Saturday, October 19, 2013

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

The Wisest Man Series: The Irish Language Through Time
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit featuring subtle speech and images from the Blasket Islands to Tipperary Hill by John Francis McCarthy.

For more information, call 315-445-4153. Co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Irish Literature Program.

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Louise Woodard's exhibit is a record of her investigation and discoveries in nature. It is an attempt through representation and design to communicate to others her visual and imaginative impressions. Certain images are depicted as the original subject; some parts are excluded; some enhanced, with the purpose of creating new visuals. The exhibit includes original watercolor paintings and drawings.

Creative Rapport
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Mary Padgett shows her pastel florals, still lifes, and landscapes reflecting her passion for color, light and texture.
Wendy Harris, a former student of Mary Padgett, exhibits her interpretations of light and texture through cloudscape and landscape pastel paintings.
Michelle DaRin exhibits enamel and mixed media jewelry.
Stephen Brucker displays his art glass forms drawing attention to the delicacy and impermanence of nature.

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

Using blood collected from a slaughterhouse as his primary medium, the artist explores ideas about transformation, death, and rebirth. Jordan Eagles encases the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin panels; mounted on the gallery walls they create a sublime environment that envelops and engages the viewer. The exhibition title, "Red Giant," refers to a luminous giant star in its final phase of stellar evolution—what our Sun will become in five billion years—while also referencing the intense, potent color of blood. The abstract patterns and forms in the works may suggest internal organs as well as cosmological phenomena like solar storms, sunspots, craters, meteorites, and supernova explosions.

Eagles' works are in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Everson Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Causey Contemporary and Krause Gallery, New York; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.He has been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, L'Uomo Vogue, Architectural Digest and Wired.

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From the Earth: New Works in Wood and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

Salt Market

Price: $2
499 S. Warren St. (at the corner of E. Onondaga St.)
Syracuse

The 5th annual Salt Market will invigorate downtown by activating two underutilized Syracuse storefronts, hosting independent artists and their innovative creations all designed and produced here in New York. What started as the Salt City Urban Art & Craft Market five years ago has flourished into a popular annual event and this year's event is bigger than ever!

This year's array of selected vendors includes 40 independent artists, 18 of which are new to the market. Expect to find everything from jewelry and t-shirts to home goods and ceramics.

Salt Market attendees will also see a first time collaboration with Light Work, an artist-run, non-profit photography and digital media center in Syracuse. They will be creating a pop-up photo booth for visitors to enjoy, complete with DIY props and frippery. The Salt Market also welcomes back Syracuse food and beverage favorites Strong Hearts Cafe, Roji Tea Lounge, and Recess Coffee; nourishing guests as they shop and browse. 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, visit www.saltmarketsyracuse.com, or email saltmarketsyracuse@gmail.com.

Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

The Syracuse Poster Project, established in 2001, brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the city's poster panels. Each year they produce 16 art posters, each featuring an illustrated poem about the downtown, the city, or the nearby countryside. The Project enlivens the city, builds community, and spreads its value by selling poster prints and poster-related products.

Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

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

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

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All Creatures Great and Small
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

All Creatures Great and Small will feature artwork that incorporates animals into the form and/or surface of ceramic vessels and sculptures, and as subject matter of paintings, photographs and prints. Participating artists include Fredrick Bartolovic and Michelle Strader, Shanna Fliegel, Bob Gates, Steven Godfrey, Tom Huff, Ron Meyers, Hannah Niswonger, Brooke Noble, Donnalee Peden, Matt Smith, Stacy Stanhope, and Lucie Wellner.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their art.

Combat Paper Redux
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, we have brought "Combat Paper" back to Syracuse! An earlier version of this exhibit featuring images on paper made out of shredded combat uniforms was our Grand Opening exhibition in October 2008. The Combat Paper project began as art therapy utilizing paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and yes...Vietnam.

While anti-war activists are portrayed as unpatriotic and focused only on the negative, the project has proven to have a positive impact on veterans, serving as a visceral statement of the long-lasting effects of combat and as a catalyst for community discussion and activism. The art comes to us from all across this country with a special nod to the work from the Combat Paper Studio in Ithaca.

A companion piece to the paper-making project is the Warrior Writers' Project where veterans are encouraged through workshops to write about their feelings since coming home. The words have been printed on hand-made combat paper and bound into books. This project provides an opportunity for veterans to come together and connect, reconcile and heal through sharing their words with each other. We will feature a Warrior Writers' event and journal making workshop with vets from Ithaca during the exhibition.

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FULL
XL Projects

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

FULL is an exhibition of work by 13 sculpture students in the Department of Art who each produced 70 sculptures.

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

Fall Fine Arts Show
Central New York Art Guild

Aspen House, Radisson
8550 N. Entry Rd., Baldwinsville

Central New York Art Guild members will be holding their popular Fall Fine Arts Show and Sale. Guild Members from all over Central New York will be showcasing photography, watercolors, acrylics, oils, pastels, ceramics, and more. There will be a raffle for artwork donated by Katie Turner, Laurel Butkins, and Bonnie Goetzke. Proceeds of the raffle benefit the guild-sponsored High School Student Exhibition held each spring at the Edgewood Gallery in Syracuse.

For more information, visit www.cnyartguild.com.

Nourish: An Exploration of Consumption
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

With an overabundance of food, we are a culture obsessed with our next meal. The harsh reality is that much of the food produced goes to waste while others still go hungry at night. For this exhibition, the artists will explore the differing ways that people choose to nourish themselves and how it is reflective of who we are as a society and as an individual. The participating artists are Cynthia Herrera, Marisa Jahn and Steve Shada, Tattfoo Tan, various artists from the Hudson Valley Seed Library, and Viviane Le Courtois.

Platonic: Dani Leventhal
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Dani Leventhal's Platonic, geometric specters twirl in space; pet cats foam at the mouth; a little boy mistakes his junkie dad for a superhero; and a confused adolescent worries he has sired a centaur. Platonic references both the ancient philosopher's metaphysics of ideal Forms, which simultaneously exist outside our perceptions and yet give rise to them, and the related meaning in common parlance of non-romantic love. Leventhal trains her searching lens on the distance separating bodies, moments, and perspectives. The result is a study in the awkward gaps between appearance and reality, seeing and understanding, desire and its object. (21:33 minutes)

A Place at the Table

Price: Freewill donation
Erwin First United Methodist Church
920 Euclid Ave., Syracuse

Acclaimed 2012 hunger documentary.

