Monday, November 13, 2023

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Horse Feathers (1932)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $4 non-members, $3.50 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Cast: The Four Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo), Thelma Todd, David Landau, Nat Pendleton
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
The zany Paramount comedy with the Marxes running wild at dignified Huxley College. The version that we're screening is the recent studio restoration that has this Marx favorite looking terrific.

PLUS Charley Chase and Thelma Todd in the 1930 comedy short Looser Than Loose.

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Stephen Carpenter: visual interpretations of the rich and nuanced sound of Pierre Cochereau's organ improvisation of Bolero, presented as digital imagery on canvas
Michael Hughes: textural wheel thrown stoneware and porcelain
Lily Tsay: glass bead and homemade porcelain bead jewelry with select materials

A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Brendan Slocumb
Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series

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

Raised in Fayetteville, NC, Brendan Slocumb holds a degree in music education with concentrations in violin and viola from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. For the past 23 years, he has been a public and private school music educator, teaching general music, orchestra and guitar ensembles. His debut mystery thriller, The Violin Conspiracy, was published in 2022 to glowing reviews and was selected as a Good Morning America Book Club Pick. Due out in 2023, his follow up page turner, Symphony of Secrets, seeks to right a wrong when race intersects with the uncovering of a famous musical piece's true composer.

Jazz at Timber Banks: Ronnie Leigh
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Persimmons
3536 Timber Banks Pkwy., Baldwinsville

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Stephen Carpenter: visual interpretations of the rich and nuanced sound of Pierre Cochereau's organ improvisation of Bolero, presented as digital imagery on canvas
Michael Hughes: textural wheel thrown stoneware and porcelain
Lily Tsay: glass bead and homemade porcelain bead jewelry with select materials

A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.

Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.

Pick and Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art—but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you "Pick & Mix," a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.

William Mazza: Forest for Trees
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

William Mazza, a collective member of Syracuse's Altered Space gallery (1991-1996) and currently an artist based in New York City, uses chance, duration, and accumulation to interpret landscape as the relationship of people to mediated environments. The most material expressions of his wide-ranging projects are drawings, paintings, animations, and video created by translating subjects such as lived environments, spatial relocations, television programs, or text into constructions of landscape.

While Mazza responds to his surroundings in many exploratory ways, in this, his Literary Landscape series exhibited with us, he mines the words from texts written by such authors as Angela Davis, Cecilia Vicuna, Anne Waldman, and Susan Sontag. He then separates them into the letters that fill one written page ... and one painting.

Art Break: A Conversation with the Curators of Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Snaps & Taps Open Mic Hosted by Randum
Community Folk Art Center

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

Join us for an awesome evening of creativity and talent at the Community Folk Art Center. Get ready to be blown away by the incredible performances at this in-person event. Whether you're a poet, musician or just love to appreciate raw talent, this open mic is the place to be. Hosted by the one and only Randum, this event promises to be a night filled with laughter, inspiration and unforgettable moments. So grab your friends, bring your snaps and taps and let's make some magic together.

The Rock Orchestra By Candlelight
The Oncenter

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

Eleven classical instrument wielding musicians, breathing beautifully dark energy into legendary Rock and Metal tracks.

Bathed in a sea of candles, skeletal players with rhinestone masks effortlessly switch between sublime melodies & powerful walls of sound.

Crooked lurching towers, floating lanterns & giant head-banging puppets set the stage for an otherworldly musical experience.

George Saunders
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

George Saunders is the author of 12 books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the 2017 Man Booker Prize for best work of fiction in English, and was a finalist for the Golden Man Booker, in which one Booker winner was selected to represent each decade, from the 50 years since the Prize's inception.

His stories have appeared regularly in The New Yorker since 1992. The short story collection Tenth of December was a finalist for the National Book Award, and it won the inaugural Folio Prize in 2013 (for the best work of fiction in English) and the Story Prize (best short story collection).

He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships as well as the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013, he was named one of the world's 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. In support of his work, he has appeared on The Colbert Report, Late Night with David Letterman, All Things Considered, and The Diane Rehm Show.

He has taught, since 1997, in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University

The reading will be preceded by a question-and-answer session beginning at 4:00 pm.

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Thursday, November 16, 2023

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Stephen Carpenter: visual interpretations of the rich and nuanced sound of Pierre Cochereau's organ improvisation of Bolero, presented as digital imagery on canvas
Michael Hughes: textural wheel thrown stoneware and porcelain
Lily Tsay: glass bead and homemade porcelain bead jewelry with select materials

A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

Pick and Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art—but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you "Pick & Mix," a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.

Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.

Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.

Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Dan Shanahan's paintings highlight the quiet beauty found in scenes of everyday life. His plein air watercolors depict residential and downtown neighborhoods throughout the city of Syracuse, focusing on distinctive buildings and houses.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

476 S. Salina St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring 45 or more local artists who have created everything from jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

William Mazza: Forest for Trees
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

William Mazza, a collective member of Syracuse's Altered Space gallery (1991-1996) and currently an artist based in New York City, uses chance, duration, and accumulation to interpret landscape as the relationship of people to mediated environments. The most material expressions of his wide-ranging projects are drawings, paintings, animations, and video created by translating subjects such as lived environments, spatial relocations, television programs, or text into constructions of landscape.

While Mazza responds to his surroundings in many exploratory ways, in this, his Literary Landscape series exhibited with us, he mines the words from texts written by such authors as Angela Davis, Cecilia Vicuna, Anne Waldman, and Susan Sontag. He then separates them into the letters that fill one written page ... and one painting.

Institute of Queer Ecology: Hysteria
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Hysteria is an original video by Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO). In this work, the institute uses image, movement, and sound to construct an ecofeminist retelling of the poorly understood "dancing plagues" that swept through Europe between the 10th and the 17th centuries. The afflicted dancers are subtly recast as pointedly subversive agents entangled in environmental contagion and contamination that drive these wild, manic uprisings.

Dancing plagues (also referred to as dancing mania, choreomania, and tarantism) were spontaneous social phenomena in which groups of people, at times in the thousands, danced erratically and without restraint. The mania affected people of all ages and genders, and they often danced until they collapsed from exhaustion or suffered injury and even death.

Shot in and around Syracuse as part of Light Work UVP's Residential Media Art Commission program, Hysteria features many iconic Central New York locations, including the Syracuse Metro Water Treatment Plant on Onondaga Lake, Pratt's Falls, and Stone Quarry Art Park. (12:33, 2023)

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.

Lunchtime Lecture: How Syracuse Gave Birth to the Studio Ceramics Movement
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free ($10 donation appreciated)
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Ceramics are enjoying an astonishing resurgence in popularity. Ceramics seem to have finally broken through in the fine art world, and community studios are having a hard time meeting the demand for classes. Garth Johnson, the Everson Museum of Art's ceramics curator, will detail the astounding people and events that made the rise of ceramics as an artistic discipline possible.

This lecture will be held in person and on Zoom. All registrants will receive a recording of the talk following its completion.

Pat McGee
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Setnor Ensemble Series: Wind Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Soil: A Reading by Poet and Essayist Camille T. Dungy
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
Online

Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award. She is also the author of the essay collections Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden (Simon & Schuster, 2023) and Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Dungy has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, her honors include NEA Fellowships in poetry (2003) and prose (2018), an American Book Award, two NAACP Image Award nominations, and two Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominations. Dungy's poems have been published in Best American Poetry, The 100 Best African American Poems, the Pushcart Anthology, Best American Travel Writing, and over thirty other anthologies. She is University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University.

Presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University Humanities Center, in the College of Arts and Sciences, as part of the 2023-24 Syracuse Symposium on Landscape.

Homestyle Homicide: The Freagan Family Reunion
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

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

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Friday, November 17, 2023

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Stephen Carpenter: visual interpretations of the rich and nuanced sound of Pierre Cochereau's organ improvisation of Bolero, presented as digital imagery on canvas
Michael Hughes: textural wheel thrown stoneware and porcelain
Lily Tsay: glass bead and homemade porcelain bead jewelry with select materials

A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.

38th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $4 children 3–17, free ages 2 and under (museum members free)
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s canal town street scene with gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

Pick and Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art—but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you "Pick & Mix," a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.

Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.

Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.

Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Dan Shanahan's paintings highlight the quiet beauty found in scenes of everyday life. His plein air watercolors depict residential and downtown neighborhoods throughout the city of Syracuse, focusing on distinctive buildings and houses.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

476 S. Salina St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring 45 or more local artists who have created everything from jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

On My Own Time Retrospective
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

This year marks the 50th anniversary of On My Own Time, a creative showcase produced by CNY Arts. For a half-century, On My Own Time has offered a unique forum for avocational artists to display their original visual artwork.

