Saturday, May 18, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

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

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

Delineation
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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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.

HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

Mother's Day: Works by Mitzie Testani
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Mitzie Testani is a designer and illustrator who creates fanciful images from ordinary items and scenes. In "Mother's Day," Testani will include pieces on a variety of themes ranging from portraits and pet birds to illustrated alphabets and quotes in honor of mothers.

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.

Discovery of Being
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The essence of existence, emotion, strength and beauty unite distinctively in the photography and paintings of art teacher Peter Mahan and his former student Lacey McKinney.

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41st Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

There will be an opening reception and awards ceremony this afternoon 1:00-3:00 pm.

In collaboration with the Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc., CFAC will provide an opportunity for teenagers of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage, as well as those from other underrepresented or minority groups, to demonstrate their talent in visual arts. Ribbons and monetary prizes will be awarded in drawing, painting, mixed media (including photography, collage prints, etc.) and three-dimensional work (including sculpture, fiber, and ceramics). Prizes will also be awarded in special categories "Most Eclectic," "Director's Choice," and "Best in Show." Participation for the exhibition continues to grow each year, and we are excited to see the amazing work that will be displayed.

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.

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.

Eco Art Exhibit
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Eco Art kids are enjoying the freedom and choice to create and explore with non traditional mediums, recyclable materials. They are setting examples as sustainable organic artists who recycle, reuse and upcycle through creativity, imagination and commitment.

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.

Cinemagogue: Klezmatics on Holy Ground
Temple Society of Concord

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

This feature-length documentary is about the Grammy-award-winning, New York based klezmer band, the Klezmatics.

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

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

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

Young People's Concert: Carnival of the Animals
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Heather Buchman, conductor
Featuring Steven & Amy Heyman, pianist; Courtney Rile, video artist; dancers from Ballet and Dance Center; Open Hand Theater

Price: $25 regular, $22 senior, $15 student
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Symphoria collaborates with Open Hand Theater, dancers from Ballet & Dance Center, and video artist Courtney Rile for a spectacular multi-media experience. The program features music all about animals, and a includes an emerging partnership with the zoo in Syracuse, which will allow for zoo ticket discounts when attending the performance.

The program features a performance of Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals, and will feature Steve and Amy Heyman performing at the pianos. Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee, Copland's "Hoe-Down" from Rodeo, and many others will also be performed.

Raising the Stage Fundraiser
Kellish Hill Farm

Price: $10
Kellish Hill Farm
3192 Pompey Center Rd., Pompey

Ten hours of music! Musicians will include Kevin Barrigar, Dusty Pascal, Charley Orlando, Ironwood, Mark Zane, Greg Hoover, Mike MacDonald, Dave Robertson, The Wolford Family, Reyna Stagnaro, Nancy and Jerry Malewesky, Diamond Someday, Colleen Kattau, Syracuse Irish Sessions, Clarke McAllister, Terry Hill and friends, Hamilton Ramblers, Kathy Kellish and Friends. A great day of music and for a stage for all of us to share in. Can't be any better than this!

Food and beverages will be available for purchase.

"Spring Fling" Pops Concert
Syracuse University Brass Ensemble
James T. Spencer, conductor

Price: $8 adults and $6 children
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

The spring repertoire draws on a variety of operatic and symphonic selections, including excerpts from Puccini's La Boheme, Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro, and Bernstein's West Side Story. Other operatic pieces are by Handel, Rossini, Donizetti, Nicolai, Gounod, Saint-Saëns, Gilbert and Sullivan, and Wagner.

Symphonic selections include John Williams' Summon the Heroes, as well as music from The Muppet Show and Crimson Tide.

Proceeds to benefit UCF Witness Ministries.

Red House Regulars: Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman
Redhouse

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

Karen Savoca & Pete Heitzman bring a style that is electrifying, unique and always uplifting, these improvisational performers possess "the fearlessness of a high-wire act working without a net." Together Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman have been called acoustic soul music with deep roots. Some of their notable appearances include The Today Show, A Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, Big Top Chautauqua, The Vancouver, Edmonton & Winnipeg Folk Festivals.

