Friday, October 12, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Lynette Blake: Within and Beyond
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

Lynette Blake's oil paintings draw the viewer in through complex layers of shape and color. The use of overlapping imagery conveys a depth that extends deep below the surface of the canvas. Objects, whether used directly or evoked by abstract shapes, float in and out of light illuminating them with a pervasive warm glow. The effect is otherworldly -- a feeling of being outside time and space is conveyed.

Blake has exhibited her work throughout the Northeast, and is currently represented locally by the Szozda Gallery in Syracuse, as well as national venues. She studied art at Brown University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Upstate NY.

More information on the Weeks Gallery at Baltimore Woods can be found at www.baltimorewoods.org.

Gallery Exhibit: Brendan Rose & Michael Barletta: Paper, Staple, String
Onondaga Community College

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

"Paper, Staple, String" is a spatial installation, transforming Onondaga's Gallery into a dynamic field of suspended objects. Educational remnants (the discarded paperwork of students) are reclaimed as monochromatic pixels of a space defining cloud. This three-dimensional form transfigures as it intersects with the gallery walls, flattening and expanding against the two-dimensional surface.

TONY: 2012: Ink Geographies
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Feels like writing, but the artist is quick to make clear that it is not. Signs, representations ... of what? A mental process, a journey, from diverse points of origin through our individual timelines, our personal twists and turns. As a script emerges, something is set free, though it leaves a mark, an imprint. The artist's essential playground is a space to explore geometric archetypes that can only be found inside one another; all are one. A sacred mandala? Images contract and expand and there is order, not chaos. No more chaotic than life emerging from the womb, contraction, expansion; a beating heart, where life is felt, contraction, expansion...an ever-expanding universe, contracts only to further expand. We don't know how to will it into action. A similar experience with ink takes form in this experiment by Oscar Garcés. It flows from a playful doodle, "el virus," he calls it. And before you know it, connects with something else, an altered state of consciousness. Everything else disappears as it takes over.

The Point of Contact Gallery presents the first solo show by Cuban-born, Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garcés, as part of The Other New York: TONY 2012, a community-wide biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 venues in Syracuse. This program also commemorates the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month at Point of Contact.

Born in Santiago, Cuba in 1987, Garcés came to the United States in 2000. During his years residing first in Florida, when he began to develop as a visual artist, Garcés received multiple recognitions, including a Golden Key Award for best portfolio by Scholastics. Later in Syracuse, Garcés won a "Best of Show" Award at the Community Folk Art Center in 2005. He has also shown his paintings at the Warehouse Gallery's Window Project and at La Casita Cultural Center Gallery.

TONY 2012: "The Other New York" seeks to highlight the work and talent of different rising artists from the Central New York area.

Phonography
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Cell phone photography, featuring works of 75 Central New York and international artists. Amazing, imaginative, creative, innovative, fun photos you'll love!

Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

Investigations
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of the work and design process of Stephan Jaklitsch and Mark Gardner through sketches, models, renderings, construction drawings, and photographs of six projects. Their work addresses specific conditions of site, use, the psychology of experience, sustainability, techniques of construction craft in detail, and materiality of building.

Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects (J/GA) is an award-winning NYC-based design practice that focuses on urban scale projects, buildings, interiors, and objects. Award-winning projects include the Marc Jacobs Tokyo Flagship Building (2010); a bike rack for the NYC Dept. of Transportation that was exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (2008); and the Marc Jacobs International Showroom (2012).

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Propaganda images generated during the Cultural Revolution in China have been remixed to create commentary on the modern Cultural Revolution society is undergoing in the form of music, art, and media. Elements of the old and new are mixed together to evolve into something new.

Play on Light
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Adriana Meiss: Pastel landscapes
John Franklin: Turned wood and sculptural vessels
Paul Riccardi: Pastel florals and still-lifes
Judy McCumber: Silver and gemstone jewelry

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, and the City of Syracuse. Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Community Folk Art Center TONY 2012 featured artists are Elizabeth Leader, Michael Moody, Abisay Puentes, Sandra Stephens, who each use their art to engage in a larger conversation about significant but often overlooked social issues, including racial identity and urban decay.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Drama From the Garden: New Work by Terry Askey-Cole
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Terry Askey-Cole brings her love of nature and the outdoors to all her new pieces inspired by her beautiful gardens.

Carl Hoffner Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of limited-edition color lithographs and digital paintings by Fayetteville artist Carl Hoffner.

Susan Worsham: Bittersweet/Bloodwork
Light Work Gallery

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

When Susan Worsham was just 18, her brother took his own life after severing his spinal cord in a motorcycle accident. As a young girl she had already lost her father to a heart attack, and finally in 2004, she lost her mother as well. In the words of Worsham, "Shortly after my mother passed I came across a set of antique veterinary slides. They were some of the most interesting things that I had ever seen. I framed ninety of them in a long wooden frame resembling the shape of the slide itself. It was the first piece of art that I made after my mother died. I called the piece a watercolor because of the collection of pastel colors, but it was also a sort of poem when you got close and read the titles ... Rabbit's Lung, Fowl's Spleen, and even Human Umbilical Cord. They seemed to hold beauty and death at the same time."

Worsham went on to photograph her old childhood home as well as her oldest neighbor, Margaret Daniel. Margaret is one of the last remaining threads from Worsham's childhood and was the last person to see her brother alive. She made him her homemade bread, and he finished the whole loaf before he shot himself. The story came full circle one day when Margaret brought out her dissection kit and microscope slides. She had been a biology teacher and was holding on to the same sort of slides that fascinated Worsham. Margaret's microscope and slides have since become a metaphor for Worsham's desire to look deeper into the landscape of her childhood--from the flora and fauna to the feelings, Margaret calls it "blood work."

In addition to Worsham's touching photographs made in and around Virginia, this exhibition features a selection of Margaret's dissection tools alongside her microscope, as well as audio recordings of their various conversations about plants, life, and death. All together, the photographs and accompaniments in Bittersweet/Bloodwork speak of the poetry of childhood, nature, discovery, love, and loss.

TONY: 2012
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Other New York: 2012," featuring the photographic work of Sarah Averill, Bang-Geul Han, Mark McLoughlin, Jan Nagle, and Matthew Walker. This exhibition is part of a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaborion among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

TONY: 2012: "Manifest Destiny and the American West" and "Last House"
Onondaga Historical Association

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

These exhibits are mounted as part of the The Other New York (TONY): 2012, Syracuse's art biennial. OHA's TONY: 2012 exhibits are artistically presented interpretations of dynamic social trends that are part of the historic legacy of Central New York.

In a three-dimensional display employing nearly 1,000 images set in glass jars, "Manifest Destiny and the American West," an exhibit by Buffalo artist Robert Hirsch, asks the visitor to think about how our nation's geographic progression across the continent has shaped American culture. The desire to exploit the salt brine reserves on Onondaga Lake contributed to a westward migration of settlers across Central New York in the post-American Revolution era, while the construction of the Erie Canal enhanced this movement through the 19th century and enabled many travelers to reach lands in the farther reaches of the American continent.

"Last House" is a multi-channel video installation by media artist Carl Lee that explores the aesthetics and means of a house demolition in Buffalo. Cities like Buffalo and Syracuse are faced with a large number of abandoned houses. This video asks us to think about what we gain and lose in demolishing them. This installation will be accompanied by three paintings by Western New York artist Amy Greenan of vacant houses in Syracuse awaiting an uncertain future, including "Not Here, Not Now," her interpretation of 711 Tully Street, which seems poised to have a different fate on Syracuse's Near West Side than that if the house in Last House.

Onondaga Historical Association is proud to be one of 14 Central New York venues for TONY: 2012. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

100 posters celebrating 30 years. Since 1982, SCW has published and distributed over 700 posters across North America and a bit on other continents. This selection of 100 titles represents the best, the boldest, and the oldest.

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

Altered Environments: Works of Willson Cummer and Laura Wellner
Szozda Gallery

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

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

This show brings together two artists, Laura J. Wellner and Willson Cummer, who view environments in different ways but whose works compliment each other's.

Wellner always tries to create something 'extraordinary out of the ordinary elements of nature' in her mixed media paintings, thereby, one might say, seeing something that's not physically there. Fine art photographer Willson Cummer gives viewers another dimension to familiar landmarks by including man-made intrusions that 'explore humanity's place in the environment.'

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Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

An exhibition of artists with a dual practice, featuring Abby Carter, Samantha Harmon, Lori Hawke, Stephanie Koenig, Lynette K Stephenson, and Marion Wilson.

Harvest
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A group exhibition of Central New York artists which explores the inherit beauty of food and farming. It is during this time of year that the fruits of a farmer's labor are most appreciated, and preparation for winter, a time of hibernation and dormancy in the natural world, commences. The artists in Harvest celebrate this annual transition. The show will include photography, painting, pastel, and ceramics. Participating artists include Lisa Barker, Bob Gates, Wendy Harris, Jeremy Randall, Lucie Wellner, and Jamie Young.

Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is celebrating the career and life of Karl Schrag, American painter and printmaker, who would have been 100 years old this year. "Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions" is the first major examination of the artist's work since his death in 1995. The exhibition includes 70 original works of art by the influential artist, including paintings, prints and drawings.

Syracuse University has had a long and rewarding association with Karl Schrag and his family. It began in 1962 with a gift of a gouache painting titled "Coast in Autumn." Later the relationship grew with the first of numerous exhibitions, more gifts of artwork, and occasional lectures to students in the University's School of Art. Some 50 years later, S.U.'s art collection is much richer because of the 250-plus Karl Schrag artworks we maintain, and the continued support of Schrag Family.

2012 is also the centenary year of Karl Schrag's birth and gives us an opportunity to reinvestigate the talent, imagination, and sensitivity Schrag brought to his landscapes, still-life paintings, and portraits. A master of color, light, composition, and draftsmanship, Schrag captures nature and its great forces through an investigation of the lasting impressions each of us retain through experience. He engages his viewer with subtle mark making as well as with the bold calligraphic strokes so often associated with his work. His palette of almost Fauvist intensity adds dimension and passion to the landscapes he created.

Schrag's art career spanned more than 60 years and he had strong ties to the New York City art scene. After studying at the Art Students League, he joined S.W. Hayter's prestigious printmaking studio Atelier 17, working alongside artists Miró, Chagall and Jackson Pollock. Schrag was named director of the Atelier in 1950 and later began a long teaching career at Cooper Union, where he taught drawing and graphic arts from 1954-1968. Schrag had a direct impact on many of his students, including the Syracuse University-based artist Jerome Witkin. A student of Schrag at Cooper Union and a well-established contemporary artist, Witkin has commented on Schrags masterful handling of the landscape, and the evocative power of his vision.

The art selected for this exhibit will convey the artist's ability to see the landscape as if for the first time, the surprise of that special view, the recognition of his ability to feel wonder when looking at nature or figures, and the reward associated with seeing the world through his eyes.

TONY: 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Other New York: 2012 (Tony: 2012) is an ambitious project that aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project offers diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

The artists included in the SUArt Galleries TONY: 2012 are Tammy Brackett, Juan Cruz, Sara Di Donato, Matthew Glaysher, Amy Greenan, Sue Huggins Leopard, Barbara Page, James Skvarch.

The SUArt Galleries is one of 14 venues participating in this citywide celebration of the visual arts. Please take the time to visit the exhibitions at the other TONY venues to see the wealth of talent that resides and works upstate.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage-The Norton Putter Gallery, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Prophecy" is a timely exhibition pertaining to Indigenous prophecies. By incorporating themes of ecology, creation, demise and the future according to the Mayan calendar, traditional Iroquois teachings and other cultural beliefs, Jones provides a visual representation of the foretold truths.

Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena: A Graphic History
La Casita Cultural Center

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

The exhibit presents the works of nine Puerto Rican master artists who were commissioned to create screen prints to capture the spirit of the annual Bomba and Plena Festivals held in Puerto Rico. Their posters have been collected and preserved by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan.

Featured artists are José R. Alicea, Luis Alonso, Luis Germán Cajigas, Jesús Cardona, Sixto Cotto, David Goitia, Samuel Lind, Luis Maisonet Ramos, and Nelson Sambolin.

Lov U
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Lov U" is a multimedia installation by Senga Nengudi.

