Sunday, November 18, 2012

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Way of Thanks
Szozda Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

Harvest
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

Holiday Fine Craft Show

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Pottery Plus
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Delavan Center, #119
112 Wyoming St., Syracuse

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

Jeff Davies: Straight from the Heart
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Mark Povinelli: Post Cambrian Explosion
LeMoyne College

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

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

Habitual
XL Projects

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

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

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

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

SU Art Kids: Printmaking Workshop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

So You Think You Can Dance Tour 2012

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

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

Highland Winds Concert
Arts Alive in Liverpool

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For more information, call 315-425-2882.

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

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

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

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

Selections from "Chicago"
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Vocal students will present selections from the Broadway musical Chicago.

Tribute to Rob McConnell with Michael Davis
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

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

Scott Foppiano
Syracuse Wurlitzer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Monday, November 19, 2012

Opening: Mark Povinelli: Post Cambrian Explosion
LeMoyne College

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

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

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

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

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

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Baskets with Sculpture by Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman

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

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

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

Bellydance Superstars

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

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

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

Truck Farm
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

She Gets Her Man (1945); The Midnight Patrol (1933)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Erle C. Kenton. Cast includes Joan Davis, Leon Errol, William Gargan, Donald MacBride, Vivian Austin, Russell Hicks.

Joan plays the daughter of "Ma Pilkington," a fearless and highly regarded policewoman. Joan tries to follow in Ma's crimefighting footsteps by capturing the mysterious "Blowgun Murderer," whose victims are killed with poisoned darts. Who IS the killer? Joan and an inept police officer (Errol) try to solve the case, and they make a hilarious team in this lively and fun comedy-mystery!

PLUS: Extra added comedy short: The Midnight Patrol (1933). Laurel & Hardy are uniformed policemen who are assigned to keep law and order on the night beat ... and you can just imagine how well THAT goes!

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Mark Povinelli: Post Cambrian Explosion
LeMoyne College

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

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

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

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

Dream Weavers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

Baskets with Sculpture by Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman

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

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

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

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

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

Rupture: Works by Joe Lingeman
Echo

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

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

Temple Concord Cinemagogue: My Grandfather's House
Temple Society of Concord

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

My Grandfather's House is a personal documentary which follows Eileen Douglas's determined search to find her grandfather's house in Lithuania, the home he lived in and left behind in 1911 when he fled, at 16, from Kovno to America to escape the Tsar's army. Four decades after his death, with only fragments to guide the way, the documentary is Douglas's attempt to lift the veil of darkness and discover "where it all began." Traveling from New York City, to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, to her mother's attic in Syracuse, to the homes of relatives, and, finally, to the block in Kovno, now known as Kaunas, where her grandfather once lived, along the way she unexpectedly unlocks the mystery of stories he never told, discovers the fate of family members lost in the war, learns of the glory that once was Lithuanian Jewry, finds living relatives missing for years in Siberia, and resurrects a family shattered by the traumas of the 20th Century.

Eileen Douglas will join us to introduce the film and answer any questions following the film.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Mark Povinelli: Post Cambrian Explosion
LeMoyne College

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

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

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

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

Dream Weavers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

Baskets with Sculpture by Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

By Way of Thanks
Szozda Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Rupture: Works by Joe Lingeman
Echo

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

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

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Thursday, November 22, 2012

By Way of Thanks
Szozda Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shimon Attie: Sightings (2012)
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Nick Saint, Private Elf
Acme Mystery Company

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

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

Friday, November 23, 2012

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

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

Dream Weavers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

Baskets with Sculpture by Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

By Way of Thanks
Szozda Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Opening 4:00-8:00 pm as part of Holiday Magic.

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

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Rupture: Works by Joe Lingeman
Echo

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

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

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

27th Annual Gingerbread Gallery: 50 Years of Fun
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception with cookies and cocoa this evening 5:00-8:00 pm after the tree lighting ceremony in Clinton Square.

One of Syracuse's oldest holiday traditions returns this year with the theme "50 Years of Fun" in honor of the Museum's anniversary. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s street scene with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers.

Shimon Attie: Sightings (2012)
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Holiday Movie: Elf

Price: Free, but ticket required
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Join us after the tree lighting in Clinton Square for a free showing of the holiday classic "Elf."

Tickets can be picked up at the Landmark Theatre Box office.

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Featured in this eclectic display are the bookshelf, counter, calliope, and international doll collection from The Magic Toy Shop, Syracuse's local children's TV show from the 1950s through 1980s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see hand-carved trains and boats, Punch & Judy marionettes, Victorian dolls, 1950s board games, and many other vintage toys, some made in central New York. The exhibit also includes historic photos of downtown Syracuse, and boxes from bygone stores such as Chappell's, Dey Bros., Flah's, Madame Netter, and E. W. Edwards.