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

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

An Iliad
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

An edgy adaptation of Homer's epic story told by a single poet, adapted from Homer by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, translation by Robert Fagles.

This remarkable interpretation of Homer's account of The Trojan War vivifies the tale's epic power while capturing the immediacy of a story told around an open fire. A lone poet, an ancient story-teller, weaves contemporary speech with evocative poetry to create an electrifying encounter with this profoundly resonant chronicle of a distant conflict. Director Penny Metropulos (Up, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, and Red) and actor Joseph Graves (Red) return for this taut and critically-heralded adaptation.

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First Things First
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon J. Barden, director

Price: $15 adults, $13 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Peter and George (Jon Wright and Pat Bridenbaker) have been best friends forever. George has been Peter's best man twice. Sarah (Heather Jensen), Peter's new wife, comes with a meddling mother-in-law (Denise Ballou). See what happens when Peter's first wife (Tammy Wilkinson), who has been declared dead, suddenly shows up to complicate the life of her newly remarried husband and the resulting lies that cause things to gradually go crazy. Throw in a mountain climber (Mike Callahan) and you have a night filled with hilarity!

Cry Havoc
Appleseed Productions
Lois Haas, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Hailed as a female Journey's End, this is the story of nurses on Bataan. In a sort of dugout subjected to gunfire, the individual characters emerge to offer a collective reaction to war. This is a compelling, caustic revelation of human beings under fire. During the Memorial Day season, Appleseed will take the opportunity to recognize women veterans. Written by Allan R. Kenward.

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Hamlet Cha-Cha-Cha
Central New York Playhouse
Jenn DeCook, director

Price: $39.95 dinner and show, $25 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.

Totally insane. And totally hilarious. You all know the story of Hamlet--but never has a plot line been followed by such gleefully drunken footsteps, singing all the way! Can you envision Horatio as "an amiable sponge" always seeking the nearest buffet table? Can you see Gertrude and Claudius, married on their way home from King Hamlet's funeral, leading the opening number of the show, "Boo Hoo! I Do!"? Or picture the soliloquy done by Prince Hamlet with a back-up male chorus chanting "Doo waaah!" at inappropriate intervals? And how about Queen Gertrude, backed up by the female chorus--the "Elsinoritas," of course--telling Laertes about Ophelia's dreadful death in a hand clapper called "Down, Down, Down the River!"? And will you recognize Hamlet's two college chums, herein known as "Rosie Krantz" and "Gilda Stern"? And if you think you know the way the story turns out--you don't. Not in this version, anyhow. Believe us, if you've always hated Shakespearean plays, you'll love this show--but paradoxically, you've always loved Shakespearean plays, you'll love this show despite yourself. Book, music, and lyrics by Monk Ferris. Abel Searor, music director; Kaleigh Pfohl, choreographer.

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50 Shades! The Musical

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

A sexy, hilarious romp, 50 Shades! The Musical is a laugh-out-loud night of fun that audiences won't want to miss! 50 Shades! The Musical opens with a ladies book club deciding to read Fifty Shades of Grey. Through their interpretation of the novel, the audience is led on a hilarious roller coaster ride of this unlikely bestseller. The show is full of dance numbers, 11 original songs and a live band backing the performance.

Like the book series, 50 Shades! The Musical is surely not for those under the age of 18, but does not cross boundaries that would make general audiences squirm.

50 Shades! The Musical is not associated with, endorsed or authorized by E.L James or Vintage Books.

Bang Bang You're Dead
Rarely Done Productions

Price: Free (donations accepted)
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Bang Bang You're Dead is a one-act play written by William Mastrosimone in 1999 to raise awareness of school violence and its causes. According to Mastrosimone, it "is a drama to be performed by kids, for kids." The plot focuses on Josh, a high school student who murders his parents and five classmates. It is strongly based on the events surrounding Kip Kinkel's shootings of his parents on May 20, 1998, and 27 of his classmates at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, on May 21, 1998.