Colorado-based Senga Nengudi is a key figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Known primarily for performance-based art installations, her work focuses on movement and the human body, is multidisciplinary in nature and international in scope, with cultural references to Africa, the African Diaspora, and Asia. For her multimedia, performance-based exhibition "Lov U," Nengudi explores the physical senses of being human, and includes photographs and video to reflect on the essence of love. Drawn to discarded, everyday materials, the ephemerality of Nengudi's work is a metaphor for life's transience.

The Other New York (TONY): 2012
XL Projects

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

XL Projects will present the work of seven artists selected for "The Other New York (TONY): 2012," a communitywide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition featuring artists currently living in New York State outside of the New York City metropolitan area.

The artists showing work at XL Projects -- Michael Barletta, Daniel Buckingham, Jay Carrier, Meredith Davenport, Kara Daving, Tom DeLooza, and Fernando Orellana -- are among the 63 artists selected from 235 submissions for TONY: 2012. The work that will be on view at XL includes large sculpture, video, photography, kinetic sculpture, large-scale painting, and a large window graphic across the front of the venue.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 art institutions and cultural organizations in Syracuse: ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours. For more information about TONY: 2012 and the other exhibiting artists and venues, visit everson.org.

life. love. time travel.
Echo

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

Group show of works by over 20 artists.

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial, titled "The Other New York: 2012," is being exhibited in community art galleries across Syracuse this year. ArtRage is honored to participate by exhibiting the work of four artists chosen in collaboration with the Everson Museum.

Ben Altman, Neil Chowdhury, Bob Gates and Paul Pearce, the four photographers whose works comprise this exhibit, present work that, while distinctive, shares a key characteristic. All are documentary photographers who are a bit wary of being seen as truth tellers. Fully understanding that the "objective photograph" is a myth, their photographic work -- both in the process of its creation and the images presented -- casts into doubt our traditional notions of documentation, objectivity and veracity. Nonetheless, each photographer is visualizing a certain truth, which may be one we do not know, or one that we prefer to avoid knowing. Participating in the artist's unflinching gaze, we become complicit witnesses to situations -- torture, poverty, social class, and the effects of war -- often conveniently rendered invisible.

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TONY 2012: Karen Brummund
Urban Video Project

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

The Everson is I.M. Pei's first museum commission. His art museums are commonly seen as art objects for art objects. They are sculptures in the landscape. Shortly after the Everson, Pei built the Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca. In this site-specific video installation, images of the form and materials of both art museums are projected onto the Everson Museum. The images capture the light, surfaces, and depth of the architecture. The video uses images from two different buildings, analyzing how Pei's ideas bridge individual communities. These disparate places are abstractly connected through the architect's development. The plaza is not only infused with the presence of the Pei's forms, but also the conversation that takes place through his practice.

This video by Karen Brummund is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims
to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York.

Video projection begins at dusk.

Homecoming, Hold on Your Hand
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Homecoming (Gursimran Sandhu, 26 minutes, fiction, USA/India)
When 12-year-old Nina Patel is nominated by her classmates to represent her seventh grade class at Homecoming, she's thrilled. However, Nina's Indian heritage comes with pride and restrictions, and her traditional parents refuse to let their daughter assimilate into such an American tradition. Beautifully made, powerful, and very well acted.

Hold on Your Hand (Huayu Xu, 90 minutes, fiction, China)
Syracuse University MFA alum returns with his second feature film. The story centers on a photographer trying to reconcile his urban popularity with his true desire for artistic freedom. Circumstances bring him to a small village in which he encounters the beauty of the Chinese landscape and the care of an innocent woman. A poetic, beautifully shot work that exits in both a mythic and mundane world.

Special Event: Silent Film Classic & Music: Gold Rush
Syracuse International Film Festival
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular; $10 students/AARP members
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Gold Rush (1925, Charlie Chaplin, 95 minutes, fiction, USA)

Screened with an original score, commissioned by the Festival, by Italian composer Gian-Luca Baldi and performed by members of the Society For New Music. Mr. Baldi will be present for a Q&A after the performance.

The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) travels to the Yukon to take part in the Klondike Gold Rush. Bad weather strands him in a remote cabin with a prospector who has found a large gold deposit and an escaped criminal, after which they part ways, with the prospector and the fugitive fighting over the prospector's claim, ending with the prospector receiving a blow to the head and the fugitive falling off a cliff to his death. The Tramp eventually finds himself in a gold rush town and takes a job looking after another prospector's cabin. He falls in love with a lonely saloon girl, Georgia, who he mistakenly thinks has fallen in love with him. He soon finds himself waylaid by the prospector he met earlier, who has developed amnesia and needs the Tramp to help him find his claim. When we next see them they are on a steamer, two wealthy men headed for home. By chance, Georgia is also on the steamer and she and The Tramp plan to marry

The Heart of Money, Solo Piano, The Fastest Matthew in the World (Nejry Chejsi Matej Na Suete), Pavilion
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Heart of Money (1912, Louis Feuillade and Leonce Perret, 17 minutes, fiction, France)
An innkeeper's daughter is in love but her mother has already decided that she is going to be married to another man. This early use of split screen makes for an impressive viewing.

Solo Piano (Anthony Sherin, 5 minutes, experimental/fiction, USA)
A piano sitting on the sidewalk in New York is seen from an apartment window two or three floors up as still images show people playing it and otherwise interacting with it until finally a group of people break it apart.

The Fastest Matthew in the World (Nejry Chejsi Matej Na Suete) (Tomas Pavlicek, 21 minutes, fiction, Czech Republic)
A man is always in a hurry, forgets things, and gets lost driving to his own birthday party that his girlfriend has arranged at a restaurant. His adventure forces him to confront his childhood and his phobia. Funny and interestingly told.

Pavilion (Tim Sutton, 68 minutes, fiction, USA)
Syracuse's own Tim Sutton's highly acclaimed film is about Max, a young teenager who leaves his lakeside town to live with his father on the fringe of suburban Arizona. The film creates a deep and ethereal world, showing us an innocent way of life coming apart at the seams, constructing an indelible image of the enigma of youth. One of ten films selected for IFP's 2011 Narrative Lab and by the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 2011 Emerging Visions Workshop.

Room, The Maiden Danced to Death
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Room (Fernando Franco, 18 minutes, fiction, Spain)
Ana is on her computer, chatting. She smokes, drinks, strips to bra and panties. Guys on line go crazy. There is heavy breathing of a male voice but the sounds seem to contradict the image. Ana leaves her room. When she returns her death is watched on web cam. An interesting statement about on-line relationships.

The Maiden Danced to Death (Endre Hules, 100 minutes, fiction, Hungary)
Beautifully made, totally entertaining. Steve, a dancer-turned-empresario, returns from Canada to his native Hungary after 20 years. Though the Communist regime that expelled him is gone, his brother, Gyula, hasn't changed. He still works with the same dance company they started together, and is married to Steve's former sweetheart, Mari. The two men's rivalry is triggered instantly, but Mari challenges them to revive their last success together, a dance on the ballad "The Maiden Danced to Death." The film seamlessly combines dramatic scenes with dance and music, allowing the dance to reveal long-held secrets and emotions.

Stroke
Syracuse International Film Festival
Featuring Special guest Rob Nilsson

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Stroke (2000, Rob Nilsson, 95 minutes, fiction, USA)
Phil Berkowitz is a 55-year-old North Beach poet and survivor of the days of wine and roses, who has a stroke. Helpless, he lies in his flea-bag hotel room in San Francisco's Tenderloin until he is found by Jonny, his neighbor, a 60-year-old Black man. Jonny barely survives working part-time janitorial in a seedy strip club and escort service run by St. Tre and Malafide, now operating under the name Modisco. Breaking hotel rules Jonny lets Phil stay in his room and tries to help him regain his speech. He also plays cupid, introducing Phil to Svetlana, Polish, 35, a waitress, ex-model and recovering alcoholic. She feels sorry for Phil but he mistakes kindness for affection. Ron Perlman appears in a cameo.

With special guest and Sophia Award winner Rob Nilsson.

Max and his Brother-in-Law, Il Settimo, Girl$
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Max and his Brother-in-Law (1912, Max Linder, 8 minutes, fiction, France)
Max and his young bride attempt to enjoy an Alpine honeymoon despite the presence of her mother.

Il Settimo (Luska Khalapvan, 10 minutes, fiction, France/Armenia)
A woman gets off the Metro and is immediately chased by man in a chicken suit. She is going to a restaurant to meet a blind date, her cousin, but another fakes it's him. When the real cousin shows up he mistakes another woman for her. Very clever.

Girl$ (Kenneth Bi , 105 minutes, fiction, Hong Kong)
In this very controversial film four girls, tempted by the money that can be earned in prostitution, meet men on "paid dates" in Hong Kong and enjoy the rewards to the fullest. However, after awhile, each of them will learn that nothing comes without a price. A very stylish film that deals with a serious social problem under the veneer of sexual exploitation.

Brew and View Screening: Five Easy Pieces
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Five Easy Pieces (1970, Bob Rafelson, 98 minutes, fiction, USA)
The film stars Jack Nicholson, with Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Ralph Waite, and Sally Struthers in supporting roles. The film tells the story of a surly oil rig worker, Bobby Dupea, whose blue-collar existence belies his privileged youth as a child prodigy. When word reaches Bobby that his father is dying, he goes home to see him, reluctantly bringing along his pregnant girlfriend, Rayette (Black), a dimwitted waitress. The film was selected to be preserved by the Library of Congress in the National Film Registry in 2000.

Cello Recital and String Masterclass
Onondaga Community College
Featuring Elinor Frey, cello

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

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

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

Poet Thom Ward and author Patrick Lawler
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Thom Ward is sole proprietor of Thom Ward's Poetry Editing Services. The author of six collections of poetry, his most recent book is Etctera's Mistress, published in 2011 by Accents Publishing. He lives in western New York with his girlfriend Jennifer and their cat Phantom.

Patrick Lawler is the author of four books of poems, most recently Underground (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2011). His newest book is a novel, Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds (Fiction Collective 2, Fall 2012). His many honors include an NEA Fellowship and two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships.

Impossibilitados: A Theatrical Performance Inspired by the Paintings of Abisay Puentes
Community Folk Art Center

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

As part of our TONY: 2012 exhibition programming, we are hosting an original performance by José Miguel Hernández Hurtado, inspired by the paintings of artist Abisay Puentes. The moving piece captures the deep and dark emotions portrayed in Puentes's work.

The performance, entitled Imposibilitados, is a captivating piece that incorporates music and contemporary dance. Puentes created the piece in collaboration with local actor José Miguel Hernández Hurtado.

At the core of Puentes' work are a series of perplexing questions: Why do humans hurt each other? What is the reason for man's evil? Why do men have bad nature? In his attempt to answer these questions, he immerses the viewer in a visceral experience that provoke dark emotions.

Imposibilitados is a two-part meditative performance featuring video, body movement and classical music. The performance chronicles the story of a man who refuses to acknowledge reality and despite his many attempts to find peace, he finds himself caught in a perpetual cycle of contradiction.

Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Too good to be true!" raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

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Assassins
Redhouse

Price: $25 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This Sondheim musical explores the history of presidential assassination in America, from John Wilkes Booth to John Hinckley Jr. Assassins explores how society interprets the American Dream, marginalizes outsiders, and rewrites and sanitizes its collective history. A perfect evening of theatre that examines the state of contemporary politics during this election season. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; book by John Weidman.

There will be a talkback session following each performance.

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Moby Dick
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Alive with a soundscape of 16 authentic sea shanties and performed by an ensemble of nine, this highly physical adaption cuts to the core of Melville's searing narrative and plays with the fury of a Nantucket sleigh ride. A young man seeks adventure on a whaling vessel and finds himself a pawn in an obsessive pursuit of vengeance that threatens death and destruction for all. Director Peter Amster returns to guide the ensemble in this thrilling and critically acclaimed telling of a classic American tale. Adapted for the stage by Julian Rad from the book by Herman Melville

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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Play on Light
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Adriana Meiss: Pastel landscapes
John Franklin: Turned wood and sculptural vessels
Paul Riccardi: Pastel florals and still-lifes
Judy McCumber: Silver and gemstone jewelry

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Prophecy" is a timely exhibition pertaining to Indigenous prophecies. By incorporating themes of ecology, creation, demise and the future according to the Mayan calendar, traditional Iroquois teachings and other cultural beliefs, Jones provides a visual representation of the foretold truths.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage-The Norton Putter Gallery, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The works of 67 amateur artists in media such as metal, fiber art, marble, watercolors, acrylics, oils, ink, and photography is featured.

