Thursday, April 18, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

There will be a reception this evening 5:30-8:30 pm. During the reception, Stephen Long's work, Crucible, will be shown at 8:00. (Rain date: Thurs., April 25)

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

Tamil Pasanga (The Local Kids)
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Krithika Sathyamurthy's art practice has been shaped by her South Indian heritage and experiences of growing up as a 21st century immigrant in the United States. As she adapted to Western culture, Sathyamurthy parted with many of the Indian values and traditions she held onto when she was younger. In her work, she addresses the internal conflicts of being an immigrant and also focuses on how Western culture has influenced the way she views important issues of 21st century India. As Sathyamurthy re-investigates her roots, her paintings reflect how her thoughts on India's political, social, and educational agenda is deeply influenced by her experiences as an immigrant and a female citizen of America.

"Tamil Pasanga" (The Local Kids) is a series of paintings that reveal several points of rupture as she reflects on the flawed Indian educational system. Having studied in the U.S., she understands that the existing education system in India poses a threat to its goals of achieving inclusive growth. In "Tamil Pasanga," elements of surface, repetition of ghosted figures, and haunting atmosphere, help create moments of hostility, as well as moments of vulnerability through the viscosity of the paint.

Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

The exhibit will be composed of a diverse collection of student art, including sculpture, painting and photography. Each reflects the variety of experiences and sources of inspiration of the individuals who created them.

Art Exhibit by Tom Hussey

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

Auburn, NY, artist Tom Hussey will include in his exhibit landscape and figurative renderings in oil, acrylic and pastel.

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Paintings by Karen Burns and photography by David LoParco depict local landscapes.

Independent Potters' Association Annual Spring Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

A group exhibition featuring ceramics created by members of the Independent Potters' Association. The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels. Participating artists include: Jen Gandee, Bobbi Lamb, Paul Molesky, Tom Montague, Jessica Pilowa, Lindsey Scott, Tim See, Don Seymour, Bob Shenfeld, Peter Valenti, and Wes Weiss.

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

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

Drawn Digital
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Drawn Digital, featuring graphic designers who illustrate, is a celebration of creating images, under direct manipulation of the artist, through the use of pen and ink as well as digital tools and applications.

Graphic designer/illustrators included are Jim Brenneman, Nick Machia, Jeff Madison, John Paone, and Mitzie Testani. These artists, not only share an expertise in the use of graphic tablets and of bitmap and vector-based applications ("painting" and "drawing" programs), but a love for drawing and a unique sensibility over their subject matters. Renaissance Architecture, imagination, and everyday life in central New York are some of their forms of inspiration.

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

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

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

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

Stranger Stop and Cast and Eye
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographer Frank Calidonna shares his intrigue of Italian Cimitero Scultpture with us through beautiful Black and White photography in his exhibit "Stranger Stop and Cast and Eye."

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of works by high school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse, juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Crossings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Crossings" is a multi-faceted outcome of how the work of two artists, Nayda Collazo-Lloréns and Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, relates to each other in terms of location, mapping, identity, memory and multiplicity. "Crossings" is a first-time collaboration, convergence, and juxtaposition of these two artistic practices. The show will present a series of 13 works on paper, and a two-channel video installation titled PLEXUS13NP.

Nayda Collazo-Lloréns: Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, she is a New York City based artist engaged in a multi-disciplinary practice that includes drawing, print, installation, video, text-based works and public interventions. Through her practice, she examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, language and hyper-connectivity.

Patricia Villalobos Echeverría Born in Tennessee to Salvadoran parents and raised in Managua, Nicaragua, Villalobos describes her work as a hybrid. Her print, video and installation work explores how reproducible forms of representation can alter our notions of singularity and the various states of flux that we enter: some physical, others virtual. She a Professor of Art at Western Michigan University.

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Corporeal Contours" features the work of two distinguished artists, Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, each displaying their personal ideas of identity in relation to the world around them. A large part of the exhibition also seeks to expose the hyper-exoticism of tourism companies, while also confronting issues of racial identity in Caribbean and American societies.

The artists each use very personal experiences to create an array of compelling silhouetted forms and prints. For her on-going series Can I Pass (2010), Baez incorporates aspects from her transcultural background to examine the United States' "brown paper bag test" and the Dominican Republic's "fan test." She uses art as a medium to challenge these tests, tracing her outline and painting her skin tone for each day within the form over the course of an entire month. Within her works, Baez is able to explore idealized body types, race, and skin tones within the greater social scheme across both countries.

For her series, Chung analyzes post colonial culture by using old logos and slogans from tourist advertisements, and archival photographs to create her thought-provoking prints. She focuses on race, class, and contemporary society in Jamaica and Trinidad, as well as the exotic identity assumed by tourist companies. Chung is also able to address the increasingly popular skin bleaching practices in Jamaica, exposing a deeper dimension of self image and controversy in her work.

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her exhibit "When We Just Existed," artist Deborah Roberts investigates children's innocence, and how their sense of self is shaped by their environments, as well as the residual effects this may have on adults. In many of her paintings, Roberts uses her prepubescent self as the subject, adding a personal dimension to her pieces that will help you think of your own childhood. In her work, she makes references to the lynching in African American history and the racial tensions that children may experience.

Joe Lingeman: Habitus
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Karen Klee-Atlin: Prints
Redhouse

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

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

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

Annual Kids' Benefit Show
Szozda Gallery

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

In a collaborative effort benefiting their school art programs, teachers at Meachem and Seymour Dual Language Academy are featuring over 100 works created by their elementary students.

The two school art teachers, Stacy Griffin of Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler of Seymour, have prepared their young people for this prestigious opportunity of displaying works in a professional gallery with a journey of study that goes beyond the walls of the classroom, school hallways, and cafeterias. Over the past year, walking field trips took the students into galleries, artists' studios, and the Everson Museum of Art.

In addition to local touring, Griffin took her students on a world tour, thus their pieces in the show reflect Indian, Australian, Egyptian and Greek influences. Her counterpart in the show, Moser-Vogler reinforces the coupling of arts with other studies believing that the results "can positively enhance any culture, subject or curriculum."

Proceeds from sales of students' works are divided to give one half to students and one half to the respective teacher's art program for much-needed supplies, especially those not available through vendors that the teachers pay for out of pocket, such as salt and flour for homemade play dough, and food coloring and shaving cream to show color mixing.

Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The tea bowl, with its seemingly inexhaustible form, is beloved by potters and collectors alike. Its intimate scale encourages spontaneity and experimentation. Today's ceramic artists connect to the ancient Japanese tradition of the Tea Ceremony and the countless unknown potters from the past while maintaining their unique aesthetic voice though the creation of the tea bowl. This exhibition represents contemporary voices in clay--from wood-fire to earthenware, traditional to unconventional. "Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach," is co-curated by John Jessiman and Jen Gandee.

The eNth Degree: MFA 2013
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Messages of Sisterhood: Works by Favianna Rodríguez
La Casita Cultural Center

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

A native of Oakland, CA, Favianna Rodriguez is renowned for her vibrant posters about issues of war, immigration, globalization, workers' rights, racism, homophobia, sexism and other contemporary issues. "Messages of Sisterhood" commemorates Women's History Month, focusing on the role of women in the struggles for social justice.

Rodriguez has lectured widely on the use of art in civic engagement and on the work of artists who are bridging the community and museum. Her works appear in collections at Bellas Artes (Mexico City), The Glasgow Print Studio (Glasgow, Scotland) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

FND 0098: Ten Years Out
XL Projects

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

A group of alumni from the Class of 2002 from SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts will present "FND 0098: Ten Years Out," an exhibition that investigates the first-year art and design foundation experience and its role in shaping young artists' work and life.