Donations accepted at the door benefit The Q Center, CONTACT Community Services, and The Boys & Girls Club.

To reserve a seat, phone 315-546-3224.

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An Iliad
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

An edgy adaptation of Homer's epic story told by a single poet, adapted from Homer by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, translation by Robert Fagles.

This remarkable interpretation of Homer's account of The Trojan War vivifies the tale's epic power while capturing the immediacy of a story told around an open fire. A lone poet, an ancient story-teller, weaves contemporary speech with evocative poetry to create an electrifying encounter with this profoundly resonant chronicle of a distant conflict. Director Penny Metropulos (Up, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, and Red) and actor Joseph Graves (Red) return for this taut and critically-heralded adaptation.

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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

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

Discovery of Being
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The essence of existence, emotion, strength and beauty unite distinctively in the photography and paintings of art teacher Peter Mahan and his former student Lacey McKinney.

Read a review!

HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

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.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Live! At the Everson: Music, Poetry & Art -- A Rhapsody of Inspiration
Civic Morning Musicals
Maryna Mazhukhova and Ida Trebicka, piano

Price: $15 adults, free for students
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Four-hand Rachmaninoff, Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies, Tchaikovsky The Seasons -- a multimedia concert.

Harp and Piano Recital

Price: Free
St. Daniel's Church
3004 Court St., Syracuse

For information, phone 315-488-0744.

Arts and Music Festival
Syracuse Pops Chorus

Price: $5 suggested donation
St. Stephen's Lutheran Church
DeWitt St. and Mertens Ave., Syracuse

Works from the Great American Songbook, including music by Berlin, Bernstein, Sondheim, Gershwin, and others. Reception to follow.

Jazz Vespers
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Julie Falatico, of Rome, NY, will be the featured vocalist.

The services are a combination of inspirational and meditative readings, homily, and jazz played by members of the CNY Jazz Orchestra and various guest vocalists.

The jazz selections are drawn from secular and sacred sources, representing a wide range of composers as varied as Duke Ellington, Chick Corea, Cole Porter, and Stephen Foster, and well-known hymns in jazz settings.

The vespers service is open to people of all faiths.

Sweet Hour of Sound

Price: Free
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

Nick Piccininni, banjo; Joe Davoli, fiddle; Mozart Oboe Quartet for oboe and strings, CNY Flute Choir.

For more information, phone 315-445-0331.

Hamlet Cha-Cha-Cha
Central New York Playhouse
Jenn DeCook, director

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

Totally insane. And totally hilarious. You all know the story of Hamlet--but never has a plot line been followed by such gleefully drunken footsteps, singing all the way! Can you envision Horatio as "an amiable sponge" always seeking the nearest buffet table? Can you see Gertrude and Claudius, married on their way home from King Hamlet's funeral, leading the opening number of the show, "Boo Hoo! I Do!"? Or picture the soliloquy done by Prince Hamlet with a back-up male chorus chanting "Doo waaah!" at inappropriate intervals? And how about Queen Gertrude, backed up by the female chorus--the "Elsinoritas," of course--telling Laertes about Ophelia's dreadful death in a hand clapper called "Down, Down, Down the River!"? And will you recognize Hamlet's two college chums, herein known as "Rosie Krantz" and "Gilda Stern"? And if you think you know the way the story turns out--you don't. Not in this version, anyhow. Believe us, if you've always hated Shakespearean plays, you'll love this show--but paradoxically, you've always loved Shakespearean plays, you'll love this show despite yourself. Book, music, and lyrics by Monk Ferris. Abel Searor, music director; Kaleigh Pfohl, choreographer.

Read a Review!

An Iliad
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

An edgy adaptation of Homer's epic story told by a single poet, adapted from Homer by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, translation by Robert Fagles.