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

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

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

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

Read a Review!

Preview: White Christmas
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Paul Barnes, director

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

Irving Berlin's beloved and heartwarming musical with a score of American standards, based on the Paramount Pictures film.

The title song alone is a holiday celebration and a reminder of a time when the simplest pleasures mattered most and having a big heart was genuinely considered a virtue. Two successful showmen join forces to help out their old army commander. Along the way they find, lose, and find romance, have plenty of laughs, and demonstrate what it means to be loyal. The score is filled with favorites -- "Happy Holiday," "Sisters," "Blue Skies," "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" -- and the choreography calls for plenty of tap. Winter may not deliver a White Christmas, but director Paul Barnes (The Miracle Worker) and a talented cast sure will.

Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by David Ives and Paul Blake.
Musical Direction by Christopher Drobny, choreography by David Wanstreet.

Read a Review!

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

Mark Povinelli: Post Cambrian Explosion
LeMoyne College

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

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

Drawing on Talent
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

Dream Weavers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

27th Annual Gingerbread Gallery: 50 Years of Fun
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

One of Syracuse's oldest holiday traditions returns this year with the theme "50 Years of Fun" in honor of the Museum's anniversary. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s street scene with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

Baskets with Sculpture by Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman

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

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

By Way of Thanks
Szozda Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rupture: Works by Joe Lingeman
Echo

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

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

58th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Shimon Attie: Sightings (2012)
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Featured in this eclectic display are the bookshelf, counter, calliope, and international doll collection from The Magic Toy Shop, Syracuse's local children's TV show from the 1950s through 1980s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see hand-carved trains and boats, Punch & Judy marionettes, Victorian dolls, 1950s board games, and many other vintage toys, some made in central New York. The exhibit also includes historic photos of downtown Syracuse, and boxes from bygone stores such as Chappell's, Dey Bros., Flah's, Madame Netter, and E. W. Edwards.

Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman
Steeple Coffeehouse

Price: $12 in advance, $15 at the door
Fayetteville United Church
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Admission includes beverage and dessert.

For more information, phone 315-663-7415.

Syracuse's Last Waltz
Westcott Theater

Price: $20
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Hailed as one of the best concert films ever made, "The Band's Last Waltz" was filmed on Thanksgiving day in 1976. It was day-long event advertised as the "farewell appearance" of the influential musical group.

The event saw The Band joined by more than a dozen special guests, including Paul Butterfield, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Bobby Charles, Neil Young and The Staple Singers. The entire show and many interviews and anecdotes were captured on film by director Martin Scorsese.

Tonight, some of the area's home grown best will take the stage as the Westcott Theater and The REBEL 105.9 present the music of "The Last Waltz" live in concert for one show only.

Syracuse's Last Waltz will feature Los Blancos as The Band with additional keyboard duties handled by Scott Ebner (Ripcords/Tipp Hillbillies). Gary Frenay will serve as Music Director, and the list of guest musicians (20+) continues to grow and currently includes: Jason Barady (Floodwood), Kim Monroe & Chris Eves, Donna Colton, Rex Lyons (The Ripcords), Tim Herron, Artie Lenin, Pete McMahon (Super Delinquents), Jess Novak (on fiddle), Dugan Henhawk (Whiteboy & the WagonBurners), Ed Zacholl (Z-Bones), Joe Whiting, and Mark Hoffmann.

The music of The Last Waltz will follow the concert film format in relation to song selection, timing, and instrumentation. The film's non-musical interludes and backstage footage also be shown during the concert. The music of The Band has historic musical significance worldwide and the same reverence is given by many musicians and music fans right here in Central New York.

A portion of the proceeds with benefit the Westcott Community Center. The Westcott is partnering with a local brewery for this special evening, so if you bring a non-perishable food donation your first beer is on Empire Brewing.

Advance tickets are available at Sound Garden in Armory Square, thewestcotttheater.com and upstateshows.com.

Dickens Christmas

Price: Free
Village of Skaneateles
Skaneateles

More than 60 actors in Victorian-era apparel entertain visitors with scenes from Dickens' A Christmas Carol, along with sing-alongs, horse-drawn carriage rides, and more.

For more information, phone 315-685-0552.

Cinderella
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a Review!

Preview: White Christmas
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Paul Barnes, director

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

Irving Berlin's beloved and heartwarming musical with a score of American standards, based on the Paramount Pictures film.

