Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Works by more than 25 local artists will be on display. The exhibit includes watercolors by Susi Buschbacher, Judy Hand, Jill Newton, Bob Ripley and Nancy Scanlon, oil paintings by Barbara Bratt, Karen Burns and Hetty Easter, gouache by Chris Baker, and pastels by Barbara Delmonico and Ruth Anne Reagan, among many others. The exhibit also showcases jewelry by Deborah Laun, in addition to photography and sculptures. The majority of the artwork is for sale, featuring unique gifts just in time for the holidays. Many pieces depict local images and scenes.

Participating artists are all members of Baltimore Woods Nature Center, which is a member supported organization.

Meditation on Video (&) Language, a show by Tom Sherman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A selection of new and previous works on video and drawings by artist Tom Sherman.

Reflecting on the work, the artist states: "The representation may be almost like a constellation of moments of awareness. It's impossible to summarize what you think in a video, but it is possible to create a veil of a series of works that contribute to the aggregate consciousness of a society, like a transparent curtain of events, of sub consciousness."

Sherman is a Professor of Arts, Design, and Transmedia at Syracuse University. He was a founding co-editor of Fuse magazine, Toronto (1980); founding director of Media Arts for the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa (1983-87), and co-founder of Nerve Theory, an international performance art/recording collaborative (1997). In 1980, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale, and in 1986, was appointed international commissioner for that same Biennale that is one of the worlds major contemporary art exhibitions every two years in Venice, Italy. Among numerous distinctions, Sherman received the Bell Canada prize for excellence in video art in 2003, and Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2010.

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

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

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

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

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

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

Dream Weavers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Sarah Saulson: "Relics of the 20th Century" wall hangings incorporating obsolete, non-traditional objects
Judi Witkin: woven bead jewelry
Lauren Bristol: sculptural basketry made from Egyptian cotton, both standing and wall hanging
Sherry Gordon: traditional woven wall hangings and scarves
Suzanne Loveland: traditional Nantucket basketry made of cane and cherrywood

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

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

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

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

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

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit will feature vestigial jewelry by Donna Smith and vessels by Sallie Thompson.

Donna Smith uses traditional metalsmithing techniques to create contemporary heirloom pieces. The use of found objects are central to her work.

Sallie Thompson creates vessels of clay that are influenced by the diversity of texture and form found in the Finger Lakes area.

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Forms of Function," an exhibition of new works by gallery co-owner Sarah Panzarella, will feature ceramic vessels, mugs, pie plates, candlesticks and butter bells.

Although Panzarella says nature is the primary inspiration for her work, she also draws from the Arts and Crafts Movement and its focus on craftsmanship, function and quality, and the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

Her works have been featured in exhibitions at Baltimore Clayworks, Gulf Coast Community College, Cazenovia Art Park, the Thrown Together Gallery in Louisville, Ky., the Chiaroscuro Galleries in Chicago and the Media Image Gallery in Gainesville, Fla., and appear in the permanent collections of Nottingham Arts in San Marcos, Calif., and the Meyerhoff Family in Baltimore.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Dennis Krukowski, Tice Lerner, and Sayler/Morris.

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

Chinese artist Shen Wei uses his self-portrait series "I Miss You Already" as a place for self-discovery and contemplation. Each image captures a momentary experience that describes the coming together of person and place. Many of the photographs are intensely sexual. His images invite others into his solitude by quietly beckoning or openly drawing the viewer in. They tease the camera, and therefore the viewer, in various degrees. That Wei is an attractive and physically fit young Asian man plays an important part in how his work addresses desire in the context of identity and bridges cultural and sexual barriers.

His overtly sexual photographs push against the boundaries of Wei's conservative Chinese upbringing, which occurred at a time when even art students did not get to study the nude body and would learn to draw the body from sculptural busts. Moving to the United States in 2000, Wei was confronted with very different societal attitudes toward the naked body and sexuality, and his response to these issues has become central to his work. It is not important to Wei that his photographs be understood in only one way, and he acknowledges that his work may be interpreted differently from country to country. He has also seen a shifting of social norms. Even in China it is now increasingly acceptable to depict the naked body, especially in art.

Wei uses his series to push against cultural boundaries, but in image after image he also explores his own comfort level with expressing his sexuality. Throughout the series we observe Wei trying on one environment and identity at a time. Although the images are constructed, the emotions are authentic. We see a young man asserting himself in front of the camera and claiming his right to define himself and his sexuality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

By Way of Thanks
Szozda Gallery

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

Works by Lydia Benscher, Roscha Folger, Carmel Nicoletti, and and Fred Wellner

Pieces include still-life encaustic paintings by Lydia Benscher, richly shaded patina bronze wall reliefs by Nicoletti, surrealistic commentary works by Wellner, and realistic pastels by Folger. In a couple of instances, pieces for display in this show reflect the artists' shift to a different medium, while others extend the mood in a given style for which he or she is well-known.

Nicoletti was represented last at Szozda Gallery with her unique, exquisitely-colored glass works. This time around, emphasis is on her one-of-a-kind bronzes that also depict her interpretation of motion that she calls "A System of Verbs: A Range of Motion."

Folger is a multi-talented artist noted especially for her mixed media, but here she concentrates on pastels.

Bencher and Wellner delve deeply into their continuing art forms -- Bencher through her encaustics finds multiple possibilities with color, texture and the calligraphic line; Wellner, in his abstracts of nature, reaches further into the universe that, he says, "Sometimes expects us to act directly, for we are its instruments."

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Featuring the works of 50 artists, including paintings, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, and more.

Jeff Davies: Straight from the Heart
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Jeff Davies (1938-2006) was a Syracuse area self-taught artist who gained a near-cult status among local collectors. Davies developed a style that incorporated elements of Surrealism with Rube Goldberg-inspired machines often in service to a sexually charged visual theme. As he gained experience he enlarged the size of the images, ultimately making murals, the most famous of which are on the interior and exterior walls of the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que restaurant in downtown Syracuse.

Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

From the 1930s to the 1980s the printed image in American art went through profound changes. Beginning with the black and white lithographs that were popularized by the regionalists and urban realists, and continuing through the experimental intaglio prints of the 1940s and 1950s, the "Pop" explosion of screenprints in the 1960s, and the precision of super realism in the 1970s, printmaking has captured the imagination of countless American artists.

This exhibition of 50 American prints surveys the activities of artists who put designs on paper during this exciting period. Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Anne Ryan, Milton Avery, Dorothy Dehner, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Richard Estes are a few of the artists represented in this examination of the growth in popularity of printmaking among American artists during this 50 year period. Especially significant are the contributions of women to printmaking during this period as well as the impact of African-American artists on the graphic arts. Combined with artists who immigrated to the United States during these decades and the increased numbers of painters and sculptors who took up the medium, this exhibition makes the egalitarian nature of the print abundantly clear.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Angels on the Border" is an exhibition of religious paintings commissioned by Mexican immigrants from 1912 to 1996.

Retablos are Mexican folk paintings, usually created on small pieces of tin, offered as votives to the Christ and the Virgin Mary in gratitude for a miracle granted or a favor received. Made by professional retablo artists, immigrant relatives or the immigrants themselves, the artwork is posted on walls inside Catholic churches in Mexico.

Habitual
XL Projects

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

"Habitual" features work by a group of artists who explore the very notion of the habitual. They include City Meditation Crew and VPA students Emily Dunlap, Lily Fein, Nicholas Krapf, Cayla Lockwood, Joel Weissman, and Jian Zhong.

Artists' statement: However overt or latent, we are faced with constructing, continuing or terminating habits every day. Within the liminal space between compulsion and regiment, awareness of our practices becomes vague. As habits become repetitive and repetition becomes habit, we find ourselves in a cyclical relationship. So often this relationship is externalized and projected onto the places, objects and thoughts that construct our lived environment. As our desires erupt into actions, they become mitigated experiences between our needs and the objects meant to satisfy them. Actions become the affect and creators of our recurrent behaviors, helping to define our modes of existence. Showing how we each respond to our individual practice, our habits and repetitions will be seen in a multitude of ways.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Rupture: Works by Joe Lingeman
Echo

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

A series of photographs by Joe Lingeman, who says:
"My work deals with absurdity, beauty, and the tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life and material culture. Working in the genres of portraiture, landscape and still life, my work attempts to thwart viewers expectations of each, leaving the viewer off balance, without a clear sense of boundary between fantasy and reality."

Emilio Pucci: Master of Print
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition of pieces by Italian designer Emilio Pucci curated by Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design in the Department of Design and head of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center.

For more information, phone 315-443-4644.

Cutting Up Capitalism: The Collage Art of Deborah Faye Lawrence
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A sharp pair of scissors is a powerful tool for Seattle-based artist Deborah Faye Lawrence. Since the mid 1990s, she has been creating intricately-detailed collages that explore themes such as war, nationalism, sexism, and corporate globalization, all with great wit and satire. She has gone so far as to create an activist alter-ego, known as Dee-Dee Lorenzo, who appears in her art. Dee-Dee stands up for justice and the oppressed as she attends demonstrations such as the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle or supports the dumping of four tons of manure on the World Bank in Washington, DC.

