Thursday, June 13, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

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

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

They Left 150 Years Ago
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

"They Left 150 Years Ago," a solo photography exhibition by Jason DeBose, is a visual introduction to the Finnish city of Tampere and its local lifestyle, as well as a visual look at the Finnish influence on America's northeast cities and at Finnish-American heritage. The exhibition also aims to reenergize the dormant sister city relationship between the cities of Syracuse, NY, and Tampere, Finland. Official ties originally established over 20 years ago with the co-hosting of a boxing competition. This exhibit will be the first portion of a two-part engagement that focuses on the sister city relationship. The second portion, a premier screening of the Finnish black comedy film, Iron Sky will be announced shortly.

Jason DeBose is an acclaimed photographer from Pasadena, CA. Mr. DeBose's work has been showcased internationally, including in Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Estonia, and United States.

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

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

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

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

Employee Art Show
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Delineation
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Read a review!

Splendor in the Glass: Rain Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The June show features new stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho. The Michos specialize in stained glass for your home and garden.

Saturation of Color
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by ceramist Jerry Randall of Tully and silkscreen artist Michael Foster of Marcellus will be featured.

Randall, whose works have appeared in more than 60 shows nationwide, exhibited this past year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show and at shows in Atlanta, Boston, Northampton, MA, and Nashua, NH. Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

Foster, who graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in May with a bachelor's degree in architectural studies, was represented in Imagine's May show, "HWS Printmaking Workshop." In addition to Imagine, he has exhibited at HWS's Davis Gallery and at the Hobart and William Smith Library. During his junior year, he studied at Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, in Rome.

Earth Tones: Works by Carol Boyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Earth Tones is an exhibit of the fabric art of Carol Boyer, a fiber artist who has been creating non-traditional quilts for almost 40 years.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Bloom
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Bloom" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition features artwork with the theme of renewal and investigates the innate beauty of nature. The show includes drawing, photography, watercolor, sculpture, and ceramics.

Participating artists include Anne Novado Capuccilli, Willson Cummer, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Kelly Sullivan, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

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

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

Remnants of a Secret War: Photographs by Mike Greenlar
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

An award-winning photographer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, Mike Greenlar traveled 10 times to a remote mountain region of Laos to document the effects of cluster bombing on the Hmong people. The US covert bombing campaign between 1964 and 1973 gave Laos the distinction of being the most bombed country in the history of warfare--over two million tons of ordnance was dropped. Mike documented life in two resettlement villages where the Hmong continue to farm land rife with unexploded cluster bombs and other munitions. His work shows the resourcefulness of a people who rely on each other, and on those very bombs, for their livelihood. The result is a stunning collection of documentary photographs. "Remnants of a Secret War," also the title of his recently published book, displays both some of the collection found in the book and some never before published. The legacy of the "secret" bombings of Laos takes many forms and offers many stories. In this collection of painfully yet beautifully rendered black and white photographs, he shares some of them with us.

UVP Annual Summer Review: Sightings by Shimon Attie
Urban Video Project

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

Shimon Attie describes his process:
For "Sightings," I created a video installation exploring the heightened moment of mutual encounter between art viewer and art object, between works of art and museum visitors and employees. I selected 40 objects from the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and asked individuals to participate in a "dialogue" with a work of art, each taking an expressive gesture and gaze that embodied their emotional response to the art object... Slow-motion cinematography, frozen gestures, and an unseen moving stage comment on the active/passive quality of the interactions.

Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement (2009)
ArtRage Gallery

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

CNY Pride Film: Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement (2009, directed by Susan Muska, Gréta Olafsdóttir; featuring Thea Spyer and Edea Windsor)
After 42 years, feisty and delightful lesbian couple Edie and Thea are finally getting married. From the early '60s to the present day, the tireless community activists persevere through many battles, both personal and political. Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir (The Brandon Teena Story) return with a love story of two remarkable women whose commitment to each other is an inspiration to us all. Hosted by CNY Pride.

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

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

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

The Manhattan Transfer

Price: $45
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

For more information, visit manhattantransfer.net.

Tickets available through ticketmaster.com.

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

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

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

The Awesome 80's Prom
Covey Theatre Company

Price: $45
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Break out your Members Only jacket and compete to be crowned Prom King & Queen during this one-of-a-kind performance. All of your favorite 80s movie characters will be dancing to classic Huey Lewis hits while watching the high school prom drama unfold. Whether you were captain of the football team, a geek, or a sassy cheerleader in high school, you'll be moon-walking your way through the Landmark Theatre during the party!

Read a review!

Friday, June 14, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

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

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

They Left 150 Years Ago
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

"They Left 150 Years Ago," a solo photography exhibition by Jason DeBose, is a visual introduction to the Finnish city of Tampere and its local lifestyle, as well as a visual look at the Finnish influence on America's northeast cities and at Finnish-American heritage. The exhibition also aims to reenergize the dormant sister city relationship between the cities of Syracuse, NY, and Tampere, Finland. Official ties originally established over 20 years ago with the co-hosting of a boxing competition. This exhibit will be the first portion of a two-part engagement that focuses on the sister city relationship. The second portion, a premier screening of the Finnish black comedy film, Iron Sky will be announced shortly.

Jason DeBose is an acclaimed photographer from Pasadena, CA. Mr. DeBose's work has been showcased internationally, including in Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Estonia, and United States.

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

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

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

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

Employee Art Show
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Delineation
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Read a review!

Splendor in the Glass: Rain Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The June show features new stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho. The Michos specialize in stained glass for your home and garden.