The title song alone is a holiday celebration and a reminder of a time when the simplest pleasures mattered most and having a big heart was genuinely considered a virtue. Two successful showmen join forces to help out their old army commander. Along the way they find, lose, and find romance, have plenty of laughs, and demonstrate what it means to be loyal. The score is filled with favorites -- "Happy Holiday," "Sisters," "Blue Skies," "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" -- and the choreography calls for plenty of tap. Winter may not deliver a White Christmas, but director Paul Barnes (The Miracle Worker) and a talented cast sure will.

Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by David Ives and Paul Blake.
Musical Direction by Christopher Drobny, choreography by David Wanstreet.

Read a Review!

Always ... Patsy Cline
The Talent Company
James D. Meech, director
Featuring Becky Bottrill

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors, $20 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Based on a true story, Always...Patsy Cline is about the legendary friendship of Patsy Cline with a worshipful fan from Houston named Louise Seger. This rollicking musical comedy includes many of Patsy's unforgettable hits including Your Cheatin' Heart, You Belong To Me, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams, She's Got You, True Love, Walkin' After Midnight, Anytime, and of course, Crazy. At just 30 years old, the tough-as-nails Cline had already made what would become some of the most memorable records in country, pop, and rock n' roll music history. She had also survived two car accidents and told many of her closest friends that she feared she would not live long. On March 5, 1963, Patsy, along with singers Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and pilot Randy Hughes were killed when their plane crashed approximately 90 miles outside Nashville. Like Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and James Dean, Patsy Cline flamed early and died young, the first requirements for legend building. Becky Bottrill is reprising what has become her signature role as legendary performer Patsy Cline. Sing along with over 24 of the tunes that made her famous, and get ready to dance in your seats with a live, foot-stompin' 7-piece band and backup singers known as The Bodacious Bobcats," featuring Syracuse's own John Cadley & The Lost Boys. Playing the role of Louise Seger is Mollie Marie Brown.

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Sunday, November 25, 2012

27th Annual Gingerbread Gallery: 50 Years of Fun
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

One of Syracuse's oldest holiday traditions returns this year with the theme "50 Years of Fun" in honor of the Museum's anniversary. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s street scene with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Shen Wei: I Miss You Already
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

By Way of Thanks
Szozda Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vessels and Vestiges
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

Forms of Function
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Mark Povinelli: Post Cambrian Explosion
LeMoyne College

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

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

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Featured in this eclectic display are the bookshelf, counter, calliope, and international doll collection from The Magic Toy Shop, Syracuse's local children's TV show from the 1950s through 1980s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see hand-carved trains and boats, Punch & Judy marionettes, Victorian dolls, 1950s board games, and many other vintage toys, some made in central New York. The exhibit also includes historic photos of downtown Syracuse, and boxes from bygone stores such as Chappell's, Dey Bros., Flah's, Madame Netter, and E. W. Edwards.

Autumn Serenade
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Juan La Manna, conductor

Price: $22 regular, $18 seniors, $10 students
Inspiration Hall (formerly St. Peter's Church)
709 James St., Syracuse

Mozart Serenade No. 12 in C minor
Brahms Serenade No. 1 in D Major

Dark Star Orchestra
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Dickens Christmas

Price: Free
Village of Skaneateles
Skaneateles

More than 60 actors in Victorian-era apparel entertain visitors with scenes from Dickens' A Christmas Carol, along with sing-alongs, horse-drawn carriage rides, and more.

For more information, phone 315-685-0552.

Always ... Patsy Cline
The Talent Company
James D. Meech, director
Featuring Becky Bottrill

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors, $20 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Based on a true story, Always...Patsy Cline is about the legendary friendship of Patsy Cline with a worshipful fan from Houston named Louise Seger. This rollicking musical comedy includes many of Patsy's unforgettable hits including Your Cheatin' Heart, You Belong To Me, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams, She's Got You, True Love, Walkin' After Midnight, Anytime, and of course, Crazy. At just 30 years old, the tough-as-nails Cline had already made what would become some of the most memorable records in country, pop, and rock n' roll music history. She had also survived two car accidents and told many of her closest friends that she feared she would not live long. On March 5, 1963, Patsy, along with singers Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and pilot Randy Hughes were killed when their plane crashed approximately 90 miles outside Nashville. Like Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and James Dean, Patsy Cline flamed early and died young, the first requirements for legend building. Becky Bottrill is reprising what has become her signature role as legendary performer Patsy Cline. Sing along with over 24 of the tunes that made her famous, and get ready to dance in your seats with a live, foot-stompin' 7-piece band and backup singers known as The Bodacious Bobcats," featuring Syracuse's own John Cadley & The Lost Boys. Playing the role of Louise Seger is Mollie Marie Brown.

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