This remarkable interpretation of Homer's account of The Trojan War vivifies the tale's epic power while capturing the immediacy of a story told around an open fire. A lone poet, an ancient story-teller, weaves contemporary speech with evocative poetry to create an electrifying encounter with this profoundly resonant chronicle of a distant conflict. Director Penny Metropulos (Up, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, and Red) and actor Joseph Graves (Red) return for this taut and critically-heralded adaptation.

Read a Review!

Monday, May 20, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

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

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

Dreamt Realities
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Dreamt Realities features the work of four Syracuse-based photographers: Eddie Colleli, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Jeff Madison, and Heidi Vantassel. This exhibit features surreal, phantasmagorical pictures that explore geographical spaces. Using both traditional and cutting edge techniques, these photographers create/freeze their imagery drawing a fine line between what's real and what's imagined -- for example, a neglected house becomes a fascinating nightmare, a forgotten shore resembles a timeless dream, and a staged environment is inspired by a hazy dream.

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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.

Something To Write Home About
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of expressive drawings, paintings, prints and photography on themes of journey and time by artists Susan Stone and Kristina Starowitz.

HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

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.

Read a review!

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.

Mother's Day: Works by Mitzie Testani
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Mitzie Testani is a designer and illustrator who creates fanciful images from ordinary items and scenes. In "Mother's Day," Testani will include pieces on a variety of themes ranging from portraits and pet birds to illustrated alphabets and quotes in honor of mothers.

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.

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

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

In Old Chicago (1938)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Henry King. Cast: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady, Andy Devine, Brian Donlevy, Tom Brown, Phyllis Brooks.
20th Century-Fox's hit drama (with music) about the O'Leary family, featuring a powerful "disaster" climax: The Chicago fire of 1871. Great special effects contribute to the excitement of this fine film.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

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

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

Dreamt Realities
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Dreamt Realities features the work of four Syracuse-based photographers: Eddie Colleli, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Jeff Madison, and Heidi Vantassel. This exhibit features surreal, phantasmagorical pictures that explore geographical spaces. Using both traditional and cutting edge techniques, these photographers create/freeze their imagery drawing a fine line between what's real and what's imagined -- for example, a neglected house becomes a fascinating nightmare, a forgotten shore resembles a timeless dream, and a staged environment is inspired by a hazy dream.

Read a Review!

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.

Something To Write Home About
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of expressive drawings, paintings, prints and photography on themes of journey and time by artists Susan Stone and Kristina Starowitz.

Delineation
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Read a review!

41st Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

In collaboration with the Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc., CFAC will provide an opportunity for teenagers of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage, as well as those from other underrepresented or minority groups, to demonstrate their talent in visual arts. Ribbons and monetary prizes will be awarded in drawing, painting, mixed media (including photography, collage prints, etc.) and three-dimensional work (including sculpture, fiber, and ceramics). Prizes will also be awarded in special categories "Most Eclectic," "Director's Choice," and "Best in Show." Participation for the exhibition continues to grow each year, and we are excited to see the amazing work that will be displayed.

HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

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.

Read a review!

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

Mother's Day: Works by Mitzie Testani
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Mitzie Testani is a designer and illustrator who creates fanciful images from ordinary items and scenes. In "Mother's Day," Testani will include pieces on a variety of themes ranging from portraits and pet birds to illustrated alphabets and quotes in honor of mothers.

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.

On My Own Time: Employee Art Exhibition
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

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

Jake Miller, with The Pro Letarians
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

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

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

Dreamt Realities
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Dreamt Realities features the work of four Syracuse-based photographers: Eddie Colleli, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Jeff Madison, and Heidi Vantassel. This exhibit features surreal, phantasmagorical pictures that explore geographical spaces. Using both traditional and cutting edge techniques, these photographers create/freeze their imagery drawing a fine line between what's real and what's imagined -- for example, a neglected house becomes a fascinating nightmare, a forgotten shore resembles a timeless dream, and a staged environment is inspired by a hazy dream.

Read a Review!

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.

Something To Write Home About
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of expressive drawings, paintings, prints and photography on themes of journey and time by artists Susan Stone and Kristina Starowitz.

Delineation
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Read a review!

41st Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

In collaboration with the Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc., CFAC will provide an opportunity for teenagers of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage, as well as those from other underrepresented or minority groups, to demonstrate their talent in visual arts. Ribbons and monetary prizes will be awarded in drawing, painting, mixed media (including photography, collage prints, etc.) and three-dimensional work (including sculpture, fiber, and ceramics). Prizes will also be awarded in special categories "Most Eclectic," "Director's Choice," and "Best in Show." Participation for the exhibition continues to grow each year, and we are excited to see the amazing work that will be displayed.

HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

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.

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.

Read a review!

Mother's Day: Works by Mitzie Testani
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Mitzie Testani is a designer and illustrator who creates fanciful images from ordinary items and scenes. In "Mother's Day," Testani will include pieces on a variety of themes ranging from portraits and pet birds to illustrated alphabets and quotes in honor of mothers.

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.

Discovery of Being
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The essence of existence, emotion, strength and beauty unite distinctively in the photography and paintings of art teacher Peter Mahan and his former student Lacey McKinney.

Read a review!

On My Own Time: Employee Art Exhibition
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

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

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

Common Ground
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Over the past five months, 112 Syracuse-area high school students were given video cameras and one assignment: to film their everyday lives. Students from Fayetteville-Manlius High School, Fowler High School, Nottingham High School, and the Institute of Technology at Syracuse Central, filmed everything from their morning routines to after-school activities in an attempt to find their similarities, while also respecting their differences. The result is "Common Ground," a short documentary produced by Syracuse Stage.

Every year, the Arts Emerging project invites Syracuse-area high school students to explore themes that relate to their lives from one of the current mainstage productions. This year's Arts Emerging project examined themes of class, luck, family and cultural identity, all prominent in Syracuse Stage's production of Good People.

Before the students were given cameras, a team of teaching artists asked the high schoolers a series of questions to help shape the direction of the documentary, and get the students to think about what they have in common. The teaching artists included video editor Brenna Merritt, CBS affiliate news anchor Jeff Nelson, Sara Sellman from the Syracuse International Film Festival, and Syracuse Stage's director of educational outreach Lauren Unbekant.

The core questions were: "What is the hardest thing about high school?" "Define family?" and "What do you do in your spare time?" The students' answers to these questions contributed to the overall feel of the documentary, and outlined the theme of commonality.

Students from the four high schools were thrilled to have a camera in their hands, but also nervous about being open and exposed on film. This team worked with the students to get the conversations going and teach them the technical aspects of using video cameras, such as composition, lighting and creating narrative with video.

The "common ground" that came from the filming included similar rituals, family lives, wanting love, shared insecurities, and an overall quest for self-discovery. The concept of what makes a family came out in many students' footage, and is prevalent throughout the documentary. Students saw family as a bond between those closest to them, not just the people biologically related to them.

Common Ground shows what it's like to be a teenager growing up in Syracuse. Told directly from the point of view of the students, the documentary gives a raw, honest take on the struggles and joys of being in high school in 2013. The film gives a glimpse of all the different things that kids go through, and the different relationships they have with their parents, friends, teachers and siblings.

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

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

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

Jenni Foutch, flute; Maryna Mazhukhova, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Works by Sancan, Mozart, Kennan, Dahl, and Widor.

Mickey Hart Band, with African Showboyz
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

An Iliad
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

An edgy adaptation of Homer's epic story told by a single poet, adapted from Homer by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, translation by Robert Fagles.

This remarkable interpretation of Homer's account of The Trojan War vivifies the tale's epic power while capturing the immediacy of a story told around an open fire. A lone poet, an ancient story-teller, weaves contemporary speech with evocative poetry to create an electrifying encounter with this profoundly resonant chronicle of a distant conflict. Director Penny Metropulos (Up, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, and Red) and actor Joseph Graves (Red) return for this taut and critically-heralded adaptation.