Saturation of Color
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by ceramist Jerry Randall of Tully and silkscreen artist Michael Foster of Marcellus will be featured.

Randall, whose works have appeared in more than 60 shows nationwide, exhibited this past year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show and at shows in Atlanta, Boston, Northampton, MA, and Nashua, NH. Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

Foster, who graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in May with a bachelor's degree in architectural studies, was represented in Imagine's May show, "HWS Printmaking Workshop." In addition to Imagine, he has exhibited at HWS's Davis Gallery and at the Hobart and William Smith Library. During his junior year, he studied at Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, in Rome.

Earth Tones: Works by Carol Boyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Earth Tones is an exhibit of the fabric art of Carol Boyer, a fiber artist who has been creating non-traditional quilts for almost 40 years.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Opening: The Last Hurrah
Szozda Gallery

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

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

In a final tribute to the many Central New York artists who have shown at Szozda Gallery, owner Caroline Szozda-McGowan has chosen to do a salon-style multimedia show of their works to cover all walls throughout the entire Delavan Center display areas. Called "The Last Hurrah," the retrospective exhibit ends Sunday, June 30, with a closing reception that also marks the official closing of the gallery.

Bloom
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Bloom" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition features artwork with the theme of renewal and investigates the innate beauty of nature. The show includes drawing, photography, watercolor, sculpture, and ceramics.

Participating artists include Anne Novado Capuccilli, Willson Cummer, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Kelly Sullivan, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

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

Remnants of a Secret War: Photographs by Mike Greenlar
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

An award-winning photographer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, Mike Greenlar traveled 10 times to a remote mountain region of Laos to document the effects of cluster bombing on the Hmong people. The US covert bombing campaign between 1964 and 1973 gave Laos the distinction of being the most bombed country in the history of warfare--over two million tons of ordnance was dropped. Mike documented life in two resettlement villages where the Hmong continue to farm land rife with unexploded cluster bombs and other munitions. His work shows the resourcefulness of a people who rely on each other, and on those very bombs, for their livelihood. The result is a stunning collection of documentary photographs. "Remnants of a Secret War," also the title of his recently published book, displays both some of the collection found in the book and some never before published. The legacy of the "secret" bombings of Laos takes many forms and offers many stories. In this collection of painfully yet beautifully rendered black and white photographs, he shares some of them with us.

Music Among Trees
bc Restaurant

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

Syracuse-based artist Maria Rizzo will be speaking about her art at the opening reception for her traveling exhibition "Trees: Totems of Life." Local original band Wagner 3000 will perform alternative rock music at 8:00 pm.

Artist Maria Rizzo and band front man Dan Wagner have been married since 2009 and, with each others' support, they have independently shown and performed throughout the state of New York. This event is the first time they have combined their unique visual and musical arts together to create a highly entertaining event.

UVP Annual Summer Review: Sightings by Shimon Attie
Urban Video Project

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

Shimon Attie describes his process:
For "Sightings," I created a video installation exploring the heightened moment of mutual encounter between art viewer and art object, between works of art and museum visitors and employees. I selected 40 objects from the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and asked individuals to participate in a "dialogue" with a work of art, each taking an expressive gesture and gaze that embodied their emotional response to the art object... Slow-motion cinematography, frozen gestures, and an unseen moving stage comment on the active/passive quality of the interactions.

Bank Show
Syracuse Improv Collective

Price: $5
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The Syracuse Improv Collective brings their monthly "Bank Show" to the CNY Playhouse. The Collective specializes in bringing a show like no other combining long form improv with musical acts and stand up comedy. You never know what the SIC has in store.

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

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

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

Oakwood Visions Ghostwalk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Reservations by June 7: $10 regular, $8 OHA members. After June 7: $12 regular, $10 members
Oakwood Cemetery
940 Comstock Ave., Syracuse

Discover a pathway into the past through the picturesque "old section" of Oakwood Cemetery and meet some of the fascinating folks that now reside there. Tours start at 6:00 pm and leave every 15 minutes until 7:15 pm, from Oakwood Cemetery's Chapel, rain or shine. Tours last 90 minutes. Participants should enter from the East Colvin Street entrance and drive to the gothic-style Chapel, where parking is available.

Oakwood Visions will take you on a stroll through Oakwood Cemetery's oldest section, Devotion Valley. As guests walk though the cemetery route with a guide, they will meet costumed actors portraying a number of Oakwood "residents": an adventurous early settler, a Fayetteville diva, a member of retail royalty, an investor and innovator, and a tragic figure of scandal and lost love. Actors include David Baber, Bryan Allen Jones, Brian Goldblatt, Marcia Mahaffy, and Kevin Shumway.

Reservations strongly recommended. For more information and to make reservations, phone Karen at 315-428-1864 x312.

Artist Talk: Mike Greenlar
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Join award-winning photographer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, Mike Greenlar, as he chronicles his travels to a remote mountain region of Laos in an artist talk about his exhibition at ArtRage, "Remnants of A Secret War." Light refreshments will be served.

Jazz@Sitrus
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Lemon Elefant

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

The latest incarnation of the "Dave Solazzo-Bill Horrace Experience" is Lemon Elefant, a trio that adapts modern pop and rock tunes into an instrumental "anti-jazz" (sort of). Performances appeal to a new generation of listeners, who appreciate improvisational music but prefer to listen to music released within the last decade -- and sometimes within the past month.

