early hits to later classics (I Want To Hold Your Hand, Hard Days Night, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, Let It Be, Come Together, Hey Jude, and more), this adoring tribute will take you back to a time when all you needed was love, and a little help from your friends!

The District Festival: I Remember Mama
Appleseed Productions

Price: $20 (or $50 for one ticket to all three District Festival shows)
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Some stories are timeless. Based on the fictionalized memoir Mama's Bank Account, by Kathryn Forbes, a loving family of Norwegian immigrants carves out a life on Steiner Street in San Francisco during the 1910s. The story, written by John Van Druten, depicts many locales around the city and is populated by more than 20 characters. The first production opened on Broadway in 1944 and was produced by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein. A feature film followed in 1948, along with a musical adaptation and a long-running TV series during the 1950s. Appleseed Productions first staged "...Mama" in 1997, at the John H. Mulroy Civic Center. The 2013 Festival production includes four actors from the original cast, and kicks-off the company's celebration of its 20th anniversary year.

Presented as part of The District Festival.

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Friday, March 15, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

Through Time and Space: Quilts and Collage by Sharon Bottle Souva

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

Sharon's work includes elements of the tradition of quilt making while exploring contemporary design.

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Paintings by Karen Burns and photography by David LoParco depict local landscapes.

Past Abstractions: Works by Diana Godfrey

St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

"Past Abstractions" highlights some of the abstract pastel/collages and mixed-media paintings of Diana Godfrey. The artist's colorful, nonrepresentational art has been shown in many galleries and venues in Central New York and the Northeast.

Note that the venue is closed daily 12:00-1:00 pm.

Gallery Exhibit: Vessels Ceremonial and Mundane: Works by David MacDonald
Onondaga Community College

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

This gallery exhibit by celebrated sculptor David MacDonald features several vessel forms of varying sizes, including both intimate and large scale pieces.

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

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

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

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

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jeff Robinson: metal and glass sculpture
Charles Golden: mixed media wall hangings
Sharon Alama: mixed media jewelry

Crossings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Crossings" is a multi-faceted outcome of how the work of two artists, Nayda Collazo-Lloréns and Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, relates to each other in terms of location, mapping, identity, memory and multiplicity. "Crossings" is a first-time collaboration, convergence, and juxtaposition of these two artistic practices. The show will present a series of 13 works on paper, and a two-channel video installation titled PLEXUS13NP.

Nayda Collazo-Lloréns: Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, she is a New York City based artist engaged in a multi-disciplinary practice that includes drawing, print, installation, video, text-based works and public interventions. Through her practice, she examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, language and hyper-connectivity.

Patricia Villalobos Echeverría Born in Tennessee to Salvadoran parents and raised in Managua, Nicaragua, Villalobos describes her work as a hybrid. Her print, video and installation work explores how reproducible forms of representation can alter our notions of singularity and the various states of flux that we enter: some physical, others virtual. She a Professor of Art at Western Michigan University.

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her exhibit "When We Just Existed," artist Deborah Roberts investigates children's innocence, and how their sense of self is shaped by their environments, as well as the residual effects this may have on adults. In many of her paintings, Roberts uses her prepubescent self as the subject, adding a personal dimension to her pieces that will help you think of your own childhood. In her work, she makes references to the lynching in African American history and the racial tensions that children may experience.

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Corporeal Contours" features the work of two distinguished artists, Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, each displaying their personal ideas of identity in relation to the world around them. A large part of the exhibition also seeks to expose the hyper-exoticism of tourism companies, while also confronting issues of racial identity in Caribbean and American societies.

The artists each use very personal experiences to create an array of compelling silhouetted forms and prints. For her on-going series Can I Pass (2010), Baez incorporates aspects from her transcultural background to examine the United States' "brown paper bag test" and the Dominican Republic's "fan test." She uses art as a medium to challenge these tests, tracing her outline and painting her skin tone for each day within the form over the course of an entire month. Within her works, Baez is able to explore idealized body types, race, and skin tones within the greater social scheme across both countries.

For her series, Chung analyzes post colonial culture by using old logos and slogans from tourist advertisements, and archival photographs to create her thought-provoking prints. She focuses on race, class, and contemporary society in Jamaica and Trinidad, as well as the exotic identity assumed by tourist companies. Chung is also able to address the increasingly popular skin bleaching practices in Jamaica, exposing a deeper dimension of self image and controversy in her work.