On My Own Time was created by the Cultural Resources Council to encourage local businesses, nonprofits, government and civic organizations to celebrate the artistic talents of their employees.

Drama From the Garden: New Work by Terry Askey-Cole
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Terry Askey-Cole brings her love of nature and the outdoors to all her new pieces inspired by her beautiful gardens.

Carl Hoffner Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of limited-edition color lithographs and digital paintings by Fayetteville artist Carl Hoffner.

Lynette Blake: Within and Beyond
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

Lynette Blake's oil paintings draw the viewer in through complex layers of shape and color. The use of overlapping imagery conveys a depth that extends deep below the surface of the canvas. Objects, whether used directly or evoked by abstract shapes, float in and out of light illuminating them with a pervasive warm glow. The effect is otherworldly -- a feeling of being outside time and space is conveyed.

Blake has exhibited her work throughout the Northeast, and is currently represented locally by the Szozda Gallery in Syracuse, as well as national venues. She studied art at Brown University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Upstate NY.

More information on the Weeks Gallery at Baltimore Woods can be found at www.baltimorewoods.org.

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

Altered Environments: Works of Willson Cummer and Laura Wellner
Szozda Gallery

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

This show brings together two artists, Laura J. Wellner and Willson Cummer, who view environments in different ways but whose works compliment each other's.

Wellner always tries to create something 'extraordinary out of the ordinary elements of nature' in her mixed media paintings, thereby, one might say, seeing something that's not physically there. Fine art photographer Willson Cummer gives viewers another dimension to familiar landmarks by including man-made intrusions that 'explore humanity's place in the environment.'

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TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, and the City of Syracuse. Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Community Folk Art Center TONY 2012 featured artists are Elizabeth Leader, Michael Moody, Abisay Puentes, Sandra Stephens, who each use their art to engage in a larger conversation about significant but often overlooked social issues, including racial identity and urban decay.

life. love. time travel.
Echo

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

Group show of works by over 20 artists.

Harvest
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A group exhibition of Central New York artists which explores the inherit beauty of food and farming. It is during this time of year that the fruits of a farmer's labor are most appreciated, and preparation for winter, a time of hibernation and dormancy in the natural world, commences. The artists in Harvest celebrate this annual transition. The show will include photography, painting, pastel, and ceramics. Participating artists include Lisa Barker, Bob Gates, Wendy Harris, Jeremy Randall, Lucie Wellner, and Jamie Young.

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

100 posters celebrating 30 years. Since 1982, SCW has published and distributed over 700 posters across North America and a bit on other continents. This selection of 100 titles represents the best, the boldest, and the oldest.

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

TONY: 2012: "Manifest Destiny and the American West" and "Last House"
Onondaga Historical Association

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

These exhibits are mounted as part of the The Other New York (TONY): 2012, Syracuse's art biennial. OHA's TONY: 2012 exhibits are artistically presented interpretations of dynamic social trends that are part of the historic legacy of Central New York.

In a three-dimensional display employing nearly 1,000 images set in glass jars, "Manifest Destiny and the American West," an exhibit by Buffalo artist Robert Hirsch, asks the visitor to think about how our nation's geographic progression across the continent has shaped American culture. The desire to exploit the salt brine reserves on Onondaga Lake contributed to a westward migration of settlers across Central New York in the post-American Revolution era, while the construction of the Erie Canal enhanced this movement through the 19th century and enabled many travelers to reach lands in the farther reaches of the American continent.

"Last House" is a multi-channel video installation by media artist Carl Lee that explores the aesthetics and means of a house demolition in Buffalo. Cities like Buffalo and Syracuse are faced with a large number of abandoned houses. This video asks us to think about what we gain and lose in demolishing them. This installation will be accompanied by three paintings by Western New York artist Amy Greenan of vacant houses in Syracuse awaiting an uncertain future, including "Not Here, Not Now," her interpretation of 711 Tully Street, which seems poised to have a different fate on Syracuse's Near West Side than that if the house in Last House.

Onondaga Historical Association is proud to be one of 14 Central New York venues for TONY: 2012. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is celebrating the career and life of Karl Schrag, American painter and printmaker, who would have been 100 years old this year. "Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions" is the first major examination of the artist's work since his death in 1995. The exhibition includes 70 original works of art by the influential artist, including paintings, prints and drawings.

Syracuse University has had a long and rewarding association with Karl Schrag and his family. It began in 1962 with a gift of a gouache painting titled "Coast in Autumn." Later the relationship grew with the first of numerous exhibitions, more gifts of artwork, and occasional lectures to students in the University's School of Art. Some 50 years later, S.U.'s art collection is much richer because of the 250-plus Karl Schrag artworks we maintain, and the continued support of Schrag Family.

2012 is also the centenary year of Karl Schrag's birth and gives us an opportunity to reinvestigate the talent, imagination, and sensitivity Schrag brought to his landscapes, still-life paintings, and portraits. A master of color, light, composition, and draftsmanship, Schrag captures nature and its great forces through an investigation of the lasting impressions each of us retain through experience. He engages his viewer with subtle mark making as well as with the bold calligraphic strokes so often associated with his work. His palette of almost Fauvist intensity adds dimension and passion to the landscapes he created.

Schrag's art career spanned more than 60 years and he had strong ties to the New York City art scene. After studying at the Art Students League, he joined S.W. Hayter's prestigious printmaking studio Atelier 17, working alongside artists Miró, Chagall and Jackson Pollock. Schrag was named director of the Atelier in 1950 and later began a long teaching career at Cooper Union, where he taught drawing and graphic arts from 1954-1968. Schrag had a direct impact on many of his students, including the Syracuse University-based artist Jerome Witkin. A student of Schrag at Cooper Union and a well-established contemporary artist, Witkin has commented on Schrags masterful handling of the landscape, and the evocative power of his vision.

The art selected for this exhibit will convey the artist's ability to see the landscape as if for the first time, the surprise of that special view, the recognition of his ability to feel wonder when looking at nature or figures, and the reward associated with seeing the world through his eyes.

TONY: 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Other New York: 2012 (Tony: 2012) is an ambitious project that aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project offers diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

The artists included in the SUArt Galleries TONY: 2012 are Tammy Brackett, Juan Cruz, Sara Di Donato, Matthew Glaysher, Amy Greenan, Sue Huggins Leopard, Barbara Page, James Skvarch.

The SUArt Galleries is one of 14 venues participating in this citywide celebration of the visual arts. Please take the time to visit the exhibitions at the other TONY venues to see the wealth of talent that resides and works upstate.

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial, titled "The Other New York: 2012," is being exhibited in community art galleries across Syracuse this year. ArtRage is honored to participate by exhibiting the work of four artists chosen in collaboration with the Everson Museum.

Ben Altman, Neil Chowdhury, Bob Gates and Paul Pearce, the four photographers whose works comprise this exhibit, present work that, while distinctive, shares a key characteristic. All are documentary photographers who are a bit wary of being seen as truth tellers. Fully understanding that the "objective photograph" is a myth, their photographic work -- both in the process of its creation and the images presented -- casts into doubt our traditional notions of documentation, objectivity and veracity. Nonetheless, each photographer is visualizing a certain truth, which may be one we do not know, or one that we prefer to avoid knowing. Participating in the artist's unflinching gaze, we become complicit witnesses to situations -- torture, poverty, social class, and the effects of war -- often conveniently rendered invisible.

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Lov U
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Lov U" is a multimedia installation by Senga Nengudi.

Colorado-based Senga Nengudi is a key figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Known primarily for performance-based art installations, her work focuses on movement and the human body, is multidisciplinary in nature and international in scope, with cultural references to Africa, the African Diaspora, and Asia. For her multimedia, performance-based exhibition "Lov U," Nengudi explores the physical senses of being human, and includes photographs and video to reflect on the essence of love. Drawn to discarded, everyday materials, the ephemerality of Nengudi's work is a metaphor for life's transience.

The Other New York (TONY): 2012
XL Projects

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

XL Projects will present the work of seven artists selected for "The Other New York (TONY): 2012," a communitywide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition featuring artists currently living in New York State outside of the New York City metropolitan area.

The artists showing work at XL Projects -- Michael Barletta, Daniel Buckingham, Jay Carrier, Meredith Davenport, Kara Daving, Tom DeLooza, and Fernando Orellana -- are among the 63 artists selected from 235 submissions for TONY: 2012. The work that will be on view at XL includes large sculpture, video, photography, kinetic sculpture, large-scale painting, and a large window graphic across the front of the venue.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 art institutions and cultural organizations in Syracuse: ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours. For more information about TONY: 2012 and the other exhibiting artists and venues, visit everson.org.

TONY 2012: Karen Brummund
Urban Video Project

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

The Everson is I.M. Pei's first museum commission. His art museums are commonly seen as art objects for art objects. They are sculptures in the landscape. Shortly after the Everson, Pei built the Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca. In this site-specific video installation, images of the form and materials of both art museums are projected onto the Everson Museum. The images capture the light, surfaces, and depth of the architecture. The video uses images from two different buildings, analyzing how Pei's ideas bridge individual communities. These disparate places are abstractly connected through the architect's development. The plaza is not only infused with the presence of the Pei's forms, but also the conversation that takes place through his practice.

This video by Karen Brummund is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims
to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York.

Video projection begins at dusk.

Social Justice Showcase: Dream, Just Two Steps, One Day After Peace
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Dream (Khwaab) (Anadi Athaley, 10 minutes, fiction, India)
A Kashmiri woman is waiting for her husband from across the border. The day comes when he finally arrives. She welcomes him. But her contentment will not last for long. Poetic, with wonderful cinematography.

Just Two Steps (Too Avd Kaprealian, 5 minutes, experimental/fiction, Syria)
An old man walks on streets in a Syrian city. His feet shuffle, his age showing, a metaphor for an old dysfunctional society.

One Day After Peace (Miri Laufer, 86 minutes, documentary, Israel)
Can the means used to resolve the conflict in South Africa be applied to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict? As someone who experienced both conflicts firsthand, Robi Damelin wonders about this. Born in South Africa during the apartheid era, she later lost her son, who was serving with the Israeli Army reserve in the Occupied Territories. At first she attempted to initiate a dialogue with the Palestinian who killed her child. When her overtures were rejected, she embarked on a journey back to South Africa to learn more about the country's Truth and Reconciliation Committee's efforts in overcoming years of enmity. Robi's thought-provoking journey leads from a place of deep personal pain to a belief that a better future is possible.

Babylon Fast Food, Ricky on Leacock
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Babylon Fast Food (Alessandro Valori, 14 minutes, fiction, Italy)
An unexpected plot develops between an African man and Italian elderly woman. He cooks outdoors, she in her kitchen. After implied tension she invites him in for dinner. Well acted.

Ricky on Leacock (Jane Weiner, 90 minutes, documentary, USA)
A 38-year journey that I began in 1972 as a young filmmaker and, shooting off and throughout many years, I filmed many and various encounters between Ricky, his friends and contemporaries including Henri Langlois, Jean Rouch, Jean-Luc Godard, DA Pennebaker, Robert Drew, and others. Mixing my own footage with film clips and rare images from Leacock's personal film archives, this film pays homage to my mentor and, most importantly, allows him to tell us the story of his long film making career in his own words. Written by Jane Weiner.

Imaging Disability Showcase: War's Daughter, OC87
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

War's Daughter (Lana Hijazi, 9 minutes, documentary, Gaza/USA)
A powerful look at the consequences of chemical warfare on innocent children, and one child in particular, now a young woman.

OC87 (Glenn Holstein/Scott Johnston/Bud Clayman, 90 minutes, documentary, USA)
Director Bud Clayman documents his struggle with OCD and Asperger's Syndrome and how it derailed his plan to become a filmmaker. OC87, named for the year Clayman experienced his initial breakdown (and the shorthand he uses to describe his altered state of mind), is one man's attempt to exorcise his demons. But it's not a singular vision. Clayman has difficulty making decisions, and so shares director's credit with psychologist Scott Johnston and documentarian Glenn Holsten, who keep the camera focused on Clayman. They alternate interview segments with inventive scripted sequences, the latter re-creating the internal debates Clayman has when confronted with basic social situations like buses and restaurants.

La Marche de L'Escarot, Apartment in Athens
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

La Marche de L'Escarot (Mario Damian Funes, 4 minutes, experimental, Argentina)
We all want to live with dignity but not everyone respects the rights of others to live as they choose.

