Sunday, May 12, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

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

Over 100 juried artists show their 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

Joe Lingeman: Habitus
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present the photographic work of Syracuse University MFA student Joe Lingeman. Lingeman combines varying modes of photography -- still life, commercial portraiture, and street photography. Taken as a whole, his images deal with absurdity, spiritual longing, and a tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life in the developed world.

Joe Lingeman's work has been shown at Art Chicago 2010, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, and Craft Chemistry in Syracuse. His images have been published in the pages of Next American City, and Facebook's internal 'zine, Zeitgeist. Lingeman was born in Toldeo, OH, and grew up in Bloomington, IN. He holds a BA in Sociology and a BFA in photography from Indiana University. He is scheduled to complete his MFA at Syracuse University in May of 2013.

Jason Lazarus: Too Hard to Keep (Syracuse)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 2010, Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus initiated a growing archive of photos deemed "too hard to keep." "Too Hard to Keep" is a place for photographs, photo-objects, and even digital files to exist when they are too difficult to hold on to, yet too meaningful to destroy. Participants have dictated whether the photographs submitted to the archive may be shown freely with other pieces of the archive, or if they are only to be displayed face down, adding to the charged significance of each object. Out of this expanding collection site-specific installations occur. With "Too Hard to Keep" in Syracuse, Lazarus shares a slice of the larger archive alongside anonymous local submissions in a carefully considered installation.

Interested in submitting to the T.H.T.K. archive? Drop off your print anonymously in the drop box located at Light Work during the length of the exhibition.

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Discovery of Being
Szozda Gallery

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

The essence of existence, emotion, strength and beauty unite distinctively in the photography and paintings of art teacher Peter Mahan and his former student Lacey McKinney.

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HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

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.

The eNth Degree: MFA 2013
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"The eNth Degree: MFA 2013" is the thesis exhibition for the Masters of Fine Arts candidates in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at SU, uniting a group of artists working exponentially beyond the confines of their studied fields, taking their work to a new level art making. The 19 included in this year's exhibition work in a variety of media including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, film, site-specific installation, and performance.

The participating artists are Daniel Aguilera, Siqiao Ao, Jennifer Chan, Ryan Crotty, Caitlin Foley, Andrew Frost, Meyer Giordano, Su San Na Kim, Lori Klopp, Jee Eun Lee, Joseph Lingeman, Misha Rabinovich, Samantha Raut, Becky Reiser, Tanya Schiller, Tonja Torgerson, Joel Weissman, Sarah Camille Wilson, Matthew Williamson.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Shen Yun Chinese Dance

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

Shen Yun Performing Arts, the world's premier classical Chinese dance and music companies, returns with a lavishly colorful and exhilarating show, all new for 2013. Shen Yun uses performing arts to present stories that bring to life the inner essence of China. This includes ancient legends, characters, and tales from history, and representative events from the modern world. In Shen Yun performances, themes like spiritual devotion, the benevolence of gods, good and evil, retribution, and the search for the meaning of life have appeared in dance stories and lyrics.

Shen Yun Performing Arts presents classical Chinese dance, song, and music with choreography ranging from grand processions to legions of thunderous drums, with gorgeously costumed dancers moving in synchronized patterns.

Spectacular visuals take you to another world, with landscapes and ancient buildings appearing on beautiful animated backdrops. Music seamlessly combines the best of the East and West, giving each performance an unmistakable flair.

Tickets available at the Oncenter Box Office (open Monday-Friday 10:00 am-4:00 pm and Saturday 10:00 am-2:00 pm, 315-435-2121, 760 S. State St., War Memorial Arena). Tickets can also be purchased at Ticketmaster.com.

Mat Marucci Trio Live Recording
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $8
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Here's a chance to have your applause heard on a international CD release! The Mat Marucci Trio will record their performance at Jazz Central. The Los Angeles band features Mat Marucci on drums, Rick Olson on piano and Adam Lane on bass.

Mat Marucci is an active performer, author, educator, and clinician listed in "Who's Who In America," "International Who's Who In Music" (Cambridge, England) and the "Institute of Jazz Studies" (Rutgers University). His performing credits include jazz greats Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell, James Moody, Eddie Harris, Buddy De Franco, Les McCann, Pharoah Sanders and John Tchicai, among others.

Marucci has eight critically acclaimed recordings to his credit as a leader and others as a sideman, including those with John Tchicai and Jimmy Smith and is also the author of several books on drumming for both Lewis Music and Mel Bay Publications. Many of his books and recordings have garnered four and five stars in various trade magazines including Jazz Times, Jazziz, Modern Drummer and Downbeat.

Additionally, Marucci has been an adjunct professor at American River College in Sacramento, Calif.; a faculty member of The Jazzschool in Berkeley, Calif.; and is an endorser for Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth drumsticks and Remo drumheads. He has written numerous articles on drumming for Modern Drummer and Downbeat magazines along with those for the Percussive Arts Society's Percussive Notes and Percussion News.

For reservations and information, call (315) 287-2852.

Cry Havoc
Appleseed Productions
Lois Haas, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Hailed as a female Journey's End, this is the story of nurses on Bataan. In a sort of dugout subjected to gunfire, the individual characters emerge to offer a collective reaction to war. This is a compelling, caustic revelation of human beings under fire. During the Memorial Day season, Appleseed will take the opportunity to recognize women veterans. Written by Allan R. Kenward.

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Good People
Syracuse Stage
Laura Kepley, director

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

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire returns to his hometown of South Boston and captures the tangy rhythms and sharp humor of the old neighborhood for an edgy take on the state of current affairs in this 2011 Tony-nominated play. Margie (with hard g) is a single mom who just lost her job, is behind in her rent, and like many today, has zero prospects. With nowhere to turn, she seeks out an old friend Mikey, the one who got away--from Southie and from her. What can she expect from Mikey after 30 years? The journey from the old neighborhood to Chestnut Hill is fraught with twists and surprises and measured in much more than miles.

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Monday, May 13, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings and sketches by Skaneateles artist Hetty Easter and her Sketch Club students will be on display. Hetty and her students created all the artwork while outside. Easter's Sketch Club gives children the opportunity to enjoy being creative in a relaxed setting. She started the club last September. It meets approximately once a week after school, with a break during the coldest winter months. This exhibit will include work from more than 20 children, in grades 1-6, who have participated in the group since its inception.

Dreamt Realities
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Dreamt Realities features the work of four Syracuse-based photographers: Eddie Colleli, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Jeff Madison, and Heidi Vantassel. This exhibit features surreal, phantasmagorical pictures that explore geographical spaces. Using both traditional and cutting edge techniques, these photographers create/freeze their imagery drawing a fine line between what's real and what's imagined -- for example, a neglected house becomes a fascinating nightmare, a forgotten shore resembles a timeless dream, and a staged environment is inspired by a hazy dream.

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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.

Something To Write Home About
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of expressive drawings, paintings, prints and photography on themes of journey and time by artists Susan Stone and Kristina Starowitz.

HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

Jason Lazarus: Too Hard to Keep (Syracuse)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 2010, Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus initiated a growing archive of photos deemed "too hard to keep." "Too Hard to Keep" is a place for photographs, photo-objects, and even digital files to exist when they are too difficult to hold on to, yet too meaningful to destroy. Participants have dictated whether the photographs submitted to the archive may be shown freely with other pieces of the archive, or if they are only to be displayed face down, adding to the charged significance of each object. Out of this expanding collection site-specific installations occur. With "Too Hard to Keep" in Syracuse, Lazarus shares a slice of the larger archive alongside anonymous local submissions in a carefully considered installation.

Interested in submitting to the T.H.T.K. archive? Drop off your print anonymously in the drop box located at Light Work during the length of the exhibition.

Read a review!

Joe Lingeman: Habitus
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present the photographic work of Syracuse University MFA student Joe Lingeman. Lingeman combines varying modes of photography -- still life, commercial portraiture, and street photography. Taken as a whole, his images deal with absurdity, spiritual longing, and a tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life in the developed world.