Early performances and demo recordings featured piano and upright bass, but the Elefant also incorporates drummers of various styles: rock, funk, hip-hop. The result is a musical potpourri that appeals to a variety of listeners and that can be performed in a variety of venues. Their recent trio performances at The Flatiron Room in NYC have been well-received, and Lemon Elefant now has a steady gig there with drummer Jeff Brillinger.

In addition to original songs, their set includes tunes by Nirvana, Linkin Park, The Verve, Coldplay, Michael Jackson, Jessie J, Nelly Furtado, Oasis, STP, Will.i.a, Lady Gaga, Elliott Smith and Alanis Morrisette.

Masters of Madness Tour: Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson

Price: $ regular, $ students/seniors
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Following the recent pairings of Alice Cooper with Rob Zombie and then Rob Zombie with Marilyn Manson -- the long-awaited combination of Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson is now here! Cooper and Manson join forces for the "Masters of Madness" tour.

Tickets can be purchased in person at The Oncenter Box Office (720 S. State Street), by calling 315-435-2121 or online at ticketmaster.com (additional fees may apply).

Two Row Wampum Concert
Syracuse Community Choir
Karen Mihalyi, conductor

Price: Sliding-scale donation
Onondaga Nation School
Route 11A, Onondaga Nation

Concert featuring Dan Hill, Curtis Waterman, Hadenosaunee Singers & Dancers, Ahkwesasne Women Singers, Chief Jake Edwards, and Dream Freedom Revival.

For more information, phone 315-428-8151.

Annual Pops Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor

Drivers Village (formerly Penn Can Mall)
5885 E. Circle Dr., Cicero

Celebrity Entertainment Productions: The Drop: UV Foam Party, with Dali
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

40th Anniversary Gala Concert
Syracuse Stage
Featuring Julia Murney

Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Broadway actress and Syracuse University alumna Julia Murney will perform at Syracuse Stage's 40th Anniversary Gala. Murney's credits include Elphaba in Wicked (Broadway and National Tour) and the original cast albums of The Wild Party and A Class Act. She has performed in venues all over the country including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the famed jazz club Birdland.

Tickets for the concert portion of the evening (beginning at 9:15 pm) are $30 for the general public and $25 for Syracuse Stage subscribers and flex pack holders, and those age 40 and under. Concert-only tickets can be purchased by calling the Syracuse Stage Box Office at 315-443-3275 or online at www.syracusestage.org.

The Gala evening will begin at 6:00 pm with cocktails and a silent auction, followed by dinner, a concert performance by Julia Murney accompanied on piano, and a private reception with Murney for VIP guests. Tickets for the full evening range $200$300 and can be reserved by contacting Katherine Keeney at kakeeney@syr.edu or 315-443-2709.

All proceeds from the 2013 Gala will support artistic and educational programming at Syracuse Stage.

Squids will be Squids
CNY Shakespeare
Terry LaCasse, director

Price: Pay what you can
Jewish Community Center
5655 Thompson Rd., Dewitt

The stage adaptation of John Sciezska's famous children's book, Squids Will be Squids. Three actors take on a multitude of zany characters and crazy fables. This show is perfect for kids and the whole family.

Read a review!

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children (group discounts available)
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical, by Mo Willems, tells a tale of firsts: a stuffed animal's first trip in the laundry, a little girl's first words, and a Daddy's first time dealing with his child going "boneless." It sounds so simple, just a quick trip to the laundromat in Brooklyn with Daddy, Trixie, and her beloved Knuffle Bunny but before you know it things go horribly, hilariously wrong. This new smash hit children's musical is chock full of adventure, song and gigantic dancing laundry! This Gifford Family Theatre show is fun for all ages.

Macbeth
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: Free
Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) lawn
West Jefferson St., Syracuse

Rain location: Redhouse

Enjoy this 60-minute outdoor adaptation of Shakespeare's classic thriller! Six performers play all the roles, blending inventive physicality, evocative design, and original text to create this mesmerizing and chilling tale of greed and ambition. Set in a 20th-century militaristic society, this accessible adaptation will appeal to audiences new to Macbeth as well as those already acquainted with this renowned tragedy.

Read a review!

The Awesome 80's Prom
Covey Theatre Company

Price: $45
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Break out your Members Only jacket and compete to be crowned Prom King & Queen during this one-of-a-kind performance. All of your favorite 80s movie characters will be dancing to classic Huey Lewis hits while watching the high school prom drama unfold. Whether you were captain of the football team, a geek, or a sassy cheerleader in high school, you'll be moon-walking your way through the Landmark Theatre during the party!

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Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical was created for the New York Fringe Festival in 2001. The story, dialogue and characters are mostly faithful to the original film, performed as a tongue-in-cheek spoof. After playing to sell-out crowds, it was picked up and had a successful four-month run Off-Broadway in 2002. Since then, it's played to packed houses around the world.

Adapted by Erica Schmidt; composed by Andrew Sherman; choreographer: Jodi Bova-Mele.

Read a Review!

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

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

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

Read a review!

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Splendor in the Glass: Rain Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The June show features new stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho. The Michos specialize in stained glass for your home and garden.

Saturation of Color
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by ceramist Jerry Randall of Tully and silkscreen artist Michael Foster of Marcellus will be featured.

Randall, whose works have appeared in more than 60 shows nationwide, exhibited this past year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show and at shows in Atlanta, Boston, Northampton, MA, and Nashua, NH. Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

Foster, who graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in May with a bachelor's degree in architectural studies, was represented in Imagine's May show, "HWS Printmaking Workshop." In addition to Imagine, he has exhibited at HWS's Davis Gallery and at the Hobart and William Smith Library. During his junior year, he studied at Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, in Rome.