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

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

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

Dreamt Realities
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Dreamt Realities features the work of four Syracuse-based photographers: Eddie Colleli, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Jeff Madison, and Heidi Vantassel. This exhibit features surreal, phantasmagorical pictures that explore geographical spaces. Using both traditional and cutting edge techniques, these photographers create/freeze their imagery drawing a fine line between what's real and what's imagined -- for example, a neglected house becomes a fascinating nightmare, a forgotten shore resembles a timeless dream, and a staged environment is inspired by a hazy dream.

Read a Review!

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.

Something To Write Home About
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of expressive drawings, paintings, prints and photography on themes of journey and time by artists Susan Stone and Kristina Starowitz.

Delineation
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Read a review!

41st Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

In collaboration with the Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc., CFAC will provide an opportunity for teenagers of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage, as well as those from other underrepresented or minority groups, to demonstrate their talent in visual arts. Ribbons and monetary prizes will be awarded in drawing, painting, mixed media (including photography, collage prints, etc.) and three-dimensional work (including sculpture, fiber, and ceramics). Prizes will also be awarded in special categories "Most Eclectic," "Director's Choice," and "Best in Show." Participation for the exhibition continues to grow each year, and we are excited to see the amazing work that will be displayed.

HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

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.

Read a review!

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

Mother's Day: Works by Mitzie Testani
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Mitzie Testani is a designer and illustrator who creates fanciful images from ordinary items and scenes. In "Mother's Day," Testani will include pieces on a variety of themes ranging from portraits and pet birds to illustrated alphabets and quotes in honor of mothers.

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.

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.

Discovery of Being
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The essence of existence, emotion, strength and beauty unite distinctively in the photography and paintings of art teacher Peter Mahan and his former student Lacey McKinney.

Read a review!

On My Own Time: Employee Art Exhibition
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

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

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

An Iliad
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

An edgy adaptation of Homer's epic story told by a single poet, adapted from Homer by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, translation by Robert Fagles.

This remarkable interpretation of Homer's account of The Trojan War vivifies the tale's epic power while capturing the immediacy of a story told around an open fire. A lone poet, an ancient story-teller, weaves contemporary speech with evocative poetry to create an electrifying encounter with this profoundly resonant chronicle of a distant conflict. Director Penny Metropulos (Up, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, and Red) and actor Joseph Graves (Red) return for this taut and critically-heralded adaptation.

Read a Review!

Hamlet Cha-Cha-Cha
Central New York Playhouse
Jenn DeCook, director

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

Totally insane. And totally hilarious. You all know the story of Hamlet--but never has a plot line been followed by such gleefully drunken footsteps, singing all the way! Can you envision Horatio as "an amiable sponge" always seeking the nearest buffet table? Can you see Gertrude and Claudius, married on their way home from King Hamlet's funeral, leading the opening number of the show, "Boo Hoo! I Do!"? Or picture the soliloquy done by Prince Hamlet with a back-up male chorus chanting "Doo waaah!" at inappropriate intervals? And how about Queen Gertrude, backed up by the female chorus--the "Elsinoritas," of course--telling Laertes about Ophelia's dreadful death in a hand clapper called "Down, Down, Down the River!"? And will you recognize Hamlet's two college chums, herein known as "Rosie Krantz" and "Gilda Stern"? And if you think you know the way the story turns out--you don't. Not in this version, anyhow. Believe us, if you've always hated Shakespearean plays, you'll love this show--but paradoxically, you've always loved Shakespearean plays, you'll love this show despite yourself. Book, music, and lyrics by Monk Ferris. Abel Searor, music director; Kaleigh Pfohl, choreographer.

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Friday, May 24, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

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

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

Dreamt Realities
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Dreamt Realities features the work of four Syracuse-based photographers: Eddie Colleli, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Jeff Madison, and Heidi Vantassel. This exhibit features surreal, phantasmagorical pictures that explore geographical spaces. Using both traditional and cutting edge techniques, these photographers create/freeze their imagery drawing a fine line between what's real and what's imagined -- for example, a neglected house becomes a fascinating nightmare, a forgotten shore resembles a timeless dream, and a staged environment is inspired by a hazy dream.