Israeli Film Festival: The Dreamers; Shalom
Syracuse International Film Festival

Jewish Community Center
5655 Thompson Rd., Dewitt

The Dreamers (Efrat Shalom Danon, 57 minutes, documentary)
Orthodox teacher and wigmaker, Ruchama and Tikva, embark on a journey to fulfill their dream of making movies within the closed society in which they live. Ruchama is writing and producing her first film while Tikva prepares for her first acting role. Like other Orthodox women who in recent years have started making films for strictly female audiences, they feel a strong need to express themselves despite strict rabbinical censorship. The Dreamers delicately sketches the portrait of women trying to break new ground as artists in a patriarchal world. Will they find freedom in their art?

Shalom (Lee Gilat, 30 minutes, fiction)
In a small house on the outskirts of a large city, Meiro and Mali Mugrabi live with their three children: Tami, Racheli, and little Shalom, a 9-year-old autistic boy who can only say the word "shalom." While Mali reconciles with her fate and the mystery of a boy like Shalom, his father Meiro sees his son as a grave personal failure and knows no solace. The symbiotic relationship between Mali and Shalom draws Meiro away from his wife and makes him feel like a stranger in his own house. Meiro sees a bitter enemy in Shalom, the boy who has stolen his beloved wife from him. The family's fragile balance is upset when Mali takes a night job and Shalom is left alone with his father.

Lunchtime Lectures: Gallery Talk for Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum
Featuring Domenic Iacono

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

David Berry, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

CNY pianist performs works by Rachmaninoff, George Walker, and George Skafidas.

This recital is presented in collaboration with The Other New York (TONY: 2012) art exhibits.

Ra Ra Riot, with Wired Strings
Arts Engage

Price: $10 in advance, $12 at the door
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Ra Ra Riot, an indie rock band featuring Syracuse University graduates, is a group that skillfully melds elements of new wave and classic indie with sweeping orchestral chamber pop. Their sound is epic, eloquent, dramatic, and graceful. Their last album, The Orchard, was released in 2010 by Barsuk Records. This album garnered them a nomination for The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards in the pop rock category. Founded in the winter of 2006 in Syracuse, Ra Ra Riot has played at large festivals such as Lollapalooza, and Coachella and at conferences nationwide, such as CMJ and SWSX.

Internationally-renowned quartet Wired Strings will join Ra Ra Riot on stage for much of the concert. Wired strings has toured or recorded with the likes of Adele, Nas, F.U.N, Jay-Z, Celine Dion, Kanye West, Lana Del Ray, Leona Lewis, The Script, and Pink. These talented musicians will bring a dynamically unique edge to Ra Ra Riot's performance.

Advance sale tickets are available at the Schine Box Office. Unsold tickets, if any, will be available at the door day of show.

For most events, free and accessible parking is available on campus in the Q1 lot, conveniently located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in the Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change.

Rubblebucket, with Reptar, Stepdad
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Poet B. H. Fairchild
Downtown Writer's Center
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

B. H. Fairchild's third book of poems, The Art of the Lathe, was a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry, and winner of the William Carlos Williams Award, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the California Book Award, and several other honors. His follow-up collection, Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest, was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His latest book is Usher (W.W. Norton, 2009). His many other awards and honors include two NEA Literature Fellowships, as well as fellowships from both the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations. He lives in California, and teaches at the University of North Texas.

Presented by the SU Humanities Center as part of the 2012 Syracuse Symposium on Memory, Media, Archive.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Works by more than 25 local artists will be on display. The exhibit includes watercolors by Susi Buschbacher, Judy Hand, Jill Newton, Bob Ripley and Nancy Scanlon, oil paintings by Barbara Bratt, Karen Burns and Hetty Easter, gouache by Chris Baker, and pastels by Barbara Delmonico and Ruth Anne Reagan, among many others. The exhibit also showcases jewelry by Deborah Laun, in addition to photography and sculptures. The majority of the artwork is for sale, featuring unique gifts just in time for the holidays. Many pieces depict local images and scenes.

Participating artists are all members of Baltimore Woods Nature Center, which is a member supported organization.

30th Anniversary Sale and Open House
Syracuse Cultural Workers

Syracuse Cultural Workers
400 Lodi St. at N. Crouse, Syracuse

Meditation on Video (&) Language, a show by Tom Sherman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A selection of new and previous works on video and drawings by artist Tom Sherman.

Reflecting on the work, the artist states: "The representation may be almost like a constellation of moments of awareness. It's impossible to summarize what you think in a video, but it is possible to create a veil of a series of works that contribute to the aggregate consciousness of a society, like a transparent curtain of events, of sub consciousness."

Sherman is a Professor of Arts, Design, and Transmedia at Syracuse University. He was a founding co-editor of Fuse magazine, Toronto (1980); founding director of Media Arts for the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa (1983-87), and co-founder of Nerve Theory, an international performance art/recording collaborative (1997). In 1980, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale, and in 1986, was appointed international commissioner for that same Biennale that is one of the worlds major contemporary art exhibitions every two years in Venice, Italy. Among numerous distinctions, Sherman received the Bell Canada prize for excellence in video art in 2003, and Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2010.

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

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

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

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

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

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

Dream Weavers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Sarah Saulson: "Relics of the 20th Century" wall hangings incorporating obsolete, non-traditional objects
Judi Witkin: woven bead jewelry
Lauren Bristol: sculptural basketry made from Egyptian cotton, both standing and wall hanging
Sherry Gordon: traditional woven wall hangings and scarves
Suzanne Loveland: traditional Nantucket basketry made of cane and cherrywood

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

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

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

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

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

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit will feature vestigial jewelry by Donna Smith and vessels by Sallie Thompson.

Donna Smith uses traditional metalsmithing techniques to create contemporary heirloom pieces. The use of found objects are central to her work.

Sallie Thompson creates vessels of clay that are influenced by the diversity of texture and form found in the Finger Lakes area.

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Forms of Function," an exhibition of new works by gallery co-owner Sarah Panzarella, will feature ceramic vessels, mugs, pie plates, candlesticks and butter bells.

Although Panzarella says nature is the primary inspiration for her work, she also draws from the Arts and Crafts Movement and its focus on craftsmanship, function and quality, and the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

Her works have been featured in exhibitions at Baltimore Clayworks, Gulf Coast Community College, Cazenovia Art Park, the Thrown Together Gallery in Louisville, Ky., the Chiaroscuro Galleries in Chicago and the Media Image Gallery in Gainesville, Fla., and appear in the permanent collections of Nottingham Arts in San Marcos, Calif., and the Meyerhoff Family in Baltimore.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Dennis Krukowski, Tice Lerner, and Sayler/Morris.

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

Chinese artist Shen Wei uses his self-portrait series "I Miss You Already" as a place for self-discovery and contemplation. Each image captures a momentary experience that describes the coming together of person and place. Many of the photographs are intensely sexual. His images invite others into his solitude by quietly beckoning or openly drawing the viewer in. They tease the camera, and therefore the viewer, in various degrees. That Wei is an attractive and physically fit young Asian man plays an important part in how his work addresses desire in the context of identity and bridges cultural and sexual barriers.

His overtly sexual photographs push against the boundaries of Wei's conservative Chinese upbringing, which occurred at a time when even art students did not get to study the nude body and would learn to draw the body from sculptural busts. Moving to the United States in 2000, Wei was confronted with very different societal attitudes toward the naked body and sexuality, and his response to these issues has become central to his work. It is not important to Wei that his photographs be understood in only one way, and he acknowledges that his work may be interpreted differently from country to country. He has also seen a shifting of social norms. Even in China it is now increasingly acceptable to depict the naked body, especially in art.

Wei uses his series to push against cultural boundaries, but in image after image he also explores his own comfort level with expressing his sexuality. Throughout the series we observe Wei trying on one environment and identity at a time. Although the images are constructed, the emotions are authentic. We see a young man asserting himself in front of the camera and claiming his right to define himself and his sexuality.

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

By Way of Thanks
Szozda Gallery

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

Works by Lydia Benscher, Roscha Folger, Carmel Nicoletti, and and Fred Wellner

Pieces include still-life encaustic paintings by Lydia Benscher, richly shaded patina bronze wall reliefs by Nicoletti, surrealistic commentary works by Wellner, and realistic pastels by Folger. In a couple of instances, pieces for display in this show reflect the artists' shift to a different medium, while others extend the mood in a given style for which he or she is well-known.

Nicoletti was represented last at Szozda Gallery with her unique, exquisitely-colored glass works. This time around, emphasis is on her one-of-a-kind bronzes that also depict her interpretation of motion that she calls "A System of Verbs: A Range of Motion."

Folger is a multi-talented artist noted especially for her mixed media, but here she concentrates on pastels.

Bencher and Wellner delve deeply into their continuing art forms -- Bencher through her encaustics finds multiple possibilities with color, texture and the calligraphic line; Wellner, in his abstracts of nature, reaches further into the universe that, he says, "Sometimes expects us to act directly, for we are its instruments."

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

Harvest
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Featuring the works of 50 artists, including paintings, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, and more.

Jeff Davies: Straight from the Heart
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Jeff Davies (1938-2006) was a Syracuse area self-taught artist who gained a near-cult status among local collectors. Davies developed a style that incorporated elements of Surrealism with Rube Goldberg-inspired machines often in service to a sexually charged visual theme. As he gained experience he enlarged the size of the images, ultimately making murals, the most famous of which are on the interior and exterior walls of the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que restaurant in downtown Syracuse.

Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

From the 1930s to the 1980s the printed image in American art went through profound changes. Beginning with the black and white lithographs that were popularized by the regionalists and urban realists, and continuing through the experimental intaglio prints of the 1940s and 1950s, the "Pop" explosion of screenprints in the 1960s, and the precision of super realism in the 1970s, printmaking has captured the imagination of countless American artists.

This exhibition of 50 American prints surveys the activities of artists who put designs on paper during this exciting period. Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Anne Ryan, Milton Avery, Dorothy Dehner, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Richard Estes are a few of the artists represented in this examination of the growth in popularity of printmaking among American artists during this 50 year period. Especially significant are the contributions of women to printmaking during this period as well as the impact of African-American artists on the graphic arts. Combined with artists who immigrated to the United States during these decades and the increased numbers of painters and sculptors who took up the medium, this exhibition makes the egalitarian nature of the print abundantly clear.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Angels on the Border" is an exhibition of religious paintings commissioned by Mexican immigrants from 1912 to 1996.

Retablos are Mexican folk paintings, usually created on small pieces of tin, offered as votives to the Christ and the Virgin Mary in gratitude for a miracle granted or a favor received. Made by professional retablo artists, immigrant relatives or the immigrants themselves, the artwork is posted on walls inside Catholic churches in Mexico.

ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7
The Warehouse Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm. As a part of the reception, at 7:00 pm, the artists will lead an Indeterminate Hike (IH) through downtown Syracuse. The hike will originate at the Fayette entrance to the Warehouse Gallery, where the Urban Video Project will debut a video projection created by ecoarttech.

"ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7" is the first solo exhibition in New York by Rochester-based artist duo Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint. The exhibition, which will be presented in the Main Gallery as well as the Windows Project, explores the context of an urban campsite that is also a participatory lab for Central New York hikers exploring Syracuse's immediate neighborhood. Curated by Anja Chávez, Curator of Contemporary Art, the exhibition expands traditional gallery practice by focusing on today's environmental issues and the arts, inviting the spectators to participate and incorporating their feedback into the artwork.

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Habitual
XL Projects

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

There will be a reception this evening 6:00-8:00 pm as part of Th3, the Third Thursday citywide art open.

"Habitual" features work by a group of artists who explore the very notion of the habitual. They include City Meditation Crew and VPA students Emily Dunlap, Lily Fein, Nicholas Krapf, Cayla Lockwood, Joel Weissman, and Jian Zhong.

Artists' statement: However overt or latent, we are faced with constructing, continuing or terminating habits every day. Within the liminal space between compulsion and regiment, awareness of our practices becomes vague. As habits become repetitive and repetition becomes habit, we find ourselves in a cyclical relationship. So often this relationship is externalized and projected onto the places, objects and thoughts that construct our lived environment. As our desires erupt into actions, they become mitigated experiences between our needs and the objects meant to satisfy them. Actions become the affect and creators of our recurrent behaviors, helping to define our modes of existence. Showing how we each respond to our individual practice, our habits and repetitions will be seen in a multitude of ways.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Rupture: Works by Joe Lingeman
Echo

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

A series of photographs by Joe Lingeman, who says:
"My work deals with absurdity, beauty, and the tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life and material culture. Working in the genres of portraiture, landscape and still life, my work attempts to thwart viewers expectations of each, leaving the viewer off balance, without a clear sense of boundary between fantasy and reality."

Emilio Pucci: Master of Print
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition of pieces by Italian designer Emilio Pucci curated by Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design in the Department of Design and head of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center.

For more information, phone 315-443-4644.

Cutting Up Capitalism: The Collage Art of Deborah Faye Lawrence
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A sharp pair of scissors is a powerful tool for Seattle-based artist Deborah Faye Lawrence. Since the mid 1990s, she has been creating intricately-detailed collages that explore themes such as war, nationalism, sexism, and corporate globalization, all with great wit and satire. She has gone so far as to create an activist alter-ego, known as Dee-Dee Lorenzo, who appears in her art. Dee-Dee stands up for justice and the oppressed as she attends demonstrations such as the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle or supports the dumping of four tons of manure on the World Bank in Washington, DC.

Works by Deborah Dougherty Wester
bc Restaurant

bc Restaurant
247 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

November Featured Artist: Painter Deborah Dougherty Wester lives in Cazenovia and finds the location ideal for painting landscapes, still lifes, village scenes, chickens, and cows.

Pottery Plus
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Delavan Center, #119
112 Wyoming St., Syracuse

Pottery Plus is the much-anticipated annual show and sale featuring the unique, artistic work of 19 Central New York artisans.

Shimon Attie: Sightings (2012)
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Sightings" is the fruit of Shimon Attie's residency at UVP in 2012. For this piece, Attie revisits and re-contextualizes footage that was shot for a three channel piece originally created for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. (Total run time: 11:32)

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

"For the UVP iteration, this source footage was radically re-edited into a single channel piece that emphasizes rhythm and dynamic tension between the viewer and the viewed. Orbiting like twin stars around a shared focus, the two punctually eclipse one another, occluding our own view and reminding us that we, too, are part of this dialogue."

Born in Los Angeles in 1957, Shimon Attie has received international recognition for his installations that incorporate a variety of media including installation art, video, photography, performance, new media, and public art. His work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Jewish Museum, New York; and Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, among many others. The artist has lived and worked in New York City since 1997.

UVP Mobile Debut: ecoarttech
Urban Video Project

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

UVP will debut the new UVP Mobile unit as part of the opening festivities for the Warehouse Gallery's exhibition "Wilderness 24/7," featuring the work of the art/theory collaborative ecoarttech. UVP Mobile will project the video "Wilderness Collider" onto the south facade of the Warehouse from 6:00-8:30pm. "Wilderness Collider" features video compiled from past users of ecoarttech's Indeterminate Hikes+ app.

Be there at 7:00 pm and be part of the art when the artists lead participants on a hike through the wilds of Syracuse with the help of their Indeterminate Hikes+ smartphone app using the projection as their point of departure.

Indeterminate Hikes+ is a mobile media app that transforms everyday landscapes into sites of bio-cultural diversity and wild happenings. The app works by importing the rhetoric of wilderness into virtually any place accessible by Google Maps and encouraging its users to treat these locales as spaces worthy of the attention accorded to sublime landscapes, such as canyons and gorges.

A Discussion on the exhibit "Angels on the Border"
La Casita Cultural Center

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

A discussion, led by Amy Lutz, associate professor of sociology in SU's College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School.

Gallery Talk: Hidden in Plain Sight
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Capturing poignant moments of the human experience and provocative environmental interventions, TONY: 2012 photographers Tilde Jensen, Doug Dubois, John Mannion, and Sean Hovendick will give a gallery talk to discuss their work and provide insight into how this medium invites us to reflect upon that which often goes unnoticed.

Journey through Music of the African Diaspora: Corn-Bred
Community Folk Art Center

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

Central New York's only all Native American blues band, Corn-Bred has played at The Harley Davidson 100th Anniversary, The National Museum of the American Indian, and The Taste of Syracuse, just to name a few. Corn-Bred has opened for national recording artists as The Beach Boys, Diamond Rio, Jana, Martha Redbone, and Los Lobos.

Women as Peace Makers, Women as Healers
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Women's Choir
Barbara Tagg, conductor

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

Following the semester-long theme of peace and reconciliation, the concert will include Mark Sirett's Shanti (Peace), David Brunner's Earthsongs, featuring oboist Philomena Duffy, and Amani (A Song for Peace). The second part of the concert will be dedicated to those affected by Hurricane Sandy and will include Jocelyn Hagen's Joy, featuring violinist Matteo Longhi, Kala Pierson's The Turning Earth, conducted by Gregg Smith Conducting Scholar Lauren Estes, and Joan Szymko's Vivos Voco, featuring the Park Central Presbyterian Church Handbell Choir.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Nick Saint, Private Elf
Acme Mystery Company

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

When night falls on Toyland Town, some elves play rough. But it's nothing compared to what happens on The Island of Misfit Toys, the seamy underbelly of the North Pole; Santa's dirty little secret. It's no place for an elf, especially on Christmas Eve. Nick's partner, Smiles Thirdly, just found that out. Twice, at close range. Nick needs your help to investigate, but if you come to The Island, don't be a sap. Act like a misfit and blend in. Better yet, just be yourself.

On Sale: Employers Get Good Workers Cheap!
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

As part of our exhibition programming for the exhibition "Cutting Up Capitalism," we are delighted to bring you a staged reading of Tracy Kinne's new book, On Sale!

The author, along with friends, will read from some of the workers' stories in the book. There will be a Q&A afterwards and an opportunity to buy a book and have Tracy sign it for you.

Concerned that the news media were backing away from hard news, Tracy L. Kinne took a buyout in 2007 and left the newspaper where she had worked for most of her 21-year career in journalism. Her timing couldn't have been better -- or worse. The Great Recession began six months later. She rode out the recession and the years after as a low-paid sales associate and cashier at a chain store. On Sale: Employers Get Good Workers Dirt Cheap is her first book, a memoir of her four years at the store she calls Big Box. On Sale! also is the story of her coworkers, an under-appreciated, underpaid, but intelligent, hard-working group of compassionate, down-to-earth individuals.