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

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Oh My! Works by Ken Nichols and Steve Nyland
Szozda Gallery

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

"Zombies and colors and mugs, oh my!"

The March show displays the colorful works of two diversely different styled artists who are new to this space. Ken Nichols' visceral paintings and Steve Nyland's audacious ones contrast intricately to produce "Oh My!"

Of the two artists in this show, Nichols has been at his craft for a much longer time than Nyland, but both share common ground in that they each found renewed voice in painting again after time away. However, in doing so, it is the personal motivation that compels the difference between the two along with their startling unusual styles that are being paired in the same exhibit.

Nyland, the younger artist, took up the palette again after working in various internet related ventures. He says that after "misplacing painting" for awhile, his return to it is like "the science fiction fantasy of a young boy with purple blue hair who just learned to paint again."

Nichols also began painting again after a somewhat long hiatus. And also like Nyland, the return brought with it some form of freed expression, but the similarity between the two ends there. Nichols, being a graphic designer for the last 35 years, calls himself a "Decorative Expressionist" and "paints for the fun of it, not to unburden my soul," he says.

Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival
Szozda Gallery

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

Delavan Center and Szozda Gallery are pleased to present a portion of the Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival. The key purpose of the Veterans Creative Arts competition and Festival is to recognize Veterans for their creative accomplishments and to educate and demonstrate to communities throughout the country the therapeutic benefits of the arts.

Nationwide, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities use the creative arts as one form of rehabilitative treatment to help Veterans recover from and cope with physical and emotional disabilities. Across the country each year, Veterans treated at VA facilities compete in a local creative arts competition. The competition includes 53 categories in the visual arts division this year that range from oil painting to leatherwork to paint-by-number kits. In addition, there are 120 categories in the performing arts pertaining to all aspects of music, dance, drama and creative writing. A national selection committee chooses first, second and third place winners among all of the entries. Select winners are invited to attend the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival each year.

Join us in honoring the hard work and creativity of some of our area vets!

Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The tea bowl, with its seemingly inexhaustible form, is beloved by potters and collectors alike. Its intimate scale encourages spontaneity and experimentation. Today's ceramic artists connect to the ancient Japanese tradition of the Tea Ceremony and the countless unknown potters from the past while maintaining their unique aesthetic voice though the creation of the tea bowl. This exhibition represents contemporary voices in clay--from wood-fire to earthenware, traditional to unconventional. "Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach," is co-curated by John Jessiman and Jen Gandee.

Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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Messages of Sisterhood: Works by Favianna Rodríguez
La Casita Cultural Center

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

A native of Oakland, CA, Favianna Rodriguez is renowned for her vibrant posters about issues of war, immigration, globalization, workers' rights, racism, homophobia, sexism and other contemporary issues. "Messages of Sisterhood" commemorates Women's History Month, focusing on the role of women in the struggles for social justice.

Rodriguez has lectured widely on the use of art in civic engagement and on the work of artists who are bridging the community and museum. Her works appear in collections at Bellas Artes (Mexico City), The Glasgow Print Studio (Glasgow, Scotland) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

Yvonne Buchanan: in Court (Basketball)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Total runtime: 13:22

Francis Academy of Irish Dance
Onondaga Community College

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

2013 Cinefest
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $30/day; $85/festival
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 am: The Merry Monarch (1933), with Emil Jannings
10:25 am: The Fuller Gush Man (1934), with Walter Catlett, Al Boasberg, Lew Kelly
10:45 am: Ladies of Leisure (1926), with T. Roy Barnes

1:00 pm: Camp Meetin' (1936), with Hall Johnson Choir, Matthew "Stymie" Beard
1:20 pm: The King of the Kongo: Chapter 5 (1929), with Walter Miller, Jacqueline Logan, Boris Karloff, Lafe Mckee. Another chapter from the first talkie serial
1:45 pm: Bolshevism On Trial (1919), with Robert Frazer
2:50 pm: El Brendel Home Movies
3:05 pm: The Ice Flood (1926), with Kenneth Harlan, Viola Dana
4:00 pm: Zwei Herzen Im Dreivier Tel-Tak (Two Hearts In 3/4 Waltz Time)(1930), featuring Willi Forst and S.Z. Sakall.
The film is in German, no subtitles, but is easy to follow, and a plot synopsis will be available before the screening