Apartment in Athens (Ruggero Dipoda, 100 minutes, fiction, Italy)
This very powerful film is set in 1942 Athens. A war ravaged Greek family is forced to host a high ranking Nazi officer. Their home, already weakened by the death of their eldest son and the ever-present pangs of hunger, is thrown into upheaval as they try to satisfy the exacting demands of their unwelcome border. The officer's cruelty escalates while their adolescent daughter, intoxicated by the power of a man in uniform, walks a fine line between service and servitude. With outstanding acting and cinematography the film portrays the rarely explored details of life under occupation, leaving us to question the strength of our own morality under such circumstances.

Social Justice Showcase: 300 Miles to Freedom, Unfit: Ward vs. Ward
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

300 Miles to Freedom (Richard Breyer, 40 minutes, documentary, USA)
This totally engaging film tells the story of John W. Jones, a fugitive slave who escaped bondage in Leesburg, Va., in 1844 and traveled the Underground Railroad to Elmira, N.Y. Arriving as a 27-year-old illiterate with $1.46 in his pocket, by his death in 1900 he was a respected, wealthy member of society.

Unfit: Ward vs. Ward (Edwin Scharlau & Katie Carmichael, 75 minutes, documentary, USA)
In 1995 in Pensacola, Florida, Mary Ward lost custody of her 11 year old daughter, Cassey, to her ex-husband, John Ward, solely based on her sexual orientation. John, a convicted murderer and alleged child molester, was deemed a better parent by the court system that said the child deserved to be raised in a non-lesbian world even though the court's own appointed social worker testified in defense of the mother. An appeal court upheld the decision in 1996. Mary Ward died of a heart attack in January of 1997 while awaiting the outcome of her second appeal. In 2002, Cassey, then 18 and an adult, came forward in defense of lesbian mothers everywhere.

Imaging Disability Showcase: Me Too, Dislecksia: The Movie
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Me Too (Lilat Mooisyan, 20 minutes, fiction, Armenia)
Great cinematography. Extraordinary film. An image of a strong but distressed character, fighting against his fears, love, hope and pain in a psychological hospital. Sounds of incredible music, played by a girl with no musical instrument, come to his ear making him much more helpless. Is he really insane?

Dislecksia: The Movie (Harvey Hubbell, 85 minutes, documentary, USA)
Harvey Hubbell V and crew explore Hubbell's own experiences about growing up as a dyslexic while also looking into the latest scientific research and educational developments regarding the condition. They examine how the education system in the US handles students with learning disabilities, and explore ways in which this treatment can be changed to improve the social status of dyslexics. And along the way, they meet a variety of dyslexics from very different backgrounds who share their experiences and demonstrate that dyslexics are not disabled -- just different.

Falling Leaves, A Good Thing, Regards (Watching)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Falling Leaves (1912, Alice Guy, 12 minutes, fiction, USA)
This is one of the first films of America's first woman director. Dr. Earl Headley is eagerly demonstrating what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems ready to claim another life, a young woman named Winifred. Winifred's mother and younger sister Trixie are devastated. When Trixie hears the family doctor say of Winifred that "when the last leaf falls, she will have passed away", she interprets the doctor's words literally and seeks to do everything possible to save her sister.

A Good Thing (Mark Tobey, 22 minutes, fiction, USA)
Tom Bower, Film Festival Honorary Board Chair and 2011 Sophia Award for Lifelong Achievement honoree, stars as the owner of a rural gas station where he and his wife struggle to maintain their faith as the fear of an elusive killer sweeps the region of their lonely desert outpost.

Regards (Watching) (Paolo Zagaglia, 80 minutes, fiction, Belgium)
This is an extraordinarily beautiful and narratively unique film. The script, acting and cinematography are noteworthy. The setting is a café that serves as a regular meeting place for many individuals and couples each with their own story imagined and told by an old man who in turn is observed by Arlette, a woman in a wheelchair and sister of the café owner, who is in love with him. And, for the old man this is not an afternoon like any other.

Kaiser Kaner Conductor, Rest Area (Area de Descano)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Kaiser Kaner Conductor (Viktor Portel, 13 minutes, fiction, Czech Republic)
A drunk pianist and conductor, are they the same person? Both play piano, are alcoholic. The drunk calls the other "master." Is this a case of a split-personality? Inventive and very well shot.

Rest Area (Area de Descano) (Michael Aguilo, 97 minutes, fiction, Spain)
A story in the press inspired the filmmaker Michael Aguiló to shoot his first film as director. Cosmos, a 55-year-old Polish coach driver is driving tourists to Spain. The coach breaks down. He parks in a rest area. The passengers are picked up by another coach leaving Cosmos to stay alone with his broken bus, with no light, no water and no food. Awaiting a spare part, he stays for two weeks, surviving thanks to the generosity of a few travelers. A very interesting story beautifully acted.

Social Justice Showcase: Here I Learned to Love, Taking a Chance on God
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Here I Learned to Love (Avi Angel, 54 minutes, documentary, Israel)
Brothers Avner and Itzik live in Israel. As toddlers, their lives were saved first by their aunt, later by another young woman. Their past included three women who would become their mothers. But all this remained hidden -- even from close family and friends. Now, at the age of 70, Avner decides to take his brother Itzik on a journey in search of their true identity, in an attempt to piece together this incredible story of their survival and most important to deeply connect with the pain and loss of their three mothers.

Taking a Chance on God (Brendan Fay, 55 minutes, documentary, USA)
Former Le Moyne College professor of philosophy, a POW in Nazi Germany, Vietnam peace promoter, leading gay rights advocate and partner of 46 years to Charles Chiarelli, the film follows the life of 86-year-old Jesuit priest John McNeill, telling his story of faith, love and perseverance in the face of oppression and rejection. McNeill, the co-founder of the LGBT Catholic group Dignity NY, author of the revolutionary "The Church and the Homosexual," and leader in the gay community during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, has refused to let his voice be silenced despite being expelled from the Jesuits after 40 years of faithful service.

Carpenter Expecting a Son, Born and Raised
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Carpenter Expecting a Son (Narina Malyan, 20 minutes, fiction, Armenia)
Set in the distant past a wife won't have sex until her husband gets a job. Living in squalor he leaves with spikes in his hands. His three daughters look out the window. Soldiers march on street. A man carries a cross. At night the husband comes home commenting that he had a hard day at work. His wife is not happy with his pay. His shirt is bloodied.

Born and Raised (Joshua Dragge & Nick Loritsch, 96 minutes, fiction, USA)
Young Bubbs was born and raised in a seaside Florida panhandle and has had little experience in the world. His fed-up and restless girlfriend Jess announces she is dumping him to run off to Tampa with a new flame. All he knows of the outside world comes from the well-to-do boaters who come to the marina for pit stops. One of these is his grandfather Frank, a rascally sort who has been estranged for many years from Bubb's mother, whom he abandoned when she was a young girl. When a rift opens between Bubbs and his long-time best friend Kenny over Bubb's new-found romantic interest in Kenny's sister, Corey, Bubbs starts to think that getting out of this small town is not such a bad idea after all. Well scripted and acted.

Imaging Disability Showcase: An Insignificant Man, Princess
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

An Insignificant Man (Shawn Alex Thompson, 10 minutes, fiction, Canada)
A simple street sweeper goes unnoticed by the people around him, but things aren't always what they seem.

Princess (Arto Halonen, 100 minutes, fiction, Finland)
Inventive, funny, beautifully-acted and ultimately heart warming, Princess is based on real-life events and a real person. Cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen, drifting from one foster home to another, ends up in psychiatric care and soon the hospital staff and her fellow patients see that she's suffering from severe delusions. She claims to be "Princess", a member of the English royal family from Buckingham Palace. Although Princess herself numbers among the patients, helping others becomes her life mission.

Stitches, Fifth Heaven
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Stitches (Adiya Imri Orr, 8 minutes, fiction, Israel)
Amit and her female life partner Noa decide to take a crucial step and have a baby. Despite their strong self-confidences, neither one of them knows for certain what they will do next. The night after Noa gives birth they both discover that certain things cannot be hidden.

Fifth Heaven (Dina Zvi Riklis, 100 minutes, fiction, Israel)
In this beautifully made coming-of-age drama, a teenage orphan struggles to adjust to a new life amidst other exiles in a British-controlled Palestine. It's 1944. Deserted by her parents 13-year-old Maya is deposited at an orphanage for Jewish girls on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. The trauma of war shows in the faces of the malnourished girls and lonely routines of their adult supervisors who await liberation from personal and national isolation. Smitten with Maya, the director of the orphanage conjures memories of a tortured love affair while Maya develops forbidden feelings for an anti-British resistance fighter who is the fiancé of an orphanage worker.

What Happened Here
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

What Happened Here (Rob Nilsson, 94 minutes, documentary, USA)
This is not a standard documentary. It's a documentary "road movie" seeking a real place, the site of Leon Trotsky's birth and home town, a secret to most of the world today due to Stalin's attempt to erase him from Soviet history. But we found that the farmers who live in a tiny area around Bobrinetz, a small town 40 miles south of Kirovograd, Ukraine know him as Lev Davidovich Bronstein, father of Davyd Bronstein, a middle level farmer and landowner. Their opinions of him, the Russian Revolution, the Holodomor and the 1941 Nazi pogroms are featured in the film. It's a movie made to speculate about Trotsky the man, the writer, the political activist. Its antecedents are essay films by directors such as Jean Luc Godard and Chris Marker where opinion, history and combinations of both point out the subjective nature of perception. Featuring Sophia Award Winner Rob Nilsson.

Tina For President, Finale, Chasing a Star
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Tina For President (Carmen Emmi, 13 minutes, fiction, USA)
A film about bullying made by Syracuse native, Carmen Emmi. A middle school girl challenges the class big shot.

Finale (Balazs Simonyi, 8 minutes, fiction, Hungary)
A clever, single-shot film, that begins with a couple in a car. The woman gets out to go into a restaurant to sell flowers. A fly on the bar is killed. Two men hear operatic music. They pass a woman as the camera follows her to the orchestra pit while opera takes place on stage. The two men are percussionists and make the film's final musical sound.

Chasing a Star (Avi Malka, 90 minutes, fiction, Israel)
Adam, an unemployed actor, is waiting for his big break although all his agent has found for him is an audition for the role of a washing machine. Much to his surprise he finds the role has gone to superstar Moshe Ivgi. Shir is the best soccer player that anyone has seen in years. The final game of the season is taking place the day after tomorrow. She simply has to succeed although it is common knowledge that, at the moment of truth, she will probably panic and literally wet her pants! Victor is an ex-con who has just been released from jail. He decides to pack up his stashed millions, and his girlfriend Lena get as far away as possible and turn over a new leaf. However, his past reemerges, causing him to change his plans at every turn. Chasing a Star (Who Kidnapped Moshe Ivgy?) is a stylish crime comedy with an inventive, very funny plot.

Aposiopesis, They Say, Bibilotheque Pascal
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Aposiopesis (Jagoda Szelc, 6 minutes, experimental/fiction, Poland)
Outstanding cinematography and art design mark this short gem about "aposiopesis" a term for an unfinished thought or broken sentence, in this case explored through the movements of a woman in solitude.

They Say (Alauda Ruiz De Azua, 16 minutes, fiction, Spain)
About bullying. An unpopular teenage girl and boy. She shares her secret with other girls in the hope of being accepted but they turn on her. In the end he dies. Well shot and acted.

Bibilotheque Pascal (Hajdu Szaboles, 96 minutes, fiction, Hungary)
In order to regain custody of her daughter, whom she left in the care of her fortune-telling aunt, Mona must tell a social worker her story. The tale she spins--and the movie we watch--is a wild, surreal adventure in which people are able to project and enter each other's dreams, and our heroine is sold into slavery and lands in a swank, debauched Liverpool brothel where the patrons enact their literary/sexual fantasies with Lolita, St. Joan, and Desdemona. Under the seductive surface is a very human story of a woman who uses fantasy to cushion the pain of life.

Fellini Festival: La Dolce Vita (1960)
ArtRage Gallery

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

Discover the Fabulous Fellini, one of the most influential directors of our time!