VPA's foundation curriculum is designed to provide the most rigorous introductory courses necessary for a complete education in art and design. Foundation and its effectiveness is a major topic of conversation at many colleges and universities; "FND 0098" was formed in response to these discussions. In the exhibition, fledgling foundation projects appear alongside participants' current work, juxtaposing then and now. The exhibition will also feature original work dedicated to the foundation experience.

"FND 0098" is also a reunion celebration that honors 10 years of contact and community between its participants since their graduation from Syracuse University. The artists include Erin Borja, Andrew Camp, Jessie Anne Clark, Holly Faurot, Cameron Norbert, Sarah Paulson, Hoang Pham, and Alicia Traveria. Clark is the exhibition curator.

For more information about the exhibition, contact Clark at 315-278-2339 or jessie@thejessicaclarkshow.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

FAQ: Fearlessly Asked Questions
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The graduate museum studies program will explore a unique aspect of the human condition in this new exhibition. FAQ aims to be an innovative, educational, and beautiful presentation with two thematic narratives: the types of questions we ask, and how we seek answers to those questions. The gallery will house interdisciplinary displays with artifacts and resources drawn from history, science, art, pop culture, and personal interviews. The overall vision for the exhibition is to bring attention to the importance of questions, both from a societal and individual perspective, while raising important questions for gallery visitors to consider for themselves.

The physical gallery is also supported by online components, including the exhibition website, a Facebook page and an interactive website on which users can answer questions and pose their own.

Rationalize & Perpetuate: Video Installation by Sandra Stephens
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

There will be an artist talk with Sandra Stephens this evening at 7:00 pm.

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

Three Currents: Nate West, Tony Thompson, and Steve Nyland
bc Restaurant

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

This exhibit brings together three painters of very differing styles poised to lead the current CNY cultural landscape.

Academic Art ... Teachers That Do
Eureka Crafts

Price: Free
Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Meet Henninger High School art teacher Lori Schneider. Lori will have her Loricards and monoprints on display.

Time Stands Still
Petit Branch Library

Price: Free
Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

Joan Applebaum is a Visual Arts Instructor for youth, teens and adults at the East Area Family YMCA in Fayetteville, and an active professional artist who has exhibited her work throughout New York State. Joan maintains studios at her home base in Syracuse and at her camp in the Indian River Lakes. Her inspiration comes from her surroundings; the changing seasons in Upstate New York, lively city festivals and the lovely old architecture that makes this area unique.

Handcrafted Jewelry Exhibit
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Delavan Center, #119
112 Wyoming St., Syracuse

Syracuse Ceramic Guild will showcase elegant, handmade jewelry and fine ceramic work. A variety of uncommon jewelry fashioned from beading, glass, ceramic and other media will be featured, along with ceramic pieces from artisans all around the Finger Lakes region, by artists including Denise Dowdall, Leslie Guilbault, Anne Foulke, Julie Hall, Zach Dunn, Sue Canizares, Margie Hughto, Sabrina Nedell
and Judy Lieblein.

Visitors should use the Syracuse Ceramic Guild entrance on the Wyoming Street side of the Delavan Center, where free parking is available.

2013 Poster Project Unveiling Ceremony

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

The Syracuse Poster Project will unveil its 12th annual poster series. The 2013 series consists of 15 posters created the traditional way, starting with haiku, and one done the reverse way, with the haiku being written to complement an illustration. From Syracuse's best places for leisure to experiences with wildlife, this year's display showcases many of the city's endearing qualities. This year's series features work by Central New York poets from Syracuse, East Syracuse, Skaneateles, Cazenovia, LaFayette, Solvay, Auburn, Fayetteville, and Minoa.

The Syracuse Poster Project brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry illustrations for the city's poster panels. Every year, members of the Syracuse community and surrounding areas are asked to submit haiku about downtown, the city, or the nearby countryside. Students from SU's Illustration Department create posters based on the haiku of their choice. The Project selects the top 16 posters, and these go on display along Salina and Warren streets, beginning in April.

For more information and general questions, please contact Jim Emmons, Project Coordinator, at jim@posterproject.org.

Psychic Geographies
Urban Video Project

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

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

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

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

Psychic Geographies was curated by Anneka Herre.

From Image to Language: Three Vignettes of Work in Transition
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Featuring Leonard Barkan

Price: Free
Maxwell Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Princeton scholar Leonard Barkan will explore the link between poetry and art in works by Caravaggio, Michelangelo, and Shakespeare

Barkan's presentation will likely draw on his latest book, Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures (Princeton University Press, 2013), which explores--in his words--the "deliciously ambiguous history of the relationship between words and pictures."

The vignettes in question are Caravaggio's "St. Matthew and the Angel" (1602), which depicts the apostle writing his gospel under the influence of an angel; Michelangelo's vast output of drawings, sketches, and doodles, whose marginal notes reveal expressions of ambition and despair; and Shakespeare's rich use of foreign language in his plays.

For more information, contact Hope Glidden at 315-443-5376 or hhglidde@syr.edu.

Masterclass and Jazz Clinic
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble
Featuring Marshall McDonald of the Count Basie Orchestra

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

Marshall McDonald is an accomplished musician and a seasoned performer. He started clarinet studies at the age of 9 with Principal Clarinetist Thomas Thompson of The Pittsburgh Symphony at Carnegie-Mellon University, and continued with William Balawadjer of Carnegie-Mellon University for 6 years and for 2 years with Paris Conservatory graduate Nestor Koval at Duquesne University. He studied jazz and saxophone at University of Pittsburgh with Dr. Nathan Davis and continued his studies in New York City with Miles Davis alumnus, George Coleman. He has also studied sound and embouchure concepts with Joe Allard protege, Dave Tofani.

Marshall began his tenure with The Count Basie Orchestra under saxophonist Danny Turner in 1994 and now holds down the Lead Alto chair famously held by the great Marshal Royal. Marshall has performed concerts and jazz festivals world wide with the orchestra directed by Frank Foster, Grover Mitchell, and Bill Hughes. The orchestra is currently led by Count Basie's former drummer, the dynamic Dennis Mackrel.

Marshall's unique ability to play all of the saxophones, clarinet and flute has led to recordings and world tours with The Lionel Hampton Orchestra, Paquito D'Rivera and the United Nation Orchestra, Frank Foster and The Loud Minority Big Band, The Chico O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Orchestra, The Illinois Jacquet Big Band, The Duke Ellington Orchestra and Charli Persip and Supersound. Marshall has played every sax chair except baritone in the Basie Band, he has played every chair including baritone sax in the Lionel Hampton Band, and played and recorded on alto, tenor and baritone sax with Paquito D'Rivera, and was often found switching from the Lead Alto chair of the Charli Persip band to the Tenor chair when needed.

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.

Le Moyne College Jazzuits
Temple Society of Concord

Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Vocal jazz ensemble.

Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble presents the second concert of the semester. The ensemble is under the direction of Joe Riposo.

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.

Cruel April: Paula Jimenez
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Poetry readings from the new "Corresponding Voices" collection every Thursday in April. Readings start at 6:00 pm, followed by a reception and dialogue with the poets.

Tonight's poems will be read by guest poet Madeleine Stratford.

Paula Jimenez is a writer and psychologist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She regularly contributes to literary supplements Soy and Las 12 (Pagina/12), and Diario Z, and has been coordinating creative writing workshops since 2001. Her poetry books include Ser feliz en Baltimore (Nusud, 2001), Foprmas (Terraza, 2002, LaCasa en l a avenida (Terraza, 2004), la mala vida (Bajo la Luna, 2007), Ni jota (Abeja Reina, 2008), Espacios naturales (Bajo la Luna, 2009), and La vuelta, soon to be published by Simulcoop.