Earth Tones: Works by Carol Boyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Earth Tones is an exhibit of the fabric art of Carol Boyer, a fiber artist who has been creating non-traditional quilts for almost 40 years.

Art on the Porches
Greater Strathmore Neighborhood Association

Price: Free
Ruskin Avenue
Strathmore neighborhood, Syracuse

Artists will be showing and selling their work in the historic Strathmore neighborhood. Music, dancers, indie bands, painters, potters, and more will help celebrate our 13th annual festival.

Visit the Facebook page for more information.

The Last Hurrah
Szozda Gallery

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

In a final tribute to the many Central New York artists who have shown at Szozda Gallery, owner Caroline Szozda-McGowan has chosen to do a salon-style multimedia show of their works to cover all walls throughout the entire Delavan Center display areas. Called "The Last Hurrah," the retrospective exhibit ends Sunday, June 30, with a closing reception that also marks the official closing of the gallery.

Employee Art Show
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Bloom
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Bloom" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition features artwork with the theme of renewal and investigates the innate beauty of nature. The show includes drawing, photography, watercolor, sculpture, and ceramics.

Participating artists include Anne Novado Capuccilli, Willson Cummer, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Kelly Sullivan, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Remnants of a Secret War: Photographs by Mike Greenlar
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

An award-winning photographer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, Mike Greenlar traveled 10 times to a remote mountain region of Laos to document the effects of cluster bombing on the Hmong people. The US covert bombing campaign between 1964 and 1973 gave Laos the distinction of being the most bombed country in the history of warfare--over two million tons of ordnance was dropped. Mike documented life in two resettlement villages where the Hmong continue to farm land rife with unexploded cluster bombs and other munitions. His work shows the resourcefulness of a people who rely on each other, and on those very bombs, for their livelihood. The result is a stunning collection of documentary photographs. "Remnants of a Secret War," also the title of his recently published book, displays both some of the collection found in the book and some never before published. The legacy of the "secret" bombings of Laos takes many forms and offers many stories. In this collection of painfully yet beautifully rendered black and white photographs, he shares some of them with us.

UVP Annual Summer Review: Sightings by Shimon Attie
Urban Video Project

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

Shimon Attie describes his process:
For "Sightings," I created a video installation exploring the heightened moment of mutual encounter between art viewer and art object, between works of art and museum visitors and employees. I selected 40 objects from the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and asked individuals to participate in a "dialogue" with a work of art, each taking an expressive gesture and gaze that embodied their emotional response to the art object... Slow-motion cinematography, frozen gestures, and an unseen moving stage comment on the active/passive quality of the interactions.

Improv Comedy: The Sound of Fun
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: $20 dinner and show, $10 show only
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The performance will be preceded by dinner at 6:30 pm.

DFtA specializes in audience interactive improv and is one of the longest-running improv troupes in Central New York. Having toured all over the area, their large stable of theatrically trained actors rotate in and out of each show, ensuring a unique experience each time. This time the kids of DFtA will focus on musical games and even have special musical guests.

Come enjoy an evening of improv in the style of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and Drew Carey's "Improvaganza."

Victor/Victoria
ArtRage Gallery

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

Julie Andrews sparkles as a starving soprano in Jazz Age Paris who, in order to work, pretends to be a man. She becomes the toast of Pareé but her life becomes complicated because the man she pretends to be must pretend to be a woman. All this and she sings, or he sings, in a spectacular entertainment that bends genders every which way to make a gay rights point. Co-Starring James Garner, Oscar-nominated Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren. (1982, 132 minutes)

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

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

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

Oakwood Visions Ghostwalk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Reservations by June 7: $10 regular, $8 OHA members. After June 7: $12 regular, $10 members
Oakwood Cemetery
940 Comstock Ave., Syracuse

Discover a pathway into the past through the picturesque "old section" of Oakwood Cemetery and meet some of the fascinating folks that now reside there. Tours start at 6:00 pm and leave every 15 minutes until 7:15 pm, from Oakwood Cemetery's Chapel, rain or shine. Tours last 90 minutes. Participants should enter from the East Colvin Street entrance and drive to the gothic-style Chapel, where parking is available.

Oakwood Visions will take you on a stroll through Oakwood Cemetery's oldest section, Devotion Valley. As guests walk though the cemetery route with a guide, they will meet costumed actors portraying a number of Oakwood "residents": an adventurous early settler, a Fayetteville diva, a member of retail royalty, an investor and innovator, and a tragic figure of scandal and lost love. Actors include David Baber, Bryan Allen Jones, Brian Goldblatt, Marcia Mahaffy, and Kevin Shumway.

Reservations strongly recommended. For more information and to make reservations, phone Karen at 315-428-1864 x312.

Cantare e Sonare, Bonum Est
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse

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

Schola's instrumental ensemble Gamba Obscura will present a concert in the round in the atrium of Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church. Alex Raykov, Consort Master, will lead the musicians in music of Cipriano, Brumel, Cima and many others. Featured will be vocal music from the 16th and 17th centuries played on four viols.

Pirate Jam
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

History Book Club: Remembering Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association
Featuring Dick Case

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

Former newspaper columnist Dick Case will discuss his book, Remembering Syracuse, and will be available to sign books.