8:15 pm: Lame Brains And Lunatics, Part 2: Silent Comedy Rarities From The Library of Congress, presented by Rob Stone and Steve Massa
* Sammy's Scandalous Scheme (1915) (Vogue) Sammy Burns
* Ham And The Masked Marvel (1916) (Kalem) Ham And Bud
* Nearly Spliced (1916), with Leon Errol, Arthur Houseman
* Muggsy In Bad (1917), Johnny Ray
* Dizzy Daisy (1924), Louise Fazenda
9:25 pm: Sherlock Holmes (1932), with Clive Brook, Reginald Owen
10:45 pm: This Reckless Age (1932), with Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Bennett, Peggy Shannon, and such familiar faces as Charlie Ruggles, Frances Dee, David Landau, Mary Carlisle, and Grady Sutton

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

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

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

Maggie & Suzzy Roche
Folkus Project

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

With crystalline vocal harmonies, elegant wordplay, and quirky humor, the music of Maggie and Suzzy Roche is unmistakable. It has a seductive warmth; intimate and intelligent, yet profoundly funny and poignant. They've been singing together for most of their lives. With sister Terre they formed The Roches and recorded 10 acclaimed albums. Their show as a duo is a thoughtful musical journey featuring their original style, including songs from more than 30 years of writing and performing. Despite the years, their youthful exuberance and sassy bravado are intact. Filled with heart and soul, their performances are more like a cozy, personal visit.

The Roches' storytelling charm and intricate harmonies have endeared them to folk music fans since the mid-'70s. Sprouting from the fertile Greenwich Village art scene, The Roches enjoyed a rich career working with notables like Paul Simon, Robert Fripp of King Crimson fame, Philip Glass, and The Indigo girls, among many others. Their debut "The Roches" was named "Album of the Year" by The New York Times and they were hailed as the "Best Vocal Group" by the New York Music Awards.

Dixie's Tupperware Party
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Dixie Longate, the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, packed up her catalogues, left her children in an Alabama trailer park and took Off-Broadway by storm! Now, join Dixie as she travels the country throwing good ol'fashioned Tupperware Parties filled with outrageously funny tales, heartfelt accounts, FREE giveaways, audience participation, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware ever sold on a theater stage. Loaded with the most up-to-date products available for purchase, see for yourself how Ms. Longate became the #1 Tupperware seller in the U.S. & Canada as she educates her guests on the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products! Not your grandmother's Tupperware Party! (Please note: Adult humor -- not recommended for anyone under the age of 16.) Learn more at www.dixiestupperwareparty.com.

Running time: Approx 1 hour 40 minutes, no intermission.

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Cabaret Series: Danan Tsan
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $10
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Award-winning singer/songwriter Danan Tsan comes to our cabaret stage for a soulful night of original songs and covers. Joined by accompanist Alice Muzquiz.

Proof
Covey Theatre Company

Price: $20
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2001, as well as several other major awards for drama, Proof is set in Chicago, where Robert, a former genius of a mathematician who suffered from mental illness, has recently died. Robert appears in the play talking with his daughter Catherine, a depressed college drop-out who stayed at home and cared for her father over the last few years of his life. As preparations are made for the funeral and Catherine's sister Claire returns from New York, Catherine forms a tentative friendship with Hal, a mathematician who is one of her father's former students.

The plot moves into high gear when Hal discovers in one of the notebooks that Robert left behind a proof of a mathematical theorem that mathematicians had thought impossible. It is a sensational discovery, but Catherine stuns Hal by claiming she wrote the proof. But did she? The handwriting in the notebook looks very like her father's. As the mystery develops and resolves, the playwright explores issues such as what the link may be between genius and madness and whether either or both can be inherited. But Proof is also a story about human relationships, suggesting that developing trust and love can be as difficult, and just as uncertain, as establishing the truth of a mathematical proof.

Our cast includes Jodi Bova-Mele (Catherine), Ed Mastin (Robert), Shannon Tompkins (Claire), Nick Barbato (Hal).

