Friday, October 19, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Lynette Blake: Within and Beyond
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

Lynette Blake's oil paintings draw the viewer in through complex layers of shape and color. The use of overlapping imagery conveys a depth that extends deep below the surface of the canvas. Objects, whether used directly or evoked by abstract shapes, float in and out of light illuminating them with a pervasive warm glow. The effect is otherworldly -- a feeling of being outside time and space is conveyed.

Blake has exhibited her work throughout the Northeast, and is currently represented locally by the Szozda Gallery in Syracuse, as well as national venues. She studied art at Brown University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Upstate NY.

More information on the Weeks Gallery at Baltimore Woods can be found at www.baltimorewoods.org.

Gallery Exhibit: Brendan Rose & Michael Barletta: Paper, Staple, String
Onondaga Community College

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

"Paper, Staple, String" is a spatial installation, transforming Onondaga's Gallery into a dynamic field of suspended objects. Educational remnants (the discarded paperwork of students) are reclaimed as monochromatic pixels of a space defining cloud. This three-dimensional form transfigures as it intersects with the gallery walls, flattening and expanding against the two-dimensional surface.

TONY: 2012: Ink Geographies
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Feels like writing, but the artist is quick to make clear that it is not. Signs, representations ... of what? A mental process, a journey, from diverse points of origin through our individual timelines, our personal twists and turns. As a script emerges, something is set free, though it leaves a mark, an imprint. The artist's essential playground is a space to explore geometric archetypes that can only be found inside one another; all are one. A sacred mandala? Images contract and expand and there is order, not chaos. No more chaotic than life emerging from the womb, contraction, expansion; a beating heart, where life is felt, contraction, expansion...an ever-expanding universe, contracts only to further expand. We don't know how to will it into action. A similar experience with ink takes form in this experiment by Oscar Garcés. It flows from a playful doodle, "el virus," he calls it. And before you know it, connects with something else, an altered state of consciousness. Everything else disappears as it takes over.

The Point of Contact Gallery presents the first solo show by Cuban-born, Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garcés, as part of The Other New York: TONY 2012, a community-wide biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 venues in Syracuse. This program also commemorates the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month at Point of Contact.

Born in Santiago, Cuba in 1987, Garcés came to the United States in 2000. During his years residing first in Florida, when he began to develop as a visual artist, Garcés received multiple recognitions, including a Golden Key Award for best portfolio by Scholastics. Later in Syracuse, Garcés won a "Best of Show" Award at the Community Folk Art Center in 2005. He has also shown his paintings at the Warehouse Gallery's Window Project and at La Casita Cultural Center Gallery.

TONY 2012: "The Other New York" seeks to highlight the work and talent of different rising artists from the Central New York area.

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.

Investigations
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of the work and design process of Stephan Jaklitsch and Mark Gardner through sketches, models, renderings, construction drawings, and photographs of six projects. Their work addresses specific conditions of site, use, the psychology of experience, sustainability, techniques of construction craft in detail, and materiality of building.

Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects (J/GA) is an award-winning NYC-based design practice that focuses on urban scale projects, buildings, interiors, and objects. Award-winning projects include the Marc Jacobs Tokyo Flagship Building (2010); a bike rack for the NYC Dept. of Transportation that was exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (2008); and the Marc Jacobs International Showroom (2012).

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.

Play on Light
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Adriana Meiss: Pastel landscapes
John Franklin: Turned wood and sculptural vessels
Paul Riccardi: Pastel florals and still-lifes
Judy McCumber: Silver and gemstone jewelry

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.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. 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.

Drama From the Garden: New Work by Terry Askey-Cole
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Terry Askey-Cole brings her love of nature and the outdoors to all her new pieces inspired by her beautiful gardens.

Carl Hoffner Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of limited-edition color lithographs and digital paintings by Fayetteville artist Carl Hoffner.

TONY: 2012
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Other New York: 2012," featuring the photographic work of Sarah Averill, Bang-Geul Han, Mark McLoughlin, Jan Nagle, and Matthew Walker. This exhibition is part of a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaborion among 14 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.

Susan Worsham: Bittersweet/Bloodwork
Light Work Gallery

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

When Susan Worsham was just 18, her brother took his own life after severing his spinal cord in a motorcycle accident. As a young girl she had already lost her father to a heart attack, and finally in 2004, she lost her mother as well. In the words of Worsham, "Shortly after my mother passed I came across a set of antique veterinary slides. They were some of the most interesting things that I had ever seen. I framed ninety of them in a long wooden frame resembling the shape of the slide itself. It was the first piece of art that I made after my mother died. I called the piece a watercolor because of the collection of pastel colors, but it was also a sort of poem when you got close and read the titles ... Rabbit's Lung, Fowl's Spleen, and even Human Umbilical Cord. They seemed to hold beauty and death at the same time."

Worsham went on to photograph her old childhood home as well as her oldest neighbor, Margaret Daniel. Margaret is one of the last remaining threads from Worsham's childhood and was the last person to see her brother alive. She made him her homemade bread, and he finished the whole loaf before he shot himself. The story came full circle one day when Margaret brought out her dissection kit and microscope slides. She had been a biology teacher and was holding on to the same sort of slides that fascinated Worsham. Margaret's microscope and slides have since become a metaphor for Worsham's desire to look deeper into the landscape of her childhood--from the flora and fauna to the feelings, Margaret calls it "blood work."

In addition to Worsham's touching photographs made in and around Virginia, this exhibition features a selection of Margaret's dissection tools alongside her microscope, as well as audio recordings of their various conversations about plants, life, and death. All together, the photographs and accompaniments in Bittersweet/Bloodwork speak of the poetry of childhood, nature, discovery, love, and loss.

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

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

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

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.

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

Altered Environments: Works of Willson Cummer and Laura Wellner
Szozda Gallery

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

This show brings together two artists, Laura J. Wellner and Willson Cummer, who view environments in different ways but whose works compliment each other's.

Wellner always tries to create something 'extraordinary out of the ordinary elements of nature' in her mixed media paintings, thereby, one might say, seeing something that's not physically there. Fine art photographer Willson Cummer gives viewers another dimension to familiar landmarks by including man-made intrusions that 'explore humanity's place in the environment.'

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Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

Harvest
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is celebrating the career and life of Karl Schrag, American painter and printmaker, who would have been 100 years old this year. "Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions" is the first major examination of the artist's work since his death in 1995. The exhibition includes 70 original works of art by the influential artist, including paintings, prints and drawings.