For over 50 years, Dick Case was the "Neighbors" columnist for the Syracuse Post-Standard and now volunteers as a researcher and writer for OHA. Remembering Syracuse, published in 2009 and in its second printing, is his latest book. The back cover states, "From heartwarming stories of neighbors' good deeds and lovers reunited after war to the tragedies of unsolved murders and abandoned children, Case presents an intimate look at the families, friends and neighbors who call Syracuse home." In the book's introduction, Case declares, "These are the sort of folks who lit up my life through a career. They won the small stories that don't make headlines. They rest there, waiting to be mined."

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children (group discounts available)
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical, by Mo Willems, tells a tale of firsts: a stuffed animal's first trip in the laundry, a little girl's first words, and a Daddy's first time dealing with his child going "boneless." It sounds so simple, just a quick trip to the laundromat in Brooklyn with Daddy, Trixie, and her beloved Knuffle Bunny but before you know it things go horribly, hilariously wrong. This new smash hit children's musical is chock full of adventure, song and gigantic dancing laundry! This Gifford Family Theatre show is fun for all ages.

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

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

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children (group discounts available)
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical, by Mo Willems, tells a tale of firsts: a stuffed animal's first trip in the laundry, a little girl's first words, and a Daddy's first time dealing with his child going "boneless." It sounds so simple, just a quick trip to the laundromat in Brooklyn with Daddy, Trixie, and her beloved Knuffle Bunny but before you know it things go horribly, hilariously wrong. This new smash hit children's musical is chock full of adventure, song and gigantic dancing laundry! This Gifford Family Theatre show is fun for all ages.

Squids will be Squids
CNY Shakespeare
Terry LaCasse, director

Price: Pay what you can
Jewish Community Center
5655 Thompson Rd., Dewitt

The stage adaptation of John Sciezska's famous children's book, Squids Will be Squids. Three actors take on a multitude of zany characters and crazy fables. This show is perfect for kids and the whole family.

Read a review!

Macbeth
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: Free
All Saints Church
1340 Lancaster Ave., Syracuse

Enjoy this 60-minute outdoor adaptation of Shakespeare's classic thriller! Six performers play all the roles, blending inventive physicality, evocative design, and original text to create this mesmerizing and chilling tale of greed and ambition. Set in a 20th-century militaristic society, this accessible adaptation will appeal to audiences new to Macbeth as well as those already acquainted with this renowned tragedy.

Read a review!

Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical was created for the New York Fringe Festival in 2001. The story, dialogue and characters are mostly faithful to the original film, performed as a tongue-in-cheek spoof. After playing to sell-out crowds, it was picked up and had a successful four-month run Off-Broadway in 2002. Since then, it's played to packed houses around the world.

Adapted by Erica Schmidt; composed by Andrew Sherman; choreographer: Jodi Bova-Mele.

Read a Review!

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

The Last Hurrah
Szozda Gallery

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

In a final tribute to the many Central New York artists who have shown at Szozda Gallery, owner Caroline Szozda-McGowan has chosen to do a salon-style multimedia show of their works to cover all walls throughout the entire Delavan Center display areas. Called "The Last Hurrah," the retrospective exhibit ends Sunday, June 30, with a closing reception that also marks the official closing of the gallery.

Splendor in the Glass: Rain Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The June show features new stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho. The Michos specialize in stained glass for your home and garden.

Bloom
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Bloom" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition features artwork with the theme of renewal and investigates the innate beauty of nature. The show includes drawing, photography, watercolor, sculpture, and ceramics.

Participating artists include Anne Novado Capuccilli, Willson Cummer, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Kelly Sullivan, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Saturation of Color
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by ceramist Jerry Randall of Tully and silkscreen artist Michael Foster of Marcellus will be featured.

Randall, whose works have appeared in more than 60 shows nationwide, exhibited this past year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show and at shows in Atlanta, Boston, Northampton, MA, and Nashua, NH. Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

Foster, who graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in May with a bachelor's degree in architectural studies, was represented in Imagine's May show, "HWS Printmaking Workshop." In addition to Imagine, he has exhibited at HWS's Davis Gallery and at the Hobart and William Smith Library. During his junior year, he studied at Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, in Rome.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

Read a review!

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Squids will be Squids
CNY Shakespeare
Terry LaCasse, director

Price: Pay what you can
Jewish Community Center
5655 Thompson Rd., Dewitt

The stage adaptation of John Sciezska's famous children's book, Squids Will be Squids. Three actors take on a multitude of zany characters and crazy fables. This show is perfect for kids and the whole family.

Read a review!

Macbeth
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: Free
Clift Park
Genesee St., Skaneateles

Rain location: Skaneateles Library

Enjoy this 60-minute outdoor adaptation of Shakespeare's classic thriller! Six performers play all the roles, blending inventive physicality, evocative design, and original text to create this mesmerizing and chilling tale of greed and ambition. Set in a 20th-century militaristic society, this accessible adaptation will appeal to audiences new to Macbeth as well as those already acquainted with this renowned tragedy.

Read a review!

Macbeth
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

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

Rain location: Cafe 407

Enjoy this 60-minute outdoor adaptation of Shakespeare's classic thriller! Six performers play all the roles, blending inventive physicality, evocative design, and original text to create this mesmerizing and chilling tale of greed and ambition. Set in a 20th-century militaristic society, this accessible adaptation will appeal to audiences new to Macbeth as well as those already acquainted with this renowned tragedy.

Read a review!