Joe Lingeman's work has been shown at Art Chicago 2010, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, and Craft Chemistry in Syracuse. His images have been published in the pages of Next American City, and Facebook's internal 'zine, Zeitgeist. Lingeman was born in Toldeo, OH, and grew up in Bloomington, IN. He holds a BA in Sociology and a BFA in photography from Indiana University. He is scheduled to complete his MFA at Syracuse University in May of 2013.

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

Mother's Day: Works by Mitzie Testani
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Mitzie Testani is a designer and illustrator who creates fanciful images from ordinary items and scenes. In "Mother's Day," Testani will include pieces on a variety of themes ranging from portraits and pet birds to illustrated alphabets and quotes in honor of mothers.

Karen Klee-Atlin: Prints
Redhouse

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

The show features vibrant prints on the theme of Mexican Carnival, landscape and birdlife.

Karen Klee-Atlin was born in Toronto, where she studied at the Ontario College of Art. She did graduate work in painting and printmaking and received her MFA in painting from the University of Calgary. She has lived in many parts of Canada and the US as well as in Peru, the Philippines and Mexico, teaching art in schools and universities as well as pursuing her studio work. Her work has been influenced by her travels and a range of sources, including folk religious sculpture, industrial training manuals, and scarecrows. Karen has shown her work internationally, and her images can be found as the covers of two plays, "Bone Cage" and "It Is Solved By Walking," by the Canadian playwright and two-time Governor-General's Award winner, Catherine Banks.

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting" is a collection of oil and acrylic pieces on canvas showcasing three contemporary Colombian artists exploring non-figurative art. The exhibit is conceived as a bridge-building opportunity and artistic exchange between artists residing at home and in the diaspora, in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. It includes paintings by Fernando Manrique, Rafael Ordoñez, and Esperanza Tielbaard Pazmiño, all of whom explore the of textural and composition possibilities in abstract art.

The artistic proposals of Manrique, Ordoñez and Pazmiño share an interest in communicating the rich sensory experiences and of the conceptual suggestions possible in pictorial abstraction. Their works explore alternative ways of engaging reality and ask viewers to see through the senses as they travel through interweaving forms, suggestive textures, and provoking compositions. Their canvases challenge accepted distinctions between abstract and figurative painting, as well as between purist and committed art from Latin America, since they incorporate issues of identity, technology, nature, and affect as themes to be explored through the senses.

The collection invites us to be seduced by the mix and to reflect on our understanding of artistic creation and perception, and changing patterns in the 21st century.

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

An exhibit of photos by the participants of the teen photography workshop at La Casita in collaboration with the Department of Child and Family Studies of Syracuse University. The program is part of the Creative Corner Program at La Casita which is a multi-modal artistic space in which children and youth explore diverse forms and processes of art-making. In addition, the Teen Photography Workshop series is part of the 2013 Reducing Teen Violence Initiative in the Near West Side.

Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Busby Berkeley. Cast: Dick Powell, Gloria Stuart, Adolph Menjou, Alice Brady, Hugh Herbert, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Wini Shaw.
A swanky summer resort is the setting for this enjoyable musical-comedy featuring a great cast and elaborate Busby Berkeley production numbers, including the legendary "Lullaby of Broadway."

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings and sketches by Skaneateles artist Hetty Easter and her Sketch Club students will be on display. Hetty and her students created all the artwork while outside. Easter's Sketch Club gives children the opportunity to enjoy being creative in a relaxed setting. She started the club last September. It meets approximately once a week after school, with a break during the coldest winter months. This exhibit will include work from more than 20 children, in grades 1-6, who have participated in the group since its inception.

To Begin a New Day/Recent Photography by Jenilee Ward
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Dreamt Realities
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Dreamt Realities features the work of four Syracuse-based photographers: Eddie Colleli, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Jeff Madison, and Heidi Vantassel. This exhibit features surreal, phantasmagorical pictures that explore geographical spaces. Using both traditional and cutting edge techniques, these photographers create/freeze their imagery drawing a fine line between what's real and what's imagined -- for example, a neglected house becomes a fascinating nightmare, a forgotten shore resembles a timeless dream, and a staged environment is inspired by a hazy dream.

Read a Review!

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.

Something To Write Home About
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of expressive drawings, paintings, prints and photography on themes of journey and time by artists Susan Stone and Kristina Starowitz.

Delineation
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Donalee Peden Wesley: mixed media drawings (including charcoal, graphite, and pastel and watercolor washes) and sculptures exploring the depths and subtleties of human/animal relationship
Arlene Abend: pendant necklaces made of bronze, brass and copper

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HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Joe Lingeman: Habitus
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present the photographic work of Syracuse University MFA student Joe Lingeman. Lingeman combines varying modes of photography -- still life, commercial portraiture, and street photography. Taken as a whole, his images deal with absurdity, spiritual longing, and a tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life in the developed world.

Joe Lingeman's work has been shown at Art Chicago 2010, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, and Craft Chemistry in Syracuse. His images have been published in the pages of Next American City, and Facebook's internal 'zine, Zeitgeist. Lingeman was born in Toldeo, OH, and grew up in Bloomington, IN. He holds a BA in Sociology and a BFA in photography from Indiana University. He is scheduled to complete his MFA at Syracuse University in May of 2013.

Jason Lazarus: Too Hard to Keep (Syracuse)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 2010, Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus initiated a growing archive of photos deemed "too hard to keep." "Too Hard to Keep" is a place for photographs, photo-objects, and even digital files to exist when they are too difficult to hold on to, yet too meaningful to destroy. Participants have dictated whether the photographs submitted to the archive may be shown freely with other pieces of the archive, or if they are only to be displayed face down, adding to the charged significance of each object. Out of this expanding collection site-specific installations occur. With "Too Hard to Keep" in Syracuse, Lazarus shares a slice of the larger archive alongside anonymous local submissions in a carefully considered installation.

Interested in submitting to the T.H.T.K. archive? Drop off your print anonymously in the drop box located at Light Work during the length of the exhibition.

Read a review!

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

Mother's Day: Works by Mitzie Testani
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Mitzie Testani is a designer and illustrator who creates fanciful images from ordinary items and scenes. In "Mother's Day," Testani will include pieces on a variety of themes ranging from portraits and pet birds to illustrated alphabets and quotes in honor of mothers.

Karen Klee-Atlin: Prints
Redhouse

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

The show features vibrant prints on the theme of Mexican Carnival, landscape and birdlife.

Karen Klee-Atlin was born in Toronto, where she studied at the Ontario College of Art. She did graduate work in painting and printmaking and received her MFA in painting from the University of Calgary. She has lived in many parts of Canada and the US as well as in Peru, the Philippines and Mexico, teaching art in schools and universities as well as pursuing her studio work. Her work has been influenced by her travels and a range of sources, including folk religious sculpture, industrial training manuals, and scarecrows. Karen has shown her work internationally, and her images can be found as the covers of two plays, "Bone Cage" and "It Is Solved By Walking," by the Canadian playwright and two-time Governor-General's Award winner, Catherine Banks.

On My Own Time: Employee Art Exhibition
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting" is a collection of oil and acrylic pieces on canvas showcasing three contemporary Colombian artists exploring non-figurative art. The exhibit is conceived as a bridge-building opportunity and artistic exchange between artists residing at home and in the diaspora, in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. It includes paintings by Fernando Manrique, Rafael Ordoñez, and Esperanza Tielbaard Pazmiño, all of whom explore the of textural and composition possibilities in abstract art.

The artistic proposals of Manrique, Ordoñez and Pazmiño share an interest in communicating the rich sensory experiences and of the conceptual suggestions possible in pictorial abstraction. Their works explore alternative ways of engaging reality and ask viewers to see through the senses as they travel through interweaving forms, suggestive textures, and provoking compositions. Their canvases challenge accepted distinctions between abstract and figurative painting, as well as between purist and committed art from Latin America, since they incorporate issues of identity, technology, nature, and affect as themes to be explored through the senses.

The collection invites us to be seduced by the mix and to reflect on our understanding of artistic creation and perception, and changing patterns in the 21st century.