Don't Talk to the Actors
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The best laid plans go awry when the cast and crew of a Broadway-bound play resort to manipulation,
diva-like behavior, and chaotic abandon to get what they want. Fledgling playwright Jerry Przpezniak and his fiancee are a couple of Buffalo greenhorns suddenly swept up in the whirlwind of New York's theater scene when Jerry's play is optioned for the big money, ego-driven world of Broadway. It's a young playwright's dream, but the crazy characters and dilemmas they encounter are the things theatrical nightmares are made of. A CNY premiere.

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Red Light Series: From Foster Care to Fabulous
Redhouse

Price: $20 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Patrick Burns's one-man autobiographical musical extravaganza that chronicles his teenage years in and out of foster care. The show features myriad songs, both well-known and original, with a plethora of jaw dropping anecdotes and side-splitting yarns, and an avalanche of horrifying, hilarious, and ultimately heartbreaking characters.

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Friday, November 16, 2012

Mark Povinelli: Post Cambrian Explosion
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This exhibition explores the artist's interest in mathematics, written language, and the diversity of forms in nature by using sycamore, hemlock, paper, and copper to create transformative space.

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Works by more than 25 local artists will be on display. The exhibit includes watercolors by Susi Buschbacher, Judy Hand, Jill Newton, Bob Ripley and Nancy Scanlon, oil paintings by Barbara Bratt, Karen Burns and Hetty Easter, gouache by Chris Baker, and pastels by Barbara Delmonico and Ruth Anne Reagan, among many others. The exhibit also showcases jewelry by Deborah Laun, in addition to photography and sculptures. The majority of the artwork is for sale, featuring unique gifts just in time for the holidays. Many pieces depict local images and scenes.

Participating artists are all members of Baltimore Woods Nature Center, which is a member supported organization.

Meditation on Video (&) Language, a show by Tom Sherman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A selection of new and previous works on video and drawings by artist Tom Sherman.

Reflecting on the work, the artist states: "The representation may be almost like a constellation of moments of awareness. It's impossible to summarize what you think in a video, but it is possible to create a veil of a series of works that contribute to the aggregate consciousness of a society, like a transparent curtain of events, of sub consciousness."

Sherman is a Professor of Arts, Design, and Transmedia at Syracuse University. He was a founding co-editor of Fuse magazine, Toronto (1980); founding director of Media Arts for the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa (1983-87), and co-founder of Nerve Theory, an international performance art/recording collaborative (1997). In 1980, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale, and in 1986, was appointed international commissioner for that same Biennale that is one of the worlds major contemporary art exhibitions every two years in Venice, Italy. Among numerous distinctions, Sherman received the Bell Canada prize for excellence in video art in 2003, and Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2010.

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

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

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

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

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

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

Dream Weavers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Sarah Saulson: "Relics of the 20th Century" wall hangings incorporating obsolete, non-traditional objects
Judi Witkin: woven bead jewelry
Lauren Bristol: sculptural basketry made from Egyptian cotton, both standing and wall hanging
Sherry Gordon: traditional woven wall hangings and scarves
Suzanne Loveland: traditional Nantucket basketry made of cane and cherrywood

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

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

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

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

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

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit will feature vestigial jewelry by Donna Smith and vessels by Sallie Thompson.

Donna Smith uses traditional metalsmithing techniques to create contemporary heirloom pieces. The use of found objects are central to her work.

Sallie Thompson creates vessels of clay that are influenced by the diversity of texture and form found in the Finger Lakes area.

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Forms of Function," an exhibition of new works by gallery co-owner Sarah Panzarella, will feature ceramic vessels, mugs, pie plates, candlesticks and butter bells.

Although Panzarella says nature is the primary inspiration for her work, she also draws from the Arts and Crafts Movement and its focus on craftsmanship, function and quality, and the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

Her works have been featured in exhibitions at Baltimore Clayworks, Gulf Coast Community College, Cazenovia Art Park, the Thrown Together Gallery in Louisville, Ky., the Chiaroscuro Galleries in Chicago and the Media Image Gallery in Gainesville, Fla., and appear in the permanent collections of Nottingham Arts in San Marcos, Calif., and the Meyerhoff Family in Baltimore.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Dennis Krukowski, Tice Lerner, and Sayler/Morris.

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

Chinese artist Shen Wei uses his self-portrait series "I Miss You Already" as a place for self-discovery and contemplation. Each image captures a momentary experience that describes the coming together of person and place. Many of the photographs are intensely sexual. His images invite others into his solitude by quietly beckoning or openly drawing the viewer in. They tease the camera, and therefore the viewer, in various degrees. That Wei is an attractive and physically fit young Asian man plays an important part in how his work addresses desire in the context of identity and bridges cultural and sexual barriers.

His overtly sexual photographs push against the boundaries of Wei's conservative Chinese upbringing, which occurred at a time when even art students did not get to study the nude body and would learn to draw the body from sculptural busts. Moving to the United States in 2000, Wei was confronted with very different societal attitudes toward the naked body and sexuality, and his response to these issues has become central to his work. It is not important to Wei that his photographs be understood in only one way, and he acknowledges that his work may be interpreted differently from country to country. He has also seen a shifting of social norms. Even in China it is now increasingly acceptable to depict the naked body, especially in art.

Wei uses his series to push against cultural boundaries, but in image after image he also explores his own comfort level with expressing his sexuality. Throughout the series we observe Wei trying on one environment and identity at a time. Although the images are constructed, the emotions are authentic. We see a young man asserting himself in front of the camera and claiming his right to define himself and his sexuality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

By Way of Thanks
Szozda Gallery

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

Works by Lydia Benscher, Roscha Folger, Carmel Nicoletti, and and Fred Wellner

Pieces include still-life encaustic paintings by Lydia Benscher, richly shaded patina bronze wall reliefs by Nicoletti, surrealistic commentary works by Wellner, and realistic pastels by Folger. In a couple of instances, pieces for display in this show reflect the artists' shift to a different medium, while others extend the mood in a given style for which he or she is well-known.

Nicoletti was represented last at Szozda Gallery with her unique, exquisitely-colored glass works. This time around, emphasis is on her one-of-a-kind bronzes that also depict her interpretation of motion that she calls "A System of Verbs: A Range of Motion."

Folger is a multi-talented artist noted especially for her mixed media, but here she concentrates on pastels.

Bencher and Wellner delve deeply into their continuing art forms -- Bencher through her encaustics finds multiple possibilities with color, texture and the calligraphic line; Wellner, in his abstracts of nature, reaches further into the universe that, he says, "Sometimes expects us to act directly, for we are its instruments."

Harvest
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Featuring the works of 50 artists, including paintings, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, and more.

Jeff Davies: Straight from the Heart
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Jeff Davies (1938-2006) was a Syracuse area self-taught artist who gained a near-cult status among local collectors. Davies developed a style that incorporated elements of Surrealism with Rube Goldberg-inspired machines often in service to a sexually charged visual theme. As he gained experience he enlarged the size of the images, ultimately making murals, the most famous of which are on the interior and exterior walls of the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que restaurant in downtown Syracuse.

Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

From the 1930s to the 1980s the printed image in American art went through profound changes. Beginning with the black and white lithographs that were popularized by the regionalists and urban realists, and continuing through the experimental intaglio prints of the 1940s and 1950s, the "Pop" explosion of screenprints in the 1960s, and the precision of super realism in the 1970s, printmaking has captured the imagination of countless American artists.

This exhibition of 50 American prints surveys the activities of artists who put designs on paper during this exciting period. Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Anne Ryan, Milton Avery, Dorothy Dehner, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Richard Estes are a few of the artists represented in this examination of the growth in popularity of printmaking among American artists during this 50 year period. Especially significant are the contributions of women to printmaking during this period as well as the impact of African-American artists on the graphic arts. Combined with artists who immigrated to the United States during these decades and the increased numbers of painters and sculptors who took up the medium, this exhibition makes the egalitarian nature of the print abundantly clear.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Angels on the Border" is an exhibition of religious paintings commissioned by Mexican immigrants from 1912 to 1996.

Retablos are Mexican folk paintings, usually created on small pieces of tin, offered as votives to the Christ and the Virgin Mary in gratitude for a miracle granted or a favor received. Made by professional retablo artists, immigrant relatives or the immigrants themselves, the artwork is posted on walls inside Catholic churches in Mexico.

ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7" is the first solo exhibition in New York by Rochester-based artist duo Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint. The exhibition, which will be presented in the Main Gallery as well as the Windows Project, explores the context of an urban campsite that is also a participatory lab for Central New York hikers exploring Syracuse's immediate neighborhood. Curated by Anja Chávez, Curator of Contemporary Art, the exhibition expands traditional gallery practice by focusing on today's environmental issues and the arts, inviting the spectators to participate and incorporating their feedback into the artwork.

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Habitual
XL Projects

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

"Habitual" features work by a group of artists who explore the very notion of the habitual. They include City Meditation Crew and VPA students Emily Dunlap, Lily Fein, Nicholas Krapf, Cayla Lockwood, Joel Weissman, and Jian Zhong.

Artists' statement: However overt or latent, we are faced with constructing, continuing or terminating habits every day. Within the liminal space between compulsion and regiment, awareness of our practices becomes vague. As habits become repetitive and repetition becomes habit, we find ourselves in a cyclical relationship. So often this relationship is externalized and projected onto the places, objects and thoughts that construct our lived environment. As our desires erupt into actions, they become mitigated experiences between our needs and the objects meant to satisfy them. Actions become the affect and creators of our recurrent behaviors, helping to define our modes of existence. Showing how we each respond to our individual practice, our habits and repetitions will be seen in a multitude of ways.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Rupture: Works by Joe Lingeman
Echo

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

A series of photographs by Joe Lingeman, who says:
"My work deals with absurdity, beauty, and the tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life and material culture. Working in the genres of portraiture, landscape and still life, my work attempts to thwart viewers expectations of each, leaving the viewer off balance, without a clear sense of boundary between fantasy and reality."