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The District Festival: Grey Gardens
Rarely Done Productions

Price: $20 (or $50 for one ticket to all three District Festival shows)
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

What happens when American royalty falls from grace? The hilarious and heartbreaking story of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the eccentric aunt and cousin of American royalty, Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis. Once the brightest and most popular faces on the social register who become East Hampton's most notorious recluses. Book by Doug Wright; music and lyrics by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie.

Presented as part of The District Festival.

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Suddenly, Last Summer
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Tennessee Williams' drama ricochets through a New Orleans family after the mysterious death of a son traveling in Europe.

Catharine Holly, a poor relation of a prominent New Orleans family, seems to be insane after her cousin Sebastian dies under mysterious circumstances while on a trip to Europe.

Sebastian's mother, Violet Venable, trying to cloud the truth about her son's death, threatens to lobotomize Catharine for her incoherent utterances relating to Sebastian's demise. Under the influence of a truth serum, Catharine tells the gruesome story of Sebastian's death at the hands of local boys.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
William Fennelly, director

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

In Shakespeare's hands, magic and romance and the very midsummer madness make for intoxication, enchantment, and rollicking, frolicking comedy. Get on your mud boots and your donkey ears (is there any character more wonderfully over-the-top than Bottom?) 'cause it's off to the woods with four eager young lovers, a band of hapless rustics, and rival camps of puckish sprites. "All will be well!" Oberon bellows, but it will be a myriad of magical moments and a few hours of laughter before that happens.

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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

Through Time and Space: Quilts and Collage by Sharon Bottle Souva

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

Sharon's work includes elements of the tradition of quilt making while exploring contemporary design.

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Paintings by Karen Burns and photography by David LoParco depict local landscapes.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jeff Robinson: metal and glass sculpture
Charles Golden: mixed media wall hangings
Sharon Alama: mixed media jewelry

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

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Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival
Szozda Gallery

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

Delavan Center and Szozda Gallery are pleased to present a portion of the Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival. The key purpose of the Veterans Creative Arts competition and Festival is to recognize Veterans for their creative accomplishments and to educate and demonstrate to communities throughout the country the therapeutic benefits of the arts.

Nationwide, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities use the creative arts as one form of rehabilitative treatment to help Veterans recover from and cope with physical and emotional disabilities. Across the country each year, Veterans treated at VA facilities compete in a local creative arts competition. The competition includes 53 categories in the visual arts division this year that range from oil painting to leatherwork to paint-by-number kits. In addition, there are 120 categories in the performing arts pertaining to all aspects of music, dance, drama and creative writing. A national selection committee chooses first, second and third place winners among all of the entries. Select winners are invited to attend the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival each year.

Join us in honoring the hard work and creativity of some of our area vets!

Oh My! Works by Ken Nichols and Steve Nyland
Szozda Gallery

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

"Zombies and colors and mugs, oh my!"

The March show displays the colorful works of two diversely different styled artists who are new to this space. Ken Nichols' visceral paintings and Steve Nyland's audacious ones contrast intricately to produce "Oh My!"

Of the two artists in this show, Nichols has been at his craft for a much longer time than Nyland, but both share common ground in that they each found renewed voice in painting again after time away. However, in doing so, it is the personal motivation that compels the difference between the two along with their startling unusual styles that are being paired in the same exhibit.

Nyland, the younger artist, took up the palette again after working in various internet related ventures. He says that after "misplacing painting" for awhile, his return to it is like "the science fiction fantasy of a young boy with purple blue hair who just learned to paint again."

Nichols also began painting again after a somewhat long hiatus. And also like Nyland, the return brought with it some form of freed expression, but the similarity between the two ends there. Nichols, being a graphic designer for the last 35 years, calls himself a "Decorative Expressionist" and "paints for the fun of it, not to unburden my soul," he says.

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Corporeal Contours" features the work of two distinguished artists, Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, each displaying their personal ideas of identity in relation to the world around them. A large part of the exhibition also seeks to expose the hyper-exoticism of tourism companies, while also confronting issues of racial identity in Caribbean and American societies.