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

An exhibit of photos by the participants of the teen photography workshop at La Casita in collaboration with the Department of Child and Family Studies of Syracuse University. The program is part of the Creative Corner Program at La Casita which is a multi-modal artistic space in which children and youth explore diverse forms and processes of art-making. In addition, the Teen Photography Workshop series is part of the 2013 Reducing Teen Violence Initiative in the Near West Side.

"What If..." Film Series: Queen of the Sun
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? (2011, 82 minutes) is a profound, alternative look at the global bee crisis from Taggart Siegel, director of The Real Dirt on Farmer John. Taking us on a journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the mysterious world of the beehive, this engaging and ultimately uplifting film weaves an unusual and dramatic story of the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers from around the world including Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk and Vandana Shiva. Together they reveal both the problems and the solutions in renewing a culture in balance with nature.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings and sketches by Skaneateles artist Hetty Easter and her Sketch Club students will be on display. Hetty and her students created all the artwork while outside. Easter's Sketch Club gives children the opportunity to enjoy being creative in a relaxed setting. She started the club last September. It meets approximately once a week after school, with a break during the coldest winter months. This exhibit will include work from more than 20 children, in grades 1-6, who have participated in the group since its inception.

To Begin a New Day/Recent Photography by Jenilee Ward
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Dreamt Realities
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Dreamt Realities features the work of four Syracuse-based photographers: Eddie Colleli, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Jeff Madison, and Heidi Vantassel. This exhibit features surreal, phantasmagorical pictures that explore geographical spaces. Using both traditional and cutting edge techniques, these photographers create/freeze their imagery drawing a fine line between what's real and what's imagined -- for example, a neglected house becomes a fascinating nightmare, a forgotten shore resembles a timeless dream, and a staged environment is inspired by a hazy dream.

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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.

Something To Write Home About
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of expressive drawings, paintings, prints and photography on themes of journey and time by artists Susan Stone and Kristina Starowitz.

Delineation
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Donalee Peden Wesley: mixed media drawings (including charcoal, graphite, and pastel and watercolor washes) and sculptures exploring the depths and subtleties of human/animal relationship
Arlene Abend: pendant necklaces made of bronze, brass and copper

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HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

Jason Lazarus: Too Hard to Keep (Syracuse)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 2010, Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus initiated a growing archive of photos deemed "too hard to keep." "Too Hard to Keep" is a place for photographs, photo-objects, and even digital files to exist when they are too difficult to hold on to, yet too meaningful to destroy. Participants have dictated whether the photographs submitted to the archive may be shown freely with other pieces of the archive, or if they are only to be displayed face down, adding to the charged significance of each object. Out of this expanding collection site-specific installations occur. With "Too Hard to Keep" in Syracuse, Lazarus shares a slice of the larger archive alongside anonymous local submissions in a carefully considered installation.

Interested in submitting to the T.H.T.K. archive? Drop off your print anonymously in the drop box located at Light Work during the length of the exhibition.

Read a review!

Joe Lingeman: Habitus
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present the photographic work of Syracuse University MFA student Joe Lingeman. Lingeman combines varying modes of photography -- still life, commercial portraiture, and street photography. Taken as a whole, his images deal with absurdity, spiritual longing, and a tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life in the developed world.

Joe Lingeman's work has been shown at Art Chicago 2010, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, and Craft Chemistry in Syracuse. His images have been published in the pages of Next American City, and Facebook's internal 'zine, Zeitgeist. Lingeman was born in Toldeo, OH, and grew up in Bloomington, IN. He holds a BA in Sociology and a BFA in photography from Indiana University. He is scheduled to complete his MFA at Syracuse University in May of 2013.

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

Mother's Day: Works by Mitzie Testani
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Mitzie Testani is a designer and illustrator who creates fanciful images from ordinary items and scenes. In "Mother's Day," Testani will include pieces on a variety of themes ranging from portraits and pet birds to illustrated alphabets and quotes in honor of mothers.

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.

Karen Klee-Atlin: Prints
Redhouse

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

The show features vibrant prints on the theme of Mexican Carnival, landscape and birdlife.

Karen Klee-Atlin was born in Toronto, where she studied at the Ontario College of Art. She did graduate work in painting and printmaking and received her MFA in painting from the University of Calgary. She has lived in many parts of Canada and the US as well as in Peru, the Philippines and Mexico, teaching art in schools and universities as well as pursuing her studio work. Her work has been influenced by her travels and a range of sources, including folk religious sculpture, industrial training manuals, and scarecrows. Karen has shown her work internationally, and her images can be found as the covers of two plays, "Bone Cage" and "It Is Solved By Walking," by the Canadian playwright and two-time Governor-General's Award winner, Catherine Banks.

Discovery of Being
Szozda Gallery

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

The essence of existence, emotion, strength and beauty unite distinctively in the photography and paintings of art teacher Peter Mahan and his former student Lacey McKinney.

Read a review!

On My Own Time: Employee Art Exhibition
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting" is a collection of oil and acrylic pieces on canvas showcasing three contemporary Colombian artists exploring non-figurative art. The exhibit is conceived as a bridge-building opportunity and artistic exchange between artists residing at home and in the diaspora, in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. It includes paintings by Fernando Manrique, Rafael Ordoñez, and Esperanza Tielbaard Pazmiño, all of whom explore the of textural and composition possibilities in abstract art.

The artistic proposals of Manrique, Ordoñez and Pazmiño share an interest in communicating the rich sensory experiences and of the conceptual suggestions possible in pictorial abstraction. Their works explore alternative ways of engaging reality and ask viewers to see through the senses as they travel through interweaving forms, suggestive textures, and provoking compositions. Their canvases challenge accepted distinctions between abstract and figurative painting, as well as between purist and committed art from Latin America, since they incorporate issues of identity, technology, nature, and affect as themes to be explored through the senses.

The collection invites us to be seduced by the mix and to reflect on our understanding of artistic creation and perception, and changing patterns in the 21st century.

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

An exhibit of photos by the participants of the teen photography workshop at La Casita in collaboration with the Department of Child and Family Studies of Syracuse University. The program is part of the Creative Corner Program at La Casita which is a multi-modal artistic space in which children and youth explore diverse forms and processes of art-making. In addition, the Teen Photography Workshop series is part of the 2013 Reducing Teen Violence Initiative in the Near West Side.

Rationalize & Perpetuate: Video Installation by Sandra Stephens
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Sandra Stephens' work takes an in-depth look at how culture and those around us contribute to our construction of identities. Pieces will look at race, class, gender and sexuality. She will explore the influence of war on simplifying the view of the "other", visual culture and its effects on identity, and how these both affect the lives and identities of children. Her work will also touch on stereotyping, with newer and older work that takes different approaches. She is interested in how and why we stereotype, and in how stereotyping contributes to historic and current-day events. Employing technologies of interactivity and projection, the pieces will pull the viewer in and play with perceptions of the projected image and its blurred relationship to reality. Although the work will touch on disturbing themes, hope will also be expressed through the innocence of children, who are shown to be in many ways much more enlightened than adults.

SALTQuarters Grand Opening

Price: Free
SALT Quarters
113 Otisco St., Syracuse

Grand Opening celebration of the newly completed SALTQuarters: a 4,000 sq. ft. vacant restaurant/bar transformed into a hub for artists including two apartments, three art studios, and a gallery space.

The celebration will include
* Official announcement for the Artist in Residence Program
* Opening Exhibit of the Movement on Main Design Competition
* Tour of the entire facility
* Live jazz from 4:30-6:00 pm
* Drinks; complimentary treats from local food trucks including Street Eats and Recess Coffee and Roastery; and free ice cream while supplies last
* Local art vendors peddling their handmade wares: [re]think syracuse, Breakher Designs, Theresa Barry, The Black Rabbit Signs Co., Barbara Bags, The Borough Furnace, Tommy Lincoln, lostgirl Metalworks, Kate Palermo, and Millworks
* Screening of 20 Super 8mm films created by local artists

Jennifer Egan
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

Price: $25
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. Egan has received numerous literary awards including a Pulitzer Prize. In 2001 her novel, The Invisible Circus, became a feature film staring Cameron Diaz. Her book Look at Me was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction and The Keep was also listed as a national bestseller. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers, Granta, and other magazines. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Her 2002 cover story on homeless children received the Carroll Kowal Journalism Award, and her article "The Bipolar Kid" received a 2009 NAMI Outstanding Media Award for Science and Health Reporting from the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Her most recent novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the LA Times Book Prize.