Emilio Pucci: Master of Print
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition of pieces by Italian designer Emilio Pucci curated by Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design in the Department of Design and head of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center.

For more information, phone 315-443-4644.

Cutting Up Capitalism: The Collage Art of Deborah Faye Lawrence
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A sharp pair of scissors is a powerful tool for Seattle-based artist Deborah Faye Lawrence. Since the mid 1990s, she has been creating intricately-detailed collages that explore themes such as war, nationalism, sexism, and corporate globalization, all with great wit and satire. She has gone so far as to create an activist alter-ego, known as Dee-Dee Lorenzo, who appears in her art. Dee-Dee stands up for justice and the oppressed as she attends demonstrations such as the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle or supports the dumping of four tons of manure on the World Bank in Washington, DC.

Holiday Fine Craft Show

Price: $3
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Baskets, cards, ceramics, fiber arts, fused and stained glass, jewelry, soap, and woodcrafts by regional artists will be featured.

Enjoy works by Amber Waves of Glass, Ballina Baskets, Barbara Weingart, Butternut Pottery, Dana Stenson, Eye Studio, Garys Family Tree, Ginny Spina, Grandpa Joes Woodcrafts, Jennifer Locke Designs, Jennifer Newman, Lorraine Markley, Nanette Bergevin, Serenity Hill Stained Glass, Split-Fire Pottery, Sue Ellen Romanowski, and Syracuse Soapworks.

Pottery Plus
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Delavan Center, #119
112 Wyoming St., Syracuse

Pottery Plus is the much-anticipated annual show and sale featuring the unique, artistic work of 19 Central New York artisans.

Shimon Attie: Sightings (2012)
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Sightings" is the fruit of Shimon Attie's residency at UVP in 2012. For this piece, Attie revisits and re-contextualizes footage that was shot for a three channel piece originally created for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. (Total run time: 11:32)

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

"For the UVP iteration, this source footage was radically re-edited into a single channel piece that emphasizes rhythm and dynamic tension between the viewer and the viewed. Orbiting like twin stars around a shared focus, the two punctually eclipse one another, occluding our own view and reminding us that we, too, are part of this dialogue."

Born in Los Angeles in 1957, Shimon Attie has received international recognition for his installations that incorporate a variety of media including installation art, video, photography, performance, new media, and public art. His work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Jewish Museum, New York; and Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, among many others. The artist has lived and worked in New York City since 1997.

Opening: Baskets with Sculpture by Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening.

Bringing together their art and cultural knowledge, Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman create one-of-a-kind black ash baskets with sculptural finials. Ronni-Leigh uses the age old tradition of black ash and sweet grass basket making she learned from Mae Bigtree, a world renowned basketmaker from the Mohawk nation of Akwesasne. Although there are many traditional aspects to her baskets, Ronni-Leigh weaves her individuality into each by embellishing with moose hair and plaited porcupine quills. Stonehorse completes the basket by using white tail deer, moose antler or fossilized ivory to sculpt detailed finials and basket stands that are inspired by stories of the Haudenosaunee.

Says You!

Price: $60 premium, $30 preferred, $24 general
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Says You!, a game of words and whimsy, bluff and bluster, heard weekly on WRVO-FM, invades Syracuse. Two shows taped for broadcast with intermission -- approximate length of performance 2 hours 40 minutes. Tickets may be purchased at www.SaysYou.net. Information and details are posted on the "Join the Fun" link.

Tim O'Brien
Folkus Project

Price: $25 (advance purchase strongly recommended)
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

One of the biggest stars of bluegrass, Celtic, and old-time traditional American folk music will make a rare (perhaps unprecedented?) appearance in Syracuse, when the Folkus Project welcomes multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter Tim O'Brien.

Tim O'Brien first came to the music world's attention as one of the founding members of the bluegrass/newgrass band Hot Rize, which gained great popularity in the 1980s and into the '90s. Since then, he has spawned a few other side projects -- such as the Texas swing outfit Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers -- and taken part in innumerable collaborations with artists such as the Chieftains, Darrell Scott, Dirk Powell, Steve Martin, and, recently, Mark Knopfler. He is a catholic and tireless explorer of related musical forms, tracing bluegrass back through its Appalachian Mountain roots to Ireland and Scotland. And he is a writer of alternately inspiring, introspective, and amusing original songs. Over the past two decades, he has created a string of critically acclaimed albums -- one of which, Fiddler's Green, won a Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album. He is well-known as a world-class mandolinist, and yet hardly less impressive on the fiddle, guitar, banjo, and related acoustic instruments.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Student Senior Recital: Victoria Puco, trombone

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

For most events, free and accessible parking is available on campus in the Q1 lot, conveniently located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in the Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Ryan Montbleau Band, with Jonah Smith
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Tragically Hip

Price: $59.50, $49.50, $39.50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tickets may be purchased through the Landmark box office Monday-Friday 10:00 am-5:00 pm, 315-475-7980, or through Ticketmaster.com.

Poet Paul Roth
Downtown Writer's Center
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paul Roth is the founder and proprietor of Bitter Oleander Press, which publishes contemporary poetry and is also home to the literary journal The Bitter Oleander. His own work has been published in journals and anthologies around the world. His books include Nothing Out There (1996), Fields Below Zero (2002), Cadenzas by Needlelight (2009), and What the Interrupted Speak (2011). He lives, writes, edits, publishes and gardens in Fayetteville with his wife, the Hungarian artist Georgina Heksch Roth.

Don't Talk to the Actors
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Stevens, director

Price: Dinner theater: $34.95. Show only: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The performance is preceded by dinner at 6:30 pm.

The best laid plans go awry when the cast and crew of a Broadway-bound play resort to manipulation,
diva-like behavior, and chaotic abandon to get what they want. Fledgling playwright Jerry Przpezniak and his fiancee are a couple of Buffalo greenhorns suddenly swept up in the whirlwind of New York's theater scene when Jerry's play is optioned for the big money, ego-driven world of Broadway. It's a young playwright's dream, but the crazy characters and dilemmas they encounter are the things theatrical nightmares are made of. A CNY premiere.

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How Did I End Up Here?
Rarely Done Productions
Featuring Pat Catchouny

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

A cabaret in five decades, four seasons, three octaves, two states, and a piano.

How does an Armenian-American from Northern New Jersey end up in Syracuse? To find out, take a musical journey with Patricia Elise Catchouny, accompanied by Dan Williams on piano. From opera to Broadway, from Coleman to Taylor, from soprano to belt, from "Voi Che Sapete" to "He Plays the Violin" -- this is what happens when a child's first albums are Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar.

Red Light Series: From Foster Care to Fabulous
Redhouse

Price: $20 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Patrick Burns's one-man autobiographical musical extravaganza that chronicles his teenage years in and out of foster care. The show features myriad songs, both well-known and original, with a plethora of jaw dropping anecdotes and side-splitting yarns, and an avalanche of horrifying, hilarious, and ultimately heartbreaking characters.

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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit will feature vestigial jewelry by Donna Smith and vessels by Sallie Thompson.

Donna Smith uses traditional metalsmithing techniques to create contemporary heirloom pieces. The use of found objects are central to her work.

Sallie Thompson creates vessels of clay that are influenced by the diversity of texture and form found in the Finger Lakes area.

Mark Povinelli: Post Cambrian Explosion
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This exhibition explores the artist's interest in mathematics, written language, and the diversity of forms in nature by using sycamore, hemlock, paper, and copper to create transformative space.

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Works by more than 25 local artists will be on display. The exhibit includes watercolors by Susi Buschbacher, Judy Hand, Jill Newton, Bob Ripley and Nancy Scanlon, oil paintings by Barbara Bratt, Karen Burns and Hetty Easter, gouache by Chris Baker, and pastels by Barbara Delmonico and Ruth Anne Reagan, among many others. The exhibit also showcases jewelry by Deborah Laun, in addition to photography and sculptures. The majority of the artwork is for sale, featuring unique gifts just in time for the holidays. Many pieces depict local images and scenes.

Participating artists are all members of Baltimore Woods Nature Center, which is a member supported organization.

Dream Weavers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Sarah Saulson: "Relics of the 20th Century" wall hangings incorporating obsolete, non-traditional objects
Judi Witkin: woven bead jewelry
Lauren Bristol: sculptural basketry made from Egyptian cotton, both standing and wall hanging
Sherry Gordon: traditional woven wall hangings and scarves
Suzanne Loveland: traditional Nantucket basketry made of cane and cherrywood

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Forms of Function," an exhibition of new works by gallery co-owner Sarah Panzarella, will feature ceramic vessels, mugs, pie plates, candlesticks and butter bells.

Although Panzarella says nature is the primary inspiration for her work, she also draws from the Arts and Crafts Movement and its focus on craftsmanship, function and quality, and the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

Her works have been featured in exhibitions at Baltimore Clayworks, Gulf Coast Community College, Cazenovia Art Park, the Thrown Together Gallery in Louisville, Ky., the Chiaroscuro Galleries in Chicago and the Media Image Gallery in Gainesville, Fla., and appear in the permanent collections of Nottingham Arts in San Marcos, Calif., and the Meyerhoff Family in Baltimore.