Each artist is a member of the local workforce, and businesses are encouraged to participate and celebrate the creative achievement of their employees. On My Own Time was inspired by individuals who make art outside of the hours dedicated to their career. On My Own Time welcomes nonprofessional artists of all levels of expertise and experience who share the joy of creative expression in common.

This fall, join CNY Arts and participants of On My Own Time - past and present - to celebrate our avocational creative community! The On My Own Time 50th Anniversary Retrospective will run at the new Art in the Atrium gallery and programming space, located right in the heart of downtown!

William Mazza: Forest for Trees
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

William Mazza, a collective member of Syracuse's Altered Space gallery (1991-1996) and currently an artist based in New York City, uses chance, duration, and accumulation to interpret landscape as the relationship of people to mediated environments. The most material expressions of his wide-ranging projects are drawings, paintings, animations, and video created by translating subjects such as lived environments, spatial relocations, television programs, or text into constructions of landscape.

While Mazza responds to his surroundings in many exploratory ways, in this, his Literary Landscape series exhibited with us, he mines the words from texts written by such authors as Angela Davis, Cecilia Vicuna, Anne Waldman, and Susan Sontag. He then separates them into the letters that fill one written page ... and one painting.

Institute of Queer Ecology: Hysteria
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Hysteria is an original video by Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO). In this work, the institute uses image, movement, and sound to construct an ecofeminist retelling of the poorly understood "dancing plagues" that swept through Europe between the 10th and the 17th centuries. The afflicted dancers are subtly recast as pointedly subversive agents entangled in environmental contagion and contamination that drive these wild, manic uprisings.

Dancing plagues (also referred to as dancing mania, choreomania, and tarantism) were spontaneous social phenomena in which groups of people, at times in the thousands, danced erratically and without restraint. The mania affected people of all ages and genders, and they often danced until they collapsed from exhaustion or suffered injury and even death.

Shot in and around Syracuse as part of Light Work UVP's Residential Media Art Commission program, Hysteria features many iconic Central New York locations, including the Syracuse Metro Water Treatment Plant on Onondaga Lake, Pratt's Falls, and Stone Quarry Art Park. (12:33, 2023)

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.

Fayetteville Free Library Film Series: Pieces of April

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

*SOLD OUT* Ronnie Leigh
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Syracuse Acoustic Guitar Project
Folkus Project

Price: $18 regular, $15 Folkus members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"One guitar. One week. One song."

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Acoustic Guitar Project is an international songwriting project that originated in New York City and has spread around the world, from Amsterdam to Asheville, Havana to Hanoi, Minneapolis to Moscow, and São Paulo to...Syracuse.

In each city, a guitar circulates from songwriter to songwriter, and each person has one week to write a song on that guitar, capture it on a handheld recorder, sign their names to the guitar and pass it along. This year's Syracuse-area songwriters will be announced as they complete their songs. Each will perform the new songs (as well as other originals) in this unique concert presented by the Syracuse Acoustic Guitar Project and Folkus.

The Syracuse Acoustic Guitar Project began in 2014, curated by Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, with a guitar handmade in Maryland by Minor Bird Instruments. To date, 50 songs have been written on the Syracuse guitar.

The project was created to help musicians reconnect to the original moment that inspired them to be singer/songwriters. Rodgers says the beauty of the project is its spontaneity. Songwriters may go into the project thinking they'll write a particular kind of song, but often finish the week with a drastically different creation. Join us as we listen to where the guitar takes them.

The Game of Life
Breadcrumbs Productions
Tanner Efinger, director

Price: Suggested donation $30
Wunderbar
201 S. West St., Syracuse

The Game of Life is a brand new f*cked up immersive adventure by Tanner Efinger which invites you to play a game ... which you are already playing. You'll choose your own path or your path will choose you on this absurdist's spin of the American Dream. Everyone has "equal opportunity" to win it big in Millionaire Acres — or lose it all and die alone. And whether you like it or not, we're all playing the fantastically fun, not-so-family-friendly fun fun FUN for all, The Game of Life.

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Saturday, November 18, 2023

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

38th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $4 children 3–17, free ages 2 and under (museum members free)
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s canal town street scene with gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows.

Pick and Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art—but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you "Pick & Mix," a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.

Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.

Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Dan Shanahan's paintings highlight the quiet beauty found in scenes of everyday life. His plein air watercolors depict residential and downtown neighborhoods throughout the city of Syracuse, focusing on distinctive buildings and houses.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

476 S. Salina St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring 45 or more local artists who have created everything from jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.

On My Own Time Retrospective
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

This year marks the 50th anniversary of On My Own Time, a creative showcase produced by CNY Arts. For a half-century, On My Own Time has offered a unique forum for avocational artists to display their original visual artwork.

Each artist is a member of the local workforce, and businesses are encouraged to participate and celebrate the creative achievement of their employees. On My Own Time was inspired by individuals who make art outside of the hours dedicated to their career. On My Own Time welcomes nonprofessional artists of all levels of expertise and experience who share the joy of creative expression in common.

This fall, join CNY Arts and participants of On My Own Time - past and present - to celebrate our avocational creative community! The On My Own Time 50th Anniversary Retrospective will run at the new Art in the Atrium gallery and programming space, located right in the heart of downtown!

William Mazza: Forest for Trees
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

William Mazza, a collective member of Syracuse's Altered Space gallery (1991-1996) and currently an artist based in New York City, uses chance, duration, and accumulation to interpret landscape as the relationship of people to mediated environments. The most material expressions of his wide-ranging projects are drawings, paintings, animations, and video created by translating subjects such as lived environments, spatial relocations, television programs, or text into constructions of landscape.

While Mazza responds to his surroundings in many exploratory ways, in this, his Literary Landscape series exhibited with us, he mines the words from texts written by such authors as Angela Davis, Cecilia Vicuna, Anne Waldman, and Susan Sontag. He then separates them into the letters that fill one written page ... and one painting.

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Institute of Queer Ecology: Hysteria
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Hysteria is an original video by Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO). In this work, the institute uses image, movement, and sound to construct an ecofeminist retelling of the poorly understood "dancing plagues" that swept through Europe between the 10th and the 17th centuries. The afflicted dancers are subtly recast as pointedly subversive agents entangled in environmental contagion and contamination that drive these wild, manic uprisings.

Dancing plagues (also referred to as dancing mania, choreomania, and tarantism) were spontaneous social phenomena in which groups of people, at times in the thousands, danced erratically and without restraint. The mania affected people of all ages and genders, and they often danced until they collapsed from exhaustion or suffered injury and even death.

Shot in and around Syracuse as part of Light Work UVP's Residential Media Art Commission program, Hysteria features many iconic Central New York locations, including the Syracuse Metro Water Treatment Plant on Onondaga Lake, Pratt's Falls, and Stone Quarry Art Park. (12:33, 2023)

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.

Kusumavali: Anjani Dance Academy's Annual Dance Recital
Palace Theatre

Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Central New York's premier Indian dance academy brings you a recital of renowned Indian Kathak Dance. After a hiatus following an acclaimed recital in 2019, Anjani Dance Academy returns to showcase a suite of Indian dances that portrays the vivid narrative underlying Indian culture, mythology and festivals. You would not want to miss the vibrant panoply of colorful costumes, resonant rhythms of indigenous instruments and timeless melodies harmonized into this one-of-a-kind event!

Gems from Piano World: Piano Studio of Ida Tili-Trebicka
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: $10
Park Central Presbyterian Church
504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Students from the piano studio of Ida Tili-Trebicka present piano masterworks.

Miller & the Other Sinners
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Count Blastula Album Release Party and Colin Ab
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Count Blastula, Adam Fisher's two-time SAMMY award winning jam band, will celebrate the release of BLAST OFF, their fifth album.

The night includes an opening act, Los Blancos frontman and Old Boy Records blues artist Colin Aberdeen. Fisher's show will include special guest Pete Cappelli of The Goonies and StudioDOG Pro fame.

Andrew Flory
Skaneateles Library Guitar Series

Price: Free
Skaneateles Library
49 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Andrew Flory is a classical guitarist and theorbo player based in Rochester. He is currently a Doctoral Candidate and Performer's Certificate recipient at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. There he studies guitar with Naxos recording artist Dr. Nicholas Goluses and is also pursuing an Advanced Performer's certificate in Early Music with world renowned lutenist and historical performance practice expert Paul O'Dette. In addition to guitar performances, Andrew plays theorbo as a member of the Collegium Musicum Baroque orchestra led by Paul O'Dette and Christel Thielmann and he performs every Sunday night at Christ Church in Rochester with Schola Cantorum for their candlelight compline service. Andrew also performs solo theorbo works in his solo performances.

Masterworks Series: Carmina Burana
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Syracuse University Oratorio Society
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Featuring Katherine Whyte, soprano

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

Quinn Mason A Joyous Trilogy
RavelL La Valse
Orff Carmina Burana

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Rocky Mountain High Experience: A John Denver Christmas
The Oncenter

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

"Rocky Mountain High Experience, A John Denver Christmas" starring Rick Schuler, America's top John Denver tribute, is an intimate experience that will take you back to the '70s when John Denver's music permeated the radio airways.

Rick's enchanting holiday show features all your favorite Denver hits including "Rocky Mountain High," "Sunshine On My Shoulders," "Take Me Home Country Roads," "Leaving On A Jet Plane," "Annie's Song," and "Thank God I'm A Country Boy," just to name a few.

Schuler weaves in John's heartwarming inspirational carols and holiday classics from his memorable TV specials and Christmas albums including "Aspenglow," "Away in a Manger," "Silent Night," "Joy to the World," "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire," "Let it Snow," "Silver Bells," and many more festive standards.

"Rocky Mountain High Experience, A John Denver Christmas" captivates audiences young and old alike. Don't miss the incomparable event of the season ... you will swear you are back in the '70s with John Denver on stage!

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

The Game of Life
Breadcrumbs Productions
Tanner Efinger, director

Price: Suggested donation $30
Wunderbar
201 S. West St., Syracuse

The Game of Life is a brand new f*cked up immersive adventure by Tanner Efinger which invites you to play a game ... which you are already playing. You'll choose your own path or your path will choose you on this absurdist's spin of the American Dream. Everyone has "equal opportunity" to win it big in Millionaire Acres — or lose it all and die alone. And whether you like it or not, we're all playing the fantastically fun, not-so-family-friendly fun fun FUN for all, The Game of Life.

Co-op(erative)
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett August Heater, director

Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A new comedy written and directed by Covey artistic director Garrett August Heater.

A brash new artist shakes up a sleepy artisan's co-operative with her scandalous artwork. Due to adult themes, this comedy is not recommended for persons under 16 years of age.

Starring Aubry Panek, Jodi Bova, Edward Mastin, Jordan Glaski, Kate Huddleston, Binaifer Dabu, Kathryn Guyette, Amy Bader, and Stephfond Brunson, with Josh Gadek, Emmilly Budge, Shane Stensland, and Derek Sager.

Shop original art on stage by artisans of Wildflowers Armory before and after the show.

Rocky Mountain High Experience: A John Denver Christmas
The Oncenter

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

"Rocky Mountain High Experience, A John Denver Christmas" starring Rick Schuler, America's top John Denver tribute, is an intimate experience that will take you back to the '70s when John Denver's music permeated the radio airways.

Rick's enchanting holiday show features all your favorite Denver hits including "Rocky Mountain High," "Sunshine On My Shoulders," "Take Me Home Country Roads," "Leaving On A Jet Plane," "Annie's Song," and "Thank God I'm A Country Boy," just to name a few.

Schuler weaves in John's heartwarming inspirational carols and holiday classics from his memorable TV specials and Christmas albums including "Aspenglow," "Away in a Manger," "Silent Night," "Joy to the World," "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire," "Let it Snow," "Silver Bells," and many more festive standards.

"Rocky Mountain High Experience, A John Denver Christmas" captivates audiences young and old alike. Don't miss the incomparable event of the season ... you will swear you are back in the '70s with John Denver on stage!

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Ghost Ship
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ricky Pak, director

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

A fully immersive, multi-sensory theatrical experience with a limited audience of only 16 "passengers" per performance, Ghost Ship is referred to as a tragedy without explanation and a mystery without escape by its playwright Philip Valle. Calling on its audiences to climb aboard the ghastly Mary Whalen, Ghost Ship is a sensory voyage not for the timid of heart. In 2019, it was honored by the Kennedy Center with ten national awards including Outstanding Theatrical Creation.

Sunday, November 19, 2023

38th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $4 children 3–17, free ages 2 and under (museum members free)
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s canal town street scene with gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows.

Pick and Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art—but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you "Pick & Mix," a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.

Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.

Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Dan Shanahan's paintings highlight the quiet beauty found in scenes of everyday life. His plein air watercolors depict residential and downtown neighborhoods throughout the city of Syracuse, focusing on distinctive buildings and houses.

On My Own Time Retrospective
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

This year marks the 50th anniversary of On My Own Time, a creative showcase produced by CNY Arts. For a half-century, On My Own Time has offered a unique forum for avocational artists to display their original visual artwork.

Each artist is a member of the local workforce, and businesses are encouraged to participate and celebrate the creative achievement of their employees. On My Own Time was inspired by individuals who make art outside of the hours dedicated to their career. On My Own Time welcomes nonprofessional artists of all levels of expertise and experience who share the joy of creative expression in common.

This fall, join CNY Arts and participants of On My Own Time - past and present - to celebrate our avocational creative community! The On My Own Time 50th Anniversary Retrospective will run at the new Art in the Atrium gallery and programming space, located right in the heart of downtown!

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Kat Timpf Live: You Can't Joke About That
The Oncenter

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Kat Timpf Live "You Can't Joke About That" is a hilarious 90-minute show that takes a deep dive into every aspect of her best-selling book. From her worse-than-humble beginnings starting out as an adult, to crazy exes, deaths, and the infamous "Chapter 5," Kat takes the audience on a hysterical step-by-step ride on her path to the present — and why comedy through the dark times is what helped her survive. With the charm, wit, and ridiculous commentary we've all come to love, Kat is guaranteed to have you laughing, thinking, and leaving with a deeper sense of community than ever before.

The Nightingale and the Cuckoo
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse
Featuring Jeffrey Snedeker, organ

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $10 under age 30, $5 students, children free
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Birdsong-inspired organ recital of music by Frescobaldi, Daquin, Rameau, Couperin, Krebs, and Händel.

The flue pipes of an organ and the vocal cords of birds generate sound in a fundamentally similar way. With an artful touch, Jeffrey Snedeker commands vibrating columns of air in his Klop portativ instrument in music that incorporates a delightful variety of avian sounds.

Mike Delledera's FriendsGiving Concert
Palace Theatre

Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Get ready for songwriter/guitarist Mike Delledera & Friends as they take the stage for a very special evening of live performances. This concert promises to be an exceptionally fun and memorable event for all ages. With special guests Jess Novak, Anthony Saturno, Dan Wagner, Kelly Herzog, Gregory Michael, Steve Stoj, and Elliot Sneider.

Bush: Nowhere To Go But Everywhere Tour
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Game of Life
Breadcrumbs Productions
Tanner Efinger, director

Price: Suggested donation $30
Wunderbar
201 S. West St., Syracuse

The Game of Life is a brand new f*cked up immersive adventure by Tanner Efinger which invites you to play a game ... which you are already playing. You'll choose your own path or your path will choose you on this absurdist's spin of the American Dream. Everyone has "equal opportunity" to win it big in Millionaire Acres — or lose it all and die alone. And whether you like it or not, we're all playing the fantastically fun, not-so-family-friendly fun fun FUN for all, The Game of Life.

Co-op(erative)
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett August Heater, director

Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A new comedy written and directed by Covey artistic director Garrett August Heater.

A brash new artist shakes up a sleepy artisan's co-operative with her scandalous artwork. Due to adult themes, this comedy is not recommended for persons under 16 years of age.

Starring Aubry Panek, Jodi Bova, Edward Mastin, Jordan Glaski, Kate Huddleston, Binaifer Dabu, Kathryn Guyette, Amy Bader, and Stephfond Brunson, with Josh Gadek, Emmilly Budge, Shane Stensland, and Derek Sager.

Shop original art on stage by artisans of Wildflowers Armory before and after the show.

Monday, November 20, 2023

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

38th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $4 children 3–17, free ages 2 and under (museum members free)
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s canal town street scene with gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

476 S. Salina St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring 45 or more local artists who have created everything from jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

Show Then No Mercy (1935)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $4 non-members, $3.50 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Cast: Cesar Romero, Bruce Cabot, Rochelle Hudson, Edward Norris, Edward Brophy, Warren Hymer
Director: George Marshall

This rare, seldom shown but excellent crime drama concerns a young couple (Hudson and Norris) who accidentally stumble upon the hideout of a gang of tough kidnappers (Romero, Cabot, Brophy and Hymer). A tense, gritty and suspenseful story that keeps you on the edge of your seat.

Plus, Buster Keaton tangles with gangsters in his 1941 comedy short So You Won't Squawk.