Read a Review!

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.

Something To Write Home About
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

A collection of expressive drawings, paintings, prints and photography on themes of journey and time by artists Susan Stone and Kristina Starowitz.

Delineation
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Read a review!

41st Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

In collaboration with the Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc., CFAC will provide an opportunity for teenagers of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage, as well as those from other underrepresented or minority groups, to demonstrate their talent in visual arts. Ribbons and monetary prizes will be awarded in drawing, painting, mixed media (including photography, collage prints, etc.) and three-dimensional work (including sculpture, fiber, and ceramics). Prizes will also be awarded in special categories "Most Eclectic," "Director's Choice," and "Best in Show." Participation for the exhibition continues to grow each year, and we are excited to see the amazing work that will be displayed.

HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

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.

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.

Read a review!

Mother's Day: Works by Mitzie Testani
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Mitzie Testani is a designer and illustrator who creates fanciful images from ordinary items and scenes. In "Mother's Day," Testani will include pieces on a variety of themes ranging from portraits and pet birds to illustrated alphabets and quotes in honor of mothers.

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.

Discovery of Being
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The essence of existence, emotion, strength and beauty unite distinctively in the photography and paintings of art teacher Peter Mahan and his former student Lacey McKinney.

Read a review!

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

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

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical
Gifford Family Theatre

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

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

First Things First
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon J. Barden, director

Price: $15 adults, $13 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Peter and George (Jon Wright and Pat Bridenbaker) have been best friends forever. George has been Peter's best man twice. Sarah (Heather Jensen), Peter's new wife, comes with a meddling mother-in-law (Denise Ballou). See what happens when Peter's first wife (Tammy Wilkinson), who has been declared dead, suddenly shows up to complicate the life of her newly remarried husband and the resulting lies that cause things to gradually go crazy. Throw in a mountain climber (Mike Callahan) and you have a night filled with hilarity!

Hamlet Cha-Cha-Cha
Central New York Playhouse
Jenn DeCook, director

Price: $25
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Totally insane. And totally hilarious. You all know the story of Hamlet--but never has a plot line been followed by such gleefully drunken footsteps, singing all the way! Can you envision Horatio as "an amiable sponge" always seeking the nearest buffet table? Can you see Gertrude and Claudius, married on their way home from King Hamlet's funeral, leading the opening number of the show, "Boo Hoo! I Do!"? Or picture the soliloquy done by Prince Hamlet with a back-up male chorus chanting "Doo waaah!" at inappropriate intervals? And how about Queen Gertrude, backed up by the female chorus--the "Elsinoritas," of course--telling Laertes about Ophelia's dreadful death in a hand clapper called "Down, Down, Down the River!"? And will you recognize Hamlet's two college chums, herein known as "Rosie Krantz" and "Gilda Stern"? And if you think you know the way the story turns out--you don't. Not in this version, anyhow. Believe us, if you've always hated Shakespearean plays, you'll love this show--but paradoxically, you've always loved Shakespearean plays, you'll love this show despite yourself. Book, music, and lyrics by Monk Ferris. Abel Searor, music director; Kaleigh Pfohl, choreographer.

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An Iliad
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

An edgy adaptation of Homer's epic story told by a single poet, adapted from Homer by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, translation by Robert Fagles.

This remarkable interpretation of Homer's account of The Trojan War vivifies the tale's epic power while capturing the immediacy of a story told around an open fire. A lone poet, an ancient story-teller, weaves contemporary speech with evocative poetry to create an electrifying encounter with this profoundly resonant chronicle of a distant conflict. Director Penny Metropulos (Up, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, and Red) and actor Joseph Graves (Red) return for this taut and critically-heralded adaptation.

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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

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

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

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

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

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

Delineation
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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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.