The artists each use very personal experiences to create an array of compelling silhouetted forms and prints. For her on-going series Can I Pass (2010), Baez incorporates aspects from her transcultural background to examine the United States' "brown paper bag test" and the Dominican Republic's "fan test." She uses art as a medium to challenge these tests, tracing her outline and painting her skin tone for each day within the form over the course of an entire month. Within her works, Baez is able to explore idealized body types, race, and skin tones within the greater social scheme across both countries.

For her series, Chung analyzes post colonial culture by using old logos and slogans from tourist advertisements, and archival photographs to create her thought-provoking prints. She focuses on race, class, and contemporary society in Jamaica and Trinidad, as well as the exotic identity assumed by tourist companies. Chung is also able to address the increasingly popular skin bleaching practices in Jamaica, exposing a deeper dimension of self image and controversy in her work.

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her exhibit "When We Just Existed," artist Deborah Roberts investigates children's innocence, and how their sense of self is shaped by their environments, as well as the residual effects this may have on adults. In many of her paintings, Roberts uses her prepubescent self as the subject, adding a personal dimension to her pieces that will help you think of your own childhood. In her work, she makes references to the lynching in African American history and the racial tensions that children may experience.

Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The tea bowl, with its seemingly inexhaustible form, is beloved by potters and collectors alike. Its intimate scale encourages spontaneity and experimentation. Today's ceramic artists connect to the ancient Japanese tradition of the Tea Ceremony and the countless unknown potters from the past while maintaining their unique aesthetic voice though the creation of the tea bowl. This exhibition represents contemporary voices in clay--from wood-fire to earthenware, traditional to unconventional. "Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach," is co-curated by John Jessiman and Jen Gandee.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

Yvonne Buchanan: in Court (Basketball)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Total runtime: 13:22

2013 Cinefest
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $30/day; $85/festival
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Three Women (1924), with May Mcavoy, Pauline Frederick, Marie Prevost, and Lew Cody.
Technicolor fragments restored by Josh Romphf of the Selznick School at George Eastman House
Come On Over (1922), with Colleen Moore, Ralph Graves, J. Farrell MacDonald
The Best of Mostly Lost, presented by Rob Stone & Rachel Parker: "A best of identified films from our now annual film identification workshops that we are hosting at the Library of Congress in culpeper."

It's A Frame-Up (2013), written and directed by Michael Schlesinger, with Nick Santa Maria
Why Bring That Up? (1929), with Mack & Moran
The Woman Disputed (1928), with Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland

2013 Cinefest
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $30/day; $85/festival
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

8:00 pm: The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1928), with Maria Korda, Lewis Stone, Ricardo Cortez, Alice White
8:15 pm: The Smile Wins (1928), with Hal Roach's Our Gang
8:40 pm: Partners Again (1926), with George Sidney.
9:45 pm: Behind The Door (1919), with Hobarth Bosworth, Wallace Beery
10:50 pm: The Quarterback (1926), with Richard Dix

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

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

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

3 in 1 Tour
CNY Crossroads
Featuring Brandon Heath, Mandisa, Laura Story

Price: $15, $25 in advance; $20, $30 at the door
North Syracuse Baptist Church
420 S. Main St., North Syracuse

The "3 in 1 Tour" is coming to Syracuse with three very unique hitmakers collaborating to bring their celebrated sounds into one highly anticipated live experience, uniting Dove Award winners and Grammy-nominated artists Brandon Heath, Mandisa, and Dove and GRAMMY® winner Laura Story.

Expect a night where the artists will collaborate on each other's songs and an experience full of fan favorites, including multiple No. 1 singles from Heath, Mandisa and Story. All three artists will also highlight tracks from their newest releases, including Brandon Heath's Blue Mountain, Mandisa's What If We Were Real and Laura Story's Blessings.

Since Brandon Heath's debut on Reunion Records with Don't Get Comfortable (2006), he has become one of Christian music's most beloved and respected artists and songwriters. Heath has twice been honored as GMA Male Vocalist of the Year (2009 and 2010), additionally garnering an Emmy Award, five Grammy nominations, an American Music Award nomination and multiple GMA Dove Awards and songwriting honors.

Three-time GRAMMY® nominee Mandisa's discography includes True Beauty, It's Christmas, Freedom, What If We Were Real and her remix EP, Get Movin' on Sparrow Records. This past fall she performed her hit single "Good Morning" on the highest rated morning show, ABC's "Good Morning America." The Season 5 American Idol finalist is also an author with the release of "Idoleyes: My New Perspective on Faith, Fat & Fame."