Monday, June 17, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

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

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

They Left 150 Years Ago
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

"They Left 150 Years Ago," a solo photography exhibition by Jason DeBose, is a visual introduction to the Finnish city of Tampere and its local lifestyle, as well as a visual look at the Finnish influence on America's northeast cities and at Finnish-American heritage. The exhibition also aims to reenergize the dormant sister city relationship between the cities of Syracuse, NY, and Tampere, Finland. Official ties originally established over 20 years ago with the co-hosting of a boxing competition. This exhibit will be the first portion of a two-part engagement that focuses on the sister city relationship. The second portion, a premier screening of the Finnish black comedy film, Iron Sky will be announced shortly.

Jason DeBose is an acclaimed photographer from Pasadena, CA. Mr. DeBose's work has been showcased internationally, including in Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Estonia, and United States.

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

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

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

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

Employee Art Show
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Splendor in the Glass: Rain Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The June show features new stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho. The Michos specialize in stained glass for your home and garden.

Saturation of Color
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by ceramist Jerry Randall of Tully and silkscreen artist Michael Foster of Marcellus will be featured.

Randall, whose works have appeared in more than 60 shows nationwide, exhibited this past year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show and at shows in Atlanta, Boston, Northampton, MA, and Nashua, NH. Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

Foster, who graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in May with a bachelor's degree in architectural studies, was represented in Imagine's May show, "HWS Printmaking Workshop." In addition to Imagine, he has exhibited at HWS's Davis Gallery and at the Hobart and William Smith Library. During his junior year, he studied at Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, in Rome.

Earth Tones: Works by Carol Boyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Earth Tones is an exhibit of the fabric art of Carol Boyer, a fiber artist who has been creating non-traditional quilts for almost 40 years.

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

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

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

Artist Talk: Mike Greenlar
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Join award-winning photographer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, Mike Greenlar, as he chronicles his travels to a remote mountain region of Laos in an artist talk about his exhibition at ArtRage, "Remnants of A Secret War." Light refreshments will be served.

The Fab Cats
Liverpool is the Place

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

British Invasion covers

George Porter Jr. & The Runnin' Pardners
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

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

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

They Left 150 Years Ago
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

"They Left 150 Years Ago," a solo photography exhibition by Jason DeBose, is a visual introduction to the Finnish city of Tampere and its local lifestyle, as well as a visual look at the Finnish influence on America's northeast cities and at Finnish-American heritage. The exhibition also aims to reenergize the dormant sister city relationship between the cities of Syracuse, NY, and Tampere, Finland. Official ties originally established over 20 years ago with the co-hosting of a boxing competition. This exhibit will be the first portion of a two-part engagement that focuses on the sister city relationship. The second portion, a premier screening of the Finnish black comedy film, Iron Sky will be announced shortly.

Jason DeBose is an acclaimed photographer from Pasadena, CA. Mr. DeBose's work has been showcased internationally, including in Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Estonia, and United States.

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

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

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

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

Employee Art Show
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Splendor in the Glass: Rain Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The June show features new stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho. The Michos specialize in stained glass for your home and garden.

Saturation of Color
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by ceramist Jerry Randall of Tully and silkscreen artist Michael Foster of Marcellus will be featured.

Randall, whose works have appeared in more than 60 shows nationwide, exhibited this past year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show and at shows in Atlanta, Boston, Northampton, MA, and Nashua, NH. Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

Foster, who graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in May with a bachelor's degree in architectural studies, was represented in Imagine's May show, "HWS Printmaking Workshop." In addition to Imagine, he has exhibited at HWS's Davis Gallery and at the Hobart and William Smith Library. During his junior year, he studied at Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, in Rome.

Earth Tones: Works by Carol Boyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Earth Tones is an exhibit of the fabric art of Carol Boyer, a fiber artist who has been creating non-traditional quilts for almost 40 years.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

Read a review!

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

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

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

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

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

They Left 150 Years Ago
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

"They Left 150 Years Ago," a solo photography exhibition by Jason DeBose, is a visual introduction to the Finnish city of Tampere and its local lifestyle, as well as a visual look at the Finnish influence on America's northeast cities and at Finnish-American heritage. The exhibition also aims to reenergize the dormant sister city relationship between the cities of Syracuse, NY, and Tampere, Finland. Official ties originally established over 20 years ago with the co-hosting of a boxing competition. This exhibit will be the first portion of a two-part engagement that focuses on the sister city relationship. The second portion, a premier screening of the Finnish black comedy film, Iron Sky will be announced shortly.

Jason DeBose is an acclaimed photographer from Pasadena, CA. Mr. DeBose's work has been showcased internationally, including in Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Estonia, and United States.

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

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

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

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

Employee Art Show
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Splendor in the Glass: Rain Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The June show features new stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho. The Michos specialize in stained glass for your home and garden.

Saturation of Color
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by ceramist Jerry Randall of Tully and silkscreen artist Michael Foster of Marcellus will be featured.

Randall, whose works have appeared in more than 60 shows nationwide, exhibited this past year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show and at shows in Atlanta, Boston, Northampton, MA, and Nashua, NH. Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

Foster, who graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in May with a bachelor's degree in architectural studies, was represented in Imagine's May show, "HWS Printmaking Workshop." In addition to Imagine, he has exhibited at HWS's Davis Gallery and at the Hobart and William Smith Library. During his junior year, he studied at Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, in Rome.

Earth Tones: Works by Carol Boyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Earth Tones is an exhibit of the fabric art of Carol Boyer, a fiber artist who has been creating non-traditional quilts for almost 40 years.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

The Last Hurrah
Szozda Gallery

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

In a final tribute to the many Central New York artists who have shown at Szozda Gallery, owner Caroline Szozda-McGowan has chosen to do a salon-style multimedia show of their works to cover all walls throughout the entire Delavan Center display areas. Called "The Last Hurrah," the retrospective exhibit ends Sunday, June 30, with a closing reception that also marks the official closing of the gallery.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

Read a review!

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

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

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

Remnants of a Secret War: Photographs by Mike Greenlar
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

An award-winning photographer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, Mike Greenlar traveled 10 times to a remote mountain region of Laos to document the effects of cluster bombing on the Hmong people. The US covert bombing campaign between 1964 and 1973 gave Laos the distinction of being the most bombed country in the history of warfare--over two million tons of ordnance was dropped. Mike documented life in two resettlement villages where the Hmong continue to farm land rife with unexploded cluster bombs and other munitions. His work shows the resourcefulness of a people who rely on each other, and on those very bombs, for their livelihood. The result is a stunning collection of documentary photographs. "Remnants of a Secret War," also the title of his recently published book, displays both some of the collection found in the book and some never before published. The legacy of the "secret" bombings of Laos takes many forms and offers many stories. In this collection of painfully yet beautifully rendered black and white photographs, he shares some of them with us.

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

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

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

Lunchtime Lectures: The Archers of the Quad
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Associate Director David Prince will present an examination of Emile Antoine Bourdelle's Herakles, 1909 and Luise Meyers Kaish's Saltine Warrior, 1951, each installed on the Shaw Quadrangle.

The Summer Lunchtime Lectures series will focus on art on campus, objects installed in campus buildings, or outside or adjacent to the Shaw Quadrangle. The tour and lecture will begin at the SUArt Galleries and then as a group walk to the location of the artwork. Outdoor lectures will be weather permitting.

Mark Doyle & The Maniacs
Liverpool is the Place

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

British blues-rock

Macbeth
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: Free
Orenda Springs
4939 Lawless Rd., Marcellus

Enjoy this 60-minute outdoor adaptation of Shakespeare's classic thriller! Six performers play all the roles, blending inventive physicality, evocative design, and original text to create this mesmerizing and chilling tale of greed and ambition. Set in a 20th-century militaristic society, this accessible adaptation will appeal to audiences new to Macbeth as well as those already acquainted with this renowned tragedy.

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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

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

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

They Left 150 Years Ago
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

"They Left 150 Years Ago," a solo photography exhibition by Jason DeBose, is a visual introduction to the Finnish city of Tampere and its local lifestyle, as well as a visual look at the Finnish influence on America's northeast cities and at Finnish-American heritage. The exhibition also aims to reenergize the dormant sister city relationship between the cities of Syracuse, NY, and Tampere, Finland. Official ties originally established over 20 years ago with the co-hosting of a boxing competition. This exhibit will be the first portion of a two-part engagement that focuses on the sister city relationship. The second portion, a premier screening of the Finnish black comedy film, Iron Sky will be announced shortly.

Jason DeBose is an acclaimed photographer from Pasadena, CA. Mr. DeBose's work has been showcased internationally, including in Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Estonia, and United States.

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

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

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

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

Splendor in the Glass: Rain Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The June show features new stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho. The Michos specialize in stained glass for your home and garden.

Saturation of Color
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by ceramist Jerry Randall of Tully and silkscreen artist Michael Foster of Marcellus will be featured.

Randall, whose works have appeared in more than 60 shows nationwide, exhibited this past year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show and at shows in Atlanta, Boston, Northampton, MA, and Nashua, NH. Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

Foster, who graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in May with a bachelor's degree in architectural studies, was represented in Imagine's May show, "HWS Printmaking Workshop." In addition to Imagine, he has exhibited at HWS's Davis Gallery and at the Hobart and William Smith Library. During his junior year, he studied at Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, in Rome.

Earth Tones: Works by Carol Boyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Earth Tones is an exhibit of the fabric art of Carol Boyer, a fiber artist who has been creating non-traditional quilts for almost 40 years.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

The Last Hurrah
Szozda Gallery

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

In a final tribute to the many Central New York artists who have shown at Szozda Gallery, owner Caroline Szozda-McGowan has chosen to do a salon-style multimedia show of their works to cover all walls throughout the entire Delavan Center display areas. Called "The Last Hurrah," the retrospective exhibit ends Sunday, June 30, with a closing reception that also marks the official closing of the gallery.

Bloom
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Bloom" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition features artwork with the theme of renewal and investigates the innate beauty of nature. The show includes drawing, photography, watercolor, sculpture, and ceramics.

Participating artists include Anne Novado Capuccilli, Willson Cummer, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Kelly Sullivan, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

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

Remnants of a Secret War: Photographs by Mike Greenlar
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

An award-winning photographer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, Mike Greenlar traveled 10 times to a remote mountain region of Laos to document the effects of cluster bombing on the Hmong people. The US covert bombing campaign between 1964 and 1973 gave Laos the distinction of being the most bombed country in the history of warfare--over two million tons of ordnance was dropped. Mike documented life in two resettlement villages where the Hmong continue to farm land rife with unexploded cluster bombs and other munitions. His work shows the resourcefulness of a people who rely on each other, and on those very bombs, for their livelihood. The result is a stunning collection of documentary photographs. "Remnants of a Secret War," also the title of his recently published book, displays both some of the collection found in the book and some never before published. The legacy of the "secret" bombings of Laos takes many forms and offers many stories. In this collection of painfully yet beautifully rendered black and white photographs, he shares some of them with us.