HWS Printmaking Workshop
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of prints by students and faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students and faculty represented in the show are part of the HWS Studio Art Program.

Discovery of Being
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The essence of existence, emotion, strength and beauty unite distinctively in the photography and paintings of art teacher Peter Mahan and his former student Lacey McKinney.

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Employee Art Show
The Art Store Gallery

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

41st Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

In collaboration with the Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc., CFAC will provide an opportunity for teenagers of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage, as well as those from other underrepresented or minority groups, to demonstrate their talent in visual arts. Ribbons and monetary prizes will be awarded in drawing, painting, mixed media (including photography, collage prints, etc.) and three-dimensional work (including sculpture, fiber, and ceramics). Prizes will also be awarded in special categories "Most Eclectic," "Director's Choice," and "Best in Show." Participation for the exhibition continues to grow each year, and we are excited to see the amazing work that will be displayed.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Opening: Bloom
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

There will be an opening reception this evening 600-8:00 pm.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical
Gifford Family Theatre

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

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

An Iliad
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

An edgy adaptation of Homer's epic story told by a single poet, adapted from Homer by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, translation by Robert Fagles.

This remarkable interpretation of Homer's account of The Trojan War vivifies the tale's epic power while capturing the immediacy of a story told around an open fire. A lone poet, an ancient story-teller, weaves contemporary speech with evocative poetry to create an electrifying encounter with this profoundly resonant chronicle of a distant conflict. Director Penny Metropulos (Up, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, and Red) and actor Joseph Graves (Red) return for this taut and critically-heralded adaptation.

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First Things First
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon J. Barden, director

Price: $15 adults, $13 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Peter and George (Jon Wright and Pat Bridenbaker) have been best friends forever. George has been Peter's best man twice. Sarah (Heather Jensen), Peter's new wife, comes with a meddling mother-in-law (Denise Ballou). See what happens when Peter's first wife (Tammy Wilkinson), who has been declared dead, suddenly shows up to complicate the life of her newly remarried husband and the resulting lies that cause things to gradually go crazy. Throw in a mountain climber (Mike Callahan) and you have a night filled with hilarity!

Hamlet Cha-Cha-Cha
Central New York Playhouse
Jenn DeCook, director

Price: $39.95 dinner and show, $25 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.

Totally insane. And totally hilarious. You all know the story of Hamlet--but never has a plot line been followed by such gleefully drunken footsteps, singing all the way! Can you envision Horatio as "an amiable sponge" always seeking the nearest buffet table? Can you see Gertrude and Claudius, married on their way home from King Hamlet's funeral, leading the opening number of the show, "Boo Hoo! I Do!"? Or picture the soliloquy done by Prince Hamlet with a back-up male chorus chanting "Doo waaah!" at inappropriate intervals? And how about Queen Gertrude, backed up by the female chorus--the "Elsinoritas," of course--telling Laertes about Ophelia's dreadful death in a hand clapper called "Down, Down, Down the River!"? And will you recognize Hamlet's two college chums, herein known as "Rosie Krantz" and "Gilda Stern"? And if you think you know the way the story turns out--you don't. Not in this version, anyhow. Believe us, if you've always hated Shakespearean plays, you'll love this show--but paradoxically, you've always loved Shakespearean plays, you'll love this show despite yourself. Book, music, and lyrics by Monk Ferris. Abel Searor, music director; Kaleigh Pfohl, choreographer.

Read a Review!

An Iliad
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

An edgy adaptation of Homer's epic story told by a single poet, adapted from Homer by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, translation by Robert Fagles.

This remarkable interpretation of Homer's account of The Trojan War vivifies the tale's epic power while capturing the immediacy of a story told around an open fire. A lone poet, an ancient story-teller, weaves contemporary speech with evocative poetry to create an electrifying encounter with this profoundly resonant chronicle of a distant conflict. Director Penny Metropulos (Up, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, and Red) and actor Joseph Graves (Red) return for this taut and critically-heralded adaptation.

Read a Review!