Holiday Fine Craft Show

Price: $3
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Baskets, cards, ceramics, fiber arts, fused and stained glass, jewelry, soap, and woodcrafts by regional artists will be featured.

Enjoy works by Amber Waves of Glass, Ballina Baskets, Barbara Weingart, Butternut Pottery, Dana Stenson, Eye Studio, Garys Family Tree, Ginny Spina, Grandpa Joes Woodcrafts, Jennifer Locke Designs, Jennifer Newman, Lorraine Markley, Nanette Bergevin, Serenity Hill Stained Glass, Split-Fire Pottery, Sue Ellen Romanowski, and Syracuse Soapworks.

Baskets with Sculpture by Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

Bringing together their art and cultural knowledge, Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman create one-of-a-kind black ash baskets with sculptural finials. Ronni-Leigh uses the age old tradition of black ash and sweet grass basket making she learned from Mae Bigtree, a world renowned basketmaker from the Mohawk nation of Akwesasne. Although there are many traditional aspects to her baskets, Ronni-Leigh weaves her individuality into each by embellishing with moose hair and plaited porcupine quills. Stonehorse completes the basket by using white tail deer, moose antler or fossilized ivory to sculpt detailed finials and basket stands that are inspired by stories of the Haudenosaunee.

Pottery Plus
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Delavan Center, #119
112 Wyoming St., Syracuse

Pottery Plus is the much-anticipated annual show and sale featuring the unique, artistic work of 19 Central New York artisans.

SU Art Kids: The Art of the Mosaic
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Using Syracuse University's iconic mural The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, you and your child will learn about the art of the mosaic. After the lesson there will be an art making activity where children can create their own mosaic in our workshop.

This programs is designed for children ages 5-10, but we encourage all ages to participate.

By Way of Thanks
Szozda Gallery

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

Works by Lydia Benscher, Roscha Folger, Carmel Nicoletti, and and Fred Wellner

Pieces include still-life encaustic paintings by Lydia Benscher, richly shaded patina bronze wall reliefs by Nicoletti, surrealistic commentary works by Wellner, and realistic pastels by Folger. In a couple of instances, pieces for display in this show reflect the artists' shift to a different medium, while others extend the mood in a given style for which he or she is well-known.

Nicoletti was represented last at Szozda Gallery with her unique, exquisitely-colored glass works. This time around, emphasis is on her one-of-a-kind bronzes that also depict her interpretation of motion that she calls "A System of Verbs: A Range of Motion."

Folger is a multi-talented artist noted especially for her mixed media, but here she concentrates on pastels.

Bencher and Wellner delve deeply into their continuing art forms -- Bencher through her encaustics finds multiple possibilities with color, texture and the calligraphic line; Wellner, in his abstracts of nature, reaches further into the universe that, he says, "Sometimes expects us to act directly, for we are its instruments."

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

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

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

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

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

Rupture: Works by Joe Lingeman
Echo

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

A series of photographs by Joe Lingeman, who says:
"My work deals with absurdity, beauty, and the tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary life and material culture. Working in the genres of portraiture, landscape and still life, my work attempts to thwart viewers expectations of each, leaving the viewer off balance, without a clear sense of boundary between fantasy and reality."

Harvest
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Featuring the works of 50 artists, including paintings, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, and more.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

From the 1930s to the 1980s the printed image in American art went through profound changes. Beginning with the black and white lithographs that were popularized by the regionalists and urban realists, and continuing through the experimental intaglio prints of the 1940s and 1950s, the "Pop" explosion of screenprints in the 1960s, and the precision of super realism in the 1970s, printmaking has captured the imagination of countless American artists.

This exhibition of 50 American prints surveys the activities of artists who put designs on paper during this exciting period. Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Anne Ryan, Milton Avery, Dorothy Dehner, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Richard Estes are a few of the artists represented in this examination of the growth in popularity of printmaking among American artists during this 50 year period. Especially significant are the contributions of women to printmaking during this period as well as the impact of African-American artists on the graphic arts. Combined with artists who immigrated to the United States during these decades and the increased numbers of painters and sculptors who took up the medium, this exhibition makes the egalitarian nature of the print abundantly clear.

Jeff Davies: Straight from the Heart
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Jeff Davies (1938-2006) was a Syracuse area self-taught artist who gained a near-cult status among local collectors. Davies developed a style that incorporated elements of Surrealism with Rube Goldberg-inspired machines often in service to a sexually charged visual theme. As he gained experience he enlarged the size of the images, ultimately making murals, the most famous of which are on the interior and exterior walls of the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que restaurant in downtown Syracuse.

Cutting Up Capitalism: The Collage Art of Deborah Faye Lawrence
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A sharp pair of scissors is a powerful tool for Seattle-based artist Deborah Faye Lawrence. Since the mid 1990s, she has been creating intricately-detailed collages that explore themes such as war, nationalism, sexism, and corporate globalization, all with great wit and satire. She has gone so far as to create an activist alter-ego, known as Dee-Dee Lorenzo, who appears in her art. Dee-Dee stands up for justice and the oppressed as she attends demonstrations such as the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle or supports the dumping of four tons of manure on the World Bank in Washington, DC.

ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7" is the first solo exhibition in New York by Rochester-based artist duo Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint. The exhibition, which will be presented in the Main Gallery as well as the Windows Project, explores the context of an urban campsite that is also a participatory lab for Central New York hikers exploring Syracuse's immediate neighborhood. Curated by Anja Chávez, Curator of Contemporary Art, the exhibition expands traditional gallery practice by focusing on today's environmental issues and the arts, inviting the spectators to participate and incorporating their feedback into the artwork.

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Habitual
XL Projects

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

"Habitual" features work by a group of artists who explore the very notion of the habitual. They include City Meditation Crew and VPA students Emily Dunlap, Lily Fein, Nicholas Krapf, Cayla Lockwood, Joel Weissman, and Jian Zhong.

Artists' statement: However overt or latent, we are faced with constructing, continuing or terminating habits every day. Within the liminal space between compulsion and regiment, awareness of our practices becomes vague. As habits become repetitive and repetition becomes habit, we find ourselves in a cyclical relationship. So often this relationship is externalized and projected onto the places, objects and thoughts that construct our lived environment. As our desires erupt into actions, they become mitigated experiences between our needs and the objects meant to satisfy them. Actions become the affect and creators of our recurrent behaviors, helping to define our modes of existence. Showing how we each respond to our individual practice, our habits and repetitions will be seen in a multitude of ways.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

SU Art Kids: Printmaking Workshop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Kids will learn about featured prints from the exhibition Pulled, Pressed and Screened. In our print studio space, children and parents will participate in a printmaking activity.

This programs is designed for children ages 5-10, but we encourage all ages to participate.

Shimon Attie: Sightings (2012)
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Sightings" is the fruit of Shimon Attie's residency at UVP in 2012. For this piece, Attie revisits and re-contextualizes footage that was shot for a three channel piece originally created for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. (Total run time: 11:32)

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

"For the UVP iteration, this source footage was radically re-edited into a single channel piece that emphasizes rhythm and dynamic tension between the viewer and the viewed. Orbiting like twin stars around a shared focus, the two punctually eclipse one another, occluding our own view and reminding us that we, too, are part of this dialogue."

Born in Los Angeles in 1957, Shimon Attie has received international recognition for his installations that incorporate a variety of media including installation art, video, photography, performance, new media, and public art. His work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Jewish Museum, New York; and Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, among many others. The artist has lived and worked in New York City since 1997.

Anniversary Show
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $5
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

Happy Anniversary, PPH! That's right folks...your favorite improv comedy house team, Pork Pie Hat, is one year old! (And, gosh, aren't they cute at this age?) It's hard to believe that 1/100th of a
century has already flown by. Join us in celebration of this historic landmark occasion (surpassed only by their second anniversary, next year...which will be even more historical and landmarkish.)

Pork Pie Hat will kick out the improv jams anniversary-style, with short-form improv comedy in the manner of the hit TV show, "Whose Line Is It, Anyway."

Says You!

Price: $60 premium, $30 preferred, $24 general
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Says You!, a game of words and whimsy, bluff and bluster, heard weekly on WRVO-FM, invades Syracuse. Two shows taped for broadcast with intermission -- approximate length of performance 2 hours 40 minutes. Tickets may be purchased at www.SaysYou.net. Information and details are posted on the "Join the Fun" link.

Flanders Recorder Quartet
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, $10 student
Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

"How I love you, sweet ground!" -- a walk along the charms and possibilities of the instrument:
from the Middle Ages through Renaissance and Baroque to this very day.

Kung Fu, with Turkuaz
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Comstock Review 25th Anniversary: A Celebration of Poetry and Community
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Comstock Review, which began in 1986 in poet Jenny MacPherson's dining room on Comstock Street, is today a nationally recognized literary journal with two major writing contests. The public is invited to celebrate the launch of the 25th issue along with editors, contributing poets, and longtime supporters in an evening of poetry reading and a special tribute to Jenny MacPherson whose poetry is spotlighted in the issue.

Cinderella
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

In this interactive version of the children's classic, kids are invited to the ball and help Cinderella and the Prince.