Donations to support Bread for the World are welcomed. Attendees will have the opportunity to review educational materials by Central New York food organizations.

Cinemagogue: The Gate Keepers
Temple Society of Concord

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

"The Gate Keepers" is a documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.

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

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

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

Scholastic Instrumental Jazz Jam
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $6 regular, $3 participants
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Come to Jazz Central and get a chance to sit in with the CNYJO rhythm section. Improvisers at ALL levels are welcome, first-timers to emerging pros. Check out our guidelines below, or just show up with your axe, a lead sheet and a key!

These user-friendly events provide a professional rhythm section from the CNY Jazz Orchestra to accompany students of all ages. Although the format is not that of a clinic or master class, the trio may have time to do some coaching while a student is on the bandstand.

Students must sign in and complete a simple form that includes the title and key of their selection or selections. All participants are encouraged to bring family and friends to cheer them on.

Student groups of all kinds also are encouraged to prepare arrangements and perform as a group, either with our rhythm section of self-contained. However, the individuals in each group should also perform individually on at least one tune.

Dick Ward and Carol Bryant Duo

Price: $5
Creekside Books
35 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Trio Con Brio Copenhagen
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

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

In 1999 Korean violinist Soo-Jin Hong and her sister, cellist Soo-Kyung Hong, joined with Danish pianist Jens Elvekjaer to create a trio that has received critical acclaim from the time of its inception. Soo-Kyung and Jens are now married; and family ties, cultural blending, and musical connections all converge to color, shape and energize their concerts.

Beethoven Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 1, No. 3
Cassadó Piano Trio in C major
Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66

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Classical Meets Bluegrass
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor

Price: $20 regular, $18 seniors, $5 students
St. James Roman Catholic Church
4845 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Concert features The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass by Carol Barnett, with Joe Davoli, fiddle; Nick Piccininni, banjo; Perry Cleveland, mandolin; John Cadley, guitar; Zachary Fleitz, bass; Maureen Henesey, vocal soloist.

Also including choral arrangements from Appalachian roots, the Syracuse Country/Contra Dancers, and instrumental bluegrass classics.

An Evening with Sutton Foster
Syracuse University Pulse Performing Arts Series

Price: $20 regular, $16 SU faculty/staff/alumni, $5 students with SU ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Tickets available at Schine Box Office.

*SOLD OUT* Barstool Blackout Tour
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic tale.

Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $30 regular, $20 non-members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Following the performance, there will be a talk-back session with Dustin Czarny, Syracuse City Elections Commissioner.

This rock and roll musical tells the story of America's first political maverick. A.J. kicked British butt, shafted the Indians and smacked down the Spaniards all in the name of these United States—who cares if he didn't have permission? Music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, book by Alex Timbers.

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Seussical
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Lowenstein, director

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

Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (a Tony-winning duo—Lucky Stiff, Once on this Island, Ragtime). It brings to life all the favorite Dr. Seuss characters including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie, and a little boy with a big imagination—Jojo. The colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos. Musical direction by Brian Cimmet; choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith.

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Inherit the Wind
Central New York Playhouse
Sharee Lemos, director

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

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

One of the best courtroom dramas of all time comes to life! Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.

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The Drowsy Chaperone
TheaterFirst Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $30 regular, $28 seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

If you like La Cage then you're going to LOVE The Drowsy Chaperone, the five-time Tony Award winner that's a hilarious tribute to everything we love about the good old-fashioned musical. Music & Lyrics by Lisa Lambert & Greg Morrison and Book by Bob Martin & Don McKellar.

For tickets, call the box office at 315-703-3333.

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Vampire Lesbians of Sodom
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

One of the longest running plays in Off-Broadway history, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, by Charles Busch, tells the saga of two fatally seductive vampiresses whose paths first collide in ancient Sodom. Their bitter rivalry as bloodsuckers but more importantly, as actresses, endures for two thousand years with stops along the way in 1920s silent movie Hollywood and contemporary Las Vegas. Mature audiences (18+) only.

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Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $30 regular, $20 non-members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This rock and roll musical tells the story of America's first political maverick. A.J. kicked British butt, shafted the Indians and smacked down the Spaniards all in the name of these United States—who cares if he didn't have permission? Music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, book by Alex Timbers.

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Seussical
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Lowenstein, director

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

Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (a Tony-winning duo—Lucky Stiff, Once on this Island, Ragtime). It brings to life all the favorite Dr. Seuss characters including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie, and a little boy with a big imagination—Jojo. The colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos. Musical direction by Brian Cimmet; choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith.

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Sunday, October 20, 2013

2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

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From the Earth: New Works in Wood and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

All Creatures Great and Small
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

All Creatures Great and Small will feature artwork that incorporates animals into the form and/or surface of ceramic vessels and sculptures, and as subject matter of paintings, photographs and prints. Participating artists include Fredrick Bartolovic and Michelle Strader, Shanna Fliegel, Bob Gates, Steven Godfrey, Tom Huff, Ron Meyers, Hannah Niswonger, Brooke Noble, Donnalee Peden, Matt Smith, Stacy Stanhope, and Lucie Wellner.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their art.

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

Using blood collected from a slaughterhouse as his primary medium, the artist explores ideas about transformation, death, and rebirth. Jordan Eagles encases the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin panels; mounted on the gallery walls they create a sublime environment that envelops and engages the viewer. The exhibition title, "Red Giant," refers to a luminous giant star in its final phase of stellar evolution—what our Sun will become in five billion years—while also referencing the intense, potent color of blood. The abstract patterns and forms in the works may suggest internal organs as well as cosmological phenomena like solar storms, sunspots, craters, meteorites, and supernova explosions.

Eagles' works are in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Everson Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Causey Contemporary and Krause Gallery, New York; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.He has been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, L'Uomo Vogue, Architectural Digest and Wired.

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The Wisest Man Series: The Irish Language Through Time
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit featuring subtle speech and images from the Blasket Islands to Tipperary Hill by John Francis McCarthy.

For more information, call 315-445-4153. Co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Irish Literature Program.

FULL
XL Projects

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

FULL is an exhibition of work by 13 sculpture students in the Department of Art who each produced 70 sculptures.

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

Fall Fine Arts Show
Central New York Art Guild

Aspen House, Radisson
8550 N. Entry Rd., Baldwinsville

Central New York Art Guild members will be holding their popular Fall Fine Arts Show and Sale. Guild Members from all over Central New York will be showcasing photography, watercolors, acrylics, oils, pastels, ceramics, and more. There will be a raffle for artwork donated by Katie Turner, Laurel Butkins, and Bonnie Goetzke. Proceeds of the raffle benefit the guild-sponsored High School Student Exhibition held each spring at the Edgewood Gallery in Syracuse.

For more information, visit www.cnyartguild.com.

*POSTPONED* The Roast of Jeff Kramer
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $20 regular, $35 friends of CNY Playhouse, $50 VIP seating
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

New date TBD.

Join us for a night of wild abandon as we roast CNY humor columnist Jeff Kramer. For years, he has taken his pot shots at us in the Syracuse Post Standard, the Syracuse New Times, in Kramer's Sketchy Mall People, and even standing on random corners. Now it's our turn. Our annual roast fundraiser will be hosted by CNYP Artistic Director Dustin M. Czarny with members of Don't Feed the Actors Improv Comedy Group, as well as other CNY theatrical personalities, special guests, and Jeff Kramer's own Sketchy Mall People.

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

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

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

Fall Concert Series: Tom Bronzetti Band
Liverpool Public Library

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

The Tom Bronzetti Band will perform a concert of Tom's original jazz compositions. The band features Bronzetti on guitar, Sarah Bennett on clarinet, Rick Montalbano on keyboard, and Danny Ziemann on bass. Included will be a world premier of Tom's latest composition, "Summer to Autumn."

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

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Sub Rosa Sessions: Hana Zara and Alanna Boudreau

SubCat Studios
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Sub Rosa Sessions host Amanda Rogers hand-picks artists to showcase original, eclectic, "under-the-radar", and world-class performers who deserve attention and appreciation for their craft. There is limited seating (30 capacity) so you will be part of a unique listening experience while the concert is recorded, and then you'll get a copy of the recording immediately following the show, with a Meet & Greet, and complimentary refreshments!

Reserve tickets by following the ticket link on the Facebook event page, or email amanda@subcat.net.

The Tragedy of Carmen
Syracuse Opera

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

Bizet's Carmen has become one of the most beloved operas of all times. The story of the lovelorn gypsy, her naïve soldier Don Jose, his childhood sweetheart Micaëla, and the dashing toreador Escamillo fulfill a story laden with immorality, lawlessness, jealousy, and rage. The music features brilliant melodies, captivating rhythms, and emotional punch.

In 1981, the acclaimed stage and film director Peter Brook created an adaptation called La Tragedie de Carmen. He retained all of the beloved melodies of Bizet's original score, reduced the orchestra, eliminated the chorus and secondary roles to intensify the original story told through the eyes of the operas four leading characters--the gypsy, the solider, the village girl, and the bullfighter. The result is an intense, passionate glimpse into the psychology of these iconoclastic characters.

It will be sung in French with projected English translations above the stage.

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The Magic Words
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A new script by our newest member playwright, Rachel May, about the power of words to reshape reality. The Magic Words weaves fantasy and history to re-imagine the tragic but charmed life of Elena Bulgakova (1893-1970). A Moscow socialite during the repressive Stalin years, Elena gave up a luxurious life to marry the struggling but brilliant author Mikhail Bulgakov. With the help of the Devil, a mischievous talking black cat, Stalin's chief censor, and even Pontius Pilate, Elena preserves her husband's masterpiece, the novel The Master and Margarita, through decades of terror, war, and censorship until its triumphal publication in the mid-1960s.

A feedback and discussion between audience and playwright will follow the reading.

Inherit the Wind
Central New York Playhouse
Sharee Lemos, director

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

One of the best courtroom dramas of all time comes to life! Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.

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The Drowsy Chaperone
TheaterFirst Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $30 regular, $28 seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

If you like La Cage then you're going to LOVE The Drowsy Chaperone, the five-time Tony Award winner that's a hilarious tribute to everything we love about the good old-fashioned musical. Music & Lyrics by Lisa Lambert & Greg Morrison and Book by Bob Martin & Don McKellar.

For tickets, call the box office at 315-703-3333.

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Seussical
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Lowenstein, director

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

Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (a Tony-winning duo—Lucky Stiff, Once on this Island, Ragtime). It brings to life all the favorite Dr. Seuss characters including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie, and a little boy with a big imagination—Jojo. The colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos. Musical direction by Brian Cimmet; choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith.

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In the Mood

Price: $ regular, $ students/seniors
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

In the Mood is America's premiere Big Band Revue, celebrating the Greatest Generation and the 1940s through song, swing dance, and music of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, The Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra and more ... with music arrangements, costumes and choreography as authentic as it gets! It's a sentimental, romantic, nostalgic, jazzy and patriotic tribute to the Swing Era. Company of 19 on stage: Big Band plus six singer-dancers with some high-flying swing dancing. Celebrating its 20th anniversary tour.

Tickets available through Ticketmaster.com.

Monday, October 21, 2013

The Wisest Man Series: The Irish Language Through Time
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit featuring subtle speech and images from the Blasket Islands to Tipperary Hill by John Francis McCarthy.

For more information, call 315-445-4153. Co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Irish Literature Program.

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Louise Woodard's exhibit is a record of her investigation and discoveries in nature. It is an attempt through representation and design to communicate to others her visual and imaginative impressions. Certain images are depicted as the original subject; some parts are excluded; some enhanced, with the purpose of creating new visuals. The exhibit includes original watercolor paintings and drawings.

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement: My work is an attempt to illustrate transcendence. I believe that repetition is the foundation of clarity. The use of repeated patterns in my work serves the same function that a mantra does in meditation. The techniques I employ, screenprinting and non-traditional paint application, give the work the appearance of mechanical reproduction. The diminished evidence of the human hand creates a visual purity.

Kevin Mullins was born in Oklahoma and raised in New York. He received a A.A.S. in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina and completed a Master's Program in Printmaking at the Cheksea School of Art, London, England with graduate studies at Bariff School of Fine Art, Canada and the Institute Allende, Mexico. Mullins spent five years at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, leaving practice.

Mullins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship and grants from the Brandywine Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, the Wuritzer Foundation, Taos, NM and the New York State Arts Council. In 2003 he was an Artist-in-Residence at Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Japan.

Our World through Local Art
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A group exhibition that celebrates our world through the art of five talented Syracuse-area based artists: Domenico Gigante, Shailesh Joshi, Ty Marshal, Wendy Pitoniak, and Clare Willson.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Mixed media works. Listen to the stories. Become a part of the tale. Find the magic within you.

From the Earth: New Works in Wood and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

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Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

The Syracuse Poster Project, established in 2001, brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the city's poster panels. Each year they produce 16 art posters, each featuring an illustrated poem about the downtown, the city, or the nearby countryside. The Project enlivens the city, builds community, and spreads its value by selling poster prints and poster-related products.

Looking for Trouble (1934)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: William A. Wellman. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Jack Oakie, Constance Cummings, Morgan Conway, Arline Judge.

Tracy and Oakie are teamed as telephone linemen fighting a gang of bank robbers in this rare and highly enjoyable combination of crime story, comedy and action/adventure. Don't miss this opportunity to see one of Spencer Tracy's early starring films.

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

The Wisest Man Series: The Irish Language Through Time
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit featuring subtle speech and images from the Blasket Islands to Tipperary Hill by John Francis McCarthy.

For more information, call 315-445-4153. Co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Irish Literature Program.

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Louise Woodard's exhibit is a record of her investigation and discoveries in nature. It is an attempt through representation and design to communicate to others her visual and imaginative impressions. Certain images are depicted as the original subject; some parts are excluded; some enhanced, with the purpose of creating new visuals. The exhibit includes original watercolor paintings and drawings.

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement: My work is an attempt to illustrate transcendence. I believe that repetition is the foundation of clarity. The use of repeated patterns in my work serves the same function that a mantra does in meditation. The techniques I employ, screenprinting and non-traditional paint application, give the work the appearance of mechanical reproduction. The diminished evidence of the human hand creates a visual purity.

Kevin Mullins was born in Oklahoma and raised in New York. He received a A.A.S. in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina and completed a Master's Program in Printmaking at the Cheksea School of Art, London, England with graduate studies at Bariff School of Fine Art, Canada and the Institute Allende, Mexico. Mullins spent five years at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, leaving practice.

Mullins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship and grants from the Brandywine Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, the Wuritzer Foundation, Taos, NM and the New York State Arts Council. In 2003 he was an Artist-in-Residence at Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Japan.

Re-emergence
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Recent work by Michael Teres, professor in the Art Department at SUNY Geneseo. Works on exhibit are photographs that have been highly manipulated using Adobe Photoshop.

Our World through Local Art
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A group exhibition that celebrates our world through the art of five talented Syracuse-area based artists: Domenico Gigante, Shailesh Joshi, Ty Marshal, Wendy Pitoniak, and Clare Willson.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Mixed media works. Listen to the stories. Become a part of the tale. Find the magic within you.

Creative Rapport
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Mary Padgett shows her pastel florals, still lifes, and landscapes reflecting her passion for color, light and texture.
Wendy Harris, a former student of Mary Padgett, exhibits her interpretations of light and texture through cloudscape and landscape pastel paintings.
Michelle DaRin exhibits enamel and mixed media jewelry.
Stephen Brucker displays his art glass forms drawing attention to the delicacy and impermanence of nature.

Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

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

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

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From the Earth: New Works in Wood and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

Read a review!

2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

The Syracuse Poster Project, established in 2001, brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the city's poster panels. Each year they produce 16 art posters, each featuring an illustrated poem about the downtown, the city, or the nearby countryside. The Project enlivens the city, builds community, and spreads its value by selling poster prints and poster-related products.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

Using blood collected from a slaughterhouse as his primary medium, the artist explores ideas about transformation, death, and rebirth. Jordan Eagles encases the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin panels; mounted on the gallery walls they create a sublime environment that envelops and engages the viewer. The exhibition title, "Red Giant," refers to a luminous giant star in its final phase of stellar evolution—what our Sun will become in five billion years—while also referencing the intense, potent color of blood. The abstract patterns and forms in the works may suggest internal organs as well as cosmological phenomena like solar storms, sunspots, craters, meteorites, and supernova explosions.

Eagles' works are in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Everson Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Causey Contemporary and Krause Gallery, New York; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.He has been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, L'Uomo Vogue, Architectural Digest and Wired.

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The True Meaning of Patriotism
University Lectures
Featuring Eric Liu

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Liu will speak on the true meaning of patriotism, addressing the question of what patriotism really means. He takes both the left and the right to task for forgetting the moral principles that give real meaning to love of country, and reminds all that we can live out the American ideal in our everyday choices. Throughout his work, Liu sends a message about the power of being part of something larger than oneself.

He has been hailed by The New York Times and The Washington Post as a leading voice of his generation. Liu has served in senior leadership roles in politics, media and business. He was a speechwriter for President Bill Clinton and later Clinton's deputy domestic policy advisor. He has been a regular on-air commentator for MSNBC and was named by the World Economic Forum as a "Global Leader of Tomorrow." After his tenure in the Clinton administration, he was an executive at the digital media company RealNetworks.

Liu is the founder of the Guiding Lights Network, which promotes and teaches the art of creative citizenship. The organization brings together leaders, catalysts, and innovators in creative ways to generate new solutions to collective challenges.

His book, Guiding Lights: The People Who Lead Us Toward Our Purpose in Life, describes the ways of transformative mentors from all walks of life and was named the official book of National Mentoring Month. The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker, his book about race, identity and assimilation, was a New York Times Notable Book and was featured in a PBS documentary. He also co-authored The True Patriot and The Gardens of Democracy with Nick Hanauer and Imagination First: Unlocking the Power of Possibility with Scott Noppe-Brandon.

A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, he is a lecturer in the University of Washington's School of Law and serves on numerous nonprofit and civic boards. He is also a regular columnist for TIME.com.

Living in the Soundscape Walking Tour
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The walking tour will begin at the Crouse College door that faces the Q1 parking lot. Along the way, sound explorers will hear performances inside and out, in a wide range of social and acoustical spaces, performed by student and faculty musicians from the Setnor School of Music.

"Living in the Soundscape asks you to take out your earbuds, respond affectively to ambient sound, find the space between sound and music, and hear music out of the anechoic realm on the headphone," says Andrew Waggoner, professor of music in the Setnor School, who developed the event. "We'll love sound for its own sake, and get a glimmer of both the spirituality and sensuality of listening."

Free and accessible parking is available for the 8 p.m. concert in the Q-1 lot; additional parking is available in the Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change; call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Beyond Hava Nigila
Temple Society of Concord

Price: Free
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Entertaining and informative lecture/concert featuring gems from the cantorial repertoire, the Yiddish Theater, Klezmer, and original songs by Jonathan Dinkin. Cantor Robert Lieberman; Judy Cohen Stanton, violinist; Jonathan Dinkin, piano.

Guest Artist Series: Lark Quartet
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

A varied program of new and old music.

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.

Freak Show Tour: DJ Bl3nd, with Aire Atlantica, Jaiden, DJ Shamrock, DJ Izzy
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

The Wisest Man Series: The Irish Language Through Time
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit featuring subtle speech and images from the Blasket Islands to Tipperary Hill by John Francis McCarthy.

For more information, call 315-445-4153. Co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Irish Literature Program.

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Louise Woodard's exhibit is a record of her investigation and discoveries in nature. It is an attempt through representation and design to communicate to others her visual and imaginative impressions. Certain images are depicted as the original subject; some parts are excluded; some enhanced, with the purpose of creating new visuals. The exhibit includes original watercolor paintings and drawings.

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement: My work is an attempt to illustrate transcendence. I believe that repetition is the foundation of clarity. The use of repeated patterns in my work serves the same function that a mantra does in meditation. The techniques I employ, screenprinting and non-traditional paint application, give the work the appearance of mechanical reproduction. The diminished evidence of the human hand creates a visual purity.

Kevin Mullins was born in Oklahoma and raised in New York. He received a A.A.S. in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina and completed a Master's Program in Printmaking at the Cheksea School of Art, London, England with graduate studies at Bariff School of Fine Art, Canada and the Institute Allende, Mexico. Mullins spent five years at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, leaving practice.

Mullins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship and grants from the Brandywine Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, the Wuritzer Foundation, Taos, NM and the New York State Arts Council. In 2003 he was an Artist-in-Residence at Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Japan.

Re-emergence
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Recent work by Michael Teres, professor in the Art Department at SUNY Geneseo. Works on exhibit are photographs that have been highly manipulated using Adobe Photoshop.

Our World through Local Art
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A group exhibition that celebrates our world through the art of five talented Syracuse-area based artists: Domenico Gigante, Shailesh Joshi, Ty Marshal, Wendy Pitoniak, and Clare Willson.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Mixed media works. Listen to the stories. Become a part of the tale. Find the magic within you.

Creative Rapport
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Mary Padgett shows her pastel florals, still lifes, and landscapes reflecting her passion for color, light and texture.
Wendy Harris, a former student of Mary Padgett, exhibits her interpretations of light and texture through cloudscape and landscape pastel paintings.
Michelle DaRin exhibits enamel and mixed media jewelry.
Stephen Brucker displays his art glass forms drawing attention to the delicacy and impermanence of nature.

Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

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

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

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From the Earth: New Works in Wood and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

Read a review!

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

The Syracuse Poster Project, established in 2001, brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the city's poster panels. Each year they produce 16 art posters, each featuring an illustrated poem about the downtown, the city, or the nearby countryside. The Project enlivens the city, builds community, and spreads its value by selling poster prints and poster-related products.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

Using blood collected from a slaughterhouse as his primary medium, the artist explores ideas about transformation, death, and rebirth. Jordan Eagles encases the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin panels; mounted on the gallery walls they create a sublime environment that envelops and engages the viewer. The exhibition title, "Red Giant," refers to a luminous giant star in its final phase of stellar evolution—what our Sun will become in five billion years—while also referencing the intense, potent color of blood. The abstract patterns and forms in the works may suggest internal organs as well as cosmological phenomena like solar storms, sunspots, craters, meteorites, and supernova explosions.

Eagles' works are in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Everson Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Causey Contemporary and Krause Gallery, New York; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.He has been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, L'Uomo Vogue, Architectural Digest and Wired.

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FULL
XL Projects

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

FULL is an exhibition of work by 13 sculpture students in the Department of Art who each produced 70 sculptures.

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

Nourish: An Exploration of Consumption
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

With an overabundance of food, we are a culture obsessed with our next meal. The harsh reality is that much of the food produced goes to waste while others still go hungry at night. For this exhibition, the artists will explore the differing ways that people choose to nourish themselves and how it is reflective of who we are as a society and as an individual. The participating artists are Cynthia Herrera, Marisa Jahn and Steve Shada, Tattfoo Tan, various artists from the Hudson Valley Seed Library, and Viviane Le Courtois.

Art, It's What's for Lunch
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Curator's talk by Jillian Nakornthap

Ashley Becker, soprano; David Sytkowski, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Songs by Rachmaninoff, Strauss, and Barber.

Preview: Scorched
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

An epic mystery that has captivated and stunned audiences around the globe. After their mother's death, twins Janine and Simon, guided by letters the mother has left each, travel to the Middle East to untangle family roots entwined in a war-ravaged past. A play of raw power and poetic resonance, the Syracuse Stage production will feature original music by the world renowned Kronos Quartet. Written by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau.

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Thursday, October 24, 2013

The Wisest Man Series: The Irish Language Through Time
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit featuring subtle speech and images from the Blasket Islands to Tipperary Hill by John Francis McCarthy.

For more information, call 315-445-4153. Co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Irish Literature Program.

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Louise Woodard's exhibit is a record of her investigation and discoveries in nature. It is an attempt through representation and design to communicate to others her visual and imaginative impressions. Certain images are depicted as the original subject; some parts are excluded; some enhanced, with the purpose of creating new visuals. The exhibit includes original watercolor paintings and drawings.

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement: My work is an attempt to illustrate transcendence. I believe that repetition is the foundation of clarity. The use of repeated patterns in my work serves the same function that a mantra does in meditation. The techniques I employ, screenprinting and non-traditional paint application, give the work the appearance of mechanical reproduction. The diminished evidence of the human hand creates a visual purity.

Kevin Mullins was born in Oklahoma and raised in New York. He received a A.A.S. in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina and completed a Master's Program in Printmaking at the Cheksea School of Art, London, England with graduate studies at Bariff School of Fine Art, Canada and the Institute Allende, Mexico. Mullins spent five years at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, leaving practice.

Mullins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship and grants from the Brandywine Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, the Wuritzer Foundation, Taos, NM and the New York State Arts Council. In 2003 he was an Artist-in-Residence at Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Japan.

Re-emergence
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Recent work by Michael Teres, professor in the Art Department at SUNY Geneseo. Works on exhibit are photographs that have been highly manipulated using Adobe Photoshop.

Our World through Local Art
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A group exhibition that celebrates our world through the art of five talented Syracuse-area based artists: Domenico Gigante, Shailesh Joshi, Ty Marshal, Wendy Pitoniak, and Clare Willson.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Mixed media works. Listen to the stories. Become a part of the tale. Find the magic within you.

Creative Rapport
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Mary Padgett shows her pastel florals, still lifes, and landscapes reflecting her passion for color, light and texture.
Wendy Harris, a former student of Mary Padgett, exhibits her interpretations of light and texture through cloudscape and landscape pastel paintings.
Michelle DaRin exhibits enamel and mixed media jewelry.
Stephen Brucker displays his art glass forms drawing attention to the delicacy and impermanence of nature.

Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

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

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

Read a review!

From the Earth: New Works in Wood and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

Read a review!

2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

The Syracuse Poster Project, established in 2001, brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the city's poster panels. Each year they produce 16 art posters, each featuring an illustrated poem about the downtown, the city, or the nearby countryside. The Project enlivens the city, builds community, and spreads its value by selling poster prints and poster-related products.

All Creatures Great and Small
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

All Creatures Great and Small will feature artwork that incorporates animals into the form and/or surface of ceramic vessels and sculptures, and as subject matter of paintings, photographs and prints. Participating artists include Fredrick Bartolovic and Michelle Strader, Shanna Fliegel, Bob Gates, Steven Godfrey, Tom Huff, Ron Meyers, Hannah Niswonger, Brooke Noble, Donnalee Peden, Matt Smith, Stacy Stanhope, and Lucie Wellner.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

Using blood collected from a slaughterhouse as his primary medium, the artist explores ideas about transformation, death, and rebirth. Jordan Eagles encases the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin panels; mounted on the gallery walls they create a sublime environment that envelops and engages the viewer. The exhibition title, "Red Giant," refers to a luminous giant star in its final phase of stellar evolution—what our Sun will become in five billion years—while also referencing the intense, potent color of blood. The abstract patterns and forms in the works may suggest internal organs as well as cosmological phenomena like solar storms, sunspots, craters, meteorites, and supernova explosions.

Eagles' works are in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Everson Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Causey Contemporary and Krause Gallery, New York; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.He has been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, L'Uomo Vogue, Architectural Digest and Wired.

Read a review!

FULL
XL Projects

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

FULL is an exhibition of work by 13 sculpture students in the Department of Art who each produced 70 sculptures.

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

Nourish: An Exploration of Consumption
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

With an overabundance of food, we are a culture obsessed with our next meal. The harsh reality is that much of the food produced goes to waste while others still go hungry at night. For this exhibition, the artists will explore the differing ways that people choose to nourish themselves and how it is reflective of who we are as a society and as an individual. The participating artists are Cynthia Herrera, Marisa Jahn and Steve Shada, Tattfoo Tan, various artists from the Hudson Valley Seed Library, and Viviane Le Courtois.

Platonic: Dani Leventhal
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Dani Leventhal's Platonic, geometric specters twirl in space; pet cats foam at the mouth; a little boy mistakes his junkie dad for a superhero; and a confused adolescent worries he has sired a centaur. Platonic references both the ancient philosopher's metaphysics of ideal Forms, which simultaneously exist outside our perceptions and yet give rise to them, and the related meaning in common parlance of non-romantic love. Leventhal trains her searching lens on the distance separating bodies, moments, and perspectives. The result is a study in the awkward gaps between appearance and reality, seeing and understanding, desire and its object. (21:33 minutes)

Big Gigantic, with Opiuo, Synchronice
Creative Concerts

Price: $20.50-$25
F Shed at The Regional Market
2100 Park St., Syracuse

Tickets available online.

Ensemble Series: Syracuse University Guitar Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Featuring works by Federico Moreno Torroba, Leo Brouwer, and William Kanengiser, among others.

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

Mike Powell with Lacey Lee, Mark Wahl, and host Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers
Words and Music Songwriter Showcase

Price: $10
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The evocative folk-rock songs of the former S.U. lacrosse star made Mike Powell a fast-rising talent on the music scene. This year Powell is returning to the stage after an extended hiatus, and he will be playing a mix of new and familiar songs in an intimate theater setting.

Also performing will be harpist Lacey Lee, songwriter/luthier Mark Wahl (Canvas Moon), and John Lennon Songwriting Contest winner Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers.

The Words and Music Songwriter Showcase is a celebration of original music from Central New York and beyond, featuring established and emerging artists of all genres in an up-close-and-personal acoustic setting. Since its debut in 2008, the series has featured such top talent as Joe Driscoll, Maura Kennedy, Peter Case, Rani Arbo, John Cadley, Dusty Pas'cal and Loren Barrigar, Ashley Cox, Bob Halligan Jr., Joe Crookston, Isreal Hagan, Jamie Notarthomas, and Gary Frenay and Arty Lenin.

The Art of Listening: A Reading By Poets Ilya Kaminsky And Stephen Kuusisto
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

When we think of poetry, we often think of the music of language. This reading, featuring two internationally acclaimed poets—one hearing-impaired, the other blind—will demonstrate that the poet's act of listening is a more complicated matter.

Ilya Kaminsky is the is the author of Dancing In Odessa, which won the Whiting Writer's Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry magazine.

Stephen Kuusisto is the author of Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening and the acclaimed memoir Planet of the Blind, a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year." His newest book of poems is Letters to Borges.

Presented as part of the 2013 Syracuse Symposium on Listening.

Low Noon
Acme Mystery Company

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

Welcome to Hadleyville, the most lawless place in the whole Territory of New Mexico. What makes this place so bad? Why, that would be you, pardner, and all the other low-down snakes that live here. Problem is that Statehood is coming and the Federales are looking to pull this place right out from under you. The undertaker, Ewell Dye, has called a town meeting at the Ramirez Saloon to figure out what to do. Watch your back, buckaroo. Folks are about to get even nastier.

Preview: Scorched
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

An epic mystery that has captivated and stunned audiences around the globe. After their mother's death, twins Janine and Simon, guided by letters the mother has left each, travel to the Middle East to untangle family roots entwined in a war-ravaged past. A play of raw power and poetic resonance, the Syracuse Stage production will feature original music by the world renowned Kronos Quartet. Written by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau.

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Inherit the Wind
Central New York Playhouse
Sharee Lemos, director

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

One of the best courtroom dramas of all time comes to life! Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.

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Friday, October 25, 2013

The Wisest Man Series: The Irish Language Through Time
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit featuring subtle speech and images from the Blasket Islands to Tipperary Hill by John Francis McCarthy.

For more information, call 315-445-4153. Co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Irish Literature Program.

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Louise Woodard's exhibit is a record of her investigation and discoveries in nature. It is an attempt through representation and design to communicate to others her visual and imaginative impressions. Certain images are depicted as the original subject; some parts are excluded; some enhanced, with the purpose of creating new visuals. The exhibit includes original watercolor paintings and drawings.

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement: My work is an attempt to illustrate transcendence. I believe that repetition is the foundation of clarity. The use of repeated patterns in my work serves the same function that a mantra does in meditation. The techniques I employ, screenprinting and non-traditional paint application, give the work the appearance of mechanical reproduction. The diminished evidence of the human hand creates a visual purity.

Kevin Mullins was born in Oklahoma and raised in New York. He received a A.A.S. in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina and completed a Master's Program in Printmaking at the Cheksea School of Art, London, England with graduate studies at Bariff School of Fine Art, Canada and the Institute Allende, Mexico. Mullins spent five years at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, leaving practice.

Mullins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship and grants from the Brandywine Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, the Wuritzer Foundation, Taos, NM and the New York State Arts Council. In 2003 he was an Artist-in-Residence at Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Japan.

Re-emergence
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Recent work by Michael Teres, professor in the Art Department at SUNY Geneseo. Works on exhibit are photographs that have been highly manipulated using Adobe Photoshop.

Our World through Local Art
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A group exhibition that celebrates our world through the art of five talented Syracuse-area based artists: Domenico Gigante, Shailesh Joshi, Ty Marshal, Wendy Pitoniak, and Clare Willson.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Mixed media works. Listen to the stories. Become a part of the tale. Find the magic within you.

Creative Rapport
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Mary Padgett shows her pastel florals, still lifes, and landscapes reflecting her passion for color, light and texture.
Wendy Harris, a former student of Mary Padgett, exhibits her interpretations of light and texture through cloudscape and landscape pastel paintings.
Michelle DaRin exhibits enamel and mixed media jewelry.
Stephen Brucker displays his art glass forms drawing attention to the delicacy and impermanence of nature.

Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

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

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

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From the Earth: New Works in Wood and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

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Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

The Syracuse Poster Project, established in 2001, brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the city's poster panels. Each year they produce 16 art posters, each featuring an illustrated poem about the downtown, the city, or the nearby countryside. The Project enlivens the city, builds community, and spreads its value by selling poster prints and poster-related products.

All Creatures Great and Small
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

All Creatures Great and Small will feature artwork that incorporates animals into the form and/or surface of ceramic vessels and sculptures, and as subject matter of paintings, photographs and prints. Participating artists include Fredrick Bartolovic and Michelle Strader, Shanna Fliegel, Bob Gates, Steven Godfrey, Tom Huff, Ron Meyers, Hannah Niswonger, Brooke Noble, Donnalee Peden, Matt Smith, Stacy Stanhope, and Lucie Wellner.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

Using blood collected from a slaughterhouse as his primary medium, the artist explores ideas about transformation, death, and rebirth. Jordan Eagles encases the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin panels; mounted on the gallery walls they create a sublime environment that envelops and engages the viewer. The exhibition title, "Red Giant," refers to a luminous giant star in its final phase of stellar evolution—what our Sun will become in five billion years—while also referencing the intense, potent color of blood. The abstract patterns and forms in the works may suggest internal organs as well as cosmological phenomena like solar storms, sunspots, craters, meteorites, and supernova explosions.

Eagles' works are in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Everson Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Causey Contemporary and Krause Gallery, New York; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.He has been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, L'Uomo Vogue, Architectural Digest and Wired.

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FULL
XL Projects

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

FULL is an exhibition of work by 13 sculpture students in the Department of Art who each produced 70 sculptures.

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

Nourish: An Exploration of Consumption
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

With an overabundance of food, we are a culture obsessed with our next meal. The harsh reality is that much of the food produced goes to waste while others still go hungry at night. For this exhibition, the artists will explore the differing ways that people choose to nourish themselves and how it is reflective of who we are as a society and as an individual. The participating artists are Cynthia Herrera, Marisa Jahn and Steve Shada, Tattfoo Tan, various artists from the Hudson Valley Seed Library, and Viviane Le Courtois.

Platonic: Dani Leventhal
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Dani Leventhal's Platonic, geometric specters twirl in space; pet cats foam at the mouth; a little boy mistakes his junkie dad for a superhero; and a confused adolescent worries he has sired a centaur. Platonic references both the ancient philosopher's metaphysics of ideal Forms, which simultaneously exist outside our perceptions and yet give rise to them, and the related meaning in common parlance of non-romantic love. Leventhal trains her searching lens on the distance separating bodies, moments, and perspectives. The result is a study in the awkward gaps between appearance and reality, seeing and understanding, desire and its object. (21:33 minutes)

Jazz@Sitrus: ESP
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Worship Around The World Tour with Michael W. Smith and Jason Crabb
CNY Crossroads

Price: $25 regular, $30 skip-the-line, $30 day of show
North Syracuse Baptist Church
420 S. Main St., North Syracuse

Multi-platinum recording artist Michael W. Smith will be here in Syracuse on the final leg of his extremely successful "Worship Around The World" tour. For this final North American segment Michael has invited Jason Crabb, Christian Music's reigning Male Vocalist of the Year and Artist of the Year, to be his very special guest.

Worship as a corporate body continues to be the theme for this tour and attendees are in for a treat as they experience the musical genius of Michael W. Smith and the soulful voice of Jason Crabb. During the evening both artists will perform separately, sharing music from their individual careers, then join together on stage for unforgettable powerhouse moments of music.

Every Voice Matters
Syracuse Community Choir
Karen Mihalyi, conductor

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

The Fab Four: The Ultimate Beatles Tribute

Price: $35 in advance, $45 at the door
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Tickets available online through Ticketmaster. For more info go to www.thefabfour.com.

*POSTPONED* Kat Wright and the Indomitable Soul Band
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Due to an injury, Robben Ford has had to cancel his fall tour. The Syracuse date has been rescheduled for Fri., May 16, 2014, at the Palace Theater. Tickets purchased for the October show will be honored then.

Killjoy
Onondaga Hillplayers

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, tax, and tip
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

Killjoy is a two-act comedy about a woman named Carol who has divorced from her husband, Victor, who owns an Italian restaurant. Victor has married a new much-younger woman, Claudia. Carol is constantly fighting the urge to kill her ex-husband, often talking to an imaginary priest/confessor. When she learns that Victor is making his new wife the second-in-command of the restaurant, Carol decides that the time is right to get rid of Victor and develops a plan with Victor's lawyer, Rick, who has a mad crush on Carol. The two plot how they'll get rid of Victor while Rick is actually also having an affair with Claudia and you wonder who he is actually working FOR!

Proceeds benefit the Onondaga Free and Marcellus libraries.

Alice in Wonderland

Price: $11
Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

Student production of the classic fantasy features a live rock band, dance sequences, puppeteers, multimedia, and more.

Harvey
Appleseed Productions
Roy Van Norstrand, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is the story of Elwood P. Dowd, a polite and friendly man with a very strange best friend—a six-foot, three-and-one-half-inch invisible rabbit named Harvey. Elwood's sister Veta is concerned the rabbit will interfere with her life as a socialite, so she tries to have Elwood committed at the local sanatorium.

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Inherit the Wind
Central New York Playhouse
Sharee Lemos, director

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

One of the best courtroom dramas of all time comes to life! Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.

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Dead Man's Cell Phone
LeMoyne College
Boot and Buskin
Matt Chiorini, director

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet cafe. A stranger at a next table who has had enough. And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends. So begins this wildly imaginative new comedy from MacArther "Genius" grant winner Sarah Ruhl that poetically and whimsically examines the ways that humans connect and disconnect in a technologically obsessed world.

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Vampire Lesbians of Sodom
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

One of the longest running plays in Off-Broadway history, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, by Charles Busch, tells the saga of two fatally seductive vampiresses whose paths first collide in ancient Sodom. Their bitter rivalry as bloodsuckers but more importantly, as actresses, endures for two thousand years with stops along the way in 1920s silent movie Hollywood and contemporary Las Vegas. Mature audiences (18+) only.

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50 Shades of F****d Up, A Musical Parody
Redhouse
Tricia Brouk, director

Price: $30 regular, $20 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This naughty little musical has 14 original songs with inventive choreography and a cast of four singers sure to knock your socks—or pants—right off! This hilarious show is an unauthorized parody of Fifty Shades of Grey, the popular erotic romance novel by British author E. L. James. Fifty Shaded of Grey is the first installment of James' trilogy that traces the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey.

50 Shades of F****d Up is not quite as subtle as the book. When Christian meets Ana, they sing, they dance, and they spank.

Music and book by Andrew David Sotomayor.

This show contains teen and adult content and mature situations.

Scorched
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

An epic mystery that has captivated and stunned audiences around the globe. After their mother's death, twins Janine and Simon, guided by letters the mother has left each, travel to the Middle East to untangle family roots entwined in a war-ravaged past. A play of raw power and poetic resonance, the Syracuse Stage production will feature original music by the world renowned Kronos Quartet. Written by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau.

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Saturday, October 26, 2013

Annual Pottery Garage Sale
Independent Potters' Association

Shenfeld Studio
6361 Thompson Rd., Syracuse

Over 15 Syracuse-area potters are participating in the annual Pottery Garage Sale. For those who have never been to the garage sale, it goes like this...there's a 8:30 preview for you to scope out the pots and spot the best bargains. These pots will be priced to SELL--mostly seconds and older stock. At 9:00 am, the bell rings and it's a mad dash! Please bring boxes to carry home your treasures. Cash or check only.

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

The Wisest Man Series: The Irish Language Through Time
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit featuring subtle speech and images from the Blasket Islands to Tipperary Hill by John Francis McCarthy.

For more information, call 315-445-4153. Co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Irish Literature Program.

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Louise Woodard's exhibit is a record of her investigation and discoveries in nature. It is an attempt through representation and design to communicate to others her visual and imaginative impressions. Certain images are depicted as the original subject; some parts are excluded; some enhanced, with the purpose of creating new visuals. The exhibit includes original watercolor paintings and drawings.