La Dolce Vita (1960), with Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimee

Widely hailed as one of the greatest films in European cinema, La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life) follows a disillusioned gossip columnist's wanderings through ultramodern, super-sophisticated, utterly sinful Rome. Even as he tries to change his shallow lifestyle he attaches himself to a bored socialite, then a bisexual prostitute, while juggling personal tragedy and professional demand. Throughout the columnist sees his dreams, fantasies and nightmares mirrored in the decadence around him. Cannes Film Festival: Palme d'Or Award

The Last Winter
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The Last Winter (2006, Larry Fessenden, 101 minutes, fiction, USA)
The American oil company KIC Corporation is building an ice road to explore the remote Northern Arctic National Wildlife Refuge seeking energy independence. Independent environmentalists work together in a drilling base headed by the tough Ed Pollack in a sort of agreement with the government, approving procedures and sending reports of the operation. When one insane team member is found dead naked on the snow, the environmentalist James Hoffman suspects that sour gases may have been accidentally released in the spot provoking hallucinations and insanity in the group. After a second fatal incident, he convinces Ed to travel with the team to a hospital for examination. However, weird events happen trapping the group in the base. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Featuring Sophia Award Winner Ron Perlman.

Hot Stuff, In Fondo a Destra, Losing Control
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Hot Stuff (1912, Mack Sennett, 8 minutes, fiction, USA)
This is one of several dozen short comedies Sennett directed for Biograph before he went to Keystone to work on his own. He directs and stars in a film about a jilted lover.

In Fondo a Destra (Valerio Groppa, 15 minutes, fiction, Italy)
Piano music hints at comedy. A vacuum cleaner salesman develops a relationship with an elderly male customer. It turns out the man buys from all door to door salesmen and uses their visits as the way he socialize. Funny and poignant.

Losing Control (Valerie Weiss, 90 minutes, fiction, USA)
This is a quirky, totally entertaining romantic comedy. Samantha, a sweet and neurotic Jewish Harvard biochemist working on her Ph.D., has discovered the Y-kill protein. Four years after her discovery she finds herself under pressure to replicate her results. Outside the lab, Samantha's frustrated as well. Her boyfriend of five years, Ben, proposes, but Samantha rejects him, and sets out--on a series of dating mishaps--to find proof whether he's Mr. Right. She uses the only tools she knows, science.

Infinite Minutes, Irvine Welsh's Ecstacy
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Infinite Minutes (Cecilia Felmeri, 19 minutes, fiction, Hungary)
A man traces a snake on dead man's body. A man has a mermaid on his stomach. One is a doctor the other a surgeon. They talk repeating lines from respective points of view. It's a fractured time structure where all story lines are set off in time though fictionally happening at the same time.

Irvine Welsh's Ecstacy (Rob Heydon, 99 minutes, fiction, Canada)
Frustrated with her boring middle class and loveless marriage, Heather Thompson seeks a change. When she meets happily-partying Lloyd Buist, a drug addict, she falls hard for him despite the fact that most of there is spent under the influence of drugs. As they experiment with this new lifestyle, they are faced with the question of whether they love their drugs, each other, or are just drugged into loving each other. When Lloyd almost dies after a drug smuggling operation goes terribly wrong and faces the possibility of losing Heather, he decides to turn his life around, and he finds that natural highs might be the best of all.

Brew and View Screening: Hellboy
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Hellboy (2004, Guillermo del Toro, 122 minutes, fiction, USA)
Brought forth by the Nazis during a sacred ritual towards the end of World War II. Our hero was summoned by accident when the evil monk of Russian history/folklore, Grigori Rasputin was meddling with forces that lead to his undoing. With the twisted and evil monster trapped for another 60 years when things don't go as planned (US soldiers heroically intervened), Hellboy is raised by Prof. Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm, an expert in the occult. Our demonic hero is initiated into the Bureau of paranormal research were he joins the amphibious, kind-hearted, and clever fellow "Freak", Abe Sapien. When Rasputin returns once again with the aid of his minions the maniacal, undead assassin Kroenen and the monk's faithful lover Ilsa. Hellboy must unwillingly pair up with John Myers, an idealistic, naive new agent of the Bureau. Not only that but the big hunk of an evil basher becomes entangled in a love triangle with the pyro-telekinetic love of his life Liz and his new comrade. Fighting evil couldn't prove more difficult or out there.

Theater of War
XL Projects

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

Join us at TONY: 2012 venue XL Projects for a performance and discussion related to artist Meredith Davenport's photo installation, Red Army Faction, which is a life-size photo mounted flush on the wall and floor. The photo is based on airsoft re-enactment games played by young men, which are inspired by images of contemporary wars. Davenport removes the players from the photo leaving just the background of the scene. Male students from local schools participated in an acting and video-making residency with Davenport and drama educator Len Fonte to perform the dead actors in the installation. Students will present a performance and share their experience.

SU Wind Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Vincent and Gabriel DiMartino, trumpets

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The SU Wind Ensemble will present a concert featuring world-class father-and-son trumpet soloists Vincent and Gabriel DiMartino. The ensemble will perform Mendelssohn's Overture for Winds, Nixon's Elegy and Fanfare-March, Saint-Saëns' Pas Redoublé and Bizet's Carmen Fantasia, which will feature the DiMartinos as trumpet soloists.

Vincent DiMartino is one of America's leading trumpet performers and teachers. He has performed worldwide as a soloist and with such artists as Henry Mancini, Doc Severinsen, Pearl Bailey, Dizzy Gillespie and Dave Brubeck. Gabriel DiMartino is an instructor of trumpet at the Setnor School and has traveled the world, giving recitals and playing in orchestras and bands. He can be heard on a variety of recordings, including the Vivaldi Concerto with his father and the SU Wind Ensemble.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; parking for patrons with disabilities is available in the Q1 lot. Patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

Susquehanna String Band
First Unitarian Universalist Society Music Series

Price: $10-$15 suggested donation
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Traditional music, voice, instrumentals, and clogging from America and the British Isles.

Rick Bunting playing lap dulcimer, piano, banjo, and concertina; John Kirk playing fiddle, mandolin and guitar; Dan Duggan playing hammered dulcimer and guitar; Trish Miller clogging and playing guitar and banjo.

Colleen Kattau
Steeple Coffeehouse

Price: $7 in advance, $10 at the door
Fayetteville United Church
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Admission includes beverage and dessert.

For more information, phone 315-663-7415.

A New Practice: Music of Monteverdi and Schutz
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor

Price: $18 regular, $16 seniors, $5 students
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This concert is devoted to two influential innovators of the 17th century early Baroque. Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi departed from Renaissance polyphony to a "new practice," in which words and emotion played an increasingly important role. Following suit, Heinrich Schütz laid the cornerstone for early Baroque choral musical art in Germany. SVE will present various secular works by Monteverdi and Schütz's sublime requiem, Musikalische Exequien.

Accompanists include Sarah Mastrangelo, violin; Peter Rovit, violin; Jacqueline Wogick, cello; and Joseph Downing, keyboard.

Second Saturday Series: John Lilly
Westcott Community Center

Price: $12 regular; $10 WCC members
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

John Lilly's music hits home and rings true. From hidden masterpieces by Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Louvin Brothers, to ancient folk ballads and creative originals, this is music of depth and sincerity. New songs sound as old as the hills, and traditional favorites as if they were made yesterday. Lilly honors the traditions of American folk and country music while contribuing his own originals, steeped in the traditions of the great country and folk music decade, the 1950's.

Hailing from Charleston, WV, Lilly grew up with this music and comes to it naturally. Recognized widely as a powerful performing songwriter, Lilly is the 2010 acoustic winner of the "Next Great Road Song" contest for his original song "Come and Go." His original song "Blue Highway" won the national Ghost Writers In the Sky songwriting contest, sponsored by HankFest, honoring the music of Hank Williams. He was a finalist in the 2002 Chris Austin Songwriting Competition at MerleFest and placed third in the country category for his song "Broken Moon."

Sing Along Silly Songs
Open Hand Theater
Nappy's Puppets

Price: $10 adults, $8 children
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Jim Nappy sings Silly Songs and we all sing along. His silly songs are guaranteed to get the audience rocking for a rollicking good time. Jim Napolitano is one of the funniest performers we know, a master artist with a slightly outrageous sense of humor that brings out the kid in all of us. Known for his puppetry work in the television PBS show "Between the Lions," Jim has performed around the world.

Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Too good to be true!" raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

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Moby Dick
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Alive with a soundscape of 16 authentic sea shanties and performed by an ensemble of nine, this highly physical adaption cuts to the core of Melville's searing narrative and plays with the fury of a Nantucket sleigh ride. A young man seeks adventure on a whaling vessel and finds himself a pawn in an obsessive pursuit of vengeance that threatens death and destruction for all. Director Peter Amster returns to guide the ensemble in this thrilling and critically acclaimed telling of a classic American tale. Adapted for the stage by Julian Rad from the book by Herman Melville

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Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Too good to be true!" raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

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Assassins
Redhouse

Price: $25 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This Sondheim musical explores the history of presidential assassination in America, from John Wilkes Booth to John Hinckley Jr. Assassins explores how society interprets the American Dream, marginalizes outsiders, and rewrites and sanitizes its collective history. A perfect evening of theatre that examines the state of contemporary politics during this election season. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; book by John Weidman.

There will be a talkback session following each performance.

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Moby Dick
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Alive with a soundscape of 16 authentic sea shanties and performed by an ensemble of nine, this highly physical adaption cuts to the core of Melville's searing narrative and plays with the fury of a Nantucket sleigh ride. A young man seeks adventure on a whaling vessel and finds himself a pawn in an obsessive pursuit of vengeance that threatens death and destruction for all. Director Peter Amster returns to guide the ensemble in this thrilling and critically acclaimed telling of a classic American tale. Adapted for the stage by Julian Rad from the book by Herman Melville

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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Susan Worsham: Bittersweet/Bloodwork
Light Work Gallery

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

When Susan Worsham was just 18, her brother took his own life after severing his spinal cord in a motorcycle accident. As a young girl she had already lost her father to a heart attack, and finally in 2004, she lost her mother as well. In the words of Worsham, "Shortly after my mother passed I came across a set of antique veterinary slides. They were some of the most interesting things that I had ever seen. I framed ninety of them in a long wooden frame resembling the shape of the slide itself. It was the first piece of art that I made after my mother died. I called the piece a watercolor because of the collection of pastel colors, but it was also a sort of poem when you got close and read the titles ... Rabbit's Lung, Fowl's Spleen, and even Human Umbilical Cord. They seemed to hold beauty and death at the same time."

Worsham went on to photograph her old childhood home as well as her oldest neighbor, Margaret Daniel. Margaret is one of the last remaining threads from Worsham's childhood and was the last person to see her brother alive. She made him her homemade bread, and he finished the whole loaf before he shot himself. The story came full circle one day when Margaret brought out her dissection kit and microscope slides. She had been a biology teacher and was holding on to the same sort of slides that fascinated Worsham. Margaret's microscope and slides have since become a metaphor for Worsham's desire to look deeper into the landscape of her childhood--from the flora and fauna to the feelings, Margaret calls it "blood work."

In addition to Worsham's touching photographs made in and around Virginia, this exhibition features a selection of Margaret's dissection tools alongside her microscope, as well as audio recordings of their various conversations about plants, life, and death. All together, the photographs and accompaniments in Bittersweet/Bloodwork speak of the poetry of childhood, nature, discovery, love, and loss.

TONY: 2012
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Other New York: 2012," featuring the photographic work of Sarah Averill, Bang-Geul Han, Mark McLoughlin, Jan Nagle, and Matthew Walker. This exhibition is part of a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaborion among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Altered Environments: Works of Willson Cummer and Laura Wellner
Szozda Gallery

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

This show brings together two artists, Laura J. Wellner and Willson Cummer, who view environments in different ways but whose works compliment each other's.

Wellner always tries to create something 'extraordinary out of the ordinary elements of nature' in her mixed media paintings, thereby, one might say, seeing something that's not physically there. Fine art photographer Willson Cummer gives viewers another dimension to familiar landmarks by including man-made intrusions that 'explore humanity's place in the environment.'

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Drama From the Garden: New Work by Terry Askey-Cole
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Terry Askey-Cole brings her love of nature and the outdoors to all her new pieces inspired by her beautiful gardens.

Harvest
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A group exhibition of Central New York artists which explores the inherit beauty of food and farming. It is during this time of year that the fruits of a farmer's labor are most appreciated, and preparation for winter, a time of hibernation and dormancy in the natural world, commences. The artists in Harvest celebrate this annual transition. The show will include photography, painting, pastel, and ceramics. Participating artists include Lisa Barker, Bob Gates, Wendy Harris, Jeremy Randall, Lucie Wellner, and Jamie Young.

Carl Hoffner Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of limited-edition color lithographs and digital paintings by Fayetteville artist Carl Hoffner.

TONY: 2012: "Manifest Destiny and the American West" and "Last House"
Onondaga Historical Association

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

These exhibits are mounted as part of the The Other New York (TONY): 2012, Syracuse's art biennial. OHA's TONY: 2012 exhibits are artistically presented interpretations of dynamic social trends that are part of the historic legacy of Central New York.

In a three-dimensional display employing nearly 1,000 images set in glass jars, "Manifest Destiny and the American West," an exhibit by Buffalo artist Robert Hirsch, asks the visitor to think about how our nation's geographic progression across the continent has shaped American culture. The desire to exploit the salt brine reserves on Onondaga Lake contributed to a westward migration of settlers across Central New York in the post-American Revolution era, while the construction of the Erie Canal enhanced this movement through the 19th century and enabled many travelers to reach lands in the farther reaches of the American continent.

"Last House" is a multi-channel video installation by media artist Carl Lee that explores the aesthetics and means of a house demolition in Buffalo. Cities like Buffalo and Syracuse are faced with a large number of abandoned houses. This video asks us to think about what we gain and lose in demolishing them. This installation will be accompanied by three paintings by Western New York artist Amy Greenan of vacant houses in Syracuse awaiting an uncertain future, including "Not Here, Not Now," her interpretation of 711 Tully Street, which seems poised to have a different fate on Syracuse's Near West Side than that if the house in Last House.

Onondaga Historical Association is proud to be one of 14 Central New York venues for TONY: 2012. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

100 posters celebrating 30 years. Since 1982, SCW has published and distributed over 700 posters across North America and a bit on other continents. This selection of 100 titles represents the best, the boldest, and the oldest.

Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is celebrating the career and life of Karl Schrag, American painter and printmaker, who would have been 100 years old this year. "Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions" is the first major examination of the artist's work since his death in 1995. The exhibition includes 70 original works of art by the influential artist, including paintings, prints and drawings.

Syracuse University has had a long and rewarding association with Karl Schrag and his family. It began in 1962 with a gift of a gouache painting titled "Coast in Autumn." Later the relationship grew with the first of numerous exhibitions, more gifts of artwork, and occasional lectures to students in the University's School of Art. Some 50 years later, S.U.'s art collection is much richer because of the 250-plus Karl Schrag artworks we maintain, and the continued support of Schrag Family.

2012 is also the centenary year of Karl Schrag's birth and gives us an opportunity to reinvestigate the talent, imagination, and sensitivity Schrag brought to his landscapes, still-life paintings, and portraits. A master of color, light, composition, and draftsmanship, Schrag captures nature and its great forces through an investigation of the lasting impressions each of us retain through experience. He engages his viewer with subtle mark making as well as with the bold calligraphic strokes so often associated with his work. His palette of almost Fauvist intensity adds dimension and passion to the landscapes he created.

Schrag's art career spanned more than 60 years and he had strong ties to the New York City art scene. After studying at the Art Students League, he joined S.W. Hayter's prestigious printmaking studio Atelier 17, working alongside artists Miró, Chagall and Jackson Pollock. Schrag was named director of the Atelier in 1950 and later began a long teaching career at Cooper Union, where he taught drawing and graphic arts from 1954-1968. Schrag had a direct impact on many of his students, including the Syracuse University-based artist Jerome Witkin. A student of Schrag at Cooper Union and a well-established contemporary artist, Witkin has commented on Schrags masterful handling of the landscape, and the evocative power of his vision.

The art selected for this exhibit will convey the artist's ability to see the landscape as if for the first time, the surprise of that special view, the recognition of his ability to feel wonder when looking at nature or figures, and the reward associated with seeing the world through his eyes.

TONY: 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Other New York: 2012 (Tony: 2012) is an ambitious project that aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project offers diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

The artists included in the SUArt Galleries TONY: 2012 are Tammy Brackett, Juan Cruz, Sara Di Donato, Matthew Glaysher, Amy Greenan, Sue Huggins Leopard, Barbara Page, James Skvarch.

The SUArt Galleries is one of 14 venues participating in this citywide celebration of the visual arts. Please take the time to visit the exhibitions at the other TONY venues to see the wealth of talent that resides and works upstate.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Prophecy" is a timely exhibition pertaining to Indigenous prophecies. By incorporating themes of ecology, creation, demise and the future according to the Mayan calendar, traditional Iroquois teachings and other cultural beliefs, Jones provides a visual representation of the foretold truths.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The works of 67 amateur artists in media such as metal, fiber art, marble, watercolors, acrylics, oils, ink, and photography is featured.

On My Own Time was created by the Cultural Resources Council to encourage local businesses, nonprofits, government and civic organizations to celebrate the artistic talents of their employees.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage-The Norton Putter Gallery, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

The Other New York (TONY): 2012
XL Projects

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

XL Projects will present the work of seven artists selected for "The Other New York (TONY): 2012," a communitywide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition featuring artists currently living in New York State outside of the New York City metropolitan area.

The artists showing work at XL Projects -- Michael Barletta, Daniel Buckingham, Jay Carrier, Meredith Davenport, Kara Daving, Tom DeLooza, and Fernando Orellana -- are among the 63 artists selected from 235 submissions for TONY: 2012. The work that will be on view at XL includes large sculpture, video, photography, kinetic sculpture, large-scale painting, and a large window graphic across the front of the venue.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 art institutions and cultural organizations in Syracuse: ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours. For more information about TONY: 2012 and the other exhibiting artists and venues, visit everson.org.

Special Event: Record Paradise
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Record Paradise (Michael Streissguth, 53 minutes, documentary, USA)
Record Paradise rolls with Joe Lee, black sheep of a blue-blood Maryland family, owner of one of the nation's most successful record stores, and an irreverent musical impresario. Leading an unruly parade of musicians, collectors, and disc jockeys, Joe has sold records to generations and produced, booked and managed some of Washington DC's most beloved blues and rock acts, including the tragically zany Root Boy Slim. Opinionated, brash, and unabashedly entertaining, Joe Lee is a movie unto himself. Record Paradise is the next best thing. From the writer and co-producer of the award-winning Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, Record Paradise features the music of Root Boy Slim, The Nighthawks, and The Lost Boys.

The filmmaker will be in attendance.

Social Justice Showcase: A Pakhtun Memory, Camp Unity
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A Pakhtun Memory (Tentative Collective, 14 minutes, documentary, Pakistan
This project by the Tentative Collective used Pakhtun folk music and memory to temporarily privilege a subaltern population in Karachi, Pakistan, allowing it to own a contentious public space. The ensuing series of events were unexpected and exciting!

Camp Unity(Ryan White, 83 minutes, documentary, USA)
A diverse group of Iraqi performing arts students unite through hip hop, jazz, orchestra, and Broadway at an American arts academy in Iraqi Kurdistan. Arabs and Kurds, Christians and Muslims, Americans and Iraqis, everyone must work together to prepare for the big show. Along the way, cultures collide, egos clash, dreams come true, and the viewer is offered a candid and revealing look at the troubles and triumphs of this life-changing event. Written by Ryan White.

Toy Story 3
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich, PIXAR, 103 minutes, animation, USA)
Andy, now nearly 18 years old, is leaving for college, and his toys feel like they have been abandoned as they have not been played with for years. Andy decides to take Woody with him to college and puts Buzz and the rest of the toys in a trash bag for storage in the attic. However, the toys are accidentally thrown out when Andy's mom finds the bag and puts it out on the curb, causing the toys to think that they are no longer wanted. They escape and decide to climb in a donation box for Sunnyside Daycare. Woody, the only toy who saw what actually happened, follows the other toys and tries to explain they were thrown out by mistake, but they refuse to believe him.

A Day, Muerton Y Vivientes, The Maze
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A Day (Jae Bin Han, 25 minutes, fiction, Korea)
A grandmother travels through 90 years of her life in one day. She meets herself in a series of encounters until she first meets the man who will become her husband. She shares with him what will be his last day.

Muerton Y Vivientes (Darmul Love, 17 minutes, fiction, Spain)
A funny zombie movie in which a bereaved woman kills zombies so she can get to her husband's grave and dig him out. Once free the two drive off, forever together.

The Maze (Robert M. Young and David Grubin, 60 minutes, documentary, USA)
William Kurelek's The Maze is a documentary about the life of celebrated Canadian artist William Kurelek, dramatically told through his paintings and his on-camera revelations. The film takes an intimate look into the life of one of the 20th century's most fascinating artists and his struggles with attempted suicide and a self professed "spiritual crisis". Kurelek describes The Maze as "a painting of the inside of [his] skull which [he] painted while in England as a patient in Maudsley and Netherne psychiatric hospitals." Kurelek's surrealistic painting, featured in the film, depicts a man's unraveled head lying in a wheat field. A curled up laboratory rat, representing his spirit, is trapped inside a maze of unhappy thoughts and memories.

Carol North Schmuckler New Filmmakers Showcase
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Films and art video produced by students in the Department of Transmedia, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University.

Beauty Evaporates (Q Park, 4 minutes, art video)
The sympathy and respect for analogue medium and ritual of its farewell.

Carney's Point (Alex Parkin and Marla Christiansen, 16 minutes, fiction)
Carney's Point is the story of a woman's life, fractured into three facets each representing an important crossroad of her life.

In A Blink (Jordan Rapoport, 7 minutes, art video)
A woman tries to create a man and animate him.

Servant (Guan Tian, 26 minutes, experimental/fiction)
A dark comedy about a man sitting on his bed contemplating suicide. His imagination becomes his reality as his room and his body transform, planted in a flower pot.

How to Extract that Color of that Evening Sky from the Day You First Discovered Dusk (Misha Rabinovich, 4 minutes, art video)
Colors come and go as liquids are syphoned from one container to another.

Blue Apple (Xiaochuan Xu, 15 minutes, fiction)
A young man comes to America with nothing but enthusiasm and makes his own way to the top. The economic crises makes him question his beliefs.

One Man's Palace (Daniel Aguilera, Michael Choi, Adam Heicklen, 9 minutes, fiction)
A movie theater owner can no longer afford to keep the doors open and informs her sole worker that tonight will be the last show. This sets him off in a passionate frenzy to save the future of the movie theater.

Frente Al Mar (Oceanfront) (Adriana Gonzalez-Vega, 30 minutes, fiction)
Based on a true story, about a poor fishing family who lives on the coast of Puerto Rico in 1980. Living in isolation, this family struggles to defend their home against an eviction order pursued by powerful people.

Special Event Screening: Crooked Arrows
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Crooked Arrows (Steve Rash, 105 minutes, fiction, USA)
A lacrosse movie produced in part, by the Onondaga Nation. A mixed-blood Native American, Joe Logan, eager to modernize his reservation, must first prove himself to his father, the traditionalist Tribal Chairman, by rediscovering his spirit. He is tasked with coaching the reservation's high school lacrosse team that competes against the better equipped and better trained players of the elite Prep School League. Joe inspires the Native American boys and teaches them the true meaning of tribal pride. Ignited by their heritage and believing in their new found potential, coach and team climb an uphill battle to the state championship finals against their privileged prep school rivals. Will they win?

The Game of Life: Heart and Spirit of the Onondaga (Stu Lisson, 14 minutes, documentary, USA)
The film explores the cultural and spiritual significance of the sport of Lacrosse to the people of the Onondaga Nation. Called the "Creator's Game" by the Onondagas, Lacrosse has its origins deep within the customs and beliefs of The Six Nations people. Interviews with players, tribal leaders and coaches help tell the story of the sport that has grown to span the world. The Onondaga Nation's involvement with feature film "Crooked Arrows" is also covered as well as its unique connection with Syracuse University through the Haudenosaunee Promise program.

Social Justice Showcase: Marrow, Who Shot My Father
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Marrow (Wasim Alsyed, 15 minutes, experimental/fiction, Syria)
There is a couple in bed, no dialogue, only music. They fight with one another. There are frogs in a jar. The man drinks coke and spills it on the woman. We are primed for violence. This is a beautifully shot and totally bizarre film, symbolically structured to deal with a destructive environment.