Thalia Collis, violin; William Mercer, violin; Steven Frackenpohl, viola, Suzanne Stephenson, cello; Susan Crocker, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Dvorak Quintet in A Major, Op. 81

Big D and The Kids Table, with The Action
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

An Iliad
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

An edgy adaptation of Homer's epic story told by a single poet, adapted from Homer by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, translation by Robert Fagles.

This remarkable interpretation of Homer's account of The Trojan War vivifies the tale's epic power while capturing the immediacy of a story told around an open fire. A lone poet, an ancient story-teller, weaves contemporary speech with evocative poetry to create an electrifying encounter with this profoundly resonant chronicle of a distant conflict. Director Penny Metropulos (Up, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, and Red) and actor Joseph Graves (Red) return for this taut and critically-heralded adaptation.

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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings and sketches by Skaneateles artist Hetty Easter and her Sketch Club students will be on display. Hetty and her students created all the artwork while outside. Easter's Sketch Club gives children the opportunity to enjoy being creative in a relaxed setting. She started the club last September. It meets approximately once a week after school, with a break during the coldest winter months. This exhibit will include work from more than 20 children, in grades 1-6, who have participated in the group since its inception.

To Begin a New Day/Recent Photography by Jenilee Ward
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Dreamt Realities
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Dreamt Realities features the work of four Syracuse-based photographers: Eddie Colleli, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Jeff Madison, and Heidi Vantassel. This exhibit features surreal, phantasmagorical pictures that explore geographical spaces. Using both traditional and cutting edge techniques, these photographers create/freeze their imagery drawing a fine line between what's real and what's imagined -- for example, a neglected house becomes a fascinating nightmare, a forgotten shore resembles a timeless dream, and a staged environment is inspired by a hazy dream.

Read a Review!

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.

Something To Write Home About
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of expressive drawings, paintings, prints and photography on themes of journey and time by artists Susan Stone and Kristina Starowitz.

Delineation
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Donalee Peden Wesley: mixed media drawings (including charcoal, graphite, and pastel and watercolor washes) and sculptures exploring the depths and subtleties of human/animal relationship
Arlene Abend: pendant necklaces made of bronze, brass and copper

Read a review!

HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Joe Lingeman: Habitus
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present the photographic work of Syracuse University MFA student Joe Lingeman. Lingeman combines varying modes of photography -- still life, commercial portraiture, and street photography. Taken as a whole, his images deal with absurdity, spiritual longing, and a tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life in the developed world.

Joe Lingeman's work has been shown at Art Chicago 2010, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, and Craft Chemistry in Syracuse. His images have been published in the pages of Next American City, and Facebook's internal 'zine, Zeitgeist. Lingeman was born in Toldeo, OH, and grew up in Bloomington, IN. He holds a BA in Sociology and a BFA in photography from Indiana University. He is scheduled to complete his MFA at Syracuse University in May of 2013.

Jason Lazarus: Too Hard to Keep (Syracuse)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 2010, Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus initiated a growing archive of photos deemed "too hard to keep." "Too Hard to Keep" is a place for photographs, photo-objects, and even digital files to exist when they are too difficult to hold on to, yet too meaningful to destroy. Participants have dictated whether the photographs submitted to the archive may be shown freely with other pieces of the archive, or if they are only to be displayed face down, adding to the charged significance of each object. Out of this expanding collection site-specific installations occur. With "Too Hard to Keep" in Syracuse, Lazarus shares a slice of the larger archive alongside anonymous local submissions in a carefully considered installation.

Interested in submitting to the T.H.T.K. archive? Drop off your print anonymously in the drop box located at Light Work during the length of the exhibition.

Read a review!

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

Mother's Day: Works by Mitzie Testani
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Mitzie Testani is a designer and illustrator who creates fanciful images from ordinary items and scenes. In "Mother's Day," Testani will include pieces on a variety of themes ranging from portraits and pet birds to illustrated alphabets and quotes in honor of mothers.

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.

Karen Klee-Atlin: Prints
Redhouse

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

The show features vibrant prints on the theme of Mexican Carnival, landscape and birdlife.

Karen Klee-Atlin was born in Toronto, where she studied at the Ontario College of Art. She did graduate work in painting and printmaking and received her MFA in painting from the University of Calgary. She has lived in many parts of Canada and the US as well as in Peru, the Philippines and Mexico, teaching art in schools and universities as well as pursuing her studio work. Her work has been influenced by her travels and a range of sources, including folk religious sculpture, industrial training manuals, and scarecrows. Karen has shown her work internationally, and her images can be found as the covers of two plays, "Bone Cage" and "It Is Solved By Walking," by the Canadian playwright and two-time Governor-General's Award winner, Catherine Banks.

Discovery of Being
Szozda Gallery

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

The essence of existence, emotion, strength and beauty unite distinctively in the photography and paintings of art teacher Peter Mahan and his former student Lacey McKinney.

Read a review!

On My Own Time: Employee Art Exhibition
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting" is a collection of oil and acrylic pieces on canvas showcasing three contemporary Colombian artists exploring non-figurative art. The exhibit is conceived as a bridge-building opportunity and artistic exchange between artists residing at home and in the diaspora, in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. It includes paintings by Fernando Manrique, Rafael Ordoñez, and Esperanza Tielbaard Pazmiño, all of whom explore the of textural and composition possibilities in abstract art.

The artistic proposals of Manrique, Ordoñez and Pazmiño share an interest in communicating the rich sensory experiences and of the conceptual suggestions possible in pictorial abstraction. Their works explore alternative ways of engaging reality and ask viewers to see through the senses as they travel through interweaving forms, suggestive textures, and provoking compositions. Their canvases challenge accepted distinctions between abstract and figurative painting, as well as between purist and committed art from Latin America, since they incorporate issues of identity, technology, nature, and affect as themes to be explored through the senses.

The collection invites us to be seduced by the mix and to reflect on our understanding of artistic creation and perception, and changing patterns in the 21st century.

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

An exhibit of photos by the participants of the teen photography workshop at La Casita in collaboration with the Department of Child and Family Studies of Syracuse University. The program is part of the Creative Corner Program at La Casita which is a multi-modal artistic space in which children and youth explore diverse forms and processes of art-making. In addition, the Teen Photography Workshop series is part of the 2013 Reducing Teen Violence Initiative in the Near West Side.

Rationalize & Perpetuate: Video Installation by Sandra Stephens
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Sandra Stephens' work takes an in-depth look at how culture and those around us contribute to our construction of identities. Pieces will look at race, class, gender and sexuality. She will explore the influence of war on simplifying the view of the "other", visual culture and its effects on identity, and how these both affect the lives and identities of children. Her work will also touch on stereotyping, with newer and older work that takes different approaches. She is interested in how and why we stereotype, and in how stereotyping contributes to historic and current-day events. Employing technologies of interactivity and projection, the pieces will pull the viewer in and play with perceptions of the projected image and its blurred relationship to reality. Although the work will touch on disturbing themes, hope will also be expressed through the innocence of children, who are shown to be in many ways much more enlightened than adults.

Landscape photographer Chris Murray
bc Restaurant

Price: Free
bc Restaurant
247 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chris Murray's interest in photographing landscapes is derived mainly from his love of the natural world, the same love that led him to choose geology as his first profession. For Chris, the appeal of photography lies in the blending of the technical and the artistic.

Works by Karen Tashkovski
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

Syracuse artist Karen Tashkovski is exhibiting encaustic paintings depicting horses, cows and crowns. They are selections from a series of 50 paintings created while the artist was taking a graduate course at Syracuse University. Tashkovski is an art teacher at Chittenango Middle School.