Laura Story, a talented worship leader and songwriter known for penning hit songs such as "Indescribable" made famous by Chris Tomlin and the smash inspirational hit "Blessings," made her music debut in 2008 with her first release Great God Who Saves (Fair Trade Services). Great God Who Saves garnered her four Dove nominations in 2009. In 2011, she also nabbed another nomination for "Female Vocalist of the Year." Her hit single "Mighty To Save" earned a No. 1 Soft AC/Inspo and Top 10 AC hit at Christian radio. Also in 2011, Story revealed 12 new inspirational tracks on her sophomore release titled Blessings.

Vocal Jazz Festival
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
James Commons
Le Moyne College, Syracuse

Join high school vocal jazz ensembles from around the state. After a day of working with guest clinician Kim Nazarian of the New York Voices, the festival will conclude with a concert featuring high school ensembles and The Jazzuits.

For more information, call 315-445-4523.

Dark Hollow (Grateful Dead Tribute), with Solar Garlic
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

The District Festival: The Full Monty
Redhouse

Price: $20 (or $50 for one ticket to all three District Festival shows)
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A group of unemployed steel workers are frustrated with life, women, and work, so they decide to become the sexiest Chippendale strippers Buffalo has ever seen. Be sure not to miss this incredibly catchy pop score and one hysterical journey featuring some of the most loveable characters you will ever meet! Book by Terrance McNally; music and lyrics by David Yazbek.

Presented as part of The District Festival.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
William Fennelly, director

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

In Shakespeare's hands, magic and romance and the very midsummer madness make for intoxication, enchantment, and rollicking, frolicking comedy. Get on your mud boots and your donkey ears (is there any character more wonderfully over-the-top than Bottom?) 'cause it's off to the woods with four eager young lovers, a band of hapless rustics, and rival camps of puckish sprites. "All will be well!" Oberon bellows, but it will be a myriad of magical moments and a few hours of laughter before that happens.

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Dixie's Tupperware Party
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Dixie Longate, the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, packed up her catalogues, left her children in an Alabama trailer park and took Off-Broadway by storm! Now, join Dixie as she travels the country throwing good ol'fashioned Tupperware Parties filled with outrageously funny tales, heartfelt accounts, FREE giveaways, audience participation, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware ever sold on a theater stage. Loaded with the most up-to-date products available for purchase, see for yourself how Ms. Longate became the #1 Tupperware seller in the U.S. & Canada as she educates her guests on the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products! Not your grandmother's Tupperware Party! (Please note: Adult humor -- not recommended for anyone under the age of 16.) Learn more at www.dixiestupperwareparty.com.

Running time: Approx 1 hour 40 minutes, no intermission.

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The District Festival: I Remember Mama
Appleseed Productions

Price: $20 (or $50 for one ticket to all three District Festival shows)
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Some stories are timeless. Based on the fictionalized memoir Mama's Bank Account, by Kathryn Forbes, a loving family of Norwegian immigrants carves out a life on Steiner Street in San Francisco during the 1910s. The story, written by John Van Druten, depicts many locales around the city and is populated by more than 20 characters. The first production opened on Broadway in 1944 and was produced by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein. A feature film followed in 1948, along with a musical adaptation and a long-running TV series during the 1950s. Appleseed Productions first staged "...Mama" in 1997, at the John H. Mulroy Civic Center. The 2013 Festival production includes four actors from the original cast, and kicks-off the company's celebration of its 20th anniversary year.

Presented as part of The District Festival.

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Dixie's Tupperware Party
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Dixie Longate, the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, packed up her catalogues, left her children in an Alabama trailer park and took Off-Broadway by storm! Now, join Dixie as she travels the country throwing good ol'fashioned Tupperware Parties filled with outrageously funny tales, heartfelt accounts, FREE giveaways, audience participation, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware ever sold on a theater stage. Loaded with the most up-to-date products available for purchase, see for yourself how Ms. Longate became the #1 Tupperware seller in the U.S. & Canada as she educates her guests on the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products! Not your grandmother's Tupperware Party! (Please note: Adult humor -- not recommended for anyone under the age of 16.) Learn more at www.dixiestupperwareparty.com.

Running time: Approx 1 hour 40 minutes, no intermission.

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Proof
Covey Theatre Company

Price: $20
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2001, as well as several other major awards for drama, Proof is set in Chicago, where Robert, a former genius of a mathematician who suffered from mental illness, has recently died. Robert appears in the play talking with his daughter Catherine, a depressed college drop-out who stayed at home and cared for her father over the last few years of his life. As preparations are made for the funeral and Catherine's sister Claire returns from New York, Catherine forms a tentative friendship with Hal, a mathematician who is one of her father's former students.

The plot moves into high gear when Hal discovers in one of the notebooks that Robert left behind a proof of a mathematical theorem that mathematicians had thought impossible. It is a sensational discovery, but Catherine stuns Hal by claiming she wrote the proof. But did she? The handwriting in the notebook looks very like her father's. As the mystery develops and resolves, the playwright explores issues such as what the link may be between genius and madness and whether either or both can be inherited. But Proof is also a story about human relationships, suggesting that developing trust and love can be as difficult, and just as uncertain, as establishing the truth of a mathematical proof.

Our cast includes Jodi Bova-Mele (Catherine), Ed Mastin (Robert), Shannon Tompkins (Claire), Nick Barbato (Hal).

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Suddenly, Last Summer
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Tennessee Williams' drama ricochets through a New Orleans family after the mysterious death of a son traveling in Europe.

Catharine Holly, a poor relation of a prominent New Orleans family, seems to be insane after her cousin Sebastian dies under mysterious circumstances while on a trip to Europe.

Sebastian's mother, Violet Venable, trying to cloud the truth about her son's death, threatens to lobotomize Catharine for her incoherent utterances relating to Sebastian's demise. Under the influence of a truth serum, Catharine tells the gruesome story of Sebastian's death at the hands of local boys.

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Red House Regulars: The Dark Marbles, with Repose and Kill the Lites
Redhouse

Price: $15 regular, $10 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The concert features a special pre-show act with the Red House Rock Camp bands Repose at 7:00 pm and Kill the Lites at 7:30 pm. Seating is open so make sure to get there early!

The Dark Marbles have taken the greatest stuff from the nuggets of melodic and upbeat garage/mod/power-pop rock and roll and made it their home turf. Powered by singer and guitarist Yod Crewsy (formerly of the mid-80s garage greats SplatCats and the JackLords), the Dark Marbles would love nothing better than to throw their crowds into a frenzied mass of dancing hysteria! It's the primitive sound of a couple of guitars, one melodic and clean, one loud and snotty, over a basic thumping back beat! So crude and yet so effective! The Dark Marbles are the following swingin' cats (and one chick): Yod Crewsy (singer, songwriter, Rickenbacker 330 and Vox Phantom playin' rhythm guitarist),Deb Schuster (bass player, tight and thumpin' bass stylings -- a rockin' wildcat!), Tony Stuppiello (powerhouse drummer formerly with NJ's famous rockabilly band Speedcrazy  this dude packs a serious rhythmic wollop.), with additional musicians from around New York State!

Fire up that lava lamp, put on your go-go boots and watch the groovy slide show while you dance to the sounds of the Dark Marbles. Deep from the inner depths of some beat up garage, The Dark Marbles awake and step out into the moonlight to provide your soul with sounds from a time machine.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Oh My! Works by Ken Nichols and Steve Nyland
Szozda Gallery

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

"Zombies and colors and mugs, oh my!"

The March show displays the colorful works of two diversely different styled artists who are new to this space. Ken Nichols' visceral paintings and Steve Nyland's audacious ones contrast intricately to produce "Oh My!"

Of the two artists in this show, Nichols has been at his craft for a much longer time than Nyland, but both share common ground in that they each found renewed voice in painting again after time away. However, in doing so, it is the personal motivation that compels the difference between the two along with their startling unusual styles that are being paired in the same exhibit.

Nyland, the younger artist, took up the palette again after working in various internet related ventures. He says that after "misplacing painting" for awhile, his return to it is like "the science fiction fantasy of a young boy with purple blue hair who just learned to paint again."

Nichols also began painting again after a somewhat long hiatus. And also like Nyland, the return brought with it some form of freed expression, but the similarity between the two ends there. Nichols, being a graphic designer for the last 35 years, calls himself a "Decorative Expressionist" and "paints for the fun of it, not to unburden my soul," he says.

Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival
Szozda Gallery

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

Delavan Center and Szozda Gallery are pleased to present a portion of the Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival. The key purpose of the Veterans Creative Arts competition and Festival is to recognize Veterans for their creative accomplishments and to educate and demonstrate to communities throughout the country the therapeutic benefits of the arts.

Nationwide, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities use the creative arts as one form of rehabilitative treatment to help Veterans recover from and cope with physical and emotional disabilities. Across the country each year, Veterans treated at VA facilities compete in a local creative arts competition. The competition includes 53 categories in the visual arts division this year that range from oil painting to leatherwork to paint-by-number kits. In addition, there are 120 categories in the performing arts pertaining to all aspects of music, dance, drama and creative writing. A national selection committee chooses first, second and third place winners among all of the entries. Select winners are invited to attend the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival each year.

Join us in honoring the hard work and creativity of some of our area vets!

Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The tea bowl, with its seemingly inexhaustible form, is beloved by potters and collectors alike. Its intimate scale encourages spontaneity and experimentation. Today's ceramic artists connect to the ancient Japanese tradition of the Tea Ceremony and the countless unknown potters from the past while maintaining their unique aesthetic voice though the creation of the tea bowl. This exhibition represents contemporary voices in clay--from wood-fire to earthenware, traditional to unconventional. "Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach," is co-curated by John Jessiman and Jen Gandee.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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2013 Cinefest
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $30/day; $85/festival
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 am: Wake Up and Live (1937), with Alice Faye, Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Jack Haley, Patsy Kelly, Walter Catlett, and Joan Davis
10:30 am: The Auction, hosted by Leonard Maltin and George Read
12:00 pm: Sailers Beware! (1933), with Eugene Pallette, Walter Catlett, Dorothy Granger
12:20 pm: Justin Herman V, selected short subjects
12:55 pm: The Guilded Cage (1916), with Alice Brady
2:05 pm: High Stakes (1931), with Lowell Sherman, Mae Murray
3:25 pm: South Riding (1938), with Ralph Richardson, Edna Best

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

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

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

Folk Music Series: Grupo Pagan Lite
Liverpool Public Library

Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

Grupo Pagan Lite features three members of the Syracuse-based Latin American band Grupo Pagan: leader and bassist Edgar Pagan, keyboardist Bill DiCosimo, and percussionist Josh Dekaney. The ensemble will perform music in Caribbean and South American dance styles, including salsa, merengue, and cha-cha.

The Song of the Shadows: A Lenten Cantata

Price: Freewill offering
Manlius United Methodist Church
111 Wesley St., Manlius

For more information, phone 315-682-8021.

Choral Evensong and Organ Recital
St. Paul's Cathedral Choir and Organist James Potts

Price: Freewill offering
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

The choir will present works of William Smith, Orlando Gibbons, Adrian Batten, and others. James Potts will perform works of Howells, Bach, Gawthrop, Franck, and Vierne.

Dixie's Tupperware Party
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $38
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Dixie Longate, the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, packed up her catalogues, left her children in an Alabama trailer park and took Off-Broadway by storm! Now, join Dixie as she travels the country throwing good ol'fashioned Tupperware Parties filled with outrageously funny tales, heartfelt accounts, FREE giveaways, audience participation, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware ever sold on a theater stage. Loaded with the most up-to-date products available for purchase, see for yourself how Ms. Longate became the #1 Tupperware seller in the U.S. & Canada as she educates her guests on the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products! Not your grandmother's Tupperware Party! (Please note: Adult humor -- not recommended for anyone under the age of 16.) Learn more at www.dixiestupperwareparty.com.

Running time: Approx 1 hour 40 minutes, no intermission.

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The District Festival: Grey Gardens
Rarely Done Productions

Price: $20 (or $50 for one ticket to all three District Festival shows)
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

What happens when American royalty falls from grace? The hilarious and heartbreaking story of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the eccentric aunt and cousin of American royalty, Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis. Once the brightest and most popular faces on the social register who become East Hampton's most notorious recluses. Book by Doug Wright; music and lyrics by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie.

Presented as part of The District Festival.

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