Syracuse University has had a long and rewarding association with Karl Schrag and his family. It began in 1962 with a gift of a gouache painting titled "Coast in Autumn." Later the relationship grew with the first of numerous exhibitions, more gifts of artwork, and occasional lectures to students in the University's School of Art. Some 50 years later, S.U.'s art collection is much richer because of the 250-plus Karl Schrag artworks we maintain, and the continued support of Schrag Family.

2012 is also the centenary year of Karl Schrag's birth and gives us an opportunity to reinvestigate the talent, imagination, and sensitivity Schrag brought to his landscapes, still-life paintings, and portraits. A master of color, light, composition, and draftsmanship, Schrag captures nature and its great forces through an investigation of the lasting impressions each of us retain through experience. He engages his viewer with subtle mark making as well as with the bold calligraphic strokes so often associated with his work. His palette of almost Fauvist intensity adds dimension and passion to the landscapes he created.

Schrag's art career spanned more than 60 years and he had strong ties to the New York City art scene. After studying at the Art Students League, he joined S.W. Hayter's prestigious printmaking studio Atelier 17, working alongside artists Miró, Chagall and Jackson Pollock. Schrag was named director of the Atelier in 1950 and later began a long teaching career at Cooper Union, where he taught drawing and graphic arts from 1954-1968. Schrag had a direct impact on many of his students, including the Syracuse University-based artist Jerome Witkin. A student of Schrag at Cooper Union and a well-established contemporary artist, Witkin has commented on Schrags masterful handling of the landscape, and the evocative power of his vision.

The art selected for this exhibit will convey the artist's ability to see the landscape as if for the first time, the surprise of that special view, the recognition of his ability to feel wonder when looking at nature or figures, and the reward associated with seeing the world through his eyes.

TONY: 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Other New York: 2012 (Tony: 2012) is an ambitious project that 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 offers 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.

The artists included in the SUArt Galleries TONY: 2012 are Tammy Brackett, Juan Cruz, Sara Di Donato, Matthew Glaysher, Amy Greenan, Sue Huggins Leopard, Barbara Page, James Skvarch.

The SUArt Galleries is one of 14 venues participating in this citywide celebration of the visual arts. Please take the time to visit the exhibitions at the other TONY venues to see the wealth of talent that resides and works upstate.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The works of 67 amateur artists in media such as metal, fiber art, marble, watercolors, acrylics, oils, ink, and photography is featured.

On My Own Time was created by the Cultural Resources Council to encourage local businesses, nonprofits, government and civic organizations to celebrate the artistic talents of their employees.

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.

Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena: A Graphic History
La Casita Cultural Center

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

The exhibit presents the works of nine Puerto Rican master artists who were commissioned to create screen prints to capture the spirit of the annual Bomba and Plena Festivals held in Puerto Rico. Their posters have been collected and preserved by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan.

Featured artists are José R. Alicea, Luis Alonso, Luis Germán Cajigas, Jesús Cardona, Sixto Cotto, David Goitia, Samuel Lind, Luis Maisonet Ramos, and Nelson Sambolin.

Lov U
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Lov U" is a multimedia installation by Senga Nengudi.

Colorado-based Senga Nengudi is a key figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Known primarily for performance-based art installations, her work focuses on movement and the human body, is multidisciplinary in nature and international in scope, with cultural references to Africa, the African Diaspora, and Asia. For her multimedia, performance-based exhibition "Lov U," Nengudi explores the physical senses of being human, and includes photographs and video to reflect on the essence of love. Drawn to discarded, everyday materials, the ephemerality of Nengudi's work is a metaphor for life's transience.

The Other New York (TONY): 2012
XL Projects

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

XL Projects will present the work of seven artists selected for "The Other New York (TONY): 2012," a communitywide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition featuring artists currently living in New York State outside of the New York City metropolitan area.

The artists showing work at XL Projects -- Michael Barletta, Daniel Buckingham, Jay Carrier, Meredith Davenport, Kara Daving, Tom DeLooza, and Fernando Orellana -- are among the 63 artists selected from 235 submissions for TONY: 2012. The work that will be on view at XL includes large sculpture, video, photography, kinetic sculpture, large-scale painting, and a large window graphic across the front of the venue.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 art institutions and cultural organizations in Syracuse: 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.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours. For more information about TONY: 2012 and the other exhibiting artists and venues, visit everson.org.

life. love. time travel.
Echo

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

Group show of works by over 20 artists.

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial, titled "The Other New York: 2012," is being exhibited in community art galleries across Syracuse this year. ArtRage is honored to participate by exhibiting the work of four artists chosen in collaboration with the Everson Museum.

Ben Altman, Neil Chowdhury, Bob Gates and Paul Pearce, the four photographers whose works comprise this exhibit, present work that, while distinctive, shares a key characteristic. All are documentary photographers who are a bit wary of being seen as truth tellers. Fully understanding that the "objective photograph" is a myth, their photographic work -- both in the process of its creation and the images presented -- casts into doubt our traditional notions of documentation, objectivity and veracity. Nonetheless, each photographer is visualizing a certain truth, which may be one we do not know, or one that we prefer to avoid knowing. Participating in the artist's unflinching gaze, we become complicit witnesses to situations -- torture, poverty, social class, and the effects of war -- often conveniently rendered invisible.

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TONY 2012: Karen Brummund
Urban Video Project

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

The Everson is I.M. Pei's first museum commission. His art museums are commonly seen as art objects for art objects. They are sculptures in the landscape. Shortly after the Everson, Pei built the Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca. In this site-specific video installation, images of the form and materials of both art museums are projected onto the Everson Museum. The images capture the light, surfaces, and depth of the architecture. The video uses images from two different buildings, analyzing how Pei's ideas bridge individual communities. These disparate places are abstractly connected through the architect's development. The plaza is not only infused with the presence of the Pei's forms, but also the conversation that takes place through his practice.

This video by Karen Brummund is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 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.

Video projection begins at dusk.

Jim Scott Concert
First Unitarian Universalist Society Music Series

Price: $10 suggested donation
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Unitarian Universalist composer and former member of the Paul Winter Consort, Jim Scott writes and performs songs to further the ideals of ecology, justice and peace.

Ellis Paul, with Chris Taylor Trio
Folkus Project

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

Wise, tender, brilliant, and biting, Ellis Paul is one of the leading voices in American songwriting. His joyful enthusiasm and sweet voice make him one of the folk circuit's most popular performers. Paul has built a vast catalog of music that weds striking poetic imagery and philosophical introspection with hook-laden melodies. A generation of artists has been influenced by his infectious melodicism, literate lyrics, and honest performing style.

Opening will be the Chris Taylor Trio. Taylor is the leader of central New York's premier country ensemble, the Custom Taylor Band. Taylor won a Syracuse Area Music Award (SAMMY) for Best Country Music CD, "Down At The Honky Tonk." For this special appearance, he will be performing an all-acoustic set with his trio, plus a fiddle.

Foam N Glow Cosmic Excursion
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Tosca
Syracuse Opera

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

Honor and justice are bitter enemies in Puccini's dramatic clash of art and power. A passionate diva wields a vengeful blade to save her lover in one of the most riveting confrontations in all opera. Sung by three of opera's most prominent artists, our production will steel all of your senses. Puccini's heart-wrenching melodies will twist the dagger in a compelling evening of opera you will not soon forget.

Sung in Italian with projected English titles.

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Author Dan Torday
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Daniel Torday's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Esquire Magazine, Glimmer Train, Harper Perennials Fifty-Two Stories, Harvard Review, and The Kenyon Review. His novella The Sensualist was recently published by Nouvella Books. He currently serves as director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College, and is a former faculty member of the DWC.

The Other New York Poetry Night
Underground Poetry Spot

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

In keeping with the spirit of the current ArtRage exhibition, TONY: 2012, Underground Poets will perform spoken word, rabble-rousing, get-up-off-your-chair-and-do-something poems. They will scream out about the homeless, war, torture and more!

Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Too good to be true!" raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

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Musical of Musicals, The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Silly, smart, juicy, merciless -- just a few of the one-word adjectives used to describe this 5-act romp that lovingly parodies the musicals of Rogers & Hammerstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, and Kander & Ebb. Music by Eric Rockwell; lyrics by Joanne Bogart; book by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart.

Musical Director is Michael Copps, and the cast features Jodie Baum, Jimmy Curtin, Peter Irwin, and Aubry Panek.

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Moby Dick
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Alive with a soundscape of 16 authentic sea shanties and performed by an ensemble of nine, this highly physical adaption cuts to the core of Melville's searing narrative and plays with the fury of a Nantucket sleigh ride. A young man seeks adventure on a whaling vessel and finds himself a pawn in an obsessive pursuit of vengeance that threatens death and destruction for all. Director Peter Amster returns to guide the ensemble in this thrilling and critically acclaimed telling of a classic American tale. Adapted for the stage by Julian Rad from the book by Herman Melville

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The Rocky Horror Show
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 seniors, $20 students
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Play on Light
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Adriana Meiss: Pastel landscapes
John Franklin: Turned wood and sculptural vessels
Paul Riccardi: Pastel florals and still-lifes
Judy McCumber: Silver and gemstone jewelry

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. 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.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The works of 67 amateur artists in media such as metal, fiber art, marble, watercolors, acrylics, oils, ink, and photography is featured.

On My Own Time was created by the Cultural Resources Council to encourage local businesses, nonprofits, government and civic organizations to celebrate the artistic talents of their employees.

Drama From the Garden: New Work by Terry Askey-Cole
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Terry Askey-Cole brings her love of nature and the outdoors to all her new pieces inspired by her beautiful gardens.

Carl Hoffner Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of limited-edition color lithographs and digital paintings by Fayetteville artist Carl Hoffner.

Lynette Blake: Within and Beyond
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

Lynette Blake's oil paintings draw the viewer in through complex layers of shape and color. The use of overlapping imagery conveys a depth that extends deep below the surface of the canvas. Objects, whether used directly or evoked by abstract shapes, float in and out of light illuminating them with a pervasive warm glow. The effect is otherworldly -- a feeling of being outside time and space is conveyed.

Blake has exhibited her work throughout the Northeast, and is currently represented locally by the Szozda Gallery in Syracuse, as well as national venues. She studied art at Brown University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Upstate NY.

More information on the Weeks Gallery at Baltimore Woods can be found at www.baltimorewoods.org.

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

Altered Environments: Works of Willson Cummer and Laura Wellner
Szozda Gallery

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

This show brings together two artists, Laura J. Wellner and Willson Cummer, who view environments in different ways but whose works compliment each other's.

Wellner always tries to create something 'extraordinary out of the ordinary elements of nature' in her mixed media paintings, thereby, one might say, seeing something that's not physically there. Fine art photographer Willson Cummer gives viewers another dimension to familiar landmarks by including man-made intrusions that 'explore humanity's place in the environment.'

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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.

life. love. time travel.
Echo

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

Group show of works by over 20 artists.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

TONY: 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Other New York: 2012 (Tony: 2012) is an ambitious project that 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 offers 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.

The artists included in the SUArt Galleries TONY: 2012 are Tammy Brackett, Juan Cruz, Sara Di Donato, Matthew Glaysher, Amy Greenan, Sue Huggins Leopard, Barbara Page, James Skvarch.

The SUArt Galleries is one of 14 venues participating in this citywide celebration of the visual arts. Please take the time to visit the exhibitions at the other TONY venues to see the wealth of talent that resides and works upstate.

Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is celebrating the career and life of Karl Schrag, American painter and printmaker, who would have been 100 years old this year. "Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions" is the first major examination of the artist's work since his death in 1995. The exhibition includes 70 original works of art by the influential artist, including paintings, prints and drawings.

Syracuse University has had a long and rewarding association with Karl Schrag and his family. It began in 1962 with a gift of a gouache painting titled "Coast in Autumn." Later the relationship grew with the first of numerous exhibitions, more gifts of artwork, and occasional lectures to students in the University's School of Art. Some 50 years later, S.U.'s art collection is much richer because of the 250-plus Karl Schrag artworks we maintain, and the continued support of Schrag Family.

2012 is also the centenary year of Karl Schrag's birth and gives us an opportunity to reinvestigate the talent, imagination, and sensitivity Schrag brought to his landscapes, still-life paintings, and portraits. A master of color, light, composition, and draftsmanship, Schrag captures nature and its great forces through an investigation of the lasting impressions each of us retain through experience. He engages his viewer with subtle mark making as well as with the bold calligraphic strokes so often associated with his work. His palette of almost Fauvist intensity adds dimension and passion to the landscapes he created.

Schrag's art career spanned more than 60 years and he had strong ties to the New York City art scene. After studying at the Art Students League, he joined S.W. Hayter's prestigious printmaking studio Atelier 17, working alongside artists Miró, Chagall and Jackson Pollock. Schrag was named director of the Atelier in 1950 and later began a long teaching career at Cooper Union, where he taught drawing and graphic arts from 1954-1968. Schrag had a direct impact on many of his students, including the Syracuse University-based artist Jerome Witkin. A student of Schrag at Cooper Union and a well-established contemporary artist, Witkin has commented on Schrags masterful handling of the landscape, and the evocative power of his vision.

The art selected for this exhibit will convey the artist's ability to see the landscape as if for the first time, the surprise of that special view, the recognition of his ability to feel wonder when looking at nature or figures, and the reward associated with seeing the world through his eyes.

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial, titled "The Other New York: 2012," is being exhibited in community art galleries across Syracuse this year. ArtRage is honored to participate by exhibiting the work of four artists chosen in collaboration with the Everson Museum.

Ben Altman, Neil Chowdhury, Bob Gates and Paul Pearce, the four photographers whose works comprise this exhibit, present work that, while distinctive, shares a key characteristic. All are documentary photographers who are a bit wary of being seen as truth tellers. Fully understanding that the "objective photograph" is a myth, their photographic work -- both in the process of its creation and the images presented -- casts into doubt our traditional notions of documentation, objectivity and veracity. Nonetheless, each photographer is visualizing a certain truth, which may be one we do not know, or one that we prefer to avoid knowing. Participating in the artist's unflinching gaze, we become complicit witnesses to situations -- torture, poverty, social class, and the effects of war -- often conveniently rendered invisible.

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Lov U
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Lov U" is a multimedia installation by Senga Nengudi.

Colorado-based Senga Nengudi is a key figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Known primarily for performance-based art installations, her work focuses on movement and the human body, is multidisciplinary in nature and international in scope, with cultural references to Africa, the African Diaspora, and Asia. For her multimedia, performance-based exhibition "Lov U," Nengudi explores the physical senses of being human, and includes photographs and video to reflect on the essence of love. Drawn to discarded, everyday materials, the ephemerality of Nengudi's work is a metaphor for life's transience.

The Other New York (TONY): 2012
XL Projects

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

XL Projects will present the work of seven artists selected for "The Other New York (TONY): 2012," a communitywide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition featuring artists currently living in New York State outside of the New York City metropolitan area.

The artists showing work at XL Projects -- Michael Barletta, Daniel Buckingham, Jay Carrier, Meredith Davenport, Kara Daving, Tom DeLooza, and Fernando Orellana -- are among the 63 artists selected from 235 submissions for TONY: 2012. The work that will be on view at XL includes large sculpture, video, photography, kinetic sculpture, large-scale painting, and a large window graphic across the front of the venue.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 art institutions and cultural organizations in Syracuse: 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.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours. For more information about TONY: 2012 and the other exhibiting artists and venues, visit everson.org.

TONY 2012: Karen Brummund
Urban Video Project

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

The Everson is I.M. Pei's first museum commission. His art museums are commonly seen as art objects for art objects. They are sculptures in the landscape. Shortly after the Everson, Pei built the Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca. In this site-specific video installation, images of the form and materials of both art museums are projected onto the Everson Museum. The images capture the light, surfaces, and depth of the architecture. The video uses images from two different buildings, analyzing how Pei's ideas bridge individual communities. These disparate places are abstractly connected through the architect's development. The plaza is not only infused with the presence of the Pei's forms, but also the conversation that takes place through his practice.

This video by Karen Brummund is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 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.

Video projection begins at dusk.

Cinemagogue Series: Crossing Delancey
Temple Society of Concord

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

In this long-time favorite film, Isabelle's (played by Amy Irving) life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help Isabelle's love life along. Enter pickle-maker Sam (Peter Riegert) who immediately takes to Isabelle. She, however, is irritated by the whole process, at least to start with. Cast also includes David Hyde Pierce.

Fellini Festival: 8½ (1963)
ArtRage Gallery

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

Discover the Fabulous Fellini, one of the most influential directors of our time!

8½ (1963), with Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee

Trying to relax after his last big hit, harried film director Guido retreats into his own private world of memories and fantasies. Wrestling with his conscience Guido recalls past workers seeking more work, major victories and defeats, and the women he loved ... and left. This avant-garde classic is considered to be semi-autobiographical, and Fellini's personal take on the trials and perils of film making. It was the basis for the Broadway musical and subsequent film, Nine. Oscars: Best Foreign Film, Costume Design

4th Annual Salt Market

Learbury Center
401 N. Salina St., Syracuse

The Salt Market of 2012 mixes it up with a new location, new artists, and loads of new creations designed and produced here in Central New York. Previously named the Salt City Urban Art & Craft Market, organizers streamlined both the name and the marketplace as it enters its fourth year.

This year's array of vendors include jewelry makers, ceramists, stationery designers, illustrators, and clothing designers. Each year Salt Market organizers include many fresh, new artists to the event, and continually challenge repeat vendors to bring new designs and products when they return.

Visitors will have access to a 55 car parking lot on-site and plenty of additional street parking along N. Salina Street. The first 50 attendees will receive a limited edition, screen-printed Salt Market tote bag in which to store their market goodies.

For more information about the Salt Market, visit www.saltmarketsyracuse.com or email saltmarketsyracuse@gmail.com.

Instrumental Jazz Jam
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

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

Ying String Quartet with Elinor Freer, piano
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

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

Felix Mendelssohn Quartet No. 2, Op. 13, in A minor
Kenji Bunch Quartet No. 2, "Concussion Theory"
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57

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CD Release Party: Soul Risin'
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Also appearing will be Brother Joscephus and the Love Revival Revolution Orchestra, and Boot n' Shorts

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.

Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Too good to be true!" raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

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Moby Dick
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Alive with a soundscape of 16 authentic sea shanties and performed by an ensemble of nine, this highly physical adaption cuts to the core of Melville's searing narrative and plays with the fury of a Nantucket sleigh ride. A young man seeks adventure on a whaling vessel and finds himself a pawn in an obsessive pursuit of vengeance that threatens death and destruction for all. Director Peter Amster returns to guide the ensemble in this thrilling and critically acclaimed telling of a classic American tale. Adapted for the stage by Julian Rad from the book by Herman Melville

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Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Too good to be true!" raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

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Musical of Musicals, The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Silly, smart, juicy, merciless -- just a few of the one-word adjectives used to describe this 5-act romp that lovingly parodies the musicals of Rogers & Hammerstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, and Kander & Ebb. Music by Eric Rockwell; lyrics by Joanne Bogart; book by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart.

Musical Director is Michael Copps, and the cast features Jodie Baum, Jimmy Curtin, Peter Irwin, and Aubry Panek.

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Moby Dick
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Alive with a soundscape of 16 authentic sea shanties and performed by an ensemble of nine, this highly physical adaption cuts to the core of Melville's searing narrative and plays with the fury of a Nantucket sleigh ride. A young man seeks adventure on a whaling vessel and finds himself a pawn in an obsessive pursuit of vengeance that threatens death and destruction for all. Director Peter Amster returns to guide the ensemble in this thrilling and critically acclaimed telling of a classic American tale. Adapted for the stage by Julian Rad from the book by Herman Melville

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The Rocky Horror Show
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 seniors, $20 students
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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The Rocky Horror Show
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 seniors, $20 students
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. 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.

Altered Environments: Works of Willson Cummer and Laura Wellner
Szozda Gallery

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

This show brings together two artists, Laura J. Wellner and Willson Cummer, who view environments in different ways but whose works compliment each other's.

Wellner always tries to create something 'extraordinary out of the ordinary elements of nature' in her mixed media paintings, thereby, one might say, seeing something that's not physically there. Fine art photographer Willson Cummer gives viewers another dimension to familiar landmarks by including man-made intrusions that 'explore humanity's place in the environment.'

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Drama From the Garden: New Work by Terry Askey-Cole
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Terry Askey-Cole brings her love of nature and the outdoors to all her new pieces inspired by her beautiful gardens.

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.

Carl Hoffner Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of limited-edition color lithographs and digital paintings by Fayetteville artist Carl Hoffner.

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

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

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

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.

Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is celebrating the career and life of Karl Schrag, American painter and printmaker, who would have been 100 years old this year. "Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions" is the first major examination of the artist's work since his death in 1995. The exhibition includes 70 original works of art by the influential artist, including paintings, prints and drawings.

Syracuse University has had a long and rewarding association with Karl Schrag and his family. It began in 1962 with a gift of a gouache painting titled "Coast in Autumn." Later the relationship grew with the first of numerous exhibitions, more gifts of artwork, and occasional lectures to students in the University's School of Art. Some 50 years later, S.U.'s art collection is much richer because of the 250-plus Karl Schrag artworks we maintain, and the continued support of Schrag Family.

2012 is also the centenary year of Karl Schrag's birth and gives us an opportunity to reinvestigate the talent, imagination, and sensitivity Schrag brought to his landscapes, still-life paintings, and portraits. A master of color, light, composition, and draftsmanship, Schrag captures nature and its great forces through an investigation of the lasting impressions each of us retain through experience. He engages his viewer with subtle mark making as well as with the bold calligraphic strokes so often associated with his work. His palette of almost Fauvist intensity adds dimension and passion to the landscapes he created.

Schrag's art career spanned more than 60 years and he had strong ties to the New York City art scene. After studying at the Art Students League, he joined S.W. Hayter's prestigious printmaking studio Atelier 17, working alongside artists Miró, Chagall and Jackson Pollock. Schrag was named director of the Atelier in 1950 and later began a long teaching career at Cooper Union, where he taught drawing and graphic arts from 1954-1968. Schrag had a direct impact on many of his students, including the Syracuse University-based artist Jerome Witkin. A student of Schrag at Cooper Union and a well-established contemporary artist, Witkin has commented on Schrags masterful handling of the landscape, and the evocative power of his vision.

The art selected for this exhibit will convey the artist's ability to see the landscape as if for the first time, the surprise of that special view, the recognition of his ability to feel wonder when looking at nature or figures, and the reward associated with seeing the world through his eyes.

TONY: 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Other New York: 2012 (Tony: 2012) is an ambitious project that 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 offers 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.

The artists included in the SUArt Galleries TONY: 2012 are Tammy Brackett, Juan Cruz, Sara Di Donato, Matthew Glaysher, Amy Greenan, Sue Huggins Leopard, Barbara Page, James Skvarch.

The SUArt Galleries is one of 14 venues participating in this citywide celebration of the visual arts. Please take the time to visit the exhibitions at the other TONY venues to see the wealth of talent that resides and works upstate.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The works of 67 amateur artists in media such as metal, fiber art, marble, watercolors, acrylics, oils, ink, and photography is featured.

On My Own Time was created by the Cultural Resources Council to encourage local businesses, nonprofits, government and civic organizations to celebrate the artistic talents of their employees.

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.

The Other New York (TONY): 2012
XL Projects

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

XL Projects will present the work of seven artists selected for "The Other New York (TONY): 2012," a communitywide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition featuring artists currently living in New York State outside of the New York City metropolitan area.

The artists showing work at XL Projects -- Michael Barletta, Daniel Buckingham, Jay Carrier, Meredith Davenport, Kara Daving, Tom DeLooza, and Fernando Orellana -- are among the 63 artists selected from 235 submissions for TONY: 2012. The work that will be on view at XL includes large sculpture, video, photography, kinetic sculpture, large-scale painting, and a large window graphic across the front of the venue.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 art institutions and cultural organizations in Syracuse: 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.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours. For more information about TONY: 2012 and the other exhibiting artists and venues, visit everson.org.

Jonathan Newell, composer/pianist
Pro Musica Divina

Price: Free (donation accepted)
St. Matthew's Catholic Church
229 W. Yates St., East Syracuse

Composer and pianist Jonathan Newell presents his work, The Discovery of Isaac Jogues for piano solo, strings, flutes, and Native American percussion. The Discovery of Isaac Jogues considers the French Jesuit missionary's discoveries of Huron tribal culture and Lake George, as well as his evolution to being martyred in the mid-1600s.

The program also includes original solo works by the composer as well as a suite for strings and piano.

Atzilut: Concerts For Peace
Arts Engage

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

A celebration of peace captured by a musical performance. Atzilut is an inspiring and harmonious eight-person band comprised of Jewish and Arabic members. Atzilut demonstrates the strong likelihood for expansive reconciliation between two conflicting cultures by creating an unconventional collaboration and amity through music. This extraordinary group delivers a well-balanced program of Jewish and Arabic music, language, and tradition, including segments of powerful duet singing for peace.

This concert is presented by SU Arts Engage in collaboration with SAMED (Syracuse Area Middle East Dialogue) and InterFaith Works.

Imani Winds
Malmgren Concert Series

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

More than North America's premier wind quintet, Imani Winds has established itself as one of the most successful chamber music ensembles in the United States. Since 1997, the Grammy-nominated quintet has taken a unique path, carving out a distinct presence in the classical music world with its dynamic playing, culturally poignant programming, genre-blurring collaborations, and inspirational outreach programs. Imani Winds has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Disney Hall and Kimmel Center. They have also played on virtually every major university performing arts series. They have collaborated with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, clarinetist/saxophonist/composer Paquito D'Rivera, saxophonist Wayne Shorter, bandoneonist Daniel Binelli, and the Brubeck brothers.

A Fall Festival of Choirs
Syracuse Children's Chorus
Stephanie Mowery, conductor

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

The children's chorus will be joined by the Syracuse Pops Chorus, Solvay High School's Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and the Young Men's Chorus of Ithaca.

Tosca
Syracuse Opera

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

Honor and justice are bitter enemies in Puccini's dramatic clash of art and power. A passionate diva wields a vengeful blade to save her lover in one of the most riveting confrontations in all opera. Sung by three of opera's most prominent artists, our production will steel all of your senses. Puccini's heart-wrenching melodies will twist the dagger in a compelling evening of opera you will not soon forget.

Sung in Italian with projected English titles.

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Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Too good to be true!" raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

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Moby Dick
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Alive with a soundscape of 16 authentic sea shanties and performed by an ensemble of nine, this highly physical adaption cuts to the core of Melville's searing narrative and plays with the fury of a Nantucket sleigh ride. A young man seeks adventure on a whaling vessel and finds himself a pawn in an obsessive pursuit of vengeance that threatens death and destruction for all. Director Peter Amster returns to guide the ensemble in this thrilling and critically acclaimed telling of a classic American tale. Adapted for the stage by Julian Rad from the book by Herman Melville

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Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Too good to be true!" raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

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Monday, October 22, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Lynette Blake: Within and Beyond
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

Lynette Blake's oil paintings draw the viewer in through complex layers of shape and color. The use of overlapping imagery conveys a depth that extends deep below the surface of the canvas. Objects, whether used directly or evoked by abstract shapes, float in and out of light illuminating them with a pervasive warm glow. The effect is otherworldly -- a feeling of being outside time and space is conveyed.

Blake has exhibited her work throughout the Northeast, and is currently represented locally by the Szozda Gallery in Syracuse, as well as national venues. She studied art at Brown University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Upstate NY.

More information on the Weeks Gallery at Baltimore Woods can be found at www.baltimorewoods.org.

Gallery Exhibit: Brendan Rose & Michael Barletta: Paper, Staple, String
Onondaga Community College

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

"Paper, Staple, String" is a spatial installation, transforming Onondaga's Gallery into a dynamic field of suspended objects. Educational remnants (the discarded paperwork of students) are reclaimed as monochromatic pixels of a space defining cloud. This three-dimensional form transfigures as it intersects with the gallery walls, flattening and expanding against the two-dimensional surface.

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.

Investigations
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of the work and design process of Stephan Jaklitsch and Mark Gardner through sketches, models, renderings, construction drawings, and photographs of six projects. Their work addresses specific conditions of site, use, the psychology of experience, sustainability, techniques of construction craft in detail, and materiality of building.

Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects (J/GA) is an award-winning NYC-based design practice that focuses on urban scale projects, buildings, interiors, and objects. Award-winning projects include the Marc Jacobs Tokyo Flagship Building (2010); a bike rack for the NYC Dept. of Transportation that was exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (2008); and the Marc Jacobs International Showroom (2012).

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.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. 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.

Drama From the Garden: New Work by Terry Askey-Cole
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Terry Askey-Cole brings her love of nature and the outdoors to all her new pieces inspired by her beautiful gardens.

Carl Hoffner Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of limited-edition color lithographs and digital paintings by Fayetteville artist Carl Hoffner.

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena: A Graphic History
La Casita Cultural Center

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

The exhibit presents the works of nine Puerto Rican master artists who were commissioned to create screen prints to capture the spirit of the annual Bomba and Plena Festivals held in Puerto Rico. Their posters have been collected and preserved by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan.

Featured artists are José R. Alicea, Luis Alonso, Luis Germán Cajigas, Jesús Cardona, Sixto Cotto, David Goitia, Samuel Lind, Luis Maisonet Ramos, and Nelson Sambolin.

Twentieth Century (1934)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Howard Hawks. Cast includes John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connelly, Roscoe Karns, Charles Lane, Ettiene Girardot, Ralph Forbes, Edgar Kennedy.

Classic screwball comedy with Barrymore as egomaniacal Broadway producer Oscar Jaffe, who makes an unknown actress (Lombard) a star. When she leaves the theater for Hollywood and screen fame, Jaffe tries every trick in the book to get her back ... and things REALLY get wild when they both end up on the same cross-country train! With a brilliant script by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, this is a true comedy gem.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Lynette Blake: Within and Beyond
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

Lynette Blake's oil paintings draw the viewer in through complex layers of shape and color. The use of overlapping imagery conveys a depth that extends deep below the surface of the canvas. Objects, whether used directly or evoked by abstract shapes, float in and out of light illuminating them with a pervasive warm glow. The effect is otherworldly -- a feeling of being outside time and space is conveyed.

Blake has exhibited her work throughout the Northeast, and is currently represented locally by the Szozda Gallery in Syracuse, as well as national venues. She studied art at Brown University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Upstate NY.

More information on the Weeks Gallery at Baltimore Woods can be found at www.baltimorewoods.org.

Gallery Exhibit: Brendan Rose & Michael Barletta: Paper, Staple, String
Onondaga Community College

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

"Paper, Staple, String" is a spatial installation, transforming Onondaga's Gallery into a dynamic field of suspended objects. Educational remnants (the discarded paperwork of students) are reclaimed as monochromatic pixels of a space defining cloud. This three-dimensional form transfigures as it intersects with the gallery walls, flattening and expanding against the two-dimensional surface.

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.

Investigations
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of the work and design process of Stephan Jaklitsch and Mark Gardner through sketches, models, renderings, construction drawings, and photographs of six projects. Their work addresses specific conditions of site, use, the psychology of experience, sustainability, techniques of construction craft in detail, and materiality of building.

Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects (J/GA) is an award-winning NYC-based design practice that focuses on urban scale projects, buildings, interiors, and objects. Award-winning projects include the Marc Jacobs Tokyo Flagship Building (2010); a bike rack for the NYC Dept. of Transportation that was exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (2008); and the Marc Jacobs International Showroom (2012).

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.

Play on Light
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Adriana Meiss: Pastel landscapes
John Franklin: Turned wood and sculptural vessels
Paul Riccardi: Pastel florals and still-lifes
Judy McCumber: Silver and gemstone jewelry

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.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. 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.

Drama From the Garden: New Work by Terry Askey-Cole
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Terry Askey-Cole brings her love of nature and the outdoors to all her new pieces inspired by her beautiful gardens.

Carl Hoffner Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of limited-edition color lithographs and digital paintings by Fayetteville artist Carl Hoffner.

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The works of 67 amateur artists in media such as metal, fiber art, marble, watercolors, acrylics, oils, ink, and photography is featured.

On My Own Time was created by the Cultural Resources Council to encourage local businesses, nonprofits, government and civic organizations to celebrate the artistic talents of their employees.

Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena: A Graphic History
La Casita Cultural Center

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

The exhibit presents the works of nine Puerto Rican master artists who were commissioned to create screen prints to capture the spirit of the annual Bomba and Plena Festivals held in Puerto Rico. Their posters have been collected and preserved by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan.

Featured artists are José R. Alicea, Luis Alonso, Luis Germán Cajigas, Jesús Cardona, Sixto Cotto, David Goitia, Samuel Lind, Luis Maisonet Ramos, and Nelson Sambolin.

Lov U
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Lov U" is a multimedia installation by Senga Nengudi.

Colorado-based Senga Nengudi is a key figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Known primarily for performance-based art installations, her work focuses on movement and the human body, is multidisciplinary in nature and international in scope, with cultural references to Africa, the African Diaspora, and Asia. For her multimedia, performance-based exhibition "Lov U," Nengudi explores the physical senses of being human, and includes photographs and video to reflect on the essence of love. Drawn to discarded, everyday materials, the ephemerality of Nengudi's work is a metaphor for life's transience.

life. love. time travel.
Echo

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

Group show of works by over 20 artists.

A Community of Gardeners
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Throughout Washington, DC, people of all ages, backgrounds, and nationalities are gardening side by side, growing vegetables, fruits and flowers in community gardens. Some are looking for basic sustenance, others for a way to remember their homelands, still others for a place to find a respite from their troubles. Through the voices of young people, senior citizens, immigrants, garden volunteers and educators, A Community of Gardeners explores the vital role of seven urban community gardens as sources of fresh, nutritious food, outdoor classrooms, places of healing, links to immigrants' native countries, centers of social interaction, and oases of beauty and calm in inner-city neighborhoods. (2011, 60 minutes, directed by Cintia Cabib)

An Evening with Diane Rehm
WRVO-FM

Price: $35, $30
Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Each week, more than 2.2 million listeners across the country tune in to The Diane Rehm Show, which has grown from a local morning call-in show to one of public broadcasting's most popular programs. For more information, visit www.wrvo.org/wrvo-event-tickets.

American Politics, Today and Tomorrow
University Lectures
Featuring Ron Brownstein

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Noted political analyst and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Brownstein will explore the state of each party today and what's next for America's major political parties. He will also combine an assessment of the electoral environment with an analysis of the challenges that await the new or incumbent president.

Brownstein is a senior political and election analyst for CNN and ABC. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize twice, for his coverage of the 1996 and 2004 presidential elections. He appears regularly in the Atlantic, National Journal and the Los Angeles Times, where he served as national political correspondent and columnist. He also served as chief political correspondent and columnist for U.S. News and World Report. He is author or editor of six books, including The Power and The Glitter: The Hollywood-Washington Connection and Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican Revival (co-authored with Dan Balz). Washington and Polarized America was named one of "ten books to curl up with" for 2007 by the New York Times. His articles on politics, public policy, books and culture have also appeared in a number of newspapers and magazines.

Yellow Dubmarine: Reggae Beatles Tribute
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Too good to be true!" raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Lynette Blake: Within and Beyond
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

Lynette Blake's oil paintings draw the viewer in through complex layers of shape and color. The use of overlapping imagery conveys a depth that extends deep below the surface of the canvas. Objects, whether used directly or evoked by abstract shapes, float in and out of light illuminating them with a pervasive warm glow. The effect is otherworldly -- a feeling of being outside time and space is conveyed.

Blake has exhibited her work throughout the Northeast, and is currently represented locally by the Szozda Gallery in Syracuse, as well as national venues. She studied art at Brown University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Upstate NY.

More information on the Weeks Gallery at Baltimore Woods can be found at www.baltimorewoods.org.

Gallery Exhibit: Brendan Rose & Michael Barletta: Paper, Staple, String
Onondaga Community College

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

"Paper, Staple, String" is a spatial installation, transforming Onondaga's Gallery into a dynamic field of suspended objects. Educational remnants (the discarded paperwork of students) are reclaimed as monochromatic pixels of a space defining cloud. This three-dimensional form transfigures as it intersects with the gallery walls, flattening and expanding against the two-dimensional surface.

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.

Investigations
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of the work and design process of Stephan Jaklitsch and Mark Gardner through sketches, models, renderings, construction drawings, and photographs of six projects. Their work addresses specific conditions of site, use, the psychology of experience, sustainability, techniques of construction craft in detail, and materiality of building.

Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects (J/GA) is an award-winning NYC-based design practice that focuses on urban scale projects, buildings, interiors, and objects. Award-winning projects include the Marc Jacobs Tokyo Flagship Building (2010); a bike rack for the NYC Dept. of Transportation that was exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (2008); and the Marc Jacobs International Showroom (2012).

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.

Play on Light
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Adriana Meiss: Pastel landscapes
John Franklin: Turned wood and sculptural vessels
Paul Riccardi: Pastel florals and still-lifes
Judy McCumber: Silver and gemstone jewelry

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.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. 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.

Drama From the Garden: New Work by Terry Askey-Cole
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Terry Askey-Cole brings her love of nature and the outdoors to all her new pieces inspired by her beautiful gardens.

Carl Hoffner Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of limited-edition color lithographs and digital paintings by Fayetteville artist Carl Hoffner.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

Altered Environments: Works of Willson Cummer and Laura Wellner
Szozda Gallery

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

This show brings together two artists, Laura J. Wellner and Willson Cummer, who view environments in different ways but whose works compliment each other's.

Wellner always tries to create something 'extraordinary out of the ordinary elements of nature' in her mixed media paintings, thereby, one might say, seeing something that's not physically there. Fine art photographer Willson Cummer gives viewers another dimension to familiar landmarks by including man-made intrusions that 'explore humanity's place in the environment.'

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Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The works of 67 amateur artists in media such as metal, fiber art, marble, watercolors, acrylics, oils, ink, and photography is featured.

On My Own Time was created by the Cultural Resources Council to encourage local businesses, nonprofits, government and civic organizations to celebrate the artistic talents of their employees.

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.

Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena: A Graphic History
La Casita Cultural Center

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

The exhibit presents the works of nine Puerto Rican master artists who were commissioned to create screen prints to capture the spirit of the annual Bomba and Plena Festivals held in Puerto Rico. Their posters have been collected and preserved by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan.

Featured artists are José R. Alicea, Luis Alonso, Luis Germán Cajigas, Jesús Cardona, Sixto Cotto, David Goitia, Samuel Lind, Luis Maisonet Ramos, and Nelson Sambolin.

Lov U
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Lov U" is a multimedia installation by Senga Nengudi.

Colorado-based Senga Nengudi is a key figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Known primarily for performance-based art installations, her work focuses on movement and the human body, is multidisciplinary in nature and international in scope, with cultural references to Africa, the African Diaspora, and Asia. For her multimedia, performance-based exhibition "Lov U," Nengudi explores the physical senses of being human, and includes photographs and video to reflect on the essence of love. Drawn to discarded, everyday materials, the ephemerality of Nengudi's work is a metaphor for life's transience.

life. love. time travel.
Echo

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

Group show of works by over 20 artists.

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial, titled "The Other New York: 2012," is being exhibited in community art galleries across Syracuse this year. ArtRage is honored to participate by exhibiting the work of four artists chosen in collaboration with the Everson Museum.

Ben Altman, Neil Chowdhury, Bob Gates and Paul Pearce, the four photographers whose works comprise this exhibit, present work that, while distinctive, shares a key characteristic. All are documentary photographers who are a bit wary of being seen as truth tellers. Fully understanding that the "objective photograph" is a myth, their photographic work -- both in the process of its creation and the images presented -- casts into doubt our traditional notions of documentation, objectivity and veracity. Nonetheless, each photographer is visualizing a certain truth, which may be one we do not know, or one that we prefer to avoid knowing. Participating in the artist's unflinching gaze, we become complicit witnesses to situations -- torture, poverty, social class, and the effects of war -- often conveniently rendered invisible.

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English Handbells
Civic Morning Musicals
Rene Hebert, Pam Spirko, and Carol Adriance

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

Delightful, varied program of classical, pop, and spiritual music.

The Music of Ernst Bacon
Arts Engage

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

An evening celebrating the music of American composer Ernst Bacon, former director of the Syracuse University School of Music, and renowned composer of song. The concert is presented as a collaboration with the Ernst Bacon Society, Syracuse Arts Engage, the Setnor School of Music's voice faculty, and Emily Corbato, Class of '62.

Featured guest artists include Peter and Kathleen van de Graaff, Emily Corbato, Jon English, Janet Brown, Sar Strong, and Ida Trebicka.

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.

Brian Evenson
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Brian Evenson is the award-winning author of ten books of fiction, including the limited edition novella Baby Leg (2009), Last Days (2009), and Contagion and Other Stories (2000). He is the current director of Brown University's Literary Arts Program. The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30 pm. Parking is available in SU's paid lots.

Moby Dick
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Alive with a soundscape of 16 authentic sea shanties and performed by an ensemble of nine, this highly physical adaption cuts to the core of Melville's searing narrative and plays with the fury of a Nantucket sleigh ride. A young man seeks adventure on a whaling vessel and finds himself a pawn in an obsessive pursuit of vengeance that threatens death and destruction for all. Director Peter Amster returns to guide the ensemble in this thrilling and critically acclaimed telling of a classic American tale. Adapted for the stage by Julian Rad from the book by Herman Melville

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Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Too good to be true!" raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Lynette Blake: Within and Beyond
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

Lynette Blake's oil paintings draw the viewer in through complex layers of shape and color. The use of overlapping imagery conveys a depth that extends deep below the surface of the canvas. Objects, whether used directly or evoked by abstract shapes, float in and out of light illuminating them with a pervasive warm glow. The effect is otherworldly -- a feeling of being outside time and space is conveyed.

Blake has exhibited her work throughout the Northeast, and is currently represented locally by the Szozda Gallery in Syracuse, as well as national venues. She studied art at Brown University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Upstate NY.

More information on the Weeks Gallery at Baltimore Woods can be found at www.baltimorewoods.org.

Gallery Exhibit: Brendan Rose & Michael Barletta: Paper, Staple, String
Onondaga Community College

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

"Paper, Staple, String" is a spatial installation, transforming Onondaga's Gallery into a dynamic field of suspended objects. Educational remnants (the discarded paperwork of students) are reclaimed as monochromatic pixels of a space defining cloud. This three-dimensional form transfigures as it intersects with the gallery walls, flattening and expanding against the two-dimensional surface.

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.

Investigations
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of the work and design process of Stephan Jaklitsch and Mark Gardner through sketches, models, renderings, construction drawings, and photographs of six projects. Their work addresses specific conditions of site, use, the psychology of experience, sustainability, techniques of construction craft in detail, and materiality of building.

Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects (J/GA) is an award-winning NYC-based design practice that focuses on urban scale projects, buildings, interiors, and objects. Award-winning projects include the Marc Jacobs Tokyo Flagship Building (2010); a bike rack for the NYC Dept. of Transportation that was exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (2008); and the Marc Jacobs International Showroom (2012).

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.

Play on Light
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Adriana Meiss: Pastel landscapes
John Franklin: Turned wood and sculptural vessels
Paul Riccardi: Pastel florals and still-lifes
Judy McCumber: Silver and gemstone jewelry

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.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. 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.

Drama From the Garden: New Work by Terry Askey-Cole
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Terry Askey-Cole brings her love of nature and the outdoors to all her new pieces inspired by her beautiful gardens.

Carl Hoffner Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of limited-edition color lithographs and digital paintings by Fayetteville artist Carl Hoffner.

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

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

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

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.