Works of Robin Winsor Burke and Marsha Mack
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Price: Free
Delavan Center, #119
112 Wyoming St., Syracuse

Syracuse Ceramic Guild will showcase artwork of our rural landscape, local sustainable farming, and our current food system.

The work of featured artists Robin Winsor Burke and Marsha Mack is enhanced by live music of the old time string band, The Usual Suspects, and complimentary refreshments.

Visitors are invited to use the Syracuse Ceramic Guild entrance on the Wyoming St. side of the Delavan Center, where free parking is available.

Psychic Geographies
Urban Video Project

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

Urban Video Project and Light Work are pleased to announce the exhibition of the group show Psychic Geographies. This will be the first time that UVP has mounted a group show, and it will feature five video pieces running continuously each night of the show.

In the pieces that make up Psychic Geographies, forces of desire, both personal and political, and forces of nature traverse the land with a heavy tread, describing the borders of contested territories and propagating strange ecologies.

The outdoor program will include:
Landscape Studies: New Mexico (2008-2010) by Mariam Ghani
Gowane (2013) by Sayler/Morris with Evan Paschke
We Began by Measuring Distance (2009) by Basma Alsharif
There There Square (2002) by Jacqueline Goss
Circle in the Sand (excerpt) (2012) by Michael Robinson

Psychic Geographies was curated by Anneka Herre.

Blurring Boundaries
Everson Museum of Art

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

How might we work together to transform our public or shared space? In collaboration with Art 21: Art in the 21st Century's award-winning PBS Series on contemporary art, join us for a special screening of "Blurring Boundaries." The four artists featured in this film often blur distinctions between interior and exterior, representation and abstraction, surface and structure. Through viewing and informal conversation we will share boundaries we experience and engage with each day--ones that perhaps constrain or compel us to collectively transform them. Artists profiled include sculptor David Atmejd; the collective assume vivid astro focus; sculptor Lynda Benglis; and installation artist Tabaimo. Café Kubal's mobile vending café will be on site to offer specialty coffees.

Sewatokwa'tshera't: The Dish With One Spoon
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free (donations accepted)
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Join us for a screening of Dr. Dawn Martin-Hill's documentary, presented as a fundraiser for Tom Huff's Hawley-Green studio, Sculpture/Culture. The film will be introduced by sculptor Tom Huff, with Jack Manno offering more information on the Onondaga Nation's Two Row Wampum 400 year anniversary celebration events. All proceeds will benefit Sculpture/Culture.

Background: On February 28th, 2006, in response to continuing encroachment of land, and after beginning with an informational campaign, a group of people from Six Nations blocked the development of the Douglas Creek Estates subdivision and reclaimed Kanonhstaton (loosely translated as "the protected place"). The reclamation was followed by racist backlash, often rooted in a refusal to acknowledge Six Nations rights to the land, and the history of land claims on the Haldimand tract. This documentary explores the history, events of the reclamation, the OPP raid, as well as backlash and racism.

The documentary will be followed by questions and discussion.

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

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

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

Word Thursday
601 Tully
Featuring Leo Crandall and Signature Music

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Join us for a night of performance with Leo Crandall and students from Signature Music. Performance will be followed by an open mic. Bring poems and songs to share.

Leo Crandall holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has worked for the Phoenix and the Syracuse Symphony Orchestras, Rome Art and Community Center, and the Cultural Resources Council where he worked tirelessly to promote local initiatives in the arts. Leo is a singer/songwriter/composer playing the requinto, cello, and guitar and has recently toured Africa through the State Department's Cultural Diplomacy Program. His music has been heard all over the world.

Established in 2000, Signature Syracuse is a holistic music education program for teen musicians in the Syracuse School District that provides free lessons, free instruments, performance opportunities, guidance, and college preparation.

The Strange Case of Sheik Yerbuti (or Camel Lot)
Acme Mystery Company

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

Welcome to the Western Sahara and the tiny camel-trading nation of Yerbuti. Tonight, Ambassador Lassiter plans to announce a peace accord between the Yerbuti and their ancient enemies, the Fugari. Hold onto your pith helmet. Rumor has it that Yerbuti might be sitting on a large, untapped deposit of oil and you know what that means. Everyone will be going all out to get their hands on Yerbuti.

Bang Bang You're Dead
Rarely Done Productions

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Boys and Girls Club
201 Hamilton St., Syracuse

Bang Bang You're Dead is a one-act play written by William Mastrosimone in 1999 to raise awareness of school violence and its causes. According to Mastrosimone, it "is a drama to be performed by kids, for kids." The plot focuses on Josh, a high school student who murders his parents and five classmates. It is strongly based on the events surrounding Kip Kinkel's shootings of his parents on May 20, 1998, and 27 of his classmates at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, on May 21, 1998.

Donations accepted at the door benefit The Q Center, CONTACT Community Services, and The Boys & Girls Club.

To reserve a seat, phone 315-546-3224.

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An Iliad
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

An edgy adaptation of Homer's epic story told by a single poet, adapted from Homer by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, translation by Robert Fagles.

This remarkable interpretation of Homer's account of The Trojan War vivifies the tale's epic power while capturing the immediacy of a story told around an open fire. A lone poet, an ancient story-teller, weaves contemporary speech with evocative poetry to create an electrifying encounter with this profoundly resonant chronicle of a distant conflict. Director Penny Metropulos (Up, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, and Red) and actor Joseph Graves (Red) return for this taut and critically-heralded adaptation.

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Friday, May 17, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings and sketches by Skaneateles artist Hetty Easter and her Sketch Club students will be on display. Hetty and her students created all the artwork while outside. Easter's Sketch Club gives children the opportunity to enjoy being creative in a relaxed setting. She started the club last September. It meets approximately once a week after school, with a break during the coldest winter months. This exhibit will include work from more than 20 children, in grades 1-6, who have participated in the group since its inception.

To Begin a New Day/Recent Photography by Jenilee Ward
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Dreamt Realities
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Dreamt Realities features the work of four Syracuse-based photographers: Eddie Colleli, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Jeff Madison, and Heidi Vantassel. This exhibit features surreal, phantasmagorical pictures that explore geographical spaces. Using both traditional and cutting edge techniques, these photographers create/freeze their imagery drawing a fine line between what's real and what's imagined -- for example, a neglected house becomes a fascinating nightmare, a forgotten shore resembles a timeless dream, and a staged environment is inspired by a hazy dream.

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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.

Something To Write Home About
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of expressive drawings, paintings, prints and photography on themes of journey and time by artists Susan Stone and Kristina Starowitz.

Delineation
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Donalee Peden Wesley: mixed media drawings (including charcoal, graphite, and pastel and watercolor washes) and sculptures exploring the depths and subtleties of human/animal relationship
Arlene Abend: pendant necklaces made of bronze, brass and copper

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HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

Jason Lazarus: Too Hard to Keep (Syracuse)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 2010, Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus initiated a growing archive of photos deemed "too hard to keep." "Too Hard to Keep" is a place for photographs, photo-objects, and even digital files to exist when they are too difficult to hold on to, yet too meaningful to destroy. Participants have dictated whether the photographs submitted to the archive may be shown freely with other pieces of the archive, or if they are only to be displayed face down, adding to the charged significance of each object. Out of this expanding collection site-specific installations occur. With "Too Hard to Keep" in Syracuse, Lazarus shares a slice of the larger archive alongside anonymous local submissions in a carefully considered installation.

Interested in submitting to the T.H.T.K. archive? Drop off your print anonymously in the drop box located at Light Work during the length of the exhibition.

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Joe Lingeman: Habitus
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present the photographic work of Syracuse University MFA student Joe Lingeman. Lingeman combines varying modes of photography -- still life, commercial portraiture, and street photography. Taken as a whole, his images deal with absurdity, spiritual longing, and a tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life in the developed world.

Joe Lingeman's work has been shown at Art Chicago 2010, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, and Craft Chemistry in Syracuse. His images have been published in the pages of Next American City, and Facebook's internal 'zine, Zeitgeist. Lingeman was born in Toldeo, OH, and grew up in Bloomington, IN. He holds a BA in Sociology and a BFA in photography from Indiana University. He is scheduled to complete his MFA at Syracuse University in May of 2013.

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

Mother's Day: Works by Mitzie Testani
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Mitzie Testani is a designer and illustrator who creates fanciful images from ordinary items and scenes. In "Mother's Day," Testani will include pieces on a variety of themes ranging from portraits and pet birds to illustrated alphabets and quotes in honor of mothers.

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.

Karen Klee-Atlin: Prints
Redhouse

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

The show features vibrant prints on the theme of Mexican Carnival, landscape and birdlife.

Karen Klee-Atlin was born in Toronto, where she studied at the Ontario College of Art. She did graduate work in painting and printmaking and received her MFA in painting from the University of Calgary. She has lived in many parts of Canada and the US as well as in Peru, the Philippines and Mexico, teaching art in schools and universities as well as pursuing her studio work. Her work has been influenced by her travels and a range of sources, including folk religious sculpture, industrial training manuals, and scarecrows. Karen has shown her work internationally, and her images can be found as the covers of two plays, "Bone Cage" and "It Is Solved By Walking," by the Canadian playwright and two-time Governor-General's Award winner, Catherine Banks.

Discovery of Being
Szozda Gallery

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

The essence of existence, emotion, strength and beauty unite distinctively in the photography and paintings of art teacher Peter Mahan and his former student Lacey McKinney.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting" is a collection of oil and acrylic pieces on canvas showcasing three contemporary Colombian artists exploring non-figurative art. The exhibit is conceived as a bridge-building opportunity and artistic exchange between artists residing at home and in the diaspora, in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. It includes paintings by Fernando Manrique, Rafael Ordoñez, and Esperanza Tielbaard Pazmiño, all of whom explore the of textural and composition possibilities in abstract art.

The artistic proposals of Manrique, Ordoñez and Pazmiño share an interest in communicating the rich sensory experiences and of the conceptual suggestions possible in pictorial abstraction. Their works explore alternative ways of engaging reality and ask viewers to see through the senses as they travel through interweaving forms, suggestive textures, and provoking compositions. Their canvases challenge accepted distinctions between abstract and figurative painting, as well as between purist and committed art from Latin America, since they incorporate issues of identity, technology, nature, and affect as themes to be explored through the senses.

The collection invites us to be seduced by the mix and to reflect on our understanding of artistic creation and perception, and changing patterns in the 21st century.

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

An exhibit of photos by the participants of the teen photography workshop at La Casita in collaboration with the Department of Child and Family Studies of Syracuse University. The program is part of the Creative Corner Program at La Casita which is a multi-modal artistic space in which children and youth explore diverse forms and processes of art-making. In addition, the Teen Photography Workshop series is part of the 2013 Reducing Teen Violence Initiative in the Near West Side.

Rationalize & Perpetuate: Video Installation by Sandra Stephens
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Sandra Stephens' work takes an in-depth look at how culture and those around us contribute to our construction of identities. Pieces will look at race, class, gender and sexuality. She will explore the influence of war on simplifying the view of the "other", visual culture and its effects on identity, and how these both affect the lives and identities of children. Her work will also touch on stereotyping, with newer and older work that takes different approaches. She is interested in how and why we stereotype, and in how stereotyping contributes to historic and current-day events. Employing technologies of interactivity and projection, the pieces will pull the viewer in and play with perceptions of the projected image and its blurred relationship to reality. Although the work will touch on disturbing themes, hope will also be expressed through the innocence of children, who are shown to be in many ways much more enlightened than adults.

Psychic Geographies
Urban Video Project

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

Urban Video Project and Light Work are pleased to announce the exhibition of the group show Psychic Geographies. This will be the first time that UVP has mounted a group show, and it will feature five video pieces running continuously each night of the show.

In the pieces that make up Psychic Geographies, forces of desire, both personal and political, and forces of nature traverse the land with a heavy tread, describing the borders of contested territories and propagating strange ecologies.

The outdoor program will include:
Landscape Studies: New Mexico (2008-2010) by Mariam Ghani
Gowane (2013) by Sayler/Morris with Evan Paschke
We Began by Measuring Distance (2009) by Basma Alsharif
There There Square (2002) by Jacqueline Goss
Circle in the Sand (excerpt) (2012) by Michael Robinson

Psychic Geographies was curated by Anneka Herre.

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

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

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

Jazz@Sitrus
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Michael and Anjela Lynn

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

Pops Series:Musicals Meet the Movies
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Syracuse Pops Chorus
Sean O'Loughlin, conductor
Featuring Amanda Brasher, Stephanie Umoh, Matt DeAngelis, Matt Leisy

Price: $30-$75
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A quartet of Broadway stars, and the Syracuse Pops Chorus join Symphoria for this blockbuster program! The program features selections from The Sound of Music, The Music Man, Ragtime, Moulin Rouge, Guys and Dolls, Company, and Les Mis. The quartet and the Syracuse Pops Chorus will also unite under the direction of Lou Lemos for a tribute to Mavin Hamlisch, and selections from West Side Story and The Lion King.

Andrew & Noah VanNorstrand and Loren Barrigar & Mark Mazengarb
Folkus Project

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

This will be the first time these four have teamed up to present a mixture of Americana and Celtic roots music, alongside other acoustic forms for which they're known.

The VanNorstrands have been bringing their brand of high-energy alternative folk music to concert halls, festival stages, and dance floors across North America for more than a decade. Barrigar and Mazengarb are two of the most accomplished fingerstyle guitarists in the world. Their live performances feature not only their spectacular technical grasp of the guitar, but also a dynamic musical chemistry. The stunning abilities of these gifted musicians have built strong local followings. This is a unique opportunity to hear them together.

A large crowd is expected for this show and advance tickets are strongly recommended! Advance sale tickets are available via PayPal or by mail (personal check); advance ticket holders receive preferential seating. For details, see the Folkus Project website.

Donna the Buffalo, with Two Hour Delay
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

First Things First
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon J. Barden, director

Price: $15 adults, $13 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Peter and George (Jon Wright and Pat Bridenbaker) have been best friends forever. George has been Peter's best man twice. Sarah (Heather Jensen), Peter's new wife, comes with a meddling mother-in-law (Denise Ballou). See what happens when Peter's first wife (Tammy Wilkinson), who has been declared dead, suddenly shows up to complicate the life of her newly remarried husband and the resulting lies that cause things to gradually go crazy. Throw in a mountain climber (Mike Callahan) and you have a night filled with hilarity!

Cry Havoc
Appleseed Productions
Lois Haas, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Hailed as a female Journey's End, this is the story of nurses on Bataan. In a sort of dugout subjected to gunfire, the individual characters emerge to offer a collective reaction to war. This is a compelling, caustic revelation of human beings under fire. During the Memorial Day season, Appleseed will take the opportunity to recognize women veterans. Written by Allan R. Kenward.

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Hamlet Cha-Cha-Cha
Central New York Playhouse
Jenn DeCook, director

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

Totally insane. And totally hilarious. You all know the story of Hamlet--but never has a plot line been followed by such gleefully drunken footsteps, singing all the way! Can you envision Horatio as "an amiable sponge" always seeking the nearest buffet table? Can you see Gertrude and Claudius, married on their way home from King Hamlet's funeral, leading the opening number of the show, "Boo Hoo! I Do!"? Or picture the soliloquy done by Prince Hamlet with a back-up male chorus chanting "Doo waaah!" at inappropriate intervals? And how about Queen Gertrude, backed up by the female chorus--the "Elsinoritas," of course--telling Laertes about Ophelia's dreadful death in a hand clapper called "Down, Down, Down the River!"? And will you recognize Hamlet's two college chums, herein known as "Rosie Krantz" and "Gilda Stern"? And if you think you know the way the story turns out--you don't. Not in this version, anyhow. Believe us, if you've always hated Shakespearean plays, you'll love this show--but paradoxically, you've always loved Shakespearean plays, you'll love this show despite yourself. Book, music, and lyrics by Monk Ferris. Abel Searor, music director; Kaleigh Pfohl, choreographer.

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Bang Bang You're Dead
Rarely Done Productions

Price: Free (donations accepted)
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Bang Bang You're Dead is a one-act play written by William Mastrosimone in 1999 to raise awareness of school violence and its causes. According to Mastrosimone, it "is a drama to be performed by kids, for kids." The plot focuses on Josh, a high school student who murders his parents and five classmates. It is strongly based on the events surrounding Kip Kinkel's shootings of his parents on May 20, 1998, and 27 of his classmates at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, on May 21, 1998.

Donations accepted at the door benefit The Q Center, CONTACT Community Services, and The Boys & Girls Club.

To reserve a seat, phone 315-546-3224.

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View and Brew: Wizard of Oz: Live Reading
Redhouse

Price: $10 (includes one beer or wine from the cafe)
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Redhouse closes out its wildly successful season of its View and Brew Series with a staged reading of the classic Wizard of Oz.

Director Danielle Melendez brings a high-energy modern spin to the classic film script. It will be very much in the vain of improv and "Swedeing." Swedeing has become a popular internet phenomenon where participants recreate popular films with homemade props and effects. Redhouse has been bringing this aesthetic to the stage with popular readings such as Airplane! and a drag reading of Steel Magnolias. The evening will be a fast-paced slapstick, with the group of local actors reading from the scripts with minimal rehearsal, turning the event into not just an evening of entertainment, but an actual challenge to complete the show! And just to make things more interesting/challenging, Hunter and Josh from KRock's morning show will be on hand to Host/Narrate/be munchkins and flying monkeys. They'll also be telling the audience when it's their turn to jump in and participate and when it's time to take a drink. The cast is rounded out by local favorites Bob Brown, David Cotter, Jodie Baum, Binaifir Dabu, and Sarah Weiler.

NOTE: As this is an event with drinking game rules, it is not meant for children.

An Iliad
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

An edgy adaptation of Homer's epic story told by a single poet, adapted from Homer by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, translation by Robert Fagles.

This remarkable interpretation of Homer's account of The Trojan War vivifies the tale's epic power while capturing the immediacy of a story told around an open fire. A lone poet, an ancient story-teller, weaves contemporary speech with evocative poetry to create an electrifying encounter with this profoundly resonant chronicle of a distant conflict. Director Penny Metropulos (Up, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, and Red) and actor Joseph Graves (Red) return for this taut and critically-heralded adaptation.

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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings and sketches by Skaneateles artist Hetty Easter and her Sketch Club students will be on display. Hetty and her students created all the artwork while outside. Easter's Sketch Club gives children the opportunity to enjoy being creative in a relaxed setting. She started the club last September. It meets approximately once a week after school, with a break during the coldest winter months. This exhibit will include work from more than 20 children, in grades 1-6, who have participated in the group since its inception.

Delineation
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Donalee Peden Wesley: mixed media drawings (including charcoal, graphite, and pastel and watercolor washes) and sculptures exploring the depths and subtleties of human/animal relationship
Arlene Abend: pendant necklaces made of bronze, brass and copper

Read a review!

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

Mother's Day: Works by Mitzie Testani
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Mitzie Testani is a designer and illustrator who creates fanciful images from ordinary items and scenes. In "Mother's Day," Testani will include pieces on a variety of themes ranging from portraits and pet birds to illustrated alphabets and quotes in honor of mothers.

Karen Klee-Atlin: Prints
Redhouse

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

The show features vibrant prints on the theme of Mexican Carnival, landscape and birdlife.

Karen Klee-Atlin was born in Toronto, where she studied at the Ontario College of Art. She did graduate work in painting and printmaking and received her MFA in painting from the University of Calgary. She has lived in many parts of Canada and the US as well as in Peru, the Philippines and Mexico, teaching art in schools and universities as well as pursuing her studio work. Her work has been influenced by her travels and a range of sources, including folk religious sculpture, industrial training manuals, and scarecrows. Karen has shown her work internationally, and her images can be found as the covers of two plays, "Bone Cage" and "It Is Solved By Walking," by the Canadian playwright and two-time Governor-General's Award winner, Catherine Banks.

Discovery of Being
Szozda Gallery

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

The essence of existence, emotion, strength and beauty unite distinctively in the photography and paintings of art teacher Peter Mahan and his former student Lacey McKinney.

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41st Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

There will be an opening reception and awards ceremony this afternoon 1:00-3:00 pm.

In collaboration with the Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc., CFAC will provide an opportunity for teenagers of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage, as well as those from other underrepresented or minority groups, to demonstrate their talent in visual arts. Ribbons and monetary prizes will be awarded in drawing, painting, mixed media (including photography, collage prints, etc.) and three-dimensional work (including sculpture, fiber, and ceramics). Prizes will also be awarded in special categories "Most Eclectic," "Director's Choice," and "Best in Show." Participation for the exhibition continues to grow each year, and we are excited to see the amazing work that will be displayed.

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.

Rationalize & Perpetuate: Video Installation by Sandra Stephens
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Sandra Stephens' work takes an in-depth look at how culture and those around us contribute to our construction of identities. Pieces will look at race, class, gender and sexuality. She will explore the influence of war on simplifying the view of the "other", visual culture and its effects on identity, and how these both affect the lives and identities of children. Her work will also touch on stereotyping, with newer and older work that takes different approaches. She is interested in how and why we stereotype, and in how stereotyping contributes to historic and current-day events. Employing technologies of interactivity and projection, the pieces will pull the viewer in and play with perceptions of the projected image and its blurred relationship to reality. Although the work will touch on disturbing themes, hope will also be expressed through the innocence of children, who are shown to be in many ways much more enlightened than adults.

Eco Art Exhibit
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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Psychic Geographies
Urban Video Project

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

Urban Video Project and Light Work are pleased to announce the exhibition of the group show Psychic Geographies. This will be the first time that UVP has mounted a group show, and it will feature five video pieces running continuously each night of the show.

In the pieces that make up Psychic Geographies, forces of desire, both personal and political, and forces of nature traverse the land with a heavy tread, describing the borders of contested territories and propagating strange ecologies.

The outdoor program will include:
Landscape Studies: New Mexico (2008-2010) by Mariam Ghani
Gowane (2013) by Sayler/Morris with Evan Paschke
We Began by Measuring Distance (2009) by Basma Alsharif
There There Square (2002) by Jacqueline Goss
Circle in the Sand (excerpt) (2012) by Michael Robinson

Psychic Geographies was curated by Anneka Herre.

Cinemagogue: Klezmatics on Holy Ground
Temple Society of Concord

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

This feature-length documentary is about the Grammy-award-winning, New York based klezmer band, the Klezmatics.

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

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

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

Young People's Concert: Carnival of the Animals
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Heather Buchman, conductor
Featuring Steven & Amy Heyman, pianist; Courtney Rile, video artist; dancers from Ballet and Dance Center; Open Hand Theater

Price: $25 regular, $22 senior, $15 student
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Symphoria collaborates with Open Hand Theater, dancers from Ballet & Dance Center, and video artist Courtney Rile for a spectacular multi-media experience. The program features music all about animals, and a includes an emerging partnership with the zoo in Syracuse, which will allow for zoo ticket discounts when attending the performance.

The program features a performance of Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals, and will feature Steve and Amy Heyman performing at the pianos. Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee, Copland's "Hoe-Down" from Rodeo, and many others will also be performed.

Raising the Stage Fundraiser
Kellish Hill Farm

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

Ten hours of music! Musicians will include Kevin Barrigar, Dusty Pascal, Charley Orlando, Ironwood, Mark Zane, Greg Hoover, Mike MacDonald, Dave Robertson, The Wolford Family, Reyna Stagnaro, Nancy and Jerry Malewesky, Diamond Someday, Colleen Kattau, Syracuse Irish Sessions, Clarke McAllister, Terry Hill and friends, Hamilton Ramblers, Kathy Kellish and Friends. A great day of music and for a stage for all of us to share in. Can't be any better than this!

Food and beverages will be available for purchase.

"Spring Fling" Pops Concert
Syracuse University Brass Ensemble
James T. Spencer, conductor

Price: $8 adults and $6 children
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

The spring repertoire draws on a variety of operatic and symphonic selections, including excerpts from Puccini's La Boheme, Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro, and Bernstein's West Side Story. Other operatic pieces are by Handel, Rossini, Donizetti, Nicolai, Gounod, Saint-Saëns, Gilbert and Sullivan, and Wagner.

Symphonic selections include John Williams' Summon the Heroes, as well as music from The Muppet Show and Crimson Tide.

Proceeds to benefit UCF Witness Ministries.

Red House Regulars: Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman
Redhouse

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

Karen Savoca & Pete Heitzman bring a style that is electrifying, unique and always uplifting, these improvisational performers possess "the fearlessness of a high-wire act working without a net." Together Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman have been called acoustic soul music with deep roots. Some of their notable appearances include The Today Show, A Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, Big Top Chautauqua, The Vancouver, Edmonton & Winnipeg Folk Festivals.

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

In this interactive version, children in the audience help Aladdin find the magic lamp.

An Iliad
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

An edgy adaptation of Homer's epic story told by a single poet, adapted from Homer by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, translation by Robert Fagles.

This remarkable interpretation of Homer's account of The Trojan War vivifies the tale's epic power while capturing the immediacy of a story told around an open fire. A lone poet, an ancient story-teller, weaves contemporary speech with evocative poetry to create an electrifying encounter with this profoundly resonant chronicle of a distant conflict. Director Penny Metropulos (Up, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, and Red) and actor Joseph Graves (Red) return for this taut and critically-heralded adaptation.

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First Things First
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon J. Barden, director

Price: $15 adults, $13 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Peter and George (Jon Wright and Pat Bridenbaker) have been best friends forever. George has been Peter's best man twice. Sarah (Heather Jensen), Peter's new wife, comes with a meddling mother-in-law (Denise Ballou). See what happens when Peter's first wife (Tammy Wilkinson), who has been declared dead, suddenly shows up to complicate the life of her newly remarried husband and the resulting lies that cause things to gradually go crazy. Throw in a mountain climber (Mike Callahan) and you have a night filled with hilarity!

Cry Havoc
Appleseed Productions
Lois Haas, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Hailed as a female Journey's End, this is the story of nurses on Bataan. In a sort of dugout subjected to gunfire, the individual characters emerge to offer a collective reaction to war. This is a compelling, caustic revelation of human beings under fire. During the Memorial Day season, Appleseed will take the opportunity to recognize women veterans. Written by Allan R. Kenward.

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Hamlet Cha-Cha-Cha
Central New York Playhouse
Jenn DeCook, director

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

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

Totally insane. And totally hilarious. You all know the story of Hamlet--but never has a plot line been followed by such gleefully drunken footsteps, singing all the way! Can you envision Horatio as "an amiable sponge" always seeking the nearest buffet table? Can you see Gertrude and Claudius, married on their way home from King Hamlet's funeral, leading the opening number of the show, "Boo Hoo! I Do!"? Or picture the soliloquy done by Prince Hamlet with a back-up male chorus chanting "Doo waaah!" at inappropriate intervals? And how about Queen Gertrude, backed up by the female chorus--the "Elsinoritas," of course--telling Laertes about Ophelia's dreadful death in a hand clapper called "Down, Down, Down the River!"? And will you recognize Hamlet's two college chums, herein known as "Rosie Krantz" and "Gilda Stern"? And if you think you know the way the story turns out--you don't. Not in this version, anyhow. Believe us, if you've always hated Shakespearean plays, you'll love this show--but paradoxically, you've always loved Shakespearean plays, you'll love this show despite yourself. Book, music, and lyrics by Monk Ferris. Abel Searor, music director; Kaleigh Pfohl, choreographer.

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50 Shades! The Musical

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

A sexy, hilarious romp, 50 Shades! The Musical is a laugh-out-loud night of fun that audiences won't want to miss! 50 Shades! The Musical opens with a ladies book club deciding to read Fifty Shades of Grey. Through their interpretation of the novel, the audience is led on a hilarious roller coaster ride of this unlikely bestseller. The show is full of dance numbers, 11 original songs and a live band backing the performance.

Like the book series, 50 Shades! The Musical is surely not for those under the age of 18, but does not cross boundaries that would make general audiences squirm.

50 Shades! The Musical is not associated with, endorsed or authorized by E.L James or Vintage Books.

Bang Bang You're Dead
Rarely Done Productions

Price: Free (donations accepted)
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Bang Bang You're Dead is a one-act play written by William Mastrosimone in 1999 to raise awareness of school violence and its causes. According to Mastrosimone, it "is a drama to be performed by kids, for kids." The plot focuses on Josh, a high school student who murders his parents and five classmates. It is strongly based on the events surrounding Kip Kinkel's shootings of his parents on May 20, 1998, and 27 of his classmates at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, on May 21, 1998.

Donations accepted at the door benefit The Q Center, CONTACT Community Services, and The Boys & Girls Club.

To reserve a seat, phone 315-546-3224.

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An Iliad
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

An edgy adaptation of Homer's epic story told by a single poet, adapted from Homer by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, translation by Robert Fagles.

This remarkable interpretation of Homer's account of The Trojan War vivifies the tale's epic power while capturing the immediacy of a story told around an open fire. A lone poet, an ancient story-teller, weaves contemporary speech with evocative poetry to create an electrifying encounter with this profoundly resonant chronicle of a distant conflict. Director Penny Metropulos (Up, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, and Red) and actor Joseph Graves (Red) return for this taut and critically-heralded adaptation.

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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

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

Joe Lingeman: Habitus
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present the photographic work of Syracuse University MFA student Joe Lingeman. Lingeman combines varying modes of photography -- still life, commercial portraiture, and street photography. Taken as a whole, his images deal with absurdity, spiritual longing, and a tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life in the developed world.

Joe Lingeman's work has been shown at Art Chicago 2010, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, and Craft Chemistry in Syracuse. His images have been published in the pages of Next American City, and Facebook's internal 'zine, Zeitgeist. Lingeman was born in Toldeo, OH, and grew up in Bloomington, IN. He holds a BA in Sociology and a BFA in photography from Indiana University. He is scheduled to complete his MFA at Syracuse University in May of 2013.

Jason Lazarus: Too Hard to Keep (Syracuse)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 2010, Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus initiated a growing archive of photos deemed "too hard to keep." "Too Hard to Keep" is a place for photographs, photo-objects, and even digital files to exist when they are too difficult to hold on to, yet too meaningful to destroy. Participants have dictated whether the photographs submitted to the archive may be shown freely with other pieces of the archive, or if they are only to be displayed face down, adding to the charged significance of each object. Out of this expanding collection site-specific installations occur. With "Too Hard to Keep" in Syracuse, Lazarus shares a slice of the larger archive alongside anonymous local submissions in a carefully considered installation.

Interested in submitting to the T.H.T.K. archive? Drop off your print anonymously in the drop box located at Light Work during the length of the exhibition.

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Discovery of Being
Szozda Gallery

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

The essence of existence, emotion, strength and beauty unite distinctively in the photography and paintings of art teacher Peter Mahan and his former student Lacey McKinney.

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HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

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.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Live! At the Everson: Music, Poetry & Art -- A Rhapsody of Inspiration
Civic Morning Musicals
Maryna Mazhukhova and Ida Trebicka, piano

Price: $15 adults, free for students
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Four-hand Rachmaninoff, Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies, Tchaikovsky The Seasons -- a multimedia concert.

Harp and Piano Recital

Price: Free
St. Daniel's Church
3004 Court St., Syracuse

For information, phone 315-488-0744.

Arts and Music Festival
Syracuse Pops Chorus

Price: $5 suggested donation
St. Stephen's Lutheran Church
DeWitt St. and Mertens Ave., Syracuse

Works from the Great American Songbook, including music by Berlin, Bernstein, Sondheim, Gershwin, and others. Reception to follow.