Who Shot My Father (Liora Amir Barmatz, 73 minutes, documentary, Israel)
Three daughters, one big secret and many unsolved issues. This film follows the courageous attempts of these women to uncover the dark secret behind the murder of their father, Israeli Air Force Attaché Colonel Joe Alon. An investigative report that has personal and national dimensions, the film applies to a story that occurred in 1973 that continues to be problematic. The film documents the riveting life of Colonel Alon, and includes interviews with FBI agents, Mossad chiefs, a former American Air Force Chief Commander and other key personnel. A story of intrigue and personal anguish.

Prodigy, Girlfriend
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Prodigy (Lisa Ford, 9 minutes, fiction, USA)
A young girl struggles with her violin lessons. Recognizing she is letting down her teacher and her mother she imagines that suddenly she has become a prodigy.

Girlfriend (Justin Lerner, 94 minutes, fiction, USA)
The film depicts the evolution of a friendship between a young man with Down's Syndrome and a single mother in a small town in Massachusetts (Wayland). Lerner cast a former high school classmate, Evan Sneider, who actually has Down's for the part. When Evan's mother dies, she leaves him an inheritance in the form of cash in a box. Evan tries to help his neighbor, a single mom, Candy, by dumping cash gifts in her home. But Candy's problems are bigger than what Evan can comprehend. They include an unforgiving landlord, and a very jealous ex-boyfriend Russ, who then tries to manipulate Evan.

Matar Aun Nino (The Child Will Die), Into Paradiso
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Matar Aun Nino (The Child Will Die) (Esteban Alenda, 8 minutes, fiction, Spain)
Told from the point of view of a child now an adult. It's 10 AM and a happy child is going to die. The boy dreams of fishing with his father. Car crash kills the driver not the boy. Inventive and well written.

Into Paradiso (Paola Raudi, 100 minutes, fiction, Italy)
Alfonso is a Neapolitan scientist, shy and awkward, who has just lost his job. Gayan is a charming former Sri Lankan cricketer who has not a penny, has just arrived in Naples, and is convinced of finding heaven. Alfonso has spent a lifetime studying cell migration and watching soap operas with his mother. Gayan has traveled, knew fame, glory and money. What connects these two men? In a multiethnic Naples, intertwined destinies of Alfonso and Gayan, meet to share a shack erected illegally on a roof of a building in the heart of the Sri Lankan city. A comedy.

Mary and Max
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Mary and Max (Adam Elliott, 92 minutes, animation, Australia)
This is an extraordinary Claymation. The two main characters are Mary, a poor, unloved little girl from Australia, and Max, a heavyset middle-aged New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome. They become penpals after Mary's random encounter with a telephone directory, and their exchange of letters swiftly emerges as the emotional lifeline for their unhappy existences. Mary is taunted by the children at her school for the birthmark on her forehead. Her only friend is the man for whom Mary collects mail, a WWII veteran who lost his legs in combat and has developed agoraphobia. Expect to be entertained and emotionally moved by this masterpiece.

The Girl And Her Trust, A Wonderful Day, Beast, Mozg
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Girl And Her Trust (1912) (D.W. Griffith, 16 minutes, fiction, USA)
Some tramps assault the telegraph office trying to rob $2000 delivered by train. The telegraphist girl, trying to help, telegraphs the next station and then the men are captured. Extreme close-ups, long shots and multiple story lines are part of filmdom's earliest sophisticated works.

A Wonderful Day (Yosi Meiri & Ariel Weisbrod, 24 minutes, fiction, Israel)
A Holocaust survivor tries to prevent her grandson from going to Germany by setting up a call girl to become his love interest. Great acting and an interesting story make this at times very funny and at times heart rending.

Beast (Attila Tell, 20 minutes, fiction, Hungary)
A man reports a missing dog to police. In a rural setting the family's father enslaves a poor man. He treats him like a dog. The daughter gets knocked up by boyfriend and wants to move in with him. Believing the slave is responsible for his family's woes the husband/father beats him to death. A very powerful film.

Mozg (Brain) (Andrey Silvestrov, 64 minutes, experimental, Russia)
The film takes place simultaneously in two realms. The first is the contemporary city of Moscow. Random passersby stop in front of the camera and talk about themselves or about the issues that bother them. These documentary scenes are interchanged with scenes involving professional actors in order to emphasize the absurdity of the whole action. The second realm is the 3D fantasy. We witness the grand battles of the greatest minds and poets of all times -- such as Dostoevsky, Goethe, Anatole France, Yukio Mishima and Alexander Block -- who are fighting against the Collective Unconscious. This film attempts to give a critical account of the social and political processes which take place in Russia today.

Son of a Railway Man, Ristabbanna (Fast Rewind)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Son of a Railway Man (Assaf Tager, 26 minutes, documentary/fiction, Zambia/Israel)
Casapo, the son of a locomotive driver for the Zambian railway company, is called back home following the news of his father's death. A poetic, beautifully filmed work that is evocative and mysterious.

Ristabbanna (Fast Rewind) (Cardillo & De Plano, 85 minutes, fiction, Italy)
Natale's neice, Rosina, left many years before for the States to become an actress. To see her again, Natale decides to shoot little movies. But a clumsy burglar, Salvo, steals her camera. Salvo's son, Nicolo, brings it back to Natale and finds a kind of grandfather, who changes the life of the family, lending Salvo a boat. At Natale's funeral, Rosina shows up. She's intending to sell the house and the boat and leave. But she finds out Natale knew the truth about her life in America. Nicolo's family is shocked by jealousy and fear of losing the boat that living an honest life just achieved. Rosina faces her past. Inventive plot structure and excellent acting mark this intriguing film.

Social Justice Showcase: A Place to Go, A.L.F.: Animal Liberation Front
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/AARP members
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A Place To Go (Wajdi Elian, 17 minutes, fiction, Lebanon)
Ziad is a solitary character living a surgically organized unadventurous routine existence in the city. One day, his rhythm is disrupted by a series of tiny accidents that bring a peculiar street cat to share his home, for better or for worse..." A fascinating narrative that is beautifully shot.

A.L.F.: Animal Liberation Front (Jerome Lescure, 94 minutes, fiction, France)
What happened that 24th of December? This is what officer Chartier wants to find out. To understand, he will have to go back 48 hours earlier: Franck's Christmas Eve. An insignificant drama teacher, Franck belongs to a nameless and leaderless commando: the Animal Liberation Front. These characters are bound by a limitless empathy towards mistreated animals, and will have to show courage to complete a mission they have been preparing for months. Their goal: to free dogs condemned to be sold to laboratories for the purpose of live experiments. Their philosophy: when something has gone beyond the boundaries of reason, you have to forget about what's legal, and care about what seems right. During the questioning, Franck understands that one of his fellows betrayed him. A unique thriller with a powerful message.

Awards Ceremony
Syracuse International Film Festival

Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Closing Event: I Am Not a Rock Star
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 regular; $10 students/AARP members
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

I Am Not a Rock Star (Bobbi Jo Hart, 86 minutes, documentary, Canada)
An absolutely outstanding documentary that follows the story of 20-year-old Marika Bournaki, who embarks on a journey to become a world-class concert pianist, a dream she has had ever since her father first encouraged her to start playing the piano at the age of five. Shot in cinéma vérité style over eight years, the film begins when Marika is 12 years old and commuting every Saturday from Montreal to attend Juilliard's prestigious Pre-College Program in New York. She moves on her own to New York City at age 14, and starts auditions and performances around the world. The effects of this lifelong sacrifice of her parents to turn Marika into a star begin to reveal themselves, while within the walls of Juilliard she finds a kindred soul and her first love. The film ultimately reveals the gritty realities of making it in the cut-throat classical music world, but also how Marika matures to eventually question her path, appropriating her musical passion to make it her own.

Screening followed by Q&A and recital by Marika Bournaki.

SU Symphony Band
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Justin J. Mertz, conductor

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The band will perform works by Nixon, Margolis, Ito, Spittal, Janá ek, and Ives.

Free and accessible parking is available in the Q1 lot. Additional parking is available in the Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change; call 315-443-2191 for current information.

A New Practice: Music of Monteverdi and Schutz
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor

Price: $18 regular, $16 seniors, $5 students
St. Patrick's Church
216 N. Lowell Ave., Tipperary Hill, Syracuse

This concert is devoted to two influential innovators of the 17th century early Baroque. Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi departed from Renaissance polyphony to a "new practice," in which words and emotion played an increasingly important role. Following suit, Heinrich Schütz laid the cornerstone for early Baroque choral musical art in Germany. SVE will present various secular works by Monteverdi and Schütz's sublime requiem, Musikalische Exequien.

Accompanists include Sarah Mastrangelo, violin; Peter Rovit, violin; Jacqueline Wogick, cello; and Joseph Downing, keyboard.

Master's Touch Chorale
DeWitt Community Church
Warren Ottey, conductor

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

The Master's Touch Chorale returns to DeWitt Community Church for a special program of sacred music. Founded in 1993, the Master's Touch Chorale is composed of 40 singers from more than 20 different churches, spanning 17 denominations. The group has performed repeatedly throughout the Northeast, including three times at The White House, and has become known for its eclectic repertoire.

Easy Star All-Stars, with The Aggrolites
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Too good to be true!" raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

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Moby Dick
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Alive with a soundscape of 16 authentic sea shanties and performed by an ensemble of nine, this highly physical adaption cuts to the core of Melville's searing narrative and plays with the fury of a Nantucket sleigh ride. A young man seeks adventure on a whaling vessel and finds himself a pawn in an obsessive pursuit of vengeance that threatens death and destruction for all. Director Peter Amster returns to guide the ensemble in this thrilling and critically acclaimed telling of a classic American tale. Adapted for the stage by Julian Rad from the book by Herman Melville

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Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Too good to be true!" raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

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Monday, October 15, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Lynette Blake: Within and Beyond
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

Lynette Blake's oil paintings draw the viewer in through complex layers of shape and color. The use of overlapping imagery conveys a depth that extends deep below the surface of the canvas. Objects, whether used directly or evoked by abstract shapes, float in and out of light illuminating them with a pervasive warm glow. The effect is otherworldly -- a feeling of being outside time and space is conveyed.

Blake has exhibited her work throughout the Northeast, and is currently represented locally by the Szozda Gallery in Syracuse, as well as national venues. She studied art at Brown University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Upstate NY.

More information on the Weeks Gallery at Baltimore Woods can be found at www.baltimorewoods.org.

Gallery Exhibit: Brendan Rose & Michael Barletta: Paper, Staple, String
Onondaga Community College

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

"Paper, Staple, String" is a spatial installation, transforming Onondaga's Gallery into a dynamic field of suspended objects. Educational remnants (the discarded paperwork of students) are reclaimed as monochromatic pixels of a space defining cloud. This three-dimensional form transfigures as it intersects with the gallery walls, flattening and expanding against the two-dimensional surface.

TONY: 2012: Ink Geographies
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Feels like writing, but the artist is quick to make clear that it is not. Signs, representations ... of what? A mental process, a journey, from diverse points of origin through our individual timelines, our personal twists and turns. As a script emerges, something is set free, though it leaves a mark, an imprint. The artist's essential playground is a space to explore geometric archetypes that can only be found inside one another; all are one. A sacred mandala? Images contract and expand and there is order, not chaos. No more chaotic than life emerging from the womb, contraction, expansion; a beating heart, where life is felt, contraction, expansion...an ever-expanding universe, contracts only to further expand. We don't know how to will it into action. A similar experience with ink takes form in this experiment by Oscar Garcés. It flows from a playful doodle, "el virus," he calls it. And before you know it, connects with something else, an altered state of consciousness. Everything else disappears as it takes over.

The Point of Contact Gallery presents the first solo show by Cuban-born, Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garcés, as part of The Other New York: TONY 2012, a community-wide biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 venues in Syracuse. This program also commemorates the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month at Point of Contact.

Born in Santiago, Cuba in 1987, Garcés came to the United States in 2000. During his years residing first in Florida, when he began to develop as a visual artist, Garcés received multiple recognitions, including a Golden Key Award for best portfolio by Scholastics. Later in Syracuse, Garcés won a "Best of Show" Award at the Community Folk Art Center in 2005. He has also shown his paintings at the Warehouse Gallery's Window Project and at La Casita Cultural Center Gallery.

TONY 2012: "The Other New York" seeks to highlight the work and talent of different rising artists from the Central New York area.

Phonography
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Cell phone photography, featuring works of 75 Central New York and international artists. Amazing, imaginative, creative, innovative, fun photos you'll love!

Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

Investigations
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of the work and design process of Stephan Jaklitsch and Mark Gardner through sketches, models, renderings, construction drawings, and photographs of six projects. Their work addresses specific conditions of site, use, the psychology of experience, sustainability, techniques of construction craft in detail, and materiality of building.

Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects (J/GA) is an award-winning NYC-based design practice that focuses on urban scale projects, buildings, interiors, and objects. Award-winning projects include the Marc Jacobs Tokyo Flagship Building (2010); a bike rack for the NYC Dept. of Transportation that was exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (2008); and the Marc Jacobs International Showroom (2012).

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Propaganda images generated during the Cultural Revolution in China have been remixed to create commentary on the modern Cultural Revolution society is undergoing in the form of music, art, and media. Elements of the old and new are mixed together to evolve into something new.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Drama From the Garden: New Work by Terry Askey-Cole
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Terry Askey-Cole brings her love of nature and the outdoors to all her new pieces inspired by her beautiful gardens.

Carl Hoffner Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of limited-edition color lithographs and digital paintings by Fayetteville artist Carl Hoffner.

Susan Worsham: Bittersweet/Bloodwork
Light Work Gallery

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

When Susan Worsham was just 18, her brother took his own life after severing his spinal cord in a motorcycle accident. As a young girl she had already lost her father to a heart attack, and finally in 2004, she lost her mother as well. In the words of Worsham, "Shortly after my mother passed I came across a set of antique veterinary slides. They were some of the most interesting things that I had ever seen. I framed ninety of them in a long wooden frame resembling the shape of the slide itself. It was the first piece of art that I made after my mother died. I called the piece a watercolor because of the collection of pastel colors, but it was also a sort of poem when you got close and read the titles ... Rabbit's Lung, Fowl's Spleen, and even Human Umbilical Cord. They seemed to hold beauty and death at the same time."

Worsham went on to photograph her old childhood home as well as her oldest neighbor, Margaret Daniel. Margaret is one of the last remaining threads from Worsham's childhood and was the last person to see her brother alive. She made him her homemade bread, and he finished the whole loaf before he shot himself. The story came full circle one day when Margaret brought out her dissection kit and microscope slides. She had been a biology teacher and was holding on to the same sort of slides that fascinated Worsham. Margaret's microscope and slides have since become a metaphor for Worsham's desire to look deeper into the landscape of her childhood--from the flora and fauna to the feelings, Margaret calls it "blood work."

In addition to Worsham's touching photographs made in and around Virginia, this exhibition features a selection of Margaret's dissection tools alongside her microscope, as well as audio recordings of their various conversations about plants, life, and death. All together, the photographs and accompaniments in Bittersweet/Bloodwork speak of the poetry of childhood, nature, discovery, love, and loss.

TONY: 2012
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Other New York: 2012," featuring the photographic work of Sarah Averill, Bang-Geul Han, Mark McLoughlin, Jan Nagle, and Matthew Walker. This exhibition is part of a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaborion among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

An exhibition of artists with a dual practice, featuring Abby Carter, Samantha Harmon, Lori Hawke, Stephanie Koenig, Lynette K Stephenson, and Marion Wilson.

Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena: A Graphic History
La Casita Cultural Center

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

The exhibit presents the works of nine Puerto Rican master artists who were commissioned to create screen prints to capture the spirit of the annual Bomba and Plena Festivals held in Puerto Rico. Their posters have been collected and preserved by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan.

Featured artists are José R. Alicea, Luis Alonso, Luis Germán Cajigas, Jesús Cardona, Sixto Cotto, David Goitia, Samuel Lind, Luis Maisonet Ramos, and Nelson Sambolin.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Lynette Blake: Within and Beyond
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

Lynette Blake's oil paintings draw the viewer in through complex layers of shape and color. The use of overlapping imagery conveys a depth that extends deep below the surface of the canvas. Objects, whether used directly or evoked by abstract shapes, float in and out of light illuminating them with a pervasive warm glow. The effect is otherworldly -- a feeling of being outside time and space is conveyed.

Blake has exhibited her work throughout the Northeast, and is currently represented locally by the Szozda Gallery in Syracuse, as well as national venues. She studied art at Brown University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Upstate NY.

More information on the Weeks Gallery at Baltimore Woods can be found at www.baltimorewoods.org.

Gallery Exhibit: Brendan Rose & Michael Barletta: Paper, Staple, String
Onondaga Community College

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

"Paper, Staple, String" is a spatial installation, transforming Onondaga's Gallery into a dynamic field of suspended objects. Educational remnants (the discarded paperwork of students) are reclaimed as monochromatic pixels of a space defining cloud. This three-dimensional form transfigures as it intersects with the gallery walls, flattening and expanding against the two-dimensional surface.

TONY: 2012: Ink Geographies
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Feels like writing, but the artist is quick to make clear that it is not. Signs, representations ... of what? A mental process, a journey, from diverse points of origin through our individual timelines, our personal twists and turns. As a script emerges, something is set free, though it leaves a mark, an imprint. The artist's essential playground is a space to explore geometric archetypes that can only be found inside one another; all are one. A sacred mandala? Images contract and expand and there is order, not chaos. No more chaotic than life emerging from the womb, contraction, expansion; a beating heart, where life is felt, contraction, expansion...an ever-expanding universe, contracts only to further expand. We don't know how to will it into action. A similar experience with ink takes form in this experiment by Oscar Garcés. It flows from a playful doodle, "el virus," he calls it. And before you know it, connects with something else, an altered state of consciousness. Everything else disappears as it takes over.

The Point of Contact Gallery presents the first solo show by Cuban-born, Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garcés, as part of The Other New York: TONY 2012, a community-wide biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 venues in Syracuse. This program also commemorates the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month at Point of Contact.

Born in Santiago, Cuba in 1987, Garcés came to the United States in 2000. During his years residing first in Florida, when he began to develop as a visual artist, Garcés received multiple recognitions, including a Golden Key Award for best portfolio by Scholastics. Later in Syracuse, Garcés won a "Best of Show" Award at the Community Folk Art Center in 2005. He has also shown his paintings at the Warehouse Gallery's Window Project and at La Casita Cultural Center Gallery.

TONY 2012: "The Other New York" seeks to highlight the work and talent of different rising artists from the Central New York area.

Phonography
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Cell phone photography, featuring works of 75 Central New York and international artists. Amazing, imaginative, creative, innovative, fun photos you'll love!

Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

Investigations
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of the work and design process of Stephan Jaklitsch and Mark Gardner through sketches, models, renderings, construction drawings, and photographs of six projects. Their work addresses specific conditions of site, use, the psychology of experience, sustainability, techniques of construction craft in detail, and materiality of building.

Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects (J/GA) is an award-winning NYC-based design practice that focuses on urban scale projects, buildings, interiors, and objects. Award-winning projects include the Marc Jacobs Tokyo Flagship Building (2010); a bike rack for the NYC Dept. of Transportation that was exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (2008); and the Marc Jacobs International Showroom (2012).

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Propaganda images generated during the Cultural Revolution in China have been remixed to create commentary on the modern Cultural Revolution society is undergoing in the form of music, art, and media. Elements of the old and new are mixed together to evolve into something new.

Play on Light
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Adriana Meiss: Pastel landscapes
John Franklin: Turned wood and sculptural vessels
Paul Riccardi: Pastel florals and still-lifes
Judy McCumber: Silver and gemstone jewelry

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, and the City of Syracuse. Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Community Folk Art Center TONY 2012 featured artists are Elizabeth Leader, Michael Moody, Abisay Puentes, Sandra Stephens, who each use their art to engage in a larger conversation about significant but often overlooked social issues, including racial identity and urban decay.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Drama From the Garden: New Work by Terry Askey-Cole
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Terry Askey-Cole brings her love of nature and the outdoors to all her new pieces inspired by her beautiful gardens.

Carl Hoffner Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of limited-edition color lithographs and digital paintings by Fayetteville artist Carl Hoffner.

Susan Worsham: Bittersweet/Bloodwork
Light Work Gallery

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

When Susan Worsham was just 18, her brother took his own life after severing his spinal cord in a motorcycle accident. As a young girl she had already lost her father to a heart attack, and finally in 2004, she lost her mother as well. In the words of Worsham, "Shortly after my mother passed I came across a set of antique veterinary slides. They were some of the most interesting things that I had ever seen. I framed ninety of them in a long wooden frame resembling the shape of the slide itself. It was the first piece of art that I made after my mother died. I called the piece a watercolor because of the collection of pastel colors, but it was also a sort of poem when you got close and read the titles ... Rabbit's Lung, Fowl's Spleen, and even Human Umbilical Cord. They seemed to hold beauty and death at the same time."

Worsham went on to photograph her old childhood home as well as her oldest neighbor, Margaret Daniel. Margaret is one of the last remaining threads from Worsham's childhood and was the last person to see her brother alive. She made him her homemade bread, and he finished the whole loaf before he shot himself. The story came full circle one day when Margaret brought out her dissection kit and microscope slides. She had been a biology teacher and was holding on to the same sort of slides that fascinated Worsham. Margaret's microscope and slides have since become a metaphor for Worsham's desire to look deeper into the landscape of her childhood--from the flora and fauna to the feelings, Margaret calls it "blood work."

In addition to Worsham's touching photographs made in and around Virginia, this exhibition features a selection of Margaret's dissection tools alongside her microscope, as well as audio recordings of their various conversations about plants, life, and death. All together, the photographs and accompaniments in Bittersweet/Bloodwork speak of the poetry of childhood, nature, discovery, love, and loss.

TONY: 2012
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Other New York: 2012," featuring the photographic work of Sarah Averill, Bang-Geul Han, Mark McLoughlin, Jan Nagle, and Matthew Walker. This exhibition is part of a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaborion among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

An exhibition of artists with a dual practice, featuring Abby Carter, Samantha Harmon, Lori Hawke, Stephanie Koenig, Lynette K Stephenson, and Marion Wilson.

Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is celebrating the career and life of Karl Schrag, American painter and printmaker, who would have been 100 years old this year. "Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions" is the first major examination of the artist's work since his death in 1995. The exhibition includes 70 original works of art by the influential artist, including paintings, prints and drawings.

Syracuse University has had a long and rewarding association with Karl Schrag and his family. It began in 1962 with a gift of a gouache painting titled "Coast in Autumn." Later the relationship grew with the first of numerous exhibitions, more gifts of artwork, and occasional lectures to students in the University's School of Art. Some 50 years later, S.U.'s art collection is much richer because of the 250-plus Karl Schrag artworks we maintain, and the continued support of Schrag Family.

2012 is also the centenary year of Karl Schrag's birth and gives us an opportunity to reinvestigate the talent, imagination, and sensitivity Schrag brought to his landscapes, still-life paintings, and portraits. A master of color, light, composition, and draftsmanship, Schrag captures nature and its great forces through an investigation of the lasting impressions each of us retain through experience. He engages his viewer with subtle mark making as well as with the bold calligraphic strokes so often associated with his work. His palette of almost Fauvist intensity adds dimension and passion to the landscapes he created.

Schrag's art career spanned more than 60 years and he had strong ties to the New York City art scene. After studying at the Art Students League, he joined S.W. Hayter's prestigious printmaking studio Atelier 17, working alongside artists Miró, Chagall and Jackson Pollock. Schrag was named director of the Atelier in 1950 and later began a long teaching career at Cooper Union, where he taught drawing and graphic arts from 1954-1968. Schrag had a direct impact on many of his students, including the Syracuse University-based artist Jerome Witkin. A student of Schrag at Cooper Union and a well-established contemporary artist, Witkin has commented on Schrags masterful handling of the landscape, and the evocative power of his vision.

The art selected for this exhibit will convey the artist's ability to see the landscape as if for the first time, the surprise of that special view, the recognition of his ability to feel wonder when looking at nature or figures, and the reward associated with seeing the world through his eyes.

TONY: 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Other New York: 2012 (Tony: 2012) is an ambitious project that aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project offers diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

The artists included in the SUArt Galleries TONY: 2012 are Tammy Brackett, Juan Cruz, Sara Di Donato, Matthew Glaysher, Amy Greenan, Sue Huggins Leopard, Barbara Page, James Skvarch.

The SUArt Galleries is one of 14 venues participating in this citywide celebration of the visual arts. Please take the time to visit the exhibitions at the other TONY venues to see the wealth of talent that resides and works upstate.