Don't Talk to the Actors
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Stevens, director

Price: Dinner theater: $34.95. Show only: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The performance is preceded by dinner at 6:30 pm.

The best laid plans go awry when the cast and crew of a Broadway-bound play resort to manipulation,
diva-like behavior, and chaotic abandon to get what they want. Fledgling playwright Jerry Przpezniak and his fiancee are a couple of Buffalo greenhorns suddenly swept up in the whirlwind of New York's theater scene when Jerry's play is optioned for the big money, ego-driven world of Broadway. It's a young playwright's dream, but the crazy characters and dilemmas they encounter are the things theatrical nightmares are made of. A CNY premiere.

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How Did I End Up Here?
Rarely Done Productions
Featuring Pat Catchouny

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

A cabaret in five decades, four seasons, three octaves, two states, and a piano.

How does an Armenian-American from Northern New Jersey end up in Syracuse? To find out, take a musical journey with Patricia Elise Catchouny, accompanied by Dan Williams on piano. From opera to Broadway, from Coleman to Taylor, from soprano to belt, from "Voi Che Sapete" to "He Plays the Violin" -- this is what happens when a child's first albums are Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar.

Red Light Series: From Foster Care to Fabulous
Redhouse

Price: $20 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Patrick Burns's one-man autobiographical musical extravaganza that chronicles his teenage years in and out of foster care. The show features myriad songs, both well-known and original, with a plethora of jaw dropping anecdotes and side-splitting yarns, and an avalanche of horrifying, hilarious, and ultimately heartbreaking characters.

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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

Chinese artist Shen Wei uses his self-portrait series "I Miss You Already" as a place for self-discovery and contemplation. Each image captures a momentary experience that describes the coming together of person and place. Many of the photographs are intensely sexual. His images invite others into his solitude by quietly beckoning or openly drawing the viewer in. They tease the camera, and therefore the viewer, in various degrees. That Wei is an attractive and physically fit young Asian man plays an important part in how his work addresses desire in the context of identity and bridges cultural and sexual barriers.

His overtly sexual photographs push against the boundaries of Wei's conservative Chinese upbringing, which occurred at a time when even art students did not get to study the nude body and would learn to draw the body from sculptural busts. Moving to the United States in 2000, Wei was confronted with very different societal attitudes toward the naked body and sexuality, and his response to these issues has become central to his work. It is not important to Wei that his photographs be understood in only one way, and he acknowledges that his work may be interpreted differently from country to country. He has also seen a shifting of social norms. Even in China it is now increasingly acceptable to depict the naked body, especially in art.

Wei uses his series to push against cultural boundaries, but in image after image he also explores his own comfort level with expressing his sexuality. Throughout the series we observe Wei trying on one environment and identity at a time. Although the images are constructed, the emotions are authentic. We see a young man asserting himself in front of the camera and claiming his right to define himself and his sexuality.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Dennis Krukowski, Tice Lerner, and Sayler/Morris.

SU Art Kids: The Art of the Mosaic
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Using Syracuse University's iconic mural The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, you and your child will learn about the art of the mosaic. After the lesson there will be an art making activity where children can create their own mosaic in our workshop.

This programs is designed for children ages 5-10, but we encourage all ages to participate.

By Way of Thanks
Szozda Gallery

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

Works by Lydia Benscher, Roscha Folger, Carmel Nicoletti, and and Fred Wellner

Pieces include still-life encaustic paintings by Lydia Benscher, richly shaded patina bronze wall reliefs by Nicoletti, surrealistic commentary works by Wellner, and realistic pastels by Folger. In a couple of instances, pieces for display in this show reflect the artists' shift to a different medium, while others extend the mood in a given style for which he or she is well-known.

Nicoletti was represented last at Szozda Gallery with her unique, exquisitely-colored glass works. This time around, emphasis is on her one-of-a-kind bronzes that also depict her interpretation of motion that she calls "A System of Verbs: A Range of Motion."

Folger is a multi-talented artist noted especially for her mixed media, but here she concentrates on pastels.

Bencher and Wellner delve deeply into their continuing art forms -- Bencher through her encaustics finds multiple possibilities with color, texture and the calligraphic line; Wellner, in his abstracts of nature, reaches further into the universe that, he says, "Sometimes expects us to act directly, for we are its instruments."

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit will feature vestigial jewelry by Donna Smith and vessels by Sallie Thompson.

Donna Smith uses traditional metalsmithing techniques to create contemporary heirloom pieces. The use of found objects are central to her work.

Sallie Thompson creates vessels of clay that are influenced by the diversity of texture and form found in the Finger Lakes area.

Harvest
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Forms of Function," an exhibition of new works by gallery co-owner Sarah Panzarella, will feature ceramic vessels, mugs, pie plates, candlesticks and butter bells.

Although Panzarella says nature is the primary inspiration for her work, she also draws from the Arts and Crafts Movement and its focus on craftsmanship, function and quality, and the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

Her works have been featured in exhibitions at Baltimore Clayworks, Gulf Coast Community College, Cazenovia Art Park, the Thrown Together Gallery in Louisville, Ky., the Chiaroscuro Galleries in Chicago and the Media Image Gallery in Gainesville, Fla., and appear in the permanent collections of Nottingham Arts in San Marcos, Calif., and the Meyerhoff Family in Baltimore.

Holiday Fine Craft Show

Price: $3
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Baskets, cards, ceramics, fiber arts, fused and stained glass, jewelry, soap, and woodcrafts by regional artists will be featured.

Enjoy works by Amber Waves of Glass, Ballina Baskets, Barbara Weingart, Butternut Pottery, Dana Stenson, Eye Studio, Garys Family Tree, Ginny Spina, Grandpa Joes Woodcrafts, Jennifer Locke Designs, Jennifer Newman, Lorraine Markley, Nanette Bergevin, Serenity Hill Stained Glass, Split-Fire Pottery, Sue Ellen Romanowski, and Syracuse Soapworks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Pottery Plus
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Delavan Center, #119
112 Wyoming St., Syracuse

Pottery Plus is the much-anticipated annual show and sale featuring the unique, artistic work of 19 Central New York artisans.

Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

From the 1930s to the 1980s the printed image in American art went through profound changes. Beginning with the black and white lithographs that were popularized by the regionalists and urban realists, and continuing through the experimental intaglio prints of the 1940s and 1950s, the "Pop" explosion of screenprints in the 1960s, and the precision of super realism in the 1970s, printmaking has captured the imagination of countless American artists.

This exhibition of 50 American prints surveys the activities of artists who put designs on paper during this exciting period. Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Anne Ryan, Milton Avery, Dorothy Dehner, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Richard Estes are a few of the artists represented in this examination of the growth in popularity of printmaking among American artists during this 50 year period. Especially significant are the contributions of women to printmaking during this period as well as the impact of African-American artists on the graphic arts. Combined with artists who immigrated to the United States during these decades and the increased numbers of painters and sculptors who took up the medium, this exhibition makes the egalitarian nature of the print abundantly clear.

Jeff Davies: Straight from the Heart
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Jeff Davies (1938-2006) was a Syracuse area self-taught artist who gained a near-cult status among local collectors. Davies developed a style that incorporated elements of Surrealism with Rube Goldberg-inspired machines often in service to a sexually charged visual theme. As he gained experience he enlarged the size of the images, ultimately making murals, the most famous of which are on the interior and exterior walls of the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que restaurant in downtown Syracuse.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Mark Povinelli: Post Cambrian Explosion
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This exhibition explores the artist's interest in mathematics, written language, and the diversity of forms in nature by using sycamore, hemlock, paper, and copper to create transformative space.

Habitual
XL Projects

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

"Habitual" features work by a group of artists who explore the very notion of the habitual. They include City Meditation Crew and VPA students Emily Dunlap, Lily Fein, Nicholas Krapf, Cayla Lockwood, Joel Weissman, and Jian Zhong.

Artists' statement: However overt or latent, we are faced with constructing, continuing or terminating habits every day. Within the liminal space between compulsion and regiment, awareness of our practices becomes vague. As habits become repetitive and repetition becomes habit, we find ourselves in a cyclical relationship. So often this relationship is externalized and projected onto the places, objects and thoughts that construct our lived environment. As our desires erupt into actions, they become mitigated experiences between our needs and the objects meant to satisfy them. Actions become the affect and creators of our recurrent behaviors, helping to define our modes of existence. Showing how we each respond to our individual practice, our habits and repetitions will be seen in a multitude of ways.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

SU Art Kids: Printmaking Workshop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Kids will learn about featured prints from the exhibition Pulled, Pressed and Screened. In our print studio space, children and parents will participate in a printmaking activity.

This programs is designed for children ages 5-10, but we encourage all ages to participate.

So You Think You Can Dance Tour 2012

Price: $65, $52.50, $39.50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tickets may be purchased through the Landmark box office Monday-Friday 10:00 am-5:00 pm, 315-475-7980, or through Ticketmaster.com.

Highland Winds Concert
Arts Alive in Liverpool

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

A clarinet quartet of four professional musicians (John Flaver, Thomas McKay, Thomas Soccocio, Edward O'Rourke) will perform.

Sunday Musicale: Maryna Mazhukhova, piano; Martha Grener, flute
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: $5 suggested donation
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

Harvest Bluegrass Showcase Concert
Central New York Bluegrass Association
Featuring Mark Allnatt Band

Price: $10 regular, $8 members, children under 16 free with paying adult
Marcellus American Legion Hall
13 E. Main St., Marcellus

The Mark Allnatt Band features five great local musicians who have entertained thousands of Central New Yorkers over the years. Snacks, dessert, and coffee will be served between sets.