Trees: Totems of Life
bc Restaurant

bc Restaurant
247 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Maria Rizzo is known for her paintings that celebrate trees, nature, and life. bc Restaurant will be the last Syracuse venue in which Rizzo's series, "Trees: Totems of Life," will be shown before hanging on the walls of the Living Room Gallery at St. Peter's Church in New York City.

Academic Art...Teachers That Do: Works by Mark McIntyre
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Opening reception for "Academic Art...Teachers That Do," featuring the work of Mark McIntyre who teaches art at Tecumseh Elementary School in the Jamesville-DeWitt school system. Mark, who will be in attendance, will have a series of original drawings called "Thornden Nightfall" as well as a series of Mezotints called "The Aristocrat" and he will also be installing a ceramic sculpture piece.

Let It Flow: A Path of Ease
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

Pourings, dyed fabric journeys, and henna creations -- acrylics on canvas and mixed media. Suzanne Masters is a henna artist, a healing arts teacher, and an alternative therapies coach.

Open House
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Delavan Center, #119
112 Wyoming St., Syracuse

Our doors will be open -- browse our gift shop and visit with the guild's artists.

Facing the Facts
Westcott Community Art Gallery
Open Figure Drawing

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

There will be a reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm, with light refreshments and special guest musician Jesse Collins on the saxophone. The reception is presented in conjunction with Th3, the Third Thursday citywide art walk.

Open Figure Drawing presents their 2013 Portrait show "Facing the Facts."

UVP Annual Summer Review: Sightings by Shimon Attie
Urban Video Project

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

Shimon Attie describes his process:
For "Sightings," I created a video installation exploring the heightened moment of mutual encounter between art viewer and art object, between works of art and museum visitors and employees. I selected 40 objects from the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and asked individuals to participate in a "dialogue" with a work of art, each taking an expressive gesture and gaze that embodied their emotional response to the art object... Slow-motion cinematography, frozen gestures, and an unseen moving stage comment on the active/passive quality of the interactions.

The Goo House Comedy Show
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $3
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Goo House, a comedy group from Rochester, makes their first Syracuse appearance.

Pork Pie Hat
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Join Salt City Improv Theatre for 60 minutes of non-stop laughter!

Spatial Profiling
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The self-proclaimed Susan Boyle of comedy, Anna Phillips performs her first one-woman show combining elements of stand-up comedy, storytelling, and poetry to share her outlook on life from Baltimore to Syracuse. Tales of addiction, violence, weight gain, depression, and more sprinkled with humor along the way, this level of vulnerability on stage is a new experiment for this up-and-coming local comedienne.

Spring Collection: Dancing from Chicago to Milan
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Ruth Arena and Dancers present an evening of Modern Dance. Enjoy a variety of dance pieces ranging from the joyful to the exuberant, silly, and poignant. Ruth Arena and Melissa Gould present original choreography performed by dancers from Ballet & Dance of Upstate NY.

Bombies
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The most appalling episode of lawless cruelty in American history is the bombing of Laos. If you want to know what Afghanistan will be like in 20 years, watch Bombies. In a cohesive, well-documented approach, Bombies beautifully captures the history and effects of the U.S. carpet bombing in Laos. Between 1964 and 1973 the United States conducted a secret air war, dropping over 2 million tons of bombs and making tiny Laos the most heavily bombed country in history. Millions of these cluster bombs did not explode when dropped, leaving the country massively contaminated with bombies as dangerous now as when they fell 30 years ago. Bombies examines the problem of unexploded cluster bombs through the personal experiences of a group of Laotians and foreigners and argues for their elimination as a weapon of war. Unfortunately they are still a standard part of the US arsenal and were dropped in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. (2002, 57 minutes, directed by Jack Silberman)

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

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

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

Total Request Live
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Join regionally renowned vocalist Greg Giovanini in a zany, hilarious, heartwarming performance of original works and re-interpreted classics. Not your average concert, filled with unexpected twists, turns and characters -- you'll never know what is going to happen next!

Aoife O'Donovan
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Trial
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

It's the court case of the year and you never know what will happen next! When male nurse Chaz is put on trial, will his friends and family be enough to prove his innocence? Dedicated journalists, power hungry lawyers, fame-seeking judges, and other zany characters abound in this award-winning original work presented by the Jamesville-DeWitt High School Drama Club in a special scholastic stage performance.

Enlightened Men
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Enlightened Men is a suite of three 15-minute plays. One piece deals with the nature of love and how a man come to terms with it. Another deals with power and how it so defines a man. And a third conversation discusses the very presence of man and the effect that it has. While each of these conversations are different, by the end of all of them, one or both men will have become enlightened--whether they like it or not.

Divine Milieu
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

L. John Cieslinski delivers a compelling performance as 20th-century philosopher, theologian, paleontologist, and priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Discouraged and frustrated by the Vatican's efforts to silence him for his views on evolution and his Order's heavy-handedness in dealing with him, Teilhard confides his feelings to a sympathetic friend. Raw with truth and emotion, a lifetime struggle between religion and science rests upon one last confession.

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

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

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

A Little Tipsy
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Join sideshow artist David Doyle on his quest to earn some cash to keep up his luxurious lifestyle of expensive beers and cheap ramen going in the best way he knows how--hurting himself for your entertainment! Having lost a bar bet or two in his life, he's come up with quite the repertoire of stupid human tricks. Things will be swallowed, bondage applied, nails will be laid upon, and much more.