Reading Grove
XL Projects

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

Students, faculty, and community members read from books published by Grove Press, presented in conjunction with the exhibit "Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985" on display at the SU Library Special Collections Research Center.

Word Thursday
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Join us for our April Word Thursday performance, featuring Grady Chambers, Tim Craven, John Cardone, Chen Chen, and Rob Evory, and their perspectives on travel. A poetry open mic will follow, so bring poems to share.

Deadly Inheritance
Acme Mystery Company

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

The matriarch of a wealthy family is gravely ill and wishing to settle her estate. First, her long lost younger son must be declared officially dead. That's where the fun begins! Join in as you and the other intensely greedy relatives gather to memorialize "Little Dickie" and battle for position to receive the lion's share of the family's $13 billion fortune. Be careful at this gathering, however, the next memorial could be for you.

Brighton Beach Memoirs
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

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

Here is part one of Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the writer as a young teen in 1937 living with his family in a crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Eugene Jerome, standing in for the author, is the narrator and central character. Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche, her two young (but rapidly aging) daughters and Grandpa the Socialist and you have a recipe for hilarity, served up Simon-style. This bittersweet memoir evocatively captures the life of a struggling Jewish household where, as his father states "if you didn't have a problem, you wouldn't be living here."

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Friday, April 19, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

Tamil Pasanga (The Local Kids)
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Krithika Sathyamurthy's art practice has been shaped by her South Indian heritage and experiences of growing up as a 21st century immigrant in the United States. As she adapted to Western culture, Sathyamurthy parted with many of the Indian values and traditions she held onto when she was younger. In her work, she addresses the internal conflicts of being an immigrant and also focuses on how Western culture has influenced the way she views important issues of 21st century India. As Sathyamurthy re-investigates her roots, her paintings reflect how her thoughts on India's political, social, and educational agenda is deeply influenced by her experiences as an immigrant and a female citizen of America.

"Tamil Pasanga" (The Local Kids) is a series of paintings that reveal several points of rupture as she reflects on the flawed Indian educational system. Having studied in the U.S., she understands that the existing education system in India poses a threat to its goals of achieving inclusive growth. In "Tamil Pasanga," elements of surface, repetition of ghosted figures, and haunting atmosphere, help create moments of hostility, as well as moments of vulnerability through the viscosity of the paint.

Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

The exhibit will be composed of a diverse collection of student art, including sculpture, painting and photography. Each reflects the variety of experiences and sources of inspiration of the individuals who created them.

Art Exhibit by Tom Hussey

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

Auburn, NY, artist Tom Hussey will include in his exhibit landscape and figurative renderings in oil, acrylic and pastel.

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Paintings by Karen Burns and photography by David LoParco depict local landscapes.

Independent Potters' Association Annual Spring Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

A group exhibition featuring ceramics created by members of the Independent Potters' Association. The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels. Participating artists include: Jen Gandee, Bobbi Lamb, Paul Molesky, Tom Montague, Jessica Pilowa, Lindsey Scott, Tim See, Don Seymour, Bob Shenfeld, Peter Valenti, and Wes Weiss.

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

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

Drawn Digital
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Drawn Digital, featuring graphic designers who illustrate, is a celebration of creating images, under direct manipulation of the artist, through the use of pen and ink as well as digital tools and applications.

Graphic designer/illustrators included are Jim Brenneman, Nick Machia, Jeff Madison, John Paone, and Mitzie Testani. These artists, not only share an expertise in the use of graphic tablets and of bitmap and vector-based applications ("painting" and "drawing" programs), but a love for drawing and a unique sensibility over their subject matters. Renaissance Architecture, imagination, and everyday life in central New York are some of their forms of inspiration.

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

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

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

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

Stranger Stop and Cast and Eye
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographer Frank Calidonna shares his intrigue of Italian Cimitero Scultpture with us through beautiful Black and White photography in his exhibit "Stranger Stop and Cast and Eye."

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of works by high school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse, juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Crossings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Crossings" is a multi-faceted outcome of how the work of two artists, Nayda Collazo-Lloréns and Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, relates to each other in terms of location, mapping, identity, memory and multiplicity. "Crossings" is a first-time collaboration, convergence, and juxtaposition of these two artistic practices. The show will present a series of 13 works on paper, and a two-channel video installation titled PLEXUS13NP.

Nayda Collazo-Lloréns: Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, she is a New York City based artist engaged in a multi-disciplinary practice that includes drawing, print, installation, video, text-based works and public interventions. Through her practice, she examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, language and hyper-connectivity.

Patricia Villalobos Echeverría Born in Tennessee to Salvadoran parents and raised in Managua, Nicaragua, Villalobos describes her work as a hybrid. Her print, video and installation work explores how reproducible forms of representation can alter our notions of singularity and the various states of flux that we enter: some physical, others virtual. She a Professor of Art at Western Michigan University.

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her exhibit "When We Just Existed," artist Deborah Roberts investigates children's innocence, and how their sense of self is shaped by their environments, as well as the residual effects this may have on adults. In many of her paintings, Roberts uses her prepubescent self as the subject, adding a personal dimension to her pieces that will help you think of your own childhood. In her work, she makes references to the lynching in African American history and the racial tensions that children may experience.

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Corporeal Contours" features the work of two distinguished artists, Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, each displaying their personal ideas of identity in relation to the world around them. A large part of the exhibition also seeks to expose the hyper-exoticism of tourism companies, while also confronting issues of racial identity in Caribbean and American societies.

The artists each use very personal experiences to create an array of compelling silhouetted forms and prints. For her on-going series Can I Pass (2010), Baez incorporates aspects from her transcultural background to examine the United States' "brown paper bag test" and the Dominican Republic's "fan test." She uses art as a medium to challenge these tests, tracing her outline and painting her skin tone for each day within the form over the course of an entire month. Within her works, Baez is able to explore idealized body types, race, and skin tones within the greater social scheme across both countries.

For her series, Chung analyzes post colonial culture by using old logos and slogans from tourist advertisements, and archival photographs to create her thought-provoking prints. She focuses on race, class, and contemporary society in Jamaica and Trinidad, as well as the exotic identity assumed by tourist companies. Chung is also able to address the increasingly popular skin bleaching practices in Jamaica, exposing a deeper dimension of self image and controversy in her work.

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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Joe Lingeman: Habitus
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Karen Klee-Atlin: Prints
Redhouse

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

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

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

Annual Kids' Benefit Show
Szozda Gallery

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

In a collaborative effort benefiting their school art programs, teachers at Meachem and Seymour Dual Language Academy are featuring over 100 works created by their elementary students.

The two school art teachers, Stacy Griffin of Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler of Seymour, have prepared their young people for this prestigious opportunity of displaying works in a professional gallery with a journey of study that goes beyond the walls of the classroom, school hallways, and cafeterias. Over the past year, walking field trips took the students into galleries, artists' studios, and the Everson Museum of Art.

In addition to local touring, Griffin took her students on a world tour, thus their pieces in the show reflect Indian, Australian, Egyptian and Greek influences. Her counterpart in the show, Moser-Vogler reinforces the coupling of arts with other studies believing that the results "can positively enhance any culture, subject or curriculum."

Proceeds from sales of students' works are divided to give one half to students and one half to the respective teacher's art program for much-needed supplies, especially those not available through vendors that the teachers pay for out of pocket, such as salt and flour for homemade play dough, and food coloring and shaving cream to show color mixing.

Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The tea bowl, with its seemingly inexhaustible form, is beloved by potters and collectors alike. Its intimate scale encourages spontaneity and experimentation. Today's ceramic artists connect to the ancient Japanese tradition of the Tea Ceremony and the countless unknown potters from the past while maintaining their unique aesthetic voice though the creation of the tea bowl. This exhibition represents contemporary voices in clay--from wood-fire to earthenware, traditional to unconventional. "Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach," is co-curated by John Jessiman and Jen Gandee.

The eNth Degree: MFA 2013
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Messages of Sisterhood: Works by Favianna Rodríguez
La Casita Cultural Center

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

A native of Oakland, CA, Favianna Rodriguez is renowned for her vibrant posters about issues of war, immigration, globalization, workers' rights, racism, homophobia, sexism and other contemporary issues. "Messages of Sisterhood" commemorates Women's History Month, focusing on the role of women in the struggles for social justice.

Rodriguez has lectured widely on the use of art in civic engagement and on the work of artists who are bridging the community and museum. Her works appear in collections at Bellas Artes (Mexico City), The Glasgow Print Studio (Glasgow, Scotland) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

FND 0098: Ten Years Out
XL Projects

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

A group of alumni from the Class of 2002 from SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts will present "FND 0098: Ten Years Out," an exhibition that investigates the first-year art and design foundation experience and its role in shaping young artists' work and life.

VPA's foundation curriculum is designed to provide the most rigorous introductory courses necessary for a complete education in art and design. Foundation and its effectiveness is a major topic of conversation at many colleges and universities; "FND 0098" was formed in response to these discussions. In the exhibition, fledgling foundation projects appear alongside participants' current work, juxtaposing then and now. The exhibition will also feature original work dedicated to the foundation experience.

"FND 0098" is also a reunion celebration that honors 10 years of contact and community between its participants since their graduation from Syracuse University. The artists include Erin Borja, Andrew Camp, Jessie Anne Clark, Holly Faurot, Cameron Norbert, Sarah Paulson, Hoang Pham, and Alicia Traveria. Clark is the exhibition curator.

For more information about the exhibition, contact Clark at 315-278-2339 or jessie@thejessicaclarkshow.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

FAQ: Fearlessly Asked Questions
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The graduate museum studies program will explore a unique aspect of the human condition in this new exhibition. FAQ aims to be an innovative, educational, and beautiful presentation with two thematic narratives: the types of questions we ask, and how we seek answers to those questions. The gallery will house interdisciplinary displays with artifacts and resources drawn from history, science, art, pop culture, and personal interviews. The overall vision for the exhibition is to bring attention to the importance of questions, both from a societal and individual perspective, while raising important questions for gallery visitors to consider for themselves.

The physical gallery is also supported by online components, including the exhibition website, a Facebook page and an interactive website on which users can answer questions and pose their own.

Rationalize & Perpetuate: Video Installation by Sandra Stephens
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Psychic Geographies
Urban Video Project

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

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

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

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

Psychic Geographies was curated by Anneka Herre.

Laugh in Peace Comedy Tour
SU Lutheran Campus Ministry

Price: $35 advance, $40 at the door
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Comedy featuring Rev. Susan Sparks, Mo Amer, Rabbi Bob Alper.

Ffor more information, visit lcmsyracuse.org.

CNYX Screening Series
The CNY Humanities Corridor

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building, Room 121
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The CNYX Screening Series--the acronym stands for "Central New York Experimental"--celebrates experimental film of past and present. Tonight's program features a Morgan Fisher retrospective, followed by an audience Q&A with the director.

A professor at the European Graduate School, Fisher previously taught at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He is a prolific artist, writer, and teacher who despite a 19-year hiatus, has made more than 40 films since the late '60s. Among his best-known films are "( )" (2003), "Standard Gauge" (1984), "Production Stills" (1970), and "Phi Phenomenon" (1968).

Fisher's oeuvre, which has grown to encompass drawing, painting, and spatial installations, has been shown all over the world, including exhibitions at Tate Modern (U.K.) and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

For more information, contact Chris Hanson at cphanson@syr.edu.

Anne Braden: Southern Patriot (1924-2006)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Suggested donation $20 minimum
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Film screening will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund and provide support for its work. The Fund has been supporting student activists for over 50 years and our grantees have been at the forefront of virtually every major progressive social movement. They are artists, scholars, lawyers, political prisoners, and organizers on the front lines. Student-driven movements have been at the center of social change and our grantees have been integral to this work for peace and justice. You will hear from a current grantee from SUNY Binghamton, Matt Birkhold, and have the opportunity to see the recently released documentary Anne Braden: Southern Patriot. Anne and Carl Braden were early members of the Board of the Fund, and remained so for the rest of their lives.

Jazz@Sitrus
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Jazz Chix

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

Cabaret and Conversation
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $20 suggested donation
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company announces their spring fundraiser, Cabaret and Conversation. Proceeds will go towards the Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company in support of programming and the 2013-14 theatrical season.

Cabaret and Conversation will feature a cabaret-style performance by Syracuse area high school students followed by open dialogue about colorblind casting. The event will include refreshments, hors d'oeuvres, and a silent auction and raffle. There will also be a short awards ceremony honoring three different entities who have shown dedication and support to the arts in CNY: an elected official; a local business; and an individual artist.

For reservations go to www.theprpac.org. For more information, phone 315-313-5203 or email info@theprpac.org.

Harlem Quartet
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
Arts Engage

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, free for all students and SU faculty and staff
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Mozart String Quartet No. 16 in E-flat Major, K. 428
Beethoven String Quartet Op.18-3 in D Major
Corea The Adventures of Hippocrates
Marsalis At the Octoroon Balls

Trina Hamlin
Folkus Project

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

Trina Hamlin combines gentle understanding with raw emotion in a way that is, quite simply, captivating from the first note. With a rich, powerful voice, Hamlin reveals a rare confluence of midwestern innocence, contemplative focus, and raw passion while adding a disarmingly sharp wit in her stage banter.

Regarded as one of the best blues-inspired harmonica players in the country, she presents a driving, sensuous rhythm in her performance reawakening audiences to the art of the instrument. She seamlessly moves from guitar to piano with self-accompaniment on harmonica leaving many who have seen her wondering what she can't do. With unapologetic emotional freedom, Hamlin's songs have the unique power to mirror and evoke the obvious and unspoken realities of life and being in love. In the current climate of "sounds like" artists and "heard it before" lyrics, Hamlin offers an intelligent and refreshing musical experience.

Poet Jesse Nissim
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Jesse Nissim is the author of three poetry chapbooks: Alphabet for M (Dancing Girl Press); SELF NAMED BODY (Finishing Line Press); and Day Cracks Between The Bones of The Foot (Furniture Press Books). Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Barrow Street, Fourteen Hills, New American Writing, RHINO, Stone Canoe, Verse, and others. She is currently a Humanities Faculty Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University.

How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
CBA Drama Department

Price: $8
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, visit cbasyracuse.org.

Brighton Beach Memoirs
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

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

Here is part one of Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the writer as a young teen in 1937 living with his family in a crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Eugene Jerome, standing in for the author, is the narrator and central character. Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche, her two young (but rapidly aging) daughters and Grandpa the Socialist and you have a recipe for hilarity, served up Simon-style. This bittersweet memoir evocatively captures the life of a struggling Jewish household where, as his father states "if you didn't have a problem, you wouldn't be living here."

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Falsettoland
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Falsettos is the story of a confused, bisexual man, Marvin, amidst a Jewish family in New York. Initially, Marvin seems blessed with the perfect family. He has a caring wife, Trina, and a young son, Jason. Nevertheless, the family is soon broken apart when Marvin leaves Trina for a man, Whizzer. Trina, meanwhile, ends up with the family psychiatrist, Mendel. All the while, Jason is stuck in the middle. Included in the mix are the lesbian couple composed of Dr. Charlotte and Cordelia. In the end, the various characters are forced to come together when Whizzer contracts AIDS and soon dies. The show features Peter Irwin, Katie Lemos Brown, Maxwell Zirkman, Dana Sovocool, Justin Bird, Shannon Tompkins, Sara Weiler, with Musical Director Jeff Unaitis. This production will benefit Friends of Dorothy.

* Note: While usually performed together, Falsettos is actually a trilogy consisting of three shows: In Trousers, March of the Falsettos, and Falsettoland.

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Violet
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

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

With an energetic gospel, rock, country, and rhythm & blues score by Jeanine Tesori (Caroline, or Change), Violet was one of the most critically acclaimed off-Broadway shows of the 1990s. Set in 1964 in the South during the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, Violet follows the growth and enlightenment of a bitter young woman accidentally scarred by her father. Hoping that a TV evangelist can cure her, she embarks on a journey by bus from her sleepy North Carolina town to Oklahoma. Along the way, she meets a young black soldier who teaches her about beauty, love, courage, and what it means to be an outsider.

Book by Brian Crawley, music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by Brian Crawley, based on The Ugliest Pilgrim by Doris Betts.

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Suds: The Rocking '60s Musical Soap Opera
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Suds: The Rocking '60s Musical which has been breaking box office records across the country. It's the story of a young teenage girl and the two guardian angels who come to teach her about finding true love. Suds features more than 50 songs, including "Walk On By," "Please, Mr. Postman," "Wonderful, Wonderful," "You Don't Own Me," "It's My Party," "Where The Boys Are," "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," and many more.

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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

Tamil Pasanga (The Local Kids)
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Krithika Sathyamurthy's art practice has been shaped by her South Indian heritage and experiences of growing up as a 21st century immigrant in the United States. As she adapted to Western culture, Sathyamurthy parted with many of the Indian values and traditions she held onto when she was younger. In her work, she addresses the internal conflicts of being an immigrant and also focuses on how Western culture has influenced the way she views important issues of 21st century India. As Sathyamurthy re-investigates her roots, her paintings reflect how her thoughts on India's political, social, and educational agenda is deeply influenced by her experiences as an immigrant and a female citizen of America.

"Tamil Pasanga" (The Local Kids) is a series of paintings that reveal several points of rupture as she reflects on the flawed Indian educational system. Having studied in the U.S., she understands that the existing education system in India poses a threat to its goals of achieving inclusive growth. In "Tamil Pasanga," elements of surface, repetition of ghosted figures, and haunting atmosphere, help create moments of hostility, as well as moments of vulnerability through the viscosity of the paint.

Independent Potters' Association Annual Spring Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

A group exhibition featuring ceramics created by members of the Independent Potters' Association. The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels. Participating artists include: Jen Gandee, Bobbi Lamb, Paul Molesky, Tom Montague, Jessica Pilowa, Lindsey Scott, Tim See, Don Seymour, Bob Shenfeld, Peter Valenti, and Wes Weiss.

Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

The exhibit will be composed of a diverse collection of student art, including sculpture, painting and photography. Each reflects the variety of experiences and sources of inspiration of the individuals who created them.

Art Exhibit by Tom Hussey

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

Auburn, NY, artist Tom Hussey will include in his exhibit landscape and figurative renderings in oil, acrylic and pastel.

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Paintings by Karen Burns and photography by David LoParco depict local landscapes.

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of works by high school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse, juried by the CNY Art Guild.

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Karen Klee-Atlin: Prints
Redhouse

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

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

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

Annual Kids' Benefit Show
Szozda Gallery

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

In a collaborative effort benefiting their school art programs, teachers at Meachem and Seymour Dual Language Academy are featuring over 100 works created by their elementary students.

The two school art teachers, Stacy Griffin of Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler of Seymour, have prepared their young people for this prestigious opportunity of displaying works in a professional gallery with a journey of study that goes beyond the walls of the classroom, school hallways, and cafeterias. Over the past year, walking field trips took the students into galleries, artists' studios, and the Everson Museum of Art.

In addition to local touring, Griffin took her students on a world tour, thus their pieces in the show reflect Indian, Australian, Egyptian and Greek influences. Her counterpart in the show, Moser-Vogler reinforces the coupling of arts with other studies believing that the results "can positively enhance any culture, subject or curriculum."

Proceeds from sales of students' works are divided to give one half to students and one half to the respective teacher's art program for much-needed supplies, especially those not available through vendors that the teachers pay for out of pocket, such as salt and flour for homemade play dough, and food coloring and shaving cream to show color mixing.

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Corporeal Contours" features the work of two distinguished artists, Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, each displaying their personal ideas of identity in relation to the world around them. A large part of the exhibition also seeks to expose the hyper-exoticism of tourism companies, while also confronting issues of racial identity in Caribbean and American societies.

The artists each use very personal experiences to create an array of compelling silhouetted forms and prints. For her on-going series Can I Pass (2010), Baez incorporates aspects from her transcultural background to examine the United States' "brown paper bag test" and the Dominican Republic's "fan test." She uses art as a medium to challenge these tests, tracing her outline and painting her skin tone for each day within the form over the course of an entire month. Within her works, Baez is able to explore idealized body types, race, and skin tones within the greater social scheme across both countries.

For her series, Chung analyzes post colonial culture by using old logos and slogans from tourist advertisements, and archival photographs to create her thought-provoking prints. She focuses on race, class, and contemporary society in Jamaica and Trinidad, as well as the exotic identity assumed by tourist companies. Chung is also able to address the increasingly popular skin bleaching practices in Jamaica, exposing a deeper dimension of self image and controversy in her work.

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her exhibit "When We Just Existed," artist Deborah Roberts investigates children's innocence, and how their sense of self is shaped by their environments, as well as the residual effects this may have on adults. In many of her paintings, Roberts uses her prepubescent self as the subject, adding a personal dimension to her pieces that will help you think of your own childhood. In her work, she makes references to the lynching in African American history and the racial tensions that children may experience.

Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The tea bowl, with its seemingly inexhaustible form, is beloved by potters and collectors alike. Its intimate scale encourages spontaneity and experimentation. Today's ceramic artists connect to the ancient Japanese tradition of the Tea Ceremony and the countless unknown potters from the past while maintaining their unique aesthetic voice though the creation of the tea bowl. This exhibition represents contemporary voices in clay--from wood-fire to earthenware, traditional to unconventional. "Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach," is co-curated by John Jessiman and Jen Gandee.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

The eNth Degree: MFA 2013
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

Rationalize & Perpetuate: Video Installation by Sandra Stephens
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

FND 0098: Ten Years Out
XL Projects

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

A group of alumni from the Class of 2002 from SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts will present "FND 0098: Ten Years Out," an exhibition that investigates the first-year art and design foundation experience and its role in shaping young artists' work and life.

VPA's foundation curriculum is designed to provide the most rigorous introductory courses necessary for a complete education in art and design. Foundation and its effectiveness is a major topic of conversation at many colleges and universities; "FND 0098" was formed in response to these discussions. In the exhibition, fledgling foundation projects appear alongside participants' current work, juxtaposing then and now. The exhibition will also feature original work dedicated to the foundation experience.

"FND 0098" is also a reunion celebration that honors 10 years of contact and community between its participants since their graduation from Syracuse University. The artists include Erin Borja, Andrew Camp, Jessie Anne Clark, Holly Faurot, Cameron Norbert, Sarah Paulson, Hoang Pham, and Alicia Traveria. Clark is the exhibition curator.

For more information about the exhibition, contact Clark at 315-278-2339 or jessie@thejessicaclarkshow.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Psychic Geographies
Urban Video Project

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

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

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

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

Psychic Geographies was curated by Anneka Herre.

One-Take Super 8 Event

Price: $5, filmmakers and children under 12 free
The Vault
451 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Live screening of 30+ new Super 8 films. Free popcorn and soft drinks while supplies last. BYO-snacks/drinks welcome (carry in, carry out).

This year's filmmakers are Paul Arras; Sara and Joe Blum; Dana Bonn; Andrea Buckvold; Kelly Delevan and Patrick Williams; Stone Dow & Kyle Corea; Michael Cupplo; Sierra DeSalvia and Alexey VS; Stasya and Andy Erickson; Timothy Ferlito; Greg Grano and Sarah Sellman; Michael John Heagerty and Alexey VS; Tommy Lincoln and Nick Shelton; Jessica Matt; Amara Meru; Justin McVey and Kerry Foxx; Andrew Miller; Dylan Montrond; Kate Palermo and Jeff Walter; Vasilios Papaioannu; Lin Perez and Laura Downs; Wes Pope; Mark Povinelli; Andrew Quirk; Lucas Renswick;Courtney Rile; Brendan Rose; Vanessa Rose and Ken Keech; Rachel Somerstein and Joe Lingeman; Dan Suarez; Dan Suarez, Lucas Renswick, Dylan Montrond; Tiferet Zimmern-Kahan.

Brew & View: The Big Lebowski; Reefer Madness
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Dude is back!! Come join the party! We will be showing The Big Lebowski and Reefer Madness. Come dressed as "The Dude" or your favorite character. Prizes will be rewarded for the best and most popular.

Rediscovering World Cinema: Ninotchka
ArtRage Gallery

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

Famed continental director Ermst Lubitsch joins forces with Hollywood legend Greta Garbo in this "perfect blend of delicate flirtation and political satire" (Time Out New York). Garbo shines as a stern Soviet envoy who is sent to check on comrades working abroad, and who means business--until she discovers the charms of Paris, and more. You'll find out what was meant by the Lubitsch Touch in this acclaimed film, Oscar-nominated for Best Picture, Actress, Screenplay. Awards: Best Director: NY Film Critics Circle. Top Ten Films: National Board of Review.

Graduate Lecture Recital: Stephen Chuba, clarinet
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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.

Graduate Lecture Recital: Andrew Wiley, trumpet
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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.

Vocal Jazz Jam with Nancy Kelly
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $3 students, $6 adults
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Local high school and college students, enthusiastic amateurs and budding professionals learn and perform in a supportive environment backed by musicians from the CNY Jazz Orchestra.

Senior Trumpet Recital: Michael Kelly, trumpet
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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.

Tipp Hill Bluegrass Fest
Featuring Hot Day at the Zoo, with The Tim Herron Corporation, The Erie Freeman, Woodworks, Z Bones String Band, Boots n Shorts

Tipperary Square
100 S. Lowell Ave., Syracuse

Tickets on sale at www.upstateshows.com and The Sound Garden at Armory Square

Senior Voice Recital: Anthony J. Acocella, tenor
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The recital will feature works by Debussy, DuParc, Faure, Schubert, Giordano, Mozart, Flotow, Alex Graham, and Ralph Vaughan William's On Wenlock Edge.

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.

Mike MacDonald in Concert, with John Wolford, Melissa Grace Clark
Kellish Hill Farm

Price: $8
Kellish Hill Farm
3192 Pompey Center Rd., Pompey

Mike MacDonald is a master song spinner of such artists as Neil Young, James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot, Beatles, ELP, Moody Blues, CCR and on and on. Mike is a walking juke box. Melissa Grace Clark and John Wolford are great musicians in their own right. So don't miss this night.

Carrie Lazarus will be on hand to videotape and interview folks for her upcoming Show entitled "Extraordinary People and Extraordinary Places of CNY." Kellish Hill Farm will be the featured Extraordinary Place on her show to be aired sometime in May.

Russian Recital
Featuring Luba Lesser, mezzo-soprano; Maryna Mazhukhova, piano

Price: $10 suggested donation
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Luba Lesser and Maryna Mazhukhova will perform love songs and arias by Glinka, Borodin, Cui, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Medtner, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff.

For more information, phone 315-256-8528.

Cabaret and Conversation
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $20 suggested donation
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company announces their spring fundraiser, Cabaret and Conversation. Proceeds will go towards the Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company in support of programming and the 2013-14 theatrical season.

Cabaret and Conversation will feature a cabaret-style performance by Syracuse area high school students followed by open dialogue about colorblind casting. The event will include refreshments, hors d'oeuvres, and a silent auction and raffle. There will also be a short awards ceremony honoring three different entities who have shown dedication and support to the arts in CNY: an elected official; a local business; and an individual artist.

For reservations go to www.theprpac.org. For more information, phone 315-313-5203 or email info@theprpac.org.

Garland Jeffreys

Price: $27
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Garland Jeffreys, edgy urban poet, confessional singer-songwriter, explorer of the links between rock, race, and rebellion brings his tour to Syracuse in support of his critically acclaimed CD "King Of In Between."

Grupo Pagan opens.

Tickets are available at www.brownpapertickets.com, Sound Garden in Armory Square, by calling 800-838-3006, or at the door the night of the show.

Red House Regulars: John Cadley and Cathy Wenthen
Redhouse

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

John Cadley and Cathy Wenthen are one of the area's most entertaining and popular duos. Following in the tradition of great male-female duets like Ian & Sylvia and Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons, they show how the simplicity of two voices and two acoustic instruments can produce powerful music.

A Celebration of 125 Years of Women in Song at Syracuse University
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Women's Choir
Dr. Barbara Tagg, conductor

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

The concert will feature instrumentalists Gabriel DiMartino, Lon Beery, Sabine Krantz and Kola Owolabi, among others. The repertoire will include works by Britten, Beethoven, Brahms, Berwald, Bacon and Johnson. A mandolin, banjo and guitar ensemble will also be featured, reflecting a tradition of the 1920s, among other SU traditions. Guest narrators will include Ellen Bacon, Will Headlee, Setnor School of Music faculty, and SU Women's Choir members and alumnae.

This collaborative concert will include a presentation of slides, photos and facts from the past 125 years, based on research from SU Archives and prepared by Tagg and Setnor graduate student Lauren Estes.

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.

Ta'am Latino: The Latin-Jewish Twist
Temple Society of Concord
Featuring Cantor Gaston Bogomolni

Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Cantor at Temple Aliyah in Needham, MA, and a native of Argentina, Cantor Gastón is a rare combination of true musical talent, stirring Jewish spirit, and "edutainment" value. Accompanied by a six-piece band Cantor Gastón presents "Ta'am Latino: the Latin-Jewish twist" in what promises to be a fun and memorable evening.

Concert preceded by a reception at 7:30 pm.

Celebration of National Poetry Month
Petit Branch Library

Price: Free
Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

Poets include Francis Diclemente, Martin Willis, Eva Diemont, Deborah Diemont, Nicholas Friedman, Georgia Popoff, David Lloyd, and Mickey "the Flying Busman" Mahan. Music by Hannah Comstock and Chris Honess. Readings, music, open mic, and refreshments.

How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
CBA Drama Department

Price: $8
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, visit cbasyracuse.org.

Brighton Beach Memoirs
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

Price: $34.95 dinner and show, $20 show only
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

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

Here is part one of Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the writer as a young teen in 1937 living with his family in a crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Eugene Jerome, standing in for the author, is the narrator and central character. Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche, her two young (but rapidly aging) daughters and Grandpa the Socialist and you have a recipe for hilarity, served up Simon-style. This bittersweet memoir evocatively captures the life of a struggling Jewish household where, as his father states "if you didn't have a problem, you wouldn't be living here."

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Falsettoland
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Falsettos is the story of a confused, bisexual man, Marvin, amidst a Jewish family in New York. Initially, Marvin seems blessed with the perfect family. He has a caring wife, Trina, and a young son, Jason. Nevertheless, the family is soon broken apart when Marvin leaves Trina for a man, Whizzer. Trina, meanwhile, ends up with the family psychiatrist, Mendel. All the while, Jason is stuck in the middle. Included in the mix are the lesbian couple composed of Dr. Charlotte and Cordelia. In the end, the various characters are forced to come together when Whizzer contracts AIDS and soon dies. The show features Peter Irwin, Katie Lemos Brown, Maxwell Zirkman, Dana Sovocool, Justin Bird, Shannon Tompkins, Sara Weiler, with Musical Director Jeff Unaitis. This production will benefit Friends of Dorothy.

* Note: While usually performed together, Falsettos is actually a trilogy consisting of three shows: In Trousers, March of the Falsettos, and Falsettoland.

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Violet
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

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

With an energetic gospel, rock, country, and rhythm & blues score by Jeanine Tesori (Caroline, or Change), Violet was one of the most critically acclaimed off-Broadway shows of the 1990s. Set in 1964 in the South during the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, Violet follows the growth and enlightenment of a bitter young woman accidentally scarred by her father. Hoping that a TV evangelist can cure her, she embarks on a journey by bus from her sleepy North Carolina town to Oklahoma. Along the way, she meets a young black soldier who teaches her about beauty, love, courage, and what it means to be an outsider.

Book by Brian Crawley, music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by Brian Crawley, based on The Ugliest Pilgrim by Doris Betts.

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Suds: The Rocking '60s Musical Soap Opera
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Suds: The Rocking '60s Musical which has been breaking box office records across the country. It's the story of a young teenage girl and the two guardian angels who come to teach her about finding true love. Suds features more than 50 songs, including "Walk On By," "Please, Mr. Postman," "Wonderful, Wonderful," "You Don't Own Me," "It's My Party," "Where The Boys Are," "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," and many more.

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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

Tamil Pasanga (The Local Kids)
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Krithika Sathyamurthy's art practice has been shaped by her South Indian heritage and experiences of growing up as a 21st century immigrant in the United States. As she adapted to Western culture, Sathyamurthy parted with many of the Indian values and traditions she held onto when she was younger. In her work, she addresses the internal conflicts of being an immigrant and also focuses on how Western culture has influenced the way she views important issues of 21st century India. As Sathyamurthy re-investigates her roots, her paintings reflect how her thoughts on India's political, social, and educational agenda is deeply influenced by her experiences as an immigrant and a female citizen of America.

"Tamil Pasanga" (The Local Kids) is a series of paintings that reveal several points of rupture as she reflects on the flawed Indian educational system. Having studied in the U.S., she understands that the existing education system in India poses a threat to its goals of achieving inclusive growth. In "Tamil Pasanga," elements of surface, repetition of ghosted figures, and haunting atmosphere, help create moments of hostility, as well as moments of vulnerability through the viscosity of the paint.

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

Joe Lingeman: Habitus
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Annual Kids' Benefit Show
Szozda Gallery

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

In a collaborative effort benefiting their school art programs, teachers at Meachem and Seymour Dual Language Academy are featuring over 100 works created by their elementary students.

The two school art teachers, Stacy Griffin of Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler of Seymour, have prepared their young people for this prestigious opportunity of displaying works in a professional gallery with a journey of study that goes beyond the walls of the classroom, school hallways, and cafeterias. Over the past year, walking field trips took the students into galleries, artists' studios, and the Everson Museum of Art.

In addition to local touring, Griffin took her students on a world tour, thus their pieces in the show reflect Indian, Australian, Egyptian and Greek influences. Her counterpart in the show, Moser-Vogler reinforces the coupling of arts with other studies believing that the results "can positively enhance any culture, subject or curriculum."

Proceeds from sales of students' works are divided to give one half to students and one half to the respective teacher's art program for much-needed supplies, especially those not available through vendors that the teachers pay for out of pocket, such as salt and flour for homemade play dough, and food coloring and shaving cream to show color mixing.

Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The tea bowl, with its seemingly inexhaustible form, is beloved by potters and collectors alike. Its intimate scale encourages spontaneity and experimentation. Today's ceramic artists connect to the ancient Japanese tradition of the Tea Ceremony and the countless unknown potters from the past while maintaining their unique aesthetic voice though the creation of the tea bowl. This exhibition represents contemporary voices in clay--from wood-fire to earthenware, traditional to unconventional. "Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach," is co-curated by John Jessiman and Jen Gandee.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

The eNth Degree: MFA 2013
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

The exhibit will be composed of a diverse collection of student art, including sculpture, painting and photography. Each reflects the variety of experiences and sources of inspiration of the individuals who created them.

FND 0098: Ten Years Out
XL Projects

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

A group of alumni from the Class of 2002 from SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts will present "FND 0098: Ten Years Out," an exhibition that investigates the first-year art and design foundation experience and its role in shaping young artists' work and life.

VPA's foundation curriculum is designed to provide the most rigorous introductory courses necessary for a complete education in art and design. Foundation and its effectiveness is a major topic of conversation at many colleges and universities; "FND 0098" was formed in response to these discussions. In the exhibition, fledgling foundation projects appear alongside participants' current work, juxtaposing then and now. The exhibition will also feature original work dedicated to the foundation experience.

"FND 0098" is also a reunion celebration that honors 10 years of contact and community between its participants since their graduation from Syracuse University. The artists include Erin Borja, Andrew Camp, Jessie Anne Clark, Holly Faurot, Cameron Norbert, Sarah Paulson, Hoang Pham, and Alicia Traveria. Clark is the exhibition curator.

For more information about the exhibition, contact Clark at 315-278-2339 or jessie@thejessicaclarkshow.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Folk Music Series: Jonathan Dinkin and Klezmercuse
Liverpool Public Library

Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

Jonathan Dinkin and Klezmercuse will feature traditional and original Jewish dance tunes performed by composer-keyboardist Jonathan Dinkin, vocalist Aveeya Dinkin, guitarist Art Bronstein, fiddler Judy Cohen Stanton, clarinetist Ken Frieden, accordionist Judy Schmid, tuba player Sam Young, and drummer Mark Wolf.

SU Saxophone Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The Saxophone Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Ronald Caravan, champions transcriptions of classical an baroque quartet and ensemble music, as well as dedicating themselves to new music composed for a consort of saxophones.

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.

Hendricks Chapel Choir Spring Concert
Hendricks Chapel

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Hendricks Chapel Choir, a 35-voice auditioned choir, will perform works in English, German, and Polish by Brahms, Gorecki, Hogan, Shaw, Lutkin, Distler, and others. The Choir will then take this concert on tour to Poland and Germany in a two-week European tour.

Casual Concert II
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Neil Varon, conductor
Featuring Julian Schwarz, cello

Price: $30 regular, $25 seniors, $22 students
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Brahms Hungarian Dances Nos. 1 and 6
Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1
Brahms Symphony No. 1

Patrons are invited to attend in casual attire and join the orchestra for a reception after the performance.

Tickets available at Ticketmaster.com, or with cash or check at the door.

Graduate Violin Recital: Aimee Lillienstein, violin
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Featuring works by Barber, Higdon, Lutoslwski, and Schumann.

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.

"Stars of Tomorrow" Cabaret
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $5 students, $10 adults
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Concert featuring the top vocalists from the previous day's Vocal Jazz Jam masterclass.

Senior Voice Recital: Carina DiGianfilippo, soprano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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.

Fitz & The Tantrums, with Hunter Hunted
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

One More Time: Tribute To Daft Punk
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Brighton Beach Memoirs
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

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

Here is part one of Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the writer as a young teen in 1937 living with his family in a crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Eugene Jerome, standing in for the author, is the narrator and central character. Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche, her two young (but rapidly aging) daughters and Grandpa the Socialist and you have a recipe for hilarity, served up Simon-style. This bittersweet memoir evocatively captures the life of a struggling Jewish household where, as his father states "if you didn't have a problem, you wouldn't be living here."

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Violet
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

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

With an energetic gospel, rock, country, and rhythm & blues score by Jeanine Tesori (Caroline, or Change), Violet was one of the most critically acclaimed off-Broadway shows of the 1990s. Set in 1964 in the South during the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, Violet follows the growth and enlightenment of a bitter young woman accidentally scarred by her father. Hoping that a TV evangelist can cure her, she embarks on a journey by bus from her sleepy North Carolina town to Oklahoma. Along the way, she meets a young black soldier who teaches her about beauty, love, courage, and what it means to be an outsider.

Book by Brian Crawley, music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by Brian Crawley, based on The Ugliest Pilgrim by Doris Betts.

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Suds: The Rocking '60s Musical Soap Opera
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Suds: The Rocking '60s Musical which has been breaking box office records across the country. It's the story of a young teenage girl and the two guardian angels who come to teach her about finding true love. Suds features more than 50 songs, including "Walk On By," "Please, Mr. Postman," "Wonderful, Wonderful," "You Don't Own Me," "It's My Party," "Where The Boys Are," "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," and many more.

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Monday, April 22, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

Tamil Pasanga (The Local Kids)
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Krithika Sathyamurthy's art practice has been shaped by her South Indian heritage and experiences of growing up as a 21st century immigrant in the United States. As she adapted to Western culture, Sathyamurthy parted with many of the Indian values and traditions she held onto when she was younger. In her work, she addresses the internal conflicts of being an immigrant and also focuses on how Western culture has influenced the way she views important issues of 21st century India. As Sathyamurthy re-investigates her roots, her paintings reflect how her thoughts on India's political, social, and educational agenda is deeply influenced by her experiences as an immigrant and a female citizen of America.

"Tamil Pasanga" (The Local Kids) is a series of paintings that reveal several points of rupture as she reflects on the flawed Indian educational system. Having studied in the U.S., she understands that the existing education system in India poses a threat to its goals of achieving inclusive growth. In "Tamil Pasanga," elements of surface, repetition of ghosted figures, and haunting atmosphere, help create moments of hostility, as well as moments of vulnerability through the viscosity of the paint.

Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

The exhibit will be composed of a diverse collection of student art, including sculpture, painting and photography. Each reflects the variety of experiences and sources of inspiration of the individuals who created them.

Art Exhibit by Tom Hussey

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

Auburn, NY, artist Tom Hussey will include in his exhibit landscape and figurative renderings in oil, acrylic and pastel.

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Paintings by Karen Burns and photography by David LoParco depict local landscapes.

Drawn Digital
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Drawn Digital, featuring graphic designers who illustrate, is a celebration of creating images, under direct manipulation of the artist, through the use of pen and ink as well as digital tools and applications.

Graphic designer/illustrators included are Jim Brenneman, Nick Machia, Jeff Madison, John Paone, and Mitzie Testani. These artists, not only share an expertise in the use of graphic tablets and of bitmap and vector-based applications ("painting" and "drawing" programs), but a love for drawing and a unique sensibility over their subject matters. Renaissance Architecture, imagination, and everyday life in central New York are some of their forms of inspiration.

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

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

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

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

Stranger Stop and Cast and Eye
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographer Frank Calidonna shares his intrigue of Italian Cimitero Scultpture with us through beautiful Black and White photography in his exhibit "Stranger Stop and Cast and Eye."

Crossings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Crossings" is a multi-faceted outcome of how the work of two artists, Nayda Collazo-Lloréns and Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, relates to each other in terms of location, mapping, identity, memory and multiplicity. "Crossings" is a first-time collaboration, convergence, and juxtaposition of these two artistic practices. The show will present a series of 13 works on paper, and a two-channel video installation titled PLEXUS13NP.

Nayda Collazo-Lloréns: Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, she is a New York City based artist engaged in a multi-disciplinary practice that includes drawing, print, installation, video, text-based works and public interventions. Through her practice, she examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, language and hyper-connectivity.

Patricia Villalobos Echeverría Born in Tennessee to Salvadoran parents and raised in Managua, Nicaragua, Villalobos describes her work as a hybrid. Her print, video and installation work explores how reproducible forms of representation can alter our notions of singularity and the various states of flux that we enter: some physical, others virtual. She a Professor of Art at Western Michigan University.

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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Joe Lingeman: Habitus
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Karen Klee-Atlin: Prints
Redhouse

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

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

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

FAQ: Fearlessly Asked Questions
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The graduate museum studies program will explore a unique aspect of the human condition in this new exhibition. FAQ aims to be an innovative, educational, and beautiful presentation with two thematic narratives: the types of questions we ask, and how we seek answers to those questions. The gallery will house interdisciplinary displays with artifacts and resources drawn from history, science, art, pop culture, and personal interviews. The overall vision for the exhibition is to bring attention to the importance of questions, both from a societal and individual perspective, while raising important questions for gallery visitors to consider for themselves.

The physical gallery is also supported by online components, including the exhibition website, a Facebook page and an interactive website on which users can answer questions and pose their own.

Chasing Ice

Price: $7 online, $10 at the door, free for children 12 and under
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Special Earth Day screening and presentation. For more information or tickets, visit greeningusa.org.

The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: John Ford. Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Darryl Hickman, Ward Bond, Russell Simpson.
John Steinbeck's classic novel is superbly adapted to the screen in this great film. The impoverished Joad family treks from Oklahoma to California during the Depression in hopes of a better life. A genuine masterpiece that is not to be missed.

Young Playwright's Festival
Syracuse Stage

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

The theme of Syracuse Stage's 15th Annual Young Playwright's Festival is "Words, Words, Words," derived from the stage play by David Ives with the same title. Finalists' plays will be performed as staged readings, and are directed and performed by students in SU's Department of Drama. The playwrights had the opportunity to sit in on rehearsals and provide feedback to the directors before the staged readings.

High school students from all over New York State submitted over 200 original, 10-minute plays and other performance pieces for entry into the annual contest. A panel of theatrical and literary professionals evaluated each student's play. Semifinalists attended a writing workshop at Syracuse Stage in March where their plays were critiqued. The students then had two weeks to re-write their plays based on the feedback they received.

The finalists for this year's festival are:
Ryan Barbour: Boxes (senior, Cicero North Syracuse)
Amanda Bottorff: Predictable (Cicero North Syracuse)
Kyra Hill: Runaway (sophomore, Auburn)
Matt Preston: Winners and Losers (senior, CBA)
Gabriella Simiele: Real Monsters (sophomore, Jamesville-DeWitt)
Sabrina Ann Sweet: Sunny Side Up (senior, Cicero North Syracuse)
Courtney Vaughn: Dinner Time (senior, Jamesville-DeWitt)
Ashley Woodcock: Stumbling Lips Over Language & Snippets (senior, Camden)

Tuesday, April 23, 2013