For more information, phone 315-572-2247 or visit www.cnyba.com.

Harpa Galora: A Glorious Harp Music Concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
CNY Chapter of the American Harp Society

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors/students
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A concert of classical, jazz, Celtic and pop music performed by a Harp Orchestra.

For more information, call 315-425-2882.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Fall Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Concerto winners from the CMM/OCSO Youth Competition

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Mozart Piano Concerto No. 17, movement I (Shuting Lu, piano)
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, movement I (Rebekah Boulos, violin)
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue (Daniel Loh, piano)
Dvorak Symphony No. 8 in G

Selections from "Chicago"
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Vocal students will present selections from the Broadway musical Chicago.

Tribute to Rob McConnell with Michael Davis
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Adults $25 in advance, $30 at the door; students $10
Sheraton Syracuse University Grand Ballroom
801 University Ave., Syracuse

A graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, Michael Davis has played trombone with some of the world's biggest acts, including The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, and Bob Dylan. Canadian composer, arranger, and educator Rob McConnell is best remembered for his work with The Boss Brass ensemble and Mel Tormé.

Scott Foppiano
Syracuse Wurlitzer

Price: $15 adults, $2 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Scott Foppiano was born in Memphis, TN, in 1965 and began private study of the piano and organ at a young age. While a student he started playing at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle and in high school began playing the Mighty Wurlitzer organ at the Orpheum Theatre.

Critically acclaimed and sought after as a classical recitalist, theatre organist, and silent film accompanist, he has played and recorded some of the greatest pipe organs in the US, Canad,a and Europe. He has recorded six solo organ CDs with future projects pending.

Scott has served on the administrative boards of the ATOS and AGO at local and national levels. He has played for national and regional conventions of the AGO, ATOS and OHS. He was a featured solo artist at the 2007 ATOS National Convention in New York City where he performed on the famous Möller pipe organ in the Cadet Chapel of the United States Military Academy at West Point and for the 2008 ATOS National Convention in Indianapolis. Mr. Foppiano's musical achievements were honored by being named the 2007 ATOS Organist of the Year.

Don't Talk to the Actors
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The best laid plans go awry when the cast and crew of a Broadway-bound play resort to manipulation,
diva-like behavior, and chaotic abandon to get what they want. Fledgling playwright Jerry Przpezniak and his fiancee are a couple of Buffalo greenhorns suddenly swept up in the whirlwind of New York's theater scene when Jerry's play is optioned for the big money, ego-driven world of Broadway. It's a young playwright's dream, but the crazy characters and dilemmas they encounter are the things theatrical nightmares are made of. A CNY premiere.

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Monday, November 19, 2012

Opening: Mark Povinelli: Post Cambrian Explosion
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this afternoon 4:00-6:00 pm.

This exhibition explores the artist's interest in mathematics, written language, and the diversity of forms in nature by using sycamore, hemlock, paper, and copper to create transformative space.

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Works by more than 25 local artists will be on display. The exhibit includes watercolors by Susi Buschbacher, Judy Hand, Jill Newton, Bob Ripley and Nancy Scanlon, oil paintings by Barbara Bratt, Karen Burns and Hetty Easter, gouache by Chris Baker, and pastels by Barbara Delmonico and Ruth Anne Reagan, among many others. The exhibit also showcases jewelry by Deborah Laun, in addition to photography and sculptures. The majority of the artwork is for sale, featuring unique gifts just in time for the holidays. Many pieces depict local images and scenes.

Participating artists are all members of Baltimore Woods Nature Center, which is a member supported organization.

Meditation on Video (&) Language, a show by Tom Sherman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A selection of new and previous works on video and drawings by artist Tom Sherman.

Reflecting on the work, the artist states: "The representation may be almost like a constellation of moments of awareness. It's impossible to summarize what you think in a video, but it is possible to create a veil of a series of works that contribute to the aggregate consciousness of a society, like a transparent curtain of events, of sub consciousness."

Sherman is a Professor of Arts, Design, and Transmedia at Syracuse University. He was a founding co-editor of Fuse magazine, Toronto (1980); founding director of Media Arts for the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa (1983-87), and co-founder of Nerve Theory, an international performance art/recording collaborative (1997). In 1980, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale, and in 1986, was appointed international commissioner for that same Biennale that is one of the worlds major contemporary art exhibitions every two years in Venice, Italy. Among numerous distinctions, Sherman received the Bell Canada prize for excellence in video art in 2003, and Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2010.

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

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

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

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

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

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

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit will feature vestigial jewelry by Donna Smith and vessels by Sallie Thompson.

Donna Smith uses traditional metalsmithing techniques to create contemporary heirloom pieces. The use of found objects are central to her work.

Sallie Thompson creates vessels of clay that are influenced by the diversity of texture and form found in the Finger Lakes area.

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Forms of Function," an exhibition of new works by gallery co-owner Sarah Panzarella, will feature ceramic vessels, mugs, pie plates, candlesticks and butter bells.

Although Panzarella says nature is the primary inspiration for her work, she also draws from the Arts and Crafts Movement and its focus on craftsmanship, function and quality, and the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

Her works have been featured in exhibitions at Baltimore Clayworks, Gulf Coast Community College, Cazenovia Art Park, the Thrown Together Gallery in Louisville, Ky., the Chiaroscuro Galleries in Chicago and the Media Image Gallery in Gainesville, Fla., and appear in the permanent collections of Nottingham Arts in San Marcos, Calif., and the Meyerhoff Family in Baltimore.

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

Chinese artist Shen Wei uses his self-portrait series "I Miss You Already" as a place for self-discovery and contemplation. Each image captures a momentary experience that describes the coming together of person and place. Many of the photographs are intensely sexual. His images invite others into his solitude by quietly beckoning or openly drawing the viewer in. They tease the camera, and therefore the viewer, in various degrees. That Wei is an attractive and physically fit young Asian man plays an important part in how his work addresses desire in the context of identity and bridges cultural and sexual barriers.

His overtly sexual photographs push against the boundaries of Wei's conservative Chinese upbringing, which occurred at a time when even art students did not get to study the nude body and would learn to draw the body from sculptural busts. Moving to the United States in 2000, Wei was confronted with very different societal attitudes toward the naked body and sexuality, and his response to these issues has become central to his work. It is not important to Wei that his photographs be understood in only one way, and he acknowledges that his work may be interpreted differently from country to country. He has also seen a shifting of social norms. Even in China it is now increasingly acceptable to depict the naked body, especially in art.

Wei uses his series to push against cultural boundaries, but in image after image he also explores his own comfort level with expressing his sexuality. Throughout the series we observe Wei trying on one environment and identity at a time. Although the images are constructed, the emotions are authentic. We see a young man asserting himself in front of the camera and claiming his right to define himself and his sexuality.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Dennis Krukowski, Tice Lerner, and Sayler/Morris.

Baskets with Sculpture by Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

Bringing together their art and cultural knowledge, Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman create one-of-a-kind black ash baskets with sculptural finials. Ronni-Leigh uses the age old tradition of black ash and sweet grass basket making she learned from Mae Bigtree, a world renowned basketmaker from the Mohawk nation of Akwesasne. Although there are many traditional aspects to her baskets, Ronni-Leigh weaves her individuality into each by embellishing with moose hair and plaited porcupine quills. Stonehorse completes the basket by using white tail deer, moose antler or fossilized ivory to sculpt detailed finials and basket stands that are inspired by stories of the Haudenosaunee.

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Featuring the works of 50 artists, including paintings, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, and more.

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Angels on the Border" is an exhibition of religious paintings commissioned by Mexican immigrants from 1912 to 1996.

Retablos are Mexican folk paintings, usually created on small pieces of tin, offered as votives to the Christ and the Virgin Mary in gratitude for a miracle granted or a favor received. Made by professional retablo artists, immigrant relatives or the immigrants themselves, the artwork is posted on walls inside Catholic churches in Mexico.

Bellydance Superstars

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

The internationally acclaimed Bellydance Superstars will be bringing their beautiful ancient art form to Syracuse. Bellydance Superstars have performed in over 20 countries and in more than 600 shows. They showcase several different bellydance styles and will certainly entertain you! Come and be enchanted by their music, beauty, and dance.

Tickets can be purchased in person at The Oncenter Box Office, over the phone at 315-435-2121, or online at Ticketmaster.com.

Truck Farm
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Somewhere on the streets of Brooklyn, NY, a tiny farm-on-wheels is growing in the back of a 1986 Dodge pick-up truck. Filmmaker Ian Cheney planted his truck farm in 2009 after moving to New York City and realizing there was no space to grow food. The 1/1000th acre farm started as an experiment, using rooftop farming irrigation techniques to grow a variety of plants including parsley, broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes, and basil. The miniature yield is not enough to support large-scale consumption; however, the truck farm serves as a portable educational tool for urban students and a tribute to edible innovation. In just two years, the original project has expanded into 25 mobile truck farms across the country. Each truck in this "Truck Farm Fleet" is unique, but together this moving force is teaching people that growing food can be fun, easy, and rewarding despite a scarcity of land. (2011, 48 minutes, directed by Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney)