Sunday, April 20, 2014

In Da Window 4: Paper installation by Theresa Barry
Echo

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

Theresa will be installing a paper sculpture in the Echo Studio windows that is meant to celebrate the coming of spring with color and whimsy. For Theresa, one of the biggest pleasures of the end of winter is shedding all the dark, heavy clothing we wear for so many months to keep warm. In March, we begin looking forward to lighter days, lighter clothing, and colorful things popping up out of the ground.

Two of her favorite things are store display windows and working with paper three dimensionally, and she loves that she is able to combine these things for this project. The sculpture will start in one window as a dress form and will visually continue in the second window, taking on a more abstract shape. Think: Pure fantasy, pure color, pure fun.

Theresa was inspired by the work of Bea Svenfeld, Jen Stark, Roxy Paine, and the late Alexander McQueen.

Dan Wetmore: Golden Dawn
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present Dan Wetmore's exhibition Golden Dawn, a series of pictures made from 2009-2012, in and between Flint, MI, Binghamton, NY, Cleveland, OH, Wheeling, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA.

Artist statement: I grew up in Pittsburgh. My parents enjoyed driving around and hunting for furniture on the weekends and I got to see much of the city this way. I was taken by the furnaces and mills that lined the rivers--these giant, dark carcasses. At home, the only photo book my parents had was a paperback of Becher typologies and I looked at the blast furnaces and mineheads for hours. Once mobile at sixteen, I explored these places intimately. With a developing fondness and understanding, I began to photograph in the surrounding neighborhoods.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics
Light Work Gallery

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

Michael Buhler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Bühler-Rose uses western painting styles: still lifes, landscapes, portraits, to play with previous political notions of Hindu and Indic aesthetics: representations of gods and goddesses, incense, flowers, or the saris or bharatnaytam outfits worn by young women of European descent who live in a Hindu community in Florida. These pictures create a dialogue between the Orient and the Occident, creating a game of mirrors and reflections that interact endlessly, creating a juxtaposition of territories.

April Exhibit: Works by Wayne Schapp and David Goldman
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Wayne Schapp creates one-of-a-kind heritage boxes from aged and weathered pieces of wood and gnarly root systems. Schapp's inspiration is from the wood itself and from his desire to create pieces that are both beautiful and unique.

David Goldman creates sculptural clocks and tape dispensers from vintage and extinct mechanical machines. His pieces are Daliesque yet functional.

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.

The Way Out: MFA 2014
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual master of fine arts exhibition features 21 artists from the Departments of Art and Transmedia. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of media, including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, film, and site-specific installation.

What sets the artists in The Way Out apart is the reinterpretation of traditional media into a contemporary context. Painting and drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, and film--all familiar instruments in the foundation of art making--have been introduced in a fresh milieu of concept and craft. Oil on canvas partnered with documentary video, works on paper that combine printmaking, drawing, and painting, and site-specific installations of ceramic sculpture and photography. They are fused with both familiar and previously unexplored concepts that range from notions of gender, family, and place to abstract narratives and sensory interaction.

Max Ginsburg: Master of Social Realism
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Max Ginsburg is a New York City artist with a conscience who earned his BFA from Syracuse University. He is regarded as one of the most respected and accomplished contemporary realist painters who paints the provocative issues of our time to comment on issues of class, gender and race. A Social Realist, he is outraged by war, the hypocrisy of our leaders and the social policies of a government leaving its people behind. His concern for social justice makes him a humanist but not a sentimentalist.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Down to Earth: Artists Explore Nature through Photography and Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

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

Featuring American landscape photography from the 19th to the 21st century, these selections from the Everson's permanent collection will exemplify how the genre has progressed through various artistic trends, historical events, cultural changes and technological advances. The installation is complimented by ceramic works of art from the Everson's permanent collection.

Constructivism: Photos by Robert Graham
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

The photographs in Constructivism are inspired by some of the great movements in early 20th century art. Photographer Robert Graham cites specifically works by Kasimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky and Alexander Rodchenko as having major influence behind this new series. Graham's "Constructivism" exhibition coincides with the release of his book by the same title. For this occasion Graham states, "I put this exhibit and companion book under the Constructivist umbrella in part because of an affinity for Russian art, music, and literature."

Graham, who lives in Rochester, has published images from Syracuse in his book, and included them in this exhibition.

LeMoyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

Student Recital Series: Jing Liu, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

Student Recital Series: Taylor Furtick, piano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

John Brown's Body
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

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

Set in 1953, Neil Simon's "flat-out funniest play in years" (Dennis Cunningham, CBS-TV) re-creates the mayhem, neuroses, nonstop gags, and constant one-upmanship of a team of brilliantly funny social misfits as they write The Max Prince Show, a weekly variety program. Among the crew are Milt, the insult artist; Ira, the hypochondriac whose dream is to have a virus named after him; and Val, a Russian émigré who takes a Berlitz course so he can curse without an accent. They are devoted to their boss, Max, a comic genius, a tyrant, and a paranoiac with a heart of gold. But his penchant for tippling and popping too many pills is growing under the pressures of a rising McCarthyism, network executives, and sponsors who want him to cut back his "too-smart" show and staff so that they can chase after the Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best audience.

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Monday, April 21, 2014

In Da Window 4: Paper installation by Theresa Barry
Echo

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

Theresa will be installing a paper sculpture in the Echo Studio windows that is meant to celebrate the coming of spring with color and whimsy. For Theresa, one of the biggest pleasures of the end of winter is shedding all the dark, heavy clothing we wear for so many months to keep warm. In March, we begin looking forward to lighter days, lighter clothing, and colorful things popping up out of the ground.

Two of her favorite things are store display windows and working with paper three dimensionally, and she loves that she is able to combine these things for this project. The sculpture will start in one window as a dress form and will visually continue in the second window, taking on a more abstract shape. Think: Pure fantasy, pure color, pure fun.

Theresa was inspired by the work of Bea Svenfeld, Jen Stark, Roxy Paine, and the late Alexander McQueen.

LeMoyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

Exhibit: Works by John O'Neil Heard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Mr. Heard has been an artist in the Syracuse area for over 20 years and a musician for over 30 years. His medium is working with recycled materials such as wooden cigar boxes and shipping tubes. Most of his art is made from 80 % recycled materials. Using acrylic paint he creates rainsticks, tube drums and an instrument call a rhythm box. One of his styles is reverse painting on glass. His latest project is painting with light.

Watercolors by Christy Lemp and Photographs by Chris Murray
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

Ignite the Spirit! 20 Women Artists of Central New York
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Kristina Starowitz, artist-in-residence at The Gallery, has curated the exhibition of oil paintings, watercolor, drawings, photography and metal work. Artists in the show are Jackie Adamo, Joan Applebaum, Nicole Banta, Amy Bartell, Kristie Belieau, Susan Biel, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Fragapane, Ellen Haffar, Judith Hand, Karmin Hansen, Wendy Harris, Crystal LaPoint, Christy Lemp, Suzanne Masters, Maria Rizzo, Particia Seitz, Kristina Starowitz, Deborah Walsh and Clare Willson.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics
Light Work Gallery

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

Michael Buhler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Bühler-Rose uses western painting styles: still lifes, landscapes, portraits, to play with previous political notions of Hindu and Indic aesthetics: representations of gods and goddesses, incense, flowers, or the saris or bharatnaytam outfits worn by young women of European descent who live in a Hindu community in Florida. These pictures create a dialogue between the Orient and the Occident, creating a game of mirrors and reflections that interact endlessly, creating a juxtaposition of territories.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Dan Wetmore: Golden Dawn
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present Dan Wetmore's exhibition Golden Dawn, a series of pictures made from 2009-2012, in and between Flint, MI, Binghamton, NY, Cleveland, OH, Wheeling, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA.

Artist statement: I grew up in Pittsburgh. My parents enjoyed driving around and hunting for furniture on the weekends and I got to see much of the city this way. I was taken by the furnaces and mills that lined the rivers--these giant, dark carcasses. At home, the only photo book my parents had was a paperback of Becher typologies and I looked at the blast furnaces and mineheads for hours. Once mobile at sixteen, I explored these places intimately. With a developing fondness and understanding, I began to photograph in the surrounding neighborhoods.

Cuba 2014
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Redhouse is proud to have Julieve Jubin's inspirational and touching photography entitled "Cuba 2014" on exhibit.

Julieve Jubin received her MFA from Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester. She is a photo-based artist working with digital and experimental approaches to the image. She has exhibited her work in the US, Canada, and Europe and is the recipient of several awards and artist residencies. Her work is in the collection of the New York University Law School, Fototeca Cuba, and several private collections. She has taught at The Cooper Union School of Art, the International Center of Photography, Purdue University, and is currently an Associate Professor of Art at SUNY Oswego. She resides in New York City and Oswego.

Artist Statement:
Within the last few years, I've traveled to Cuba to photograph, as well as teach my course, Travel Photography: Cuba. During my first research trip in 2011, I immediately recognized that Cuba was different than any other place I had been. Certainly, I expected to see the old American cars, Spanish colonial architecture, and propaganda. What I didn't expect was the richly textured character of the street life. ... Within the last few years, largely due to the economic reforms and loosening of restrictions, streets and neighborhoods are transforming as new small businesses develop and homes are being restored. Fortunately, this shifting landscape hasn't yet altered the daily rituals and spirited atmosphere of the street life I've been so privileged to know. But it's clear Cuba is moving away from the time capsule it once inhabited towards a new, yet undetermined future.

The gallery is open by appointment by phoning 315-425-0405.

April Exhibit: Works by Wayne Schapp and David Goldman
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Wayne Schapp creates one-of-a-kind heritage boxes from aged and weathered pieces of wood and gnarly root systems. Schapp's inspiration is from the wood itself and from his desire to create pieces that are both beautiful and unique.

David Goldman creates sculptural clocks and tape dispensers from vintage and extinct mechanical machines. His pieces are Daliesque yet functional.

Abisay Puentes: Mist/Brumas
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Abisay Puentes reflects on universal problems of our human existence. Using characters like an old Adam and an old Eve, the artist seeks to develop his own myth. Developing a malleable parable, Puentes tries to tell his own story. As a primary element, he invents the existence of his characters in a theatrical ambiance, in an act of illusion, in the mist, the "brumas", that hides a more profound truth, concealed by his actors. The apple is but an escape. For Adam and Eve, there is nothing more important than themselves. Selfishness is a disease of our humanity. A world without selfishness would be the closest thing to the ideal of Paradise. "A world without selfishness," says Abisay Puentes, "would change the color of my paintings."

Gladys Triana: Sharply into a Light Space
Point of Contact Gallery

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

This new series of photographs by Gladys Triana evoke our universe and signal the threatening situation caused by climate change. In addition, Triana includes videos and an installation to recreate a new reality, an illusion that raises awareness on this topic.

Triana was born in Cuba and resides in New York City. Her artwork includes prints, drawings, collages, works on canvas, photography, and installations, which have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions around the US and abroad many international collective expositions. Her work is represented in Museums such as The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, El Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile, El Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, among others.

Flashback Mondays Movie Series: Young Frankenstein

Price: $5
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Flying Down to Rio (1933)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Directed by Thornton Freeland. Cast features Dolores Del Rio, Gene Raymond, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Raul Roulien.

RKO's legendary musical that introduced moviegoers to the team of Astaire & Rogers (who are supporting players to stars Del Rio and Raymond). The excellent score includes "The Carioca," "Orchids In the Moonlight," "Music Makes Me," and the title tune. A funny, romantic and tuneful pre-code classic!

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

In Da Window 4: Paper installation by Theresa Barry
Echo

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

Theresa will be installing a paper sculpture in the Echo Studio windows that is meant to celebrate the coming of spring with color and whimsy. For Theresa, one of the biggest pleasures of the end of winter is shedding all the dark, heavy clothing we wear for so many months to keep warm. In March, we begin looking forward to lighter days, lighter clothing, and colorful things popping up out of the ground.

Two of her favorite things are store display windows and working with paper three dimensionally, and she loves that she is able to combine these things for this project. The sculpture will start in one window as a dress form and will visually continue in the second window, taking on a more abstract shape. Think: Pure fantasy, pure color, pure fun.

Theresa was inspired by the work of Bea Svenfeld, Jen Stark, Roxy Paine, and the late Alexander McQueen.

LeMoyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

Exhibit: Works by John O'Neil Heard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Mr. Heard has been an artist in the Syracuse area for over 20 years and a musician for over 30 years. His medium is working with recycled materials such as wooden cigar boxes and shipping tubes. Most of his art is made from 80 % recycled materials. Using acrylic paint he creates rainsticks, tube drums and an instrument call a rhythm box. One of his styles is reverse painting on glass. His latest project is painting with light.

Watercolors by Christy Lemp and Photographs by Chris Murray
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Independent Potters' Association Annual Spring Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

The Independent Potters' Association (IPA) is pleased to announce its upcoming Annual Spring Show, a group exhibition featuring ceramics created by the group's members.

The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels. Participating artists include Jen Gandee, Bobbi Lamb, Tom Montague, Jessica Pilowa, Lindsey Scott, Tim See, Don Seymour, Bob Shenfeld, Peter Valenti, Wes Weiss, and new IPA members Ed Feldman, Leslie Green-Guilbault, and Millie St. John.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

Ignite the Spirit! 20 Women Artists of Central New York
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Kristina Starowitz, artist-in-residence at The Gallery, has curated the exhibition of oil paintings, watercolor, drawings, photography and metal work. Artists in the show are Jackie Adamo, Joan Applebaum, Nicole Banta, Amy Bartell, Kristie Belieau, Susan Biel, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Fragapane, Ellen Haffar, Judith Hand, Karmin Hansen, Wendy Harris, Crystal LaPoint, Christy Lemp, Suzanne Masters, Maria Rizzo, Particia Seitz, Kristina Starowitz, Deborah Walsh and Clare Willson.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Students within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse exhibit their work to be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Three in Harmony
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Three in Harmony" is an expressive collection of contemporary pieces that are artfully inspired from the Korean ceramic tradition. The artists, Eunjung Shin-Vargas, Jee Eun Lee, and Veronica Byun, have used their modern consciousness to create a deeply sensory experience with gentle Korean traditions. They've articulated a universal relevancy to the human condition, personal relationships, culture, and womanhood in each of their pieces. Even with each artist possessing a distinct personal style, the pieces fuse seamlessly to create this compelling, striking exhibition.

Dan Wetmore: Golden Dawn
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present Dan Wetmore's exhibition Golden Dawn, a series of pictures made from 2009-2012, in and between Flint, MI, Binghamton, NY, Cleveland, OH, Wheeling, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA.

Artist statement: I grew up in Pittsburgh. My parents enjoyed driving around and hunting for furniture on the weekends and I got to see much of the city this way. I was taken by the furnaces and mills that lined the rivers--these giant, dark carcasses. At home, the only photo book my parents had was a paperback of Becher typologies and I looked at the blast furnaces and mineheads for hours. Once mobile at sixteen, I explored these places intimately. With a developing fondness and understanding, I began to photograph in the surrounding neighborhoods.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics
Light Work Gallery

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

Michael Buhler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Bühler-Rose uses western painting styles: still lifes, landscapes, portraits, to play with previous political notions of Hindu and Indic aesthetics: representations of gods and goddesses, incense, flowers, or the saris or bharatnaytam outfits worn by young women of European descent who live in a Hindu community in Florida. These pictures create a dialogue between the Orient and the Occident, creating a game of mirrors and reflections that interact endlessly, creating a juxtaposition of territories.

Cuba 2014
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Redhouse is proud to have Julieve Jubin's inspirational and touching photography entitled "Cuba 2014" on exhibit.

Julieve Jubin received her MFA from Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester. She is a photo-based artist working with digital and experimental approaches to the image. She has exhibited her work in the US, Canada, and Europe and is the recipient of several awards and artist residencies. Her work is in the collection of the New York University Law School, Fototeca Cuba, and several private collections. She has taught at The Cooper Union School of Art, the International Center of Photography, Purdue University, and is currently an Associate Professor of Art at SUNY Oswego. She resides in New York City and Oswego.

Artist Statement:
Within the last few years, I've traveled to Cuba to photograph, as well as teach my course, Travel Photography: Cuba. During my first research trip in 2011, I immediately recognized that Cuba was different than any other place I had been. Certainly, I expected to see the old American cars, Spanish colonial architecture, and propaganda. What I didn't expect was the richly textured character of the street life. ... Within the last few years, largely due to the economic reforms and loosening of restrictions, streets and neighborhoods are transforming as new small businesses develop and homes are being restored. Fortunately, this shifting landscape hasn't yet altered the daily rituals and spirited atmosphere of the street life I've been so privileged to know. But it's clear Cuba is moving away from the time capsule it once inhabited towards a new, yet undetermined future.

The gallery is open by appointment by phoning 315-425-0405.

April Exhibit: Works by Wayne Schapp and David Goldman
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Wayne Schapp creates one-of-a-kind heritage boxes from aged and weathered pieces of wood and gnarly root systems. Schapp's inspiration is from the wood itself and from his desire to create pieces that are both beautiful and unique.

David Goldman creates sculptural clocks and tape dispensers from vintage and extinct mechanical machines. His pieces are Daliesque yet functional.

The Way Out: MFA 2014
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual master of fine arts exhibition features 21 artists from the Departments of Art and Transmedia. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of media, including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, film, and site-specific installation.

What sets the artists in The Way Out apart is the reinterpretation of traditional media into a contemporary context. Painting and drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, and film--all familiar instruments in the foundation of art making--have been introduced in a fresh milieu of concept and craft. Oil on canvas partnered with documentary video, works on paper that combine printmaking, drawing, and painting, and site-specific installations of ceramic sculpture and photography. They are fused with both familiar and previously unexplored concepts that range from notions of gender, family, and place to abstract narratives and sensory interaction.

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.

Abisay Puentes: Mist/Brumas
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Abisay Puentes reflects on universal problems of our human existence. Using characters like an old Adam and an old Eve, the artist seeks to develop his own myth. Developing a malleable parable, Puentes tries to tell his own story. As a primary element, he invents the existence of his characters in a theatrical ambiance, in an act of illusion, in the mist, the "brumas", that hides a more profound truth, concealed by his actors. The apple is but an escape. For Adam and Eve, there is nothing more important than themselves. Selfishness is a disease of our humanity. A world without selfishness would be the closest thing to the ideal of Paradise. "A world without selfishness," says Abisay Puentes, "would change the color of my paintings."

Gladys Triana: Sharply into a Light Space
Point of Contact Gallery

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

This new series of photographs by Gladys Triana evoke our universe and signal the threatening situation caused by climate change. In addition, Triana includes videos and an installation to recreate a new reality, an illusion that raises awareness on this topic.

Triana was born in Cuba and resides in New York City. Her artwork includes prints, drawings, collages, works on canvas, photography, and installations, which have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions around the US and abroad many international collective expositions. Her work is represented in Museums such as The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, El Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile, El Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, among others.

Faculty Recital Series: Laura Enslin, Michael Hanley, Greg Wood, and Kathleen Haddock
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

Lacuna Coil, with Kyng, Eve To Adam
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Ensemble Series: Samba Laranja, the SU Brazilian Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

The Glass Menagerie
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

The Glass Menagerie launched Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams' career and is among the masterworks of the American stage. Drawn from Williams' life, this moving memory play explores the illusory nature of dreams and the fragility of hope. Abandoned by the father of her children, Amanda is obsessed with finding a suitor for her shy and vulnerable daughter, Laura. Tom, the restless and sensitive son who narrates the story, eases his frustrations with nighttime escapes to the movies. At Amanda's urgings, Tom asks a co-worker to dinner. Can this "gentleman caller" offer any light to these bruised souls clinging to the tattered edges of lost dreams and faded hopes?

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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

In Da Window 4: Paper installation by Theresa Barry
Echo

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

Theresa will be installing a paper sculpture in the Echo Studio windows that is meant to celebrate the coming of spring with color and whimsy. For Theresa, one of the biggest pleasures of the end of winter is shedding all the dark, heavy clothing we wear for so many months to keep warm. In March, we begin looking forward to lighter days, lighter clothing, and colorful things popping up out of the ground.

Two of her favorite things are store display windows and working with paper three dimensionally, and she loves that she is able to combine these things for this project. The sculpture will start in one window as a dress form and will visually continue in the second window, taking on a more abstract shape. Think: Pure fantasy, pure color, pure fun.

Theresa was inspired by the work of Bea Svenfeld, Jen Stark, Roxy Paine, and the late Alexander McQueen.

LeMoyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

Exhibit: Works by John O'Neil Heard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Mr. Heard has been an artist in the Syracuse area for over 20 years and a musician for over 30 years. His medium is working with recycled materials such as wooden cigar boxes and shipping tubes. Most of his art is made from 80 % recycled materials. Using acrylic paint he creates rainsticks, tube drums and an instrument call a rhythm box. One of his styles is reverse painting on glass. His latest project is painting with light.

Watercolors by Christy Lemp and Photographs by Chris Murray
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Independent Potters' Association Annual Spring Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

The Independent Potters' Association (IPA) is pleased to announce its upcoming Annual Spring Show, a group exhibition featuring ceramics created by the group's members.

The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels. Participating artists include Jen Gandee, Bobbi Lamb, Tom Montague, Jessica Pilowa, Lindsey Scott, Tim See, Don Seymour, Bob Shenfeld, Peter Valenti, Wes Weiss, and new IPA members Ed Feldman, Leslie Green-Guilbault, and Millie St. John.

Student Architecture & Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

Ignite the Spirit! 20 Women Artists of Central New York
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Kristina Starowitz, artist-in-residence at The Gallery, has curated the exhibition of oil paintings, watercolor, drawings, photography and metal work. Artists in the show are Jackie Adamo, Joan Applebaum, Nicole Banta, Amy Bartell, Kristie Belieau, Susan Biel, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Fragapane, Ellen Haffar, Judith Hand, Karmin Hansen, Wendy Harris, Crystal LaPoint, Christy Lemp, Suzanne Masters, Maria Rizzo, Particia Seitz, Kristina Starowitz, Deborah Walsh and Clare Willson.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Students within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse exhibit their work to be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Three in Harmony
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Three in Harmony" is an expressive collection of contemporary pieces that are artfully inspired from the Korean ceramic tradition. The artists, Eunjung Shin-Vargas, Jee Eun Lee, and Veronica Byun, have used their modern consciousness to create a deeply sensory experience with gentle Korean traditions. They've articulated a universal relevancy to the human condition, personal relationships, culture, and womanhood in each of their pieces. Even with each artist possessing a distinct personal style, the pieces fuse seamlessly to create this compelling, striking exhibition.

Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics
Light Work Gallery

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

Michael Buhler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Bühler-Rose uses western painting styles: still lifes, landscapes, portraits, to play with previous political notions of Hindu and Indic aesthetics: representations of gods and goddesses, incense, flowers, or the saris or bharatnaytam outfits worn by young women of European descent who live in a Hindu community in Florida. These pictures create a dialogue between the Orient and the Occident, creating a game of mirrors and reflections that interact endlessly, creating a juxtaposition of territories.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Dan Wetmore: Golden Dawn
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present Dan Wetmore's exhibition Golden Dawn, a series of pictures made from 2009-2012, in and between Flint, MI, Binghamton, NY, Cleveland, OH, Wheeling, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA.

Artist statement: I grew up in Pittsburgh. My parents enjoyed driving around and hunting for furniture on the weekends and I got to see much of the city this way. I was taken by the furnaces and mills that lined the rivers--these giant, dark carcasses. At home, the only photo book my parents had was a paperback of Becher typologies and I looked at the blast furnaces and mineheads for hours. Once mobile at sixteen, I explored these places intimately. With a developing fondness and understanding, I began to photograph in the surrounding neighborhoods.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Cuba 2014
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Redhouse is proud to have Julieve Jubin's inspirational and touching photography entitled "Cuba 2014" on exhibit.

Julieve Jubin received her MFA from Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester. She is a photo-based artist working with digital and experimental approaches to the image. She has exhibited her work in the US, Canada, and Europe and is the recipient of several awards and artist residencies. Her work is in the collection of the New York University Law School, Fototeca Cuba, and several private collections. She has taught at The Cooper Union School of Art, the International Center of Photography, Purdue University, and is currently an Associate Professor of Art at SUNY Oswego. She resides in New York City and Oswego.

Artist Statement:
Within the last few years, I've traveled to Cuba to photograph, as well as teach my course, Travel Photography: Cuba. During my first research trip in 2011, I immediately recognized that Cuba was different than any other place I had been. Certainly, I expected to see the old American cars, Spanish colonial architecture, and propaganda. What I didn't expect was the richly textured character of the street life. ... Within the last few years, largely due to the economic reforms and loosening of restrictions, streets and neighborhoods are transforming as new small businesses develop and homes are being restored. Fortunately, this shifting landscape hasn't yet altered the daily rituals and spirited atmosphere of the street life I've been so privileged to know. But it's clear Cuba is moving away from the time capsule it once inhabited towards a new, yet undetermined future.

The gallery is open by appointment by phoning 315-425-0405.

April Exhibit: Works by Wayne Schapp and David Goldman
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Wayne Schapp creates one-of-a-kind heritage boxes from aged and weathered pieces of wood and gnarly root systems. Schapp's inspiration is from the wood itself and from his desire to create pieces that are both beautiful and unique.

David Goldman creates sculptural clocks and tape dispensers from vintage and extinct mechanical machines. His pieces are Daliesque yet functional.

The Way Out: MFA 2014
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual master of fine arts exhibition features 21 artists from the Departments of Art and Transmedia. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of media, including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, film, and site-specific installation.

What sets the artists in The Way Out apart is the reinterpretation of traditional media into a contemporary context. Painting and drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, and film--all familiar instruments in the foundation of art making--have been introduced in a fresh milieu of concept and craft. Oil on canvas partnered with documentary video, works on paper that combine printmaking, drawing, and painting, and site-specific installations of ceramic sculpture and photography. They are fused with both familiar and previously unexplored concepts that range from notions of gender, family, and place to abstract narratives and sensory interaction.

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.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Down to Earth: Artists Explore Nature through Photography and Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

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

Featuring American landscape photography from the 19th to the 21st century, these selections from the Everson's permanent collection will exemplify how the genre has progressed through various artistic trends, historical events, cultural changes and technological advances. The installation is complimented by ceramic works of art from the Everson's permanent collection.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Abisay Puentes: Mist/Brumas
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Abisay Puentes reflects on universal problems of our human existence. Using characters like an old Adam and an old Eve, the artist seeks to develop his own myth. Developing a malleable parable, Puentes tries to tell his own story. As a primary element, he invents the existence of his characters in a theatrical ambiance, in an act of illusion, in the mist, the "brumas", that hides a more profound truth, concealed by his actors. The apple is but an escape. For Adam and Eve, there is nothing more important than themselves. Selfishness is a disease of our humanity. A world without selfishness would be the closest thing to the ideal of Paradise. "A world without selfishness," says Abisay Puentes, "would change the color of my paintings."

Gladys Triana: Sharply into a Light Space
Point of Contact Gallery

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

This new series of photographs by Gladys Triana evoke our universe and signal the threatening situation caused by climate change. In addition, Triana includes videos and an installation to recreate a new reality, an illusion that raises awareness on this topic.

Triana was born in Cuba and resides in New York City. Her artwork includes prints, drawings, collages, works on canvas, photography, and installations, which have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions around the US and abroad many international collective expositions. Her work is represented in Museums such as The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, El Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile, El Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, among others.

Getting To Know You: Artists Examine Authentic Connections in the Digital Age
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Featuring work by Fanny Allié, American Bear, CampusNeighbor, and damali abrams.

In the digital age, people can virtually live their lives online. With the advent of various social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, it is easier than ever to connect. However, are these relationships genuine? Furthermore, does a social medium foster intimacy or aid in the superficiality of our society? For this exhibition, 601 Tully does not seek to resolve these questions but rather, bring them to light. The featured artists offer avenues for people to have authentic connections with one another through various interactive mediums with and without the assistance of the internet.

New York-based artist, Fanny Allié, invited Syracuse residents to submit photos, memories, and stories about their lives in an attempt to learn more about the community. With each memento, Allié will construct a site-specific installation that will give the audience a window into the individuals living in this area.

While Allié's installation exemplifies the direct interaction between herself and the participant, the collaborative team of American Bear created prompts and assignments for the public to engage with one another. As the assignments are completed, American Bear hopes to foster a more compassionate and community-minded city.

Like many college towns, there is and has always been an underlying fissure between Syracuse University students and the permanent residents. In recent years, Nancy Cantor, former Syracuse University Chancellor, has worked to mend that divide by creating the initiative, Scholarship in Action. CampusNeighbor is a bartering website that builds on that idea by linking these two groups together through skill-sharing, with the hopes that these exchanges will help to dismantle barriers that have been created through the years.

Although all of the above require participation in order to activate the piece, damali abrams, a performance-based artist, takes a different approach by reading from her diary. By exposing herself in this vulnerable manner, it elicits the viewer to relate to her through shared experiences.

Whether one is simply telling their story to Allié or participating in CampusNeighbor, the exhibition aims to get to know you.

Max Ginsburg: Master of Social Realism
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Max Ginsburg is a New York City artist with a conscience who earned his BFA from Syracuse University. He is regarded as one of the most respected and accomplished contemporary realist painters who paints the provocative issues of our time to comment on issues of class, gender and race. A Social Realist, he is outraged by war, the hypocrisy of our leaders and the social policies of a government leaving its people behind. His concern for social justice makes him a humanist but not a sentimentalist.

Chords through Time
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring John Ferrara and Chris Polak, guitar

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

Folk music of England, Japan, Latin America, and around the world.

Ensemble Series: SU Concert Choir
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Dr. Elisa Macedo Dekaney, conductor

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The concert will feature works by Arbeau, Mozart, Trumbore, Lauridsen, and Galan, as well as several arrangements of traditional spirituals and folksongs. The ensemble will be joined by Rachel Dentinger, associate conductor; Julia Tucker, accompanist; and Joshua Dekaney, percussion.

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 updates.

Scream 2 Tour, with Markus Schulz, Khomha, Pax Effex
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Glass Menagerie
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

The Glass Menagerie launched Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams' career and is among the masterworks of the American stage. Drawn from Williams' life, this moving memory play explores the illusory nature of dreams and the fragility of hope. Abandoned by the father of her children, Amanda is obsessed with finding a suitor for her shy and vulnerable daughter, Laura. Tom, the restless and sensitive son who narrates the story, eases his frustrations with nighttime escapes to the movies. At Amanda's urgings, Tom asks a co-worker to dinner. Can this "gentleman caller" offer any light to these bruised souls clinging to the tattered edges of lost dreams and faded hopes?

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The Glass Menagerie
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

The Glass Menagerie launched Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams' career and is among the masterworks of the American stage. Drawn from Williams' life, this moving memory play explores the illusory nature of dreams and the fragility of hope. Abandoned by the father of her children, Amanda is obsessed with finding a suitor for her shy and vulnerable daughter, Laura. Tom, the restless and sensitive son who narrates the story, eases his frustrations with nighttime escapes to the movies. At Amanda's urgings, Tom asks a co-worker to dinner. Can this "gentleman caller" offer any light to these bruised souls clinging to the tattered edges of lost dreams and faded hopes?

Read a Review!

Thursday, April 24, 2014

In Da Window 4: Paper installation by Theresa Barry
Echo

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

Theresa will be installing a paper sculpture in the Echo Studio windows that is meant to celebrate the coming of spring with color and whimsy. For Theresa, one of the biggest pleasures of the end of winter is shedding all the dark, heavy clothing we wear for so many months to keep warm. In March, we begin looking forward to lighter days, lighter clothing, and colorful things popping up out of the ground.

Two of her favorite things are store display windows and working with paper three dimensionally, and she loves that she is able to combine these things for this project. The sculpture will start in one window as a dress form and will visually continue in the second window, taking on a more abstract shape. Think: Pure fantasy, pure color, pure fun.

Theresa was inspired by the work of Bea Svenfeld, Jen Stark, Roxy Paine, and the late Alexander McQueen.

LeMoyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

Exhibit: Works by John O'Neil Heard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Mr. Heard has been an artist in the Syracuse area for over 20 years and a musician for over 30 years. His medium is working with recycled materials such as wooden cigar boxes and shipping tubes. Most of his art is made from 80 % recycled materials. Using acrylic paint he creates rainsticks, tube drums and an instrument call a rhythm box. One of his styles is reverse painting on glass. His latest project is painting with light.

Watercolors by Christy Lemp and Photographs by Chris Murray
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Independent Potters' Association Annual Spring Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

The Independent Potters' Association (IPA) is pleased to announce its upcoming Annual Spring Show, a group exhibition featuring ceramics created by the group's members.

The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels. Participating artists include Jen Gandee, Bobbi Lamb, Tom Montague, Jessica Pilowa, Lindsey Scott, Tim See, Don Seymour, Bob Shenfeld, Peter Valenti, Wes Weiss, and new IPA members Ed Feldman, Leslie Green-Guilbault, and Millie St. John.

Student Architecture & Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

Ignite the Spirit! 20 Women Artists of Central New York
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Kristina Starowitz, artist-in-residence at The Gallery, has curated the exhibition of oil paintings, watercolor, drawings, photography and metal work. Artists in the show are Jackie Adamo, Joan Applebaum, Nicole Banta, Amy Bartell, Kristie Belieau, Susan Biel, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Fragapane, Ellen Haffar, Judith Hand, Karmin Hansen, Wendy Harris, Crystal LaPoint, Christy Lemp, Suzanne Masters, Maria Rizzo, Particia Seitz, Kristina Starowitz, Deborah Walsh and Clare Willson.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Students within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse exhibit their work to be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Three in Harmony
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Three in Harmony" is an expressive collection of contemporary pieces that are artfully inspired from the Korean ceramic tradition. The artists, Eunjung Shin-Vargas, Jee Eun Lee, and Veronica Byun, have used their modern consciousness to create a deeply sensory experience with gentle Korean traditions. They've articulated a universal relevancy to the human condition, personal relationships, culture, and womanhood in each of their pieces. Even with each artist possessing a distinct personal style, the pieces fuse seamlessly to create this compelling, striking exhibition.

Dan Wetmore: Golden Dawn
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present Dan Wetmore's exhibition Golden Dawn, a series of pictures made from 2009-2012, in and between Flint, MI, Binghamton, NY, Cleveland, OH, Wheeling, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA.

Artist statement: I grew up in Pittsburgh. My parents enjoyed driving around and hunting for furniture on the weekends and I got to see much of the city this way. I was taken by the furnaces and mills that lined the rivers--these giant, dark carcasses. At home, the only photo book my parents had was a paperback of Becher typologies and I looked at the blast furnaces and mineheads for hours. Once mobile at sixteen, I explored these places intimately. With a developing fondness and understanding, I began to photograph in the surrounding neighborhoods.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics
Light Work Gallery

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

Michael Buhler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Bühler-Rose uses western painting styles: still lifes, landscapes, portraits, to play with previous political notions of Hindu and Indic aesthetics: representations of gods and goddesses, incense, flowers, or the saris or bharatnaytam outfits worn by young women of European descent who live in a Hindu community in Florida. These pictures create a dialogue between the Orient and the Occident, creating a game of mirrors and reflections that interact endlessly, creating a juxtaposition of territories.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Cuba 2014
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Redhouse is proud to have Julieve Jubin's inspirational and touching photography entitled "Cuba 2014" on exhibit.

Julieve Jubin received her MFA from Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester. She is a photo-based artist working with digital and experimental approaches to the image. She has exhibited her work in the US, Canada, and Europe and is the recipient of several awards and artist residencies. Her work is in the collection of the New York University Law School, Fototeca Cuba, and several private collections. She has taught at The Cooper Union School of Art, the International Center of Photography, Purdue University, and is currently an Associate Professor of Art at SUNY Oswego. She resides in New York City and Oswego.

Artist Statement:
Within the last few years, I've traveled to Cuba to photograph, as well as teach my course, Travel Photography: Cuba. During my first research trip in 2011, I immediately recognized that Cuba was different than any other place I had been. Certainly, I expected to see the old American cars, Spanish colonial architecture, and propaganda. What I didn't expect was the richly textured character of the street life. ... Within the last few years, largely due to the economic reforms and loosening of restrictions, streets and neighborhoods are transforming as new small businesses develop and homes are being restored. Fortunately, this shifting landscape hasn't yet altered the daily rituals and spirited atmosphere of the street life I've been so privileged to know. But it's clear Cuba is moving away from the time capsule it once inhabited towards a new, yet undetermined future.

The gallery is open by appointment by phoning 315-425-0405.

April Exhibit: Works by Wayne Schapp and David Goldman
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Wayne Schapp creates one-of-a-kind heritage boxes from aged and weathered pieces of wood and gnarly root systems. Schapp's inspiration is from the wood itself and from his desire to create pieces that are both beautiful and unique.

David Goldman creates sculptural clocks and tape dispensers from vintage and extinct mechanical machines. His pieces are Daliesque yet functional.

The Way Out: MFA 2014
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual master of fine arts exhibition features 21 artists from the Departments of Art and Transmedia. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of media, including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, film, and site-specific installation.

What sets the artists in The Way Out apart is the reinterpretation of traditional media into a contemporary context. Painting and drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, and film--all familiar instruments in the foundation of art making--have been introduced in a fresh milieu of concept and craft. Oil on canvas partnered with documentary video, works on paper that combine printmaking, drawing, and painting, and site-specific installations of ceramic sculpture and photography. They are fused with both familiar and previously unexplored concepts that range from notions of gender, family, and place to abstract narratives and sensory interaction.

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.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Down to Earth: Artists Explore Nature through Photography and Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

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

Featuring American landscape photography from the 19th to the 21st century, these selections from the Everson's permanent collection will exemplify how the genre has progressed through various artistic trends, historical events, cultural changes and technological advances. The installation is complimented by ceramic works of art from the Everson's permanent collection.

Abisay Puentes: Mist/Brumas
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Abisay Puentes reflects on universal problems of our human existence. Using characters like an old Adam and an old Eve, the artist seeks to develop his own myth. Developing a malleable parable, Puentes tries to tell his own story. As a primary element, he invents the existence of his characters in a theatrical ambiance, in an act of illusion, in the mist, the "brumas", that hides a more profound truth, concealed by his actors. The apple is but an escape. For Adam and Eve, there is nothing more important than themselves. Selfishness is a disease of our humanity. A world without selfishness would be the closest thing to the ideal of Paradise. "A world without selfishness," says Abisay Puentes, "would change the color of my paintings."

Gladys Triana: Sharply into a Light Space
Point of Contact Gallery

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

This new series of photographs by Gladys Triana evoke our universe and signal the threatening situation caused by climate change. In addition, Triana includes videos and an installation to recreate a new reality, an illusion that raises awareness on this topic.

Triana was born in Cuba and resides in New York City. Her artwork includes prints, drawings, collages, works on canvas, photography, and installations, which have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions around the US and abroad many international collective expositions. Her work is represented in Museums such as The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, El Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile, El Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, among others.

Getting To Know You: Artists Examine Authentic Connections in the Digital Age
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Featuring work by Fanny Allié, American Bear, CampusNeighbor, and damali abrams.

In the digital age, people can virtually live their lives online. With the advent of various social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, it is easier than ever to connect. However, are these relationships genuine? Furthermore, does a social medium foster intimacy or aid in the superficiality of our society? For this exhibition, 601 Tully does not seek to resolve these questions but rather, bring them to light. The featured artists offer avenues for people to have authentic connections with one another through various interactive mediums with and without the assistance of the internet.

New York-based artist, Fanny Allié, invited Syracuse residents to submit photos, memories, and stories about their lives in an attempt to learn more about the community. With each memento, Allié will construct a site-specific installation that will give the audience a window into the individuals living in this area.

While Allié's installation exemplifies the direct interaction between herself and the participant, the collaborative team of American Bear created prompts and assignments for the public to engage with one another. As the assignments are completed, American Bear hopes to foster a more compassionate and community-minded city.

Like many college towns, there is and has always been an underlying fissure between Syracuse University students and the permanent residents. In recent years, Nancy Cantor, former Syracuse University Chancellor, has worked to mend that divide by creating the initiative, Scholarship in Action. CampusNeighbor is a bartering website that builds on that idea by linking these two groups together through skill-sharing, with the hopes that these exchanges will help to dismantle barriers that have been created through the years.

Although all of the above require participation in order to activate the piece, damali abrams, a performance-based artist, takes a different approach by reading from her diary. By exposing herself in this vulnerable manner, it elicits the viewer to relate to her through shared experiences.

Whether one is simply telling their story to Allié or participating in CampusNeighbor, the exhibition aims to get to know you.

Max Ginsburg: Master of Social Realism
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Max Ginsburg is a New York City artist with a conscience who earned his BFA from Syracuse University. He is regarded as one of the most respected and accomplished contemporary realist painters who paints the provocative issues of our time to comment on issues of class, gender and race. A Social Realist, he is outraged by war, the hypocrisy of our leaders and the social policies of a government leaving its people behind. His concern for social justice makes him a humanist but not a sentimentalist.

Ann Hamilton: table of contents
Urban Video Project

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

World premiere of table of contents (2013-2014), a new piece by celebrated multimedia artist, Ann Hamilton.

When composer David Lang wrote the score for his notoriously difficult piece, "Table of Contents", he envisioned a nearly-impossible synchronization of two percussionists. After seeing a performance in 2011, Hamilton imagined attaching an array of low-resolution mini surveillance cameras to the hands of the percussionists and instruments. In the resulting piece, Hamilton's "table of contents", the cameras occupy the gap between hearing and seeing. The edit generates a counter-rhythm--a back-and-forth that brings us intimately into "impossible" virtuosity.

LeMoyne Student Dance Company Spring Recital
LeMoyne College

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

LSDC presents their spring 2014 recital of student choreographed routines.

What If... Film Series: Red Hook Justice (2004)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In 2000, an experimental court opened its doors in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a neighborhood plagued by a cycle of unemployment, poverty and crime. The Red Hook Community Justice Center (RHCJC) is at the center of a legal revolution: the community justice movement, which emphasizes neighborhood-focused problem solving and rehabilitation over punishment and doing time. Film by Meema Spadola.

Ensemble Series: SU Women's Choir
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Barbara Tagg, conductor

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

The concert will begin with the choir singing Chesnokov's Svéte Tíhiy ("Gladsome Light") from the balconies of the historic auditorium. The choir will move to the stage for Veljo Tormis' Lauliku lapsepõli and Otmár Mácha's Hoj, Hura, Hoj" ("O Mountain, O").

Additional works include selections from Stabat Mater by Pergolesi, a set of three American folk songs arranged and conducted by Setnor graduate student Rachel Dettinger, and Lan hua hua, composed by Liu Zhuang. The program will conclude with Rosephanye Powell's Still I Rise.

Each selection has a unique story. The background story may tell for whom the song was written, why the composer wrote the song, where it was written or its historical context. The repertoire includes a centuries-old melody, folk melodies, historic work and songs that inspire.

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 updates.

Conspirator
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Cruel April Poetry Series
Point of Contact Gallery
Featuring Celia Caturelli and John Colasacco

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

Point of Contact's is celebrating National Poetry Month with its annual poetry series, Cruel April.

Both artist and poet, Celia Caturelli studied Modern Literature in her hometown at the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina. At the same time she studied painting and free graphics at the Escuela de Bellas Artes Dr. Figueroa Alcorta and der Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina. In 1994-95 she was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant N.Y. Caturelli has participated in a number of exhibitions, including the exhibition Argentines in the Mirror in 2001, which was organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Argentina and the Goethe Institute. Caturelli has published recently Cantos del Carnicero (2012). She currently lives in Berlin and Dusseldorf, Germany, where she teaches foundations of art and painting at the University of Applied Sciences.

John Calasacco received his BS in Advertising and MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University where he is now employed as part of the Writing Program faculty. His academic interests include commercial art and rhetoric, popular/counterculture, social justice, and the avant-garde. In 2007 Colasacco was awarded the Winner of the Iowa Review's poetry award for "Non-Arson Sonnets" and "Naked Women of North America".

The poetry reading will be followed by a reception and informal dialogue with the poets, who will read selections from Point of Contact's annual poetry collection, Corresponding Voices, Vol. 7.

My Dead Lady
Acme Mystery Company

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

Professor Barry Biggins has a problem. Azalia Dimwittle has completely failed every attempt to elevate her from Cockney flower girl to aristocratic lady. She simply hasn't gotten it, never will get it, and now everyone has just about had it. To make matters worse, she's invited you and the rest of her conniving family over to the Professor's house for her father's birthday party. By George, I think she's going to get it (if she doesn't get them first).

Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

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

Set in 1953, Neil Simon's "flat-out funniest play in years" (Dennis Cunningham, CBS-TV) re-creates the mayhem, neuroses, nonstop gags, and constant one-upmanship of a team of brilliantly funny social misfits as they write The Max Prince Show, a weekly variety program. Among the crew are Milt, the insult artist; Ira, the hypochondriac whose dream is to have a virus named after him; and Val, a Russian émigré who takes a Berlitz course so he can curse without an accent. They are devoted to their boss, Max, a comic genius, a tyrant, and a paranoiac with a heart of gold. But his penchant for tippling and popping too many pills is growing under the pressures of a rising McCarthyism, network executives, and sponsors who want him to cut back his "too-smart" show and staff so that they can chase after the Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best audience.

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Friday, April 25, 2014

In Da Window 4: Paper installation by Theresa Barry
Echo

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

Theresa will be installing a paper sculpture in the Echo Studio windows that is meant to celebrate the coming of spring with color and whimsy. For Theresa, one of the biggest pleasures of the end of winter is shedding all the dark, heavy clothing we wear for so many months to keep warm. In March, we begin looking forward to lighter days, lighter clothing, and colorful things popping up out of the ground.

Two of her favorite things are store display windows and working with paper three dimensionally, and she loves that she is able to combine these things for this project. The sculpture will start in one window as a dress form and will visually continue in the second window, taking on a more abstract shape. Think: Pure fantasy, pure color, pure fun.

Theresa was inspired by the work of Bea Svenfeld, Jen Stark, Roxy Paine, and the late Alexander McQueen.

LeMoyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

Exhibit: Works by John O'Neil Heard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Mr. Heard has been an artist in the Syracuse area for over 20 years and a musician for over 30 years. His medium is working with recycled materials such as wooden cigar boxes and shipping tubes. Most of his art is made from 80 % recycled materials. Using acrylic paint he creates rainsticks, tube drums and an instrument call a rhythm box. One of his styles is reverse painting on glass. His latest project is painting with light.

Watercolors by Christy Lemp and Photographs by Chris Murray
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Independent Potters' Association Annual Spring Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

The Independent Potters' Association (IPA) is pleased to announce its upcoming Annual Spring Show, a group exhibition featuring ceramics created by the group's members.

The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels. Participating artists include Jen Gandee, Bobbi Lamb, Tom Montague, Jessica Pilowa, Lindsey Scott, Tim See, Don Seymour, Bob Shenfeld, Peter Valenti, Wes Weiss, and new IPA members Ed Feldman, Leslie Green-Guilbault, and Millie St. John.

Student Architecture & Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

Ignite the Spirit! 20 Women Artists of Central New York
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Kristina Starowitz, artist-in-residence at The Gallery, has curated the exhibition of oil paintings, watercolor, drawings, photography and metal work. Artists in the show are Jackie Adamo, Joan Applebaum, Nicole Banta, Amy Bartell, Kristie Belieau, Susan Biel, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Fragapane, Ellen Haffar, Judith Hand, Karmin Hansen, Wendy Harris, Crystal LaPoint, Christy Lemp, Suzanne Masters, Maria Rizzo, Particia Seitz, Kristina Starowitz, Deborah Walsh and Clare Willson.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Students within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse exhibit their work to be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Three in Harmony
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Three in Harmony" is an expressive collection of contemporary pieces that are artfully inspired from the Korean ceramic tradition. The artists, Eunjung Shin-Vargas, Jee Eun Lee, and Veronica Byun, have used their modern consciousness to create a deeply sensory experience with gentle Korean traditions. They've articulated a universal relevancy to the human condition, personal relationships, culture, and womanhood in each of their pieces. Even with each artist possessing a distinct personal style, the pieces fuse seamlessly to create this compelling, striking exhibition.

Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics
Light Work Gallery

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

Michael Buhler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Bühler-Rose uses western painting styles: still lifes, landscapes, portraits, to play with previous political notions of Hindu and Indic aesthetics: representations of gods and goddesses, incense, flowers, or the saris or bharatnaytam outfits worn by young women of European descent who live in a Hindu community in Florida. These pictures create a dialogue between the Orient and the Occident, creating a game of mirrors and reflections that interact endlessly, creating a juxtaposition of territories.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Dan Wetmore: Golden Dawn
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present Dan Wetmore's exhibition Golden Dawn, a series of pictures made from 2009-2012, in and between Flint, MI, Binghamton, NY, Cleveland, OH, Wheeling, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA.

Artist statement: I grew up in Pittsburgh. My parents enjoyed driving around and hunting for furniture on the weekends and I got to see much of the city this way. I was taken by the furnaces and mills that lined the rivers--these giant, dark carcasses. At home, the only photo book my parents had was a paperback of Becher typologies and I looked at the blast furnaces and mineheads for hours. Once mobile at sixteen, I explored these places intimately. With a developing fondness and understanding, I began to photograph in the surrounding neighborhoods.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Cuba 2014
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Redhouse is proud to have Julieve Jubin's inspirational and touching photography entitled "Cuba 2014" on exhibit.

Julieve Jubin received her MFA from Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester. She is a photo-based artist working with digital and experimental approaches to the image. She has exhibited her work in the US, Canada, and Europe and is the recipient of several awards and artist residencies. Her work is in the collection of the New York University Law School, Fototeca Cuba, and several private collections. She has taught at The Cooper Union School of Art, the International Center of Photography, Purdue University, and is currently an Associate Professor of Art at SUNY Oswego. She resides in New York City and Oswego.

Artist Statement:
Within the last few years, I've traveled to Cuba to photograph, as well as teach my course, Travel Photography: Cuba. During my first research trip in 2011, I immediately recognized that Cuba was different than any other place I had been. Certainly, I expected to see the old American cars, Spanish colonial architecture, and propaganda. What I didn't expect was the richly textured character of the street life. ... Within the last few years, largely due to the economic reforms and loosening of restrictions, streets and neighborhoods are transforming as new small businesses develop and homes are being restored. Fortunately, this shifting landscape hasn't yet altered the daily rituals and spirited atmosphere of the street life I've been so privileged to know. But it's clear Cuba is moving away from the time capsule it once inhabited towards a new, yet undetermined future.

The gallery is open by appointment by phoning 315-425-0405.

April Exhibit: Works by Wayne Schapp and David Goldman
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Wayne Schapp creates one-of-a-kind heritage boxes from aged and weathered pieces of wood and gnarly root systems. Schapp's inspiration is from the wood itself and from his desire to create pieces that are both beautiful and unique.

David Goldman creates sculptural clocks and tape dispensers from vintage and extinct mechanical machines. His pieces are Daliesque yet functional.

The Way Out: MFA 2014
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual master of fine arts exhibition features 21 artists from the Departments of Art and Transmedia. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of media, including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, film, and site-specific installation.

What sets the artists in The Way Out apart is the reinterpretation of traditional media into a contemporary context. Painting and drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, and film--all familiar instruments in the foundation of art making--have been introduced in a fresh milieu of concept and craft. Oil on canvas partnered with documentary video, works on paper that combine printmaking, drawing, and painting, and site-specific installations of ceramic sculpture and photography. They are fused with both familiar and previously unexplored concepts that range from notions of gender, family, and place to abstract narratives and sensory interaction.

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.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Down to Earth: Artists Explore Nature through Photography and Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

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

Featuring American landscape photography from the 19th to the 21st century, these selections from the Everson's permanent collection will exemplify how the genre has progressed through various artistic trends, historical events, cultural changes and technological advances. The installation is complimented by ceramic works of art from the Everson's permanent collection.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Constructivism: Photos by Robert Graham
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

The photographs in Constructivism are inspired by some of the great movements in early 20th century art. Photographer Robert Graham cites specifically works by Kasimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky and Alexander Rodchenko as having major influence behind this new series. Graham's "Constructivism" exhibition coincides with the release of his book by the same title. For this occasion Graham states, "I put this exhibit and companion book under the Constructivist umbrella in part because of an affinity for Russian art, music, and literature."

Graham, who lives in Rochester, has published images from Syracuse in his book, and included them in this exhibition.

Abisay Puentes: Mist/Brumas
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Abisay Puentes reflects on universal problems of our human existence. Using characters like an old Adam and an old Eve, the artist seeks to develop his own myth. Developing a malleable parable, Puentes tries to tell his own story. As a primary element, he invents the existence of his characters in a theatrical ambiance, in an act of illusion, in the mist, the "brumas", that hides a more profound truth, concealed by his actors. The apple is but an escape. For Adam and Eve, there is nothing more important than themselves. Selfishness is a disease of our humanity. A world without selfishness would be the closest thing to the ideal of Paradise. "A world without selfishness," says Abisay Puentes, "would change the color of my paintings."

Gladys Triana: Sharply into a Light Space
Point of Contact Gallery

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

This new series of photographs by Gladys Triana evoke our universe and signal the threatening situation caused by climate change. In addition, Triana includes videos and an installation to recreate a new reality, an illusion that raises awareness on this topic.

Triana was born in Cuba and resides in New York City. Her artwork includes prints, drawings, collages, works on canvas, photography, and installations, which have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions around the US and abroad many international collective expositions. Her work is represented in Museums such as The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, El Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile, El Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, among others.

Getting To Know You: Artists Examine Authentic Connections in the Digital Age
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Featuring work by Fanny Allié, American Bear, CampusNeighbor, and damali abrams.

In the digital age, people can virtually live their lives online. With the advent of various social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, it is easier than ever to connect. However, are these relationships genuine? Furthermore, does a social medium foster intimacy or aid in the superficiality of our society? For this exhibition, 601 Tully does not seek to resolve these questions but rather, bring them to light. The featured artists offer avenues for people to have authentic connections with one another through various interactive mediums with and without the assistance of the internet.

New York-based artist, Fanny Allié, invited Syracuse residents to submit photos, memories, and stories about their lives in an attempt to learn more about the community. With each memento, Allié will construct a site-specific installation that will give the audience a window into the individuals living in this area.

While Allié's installation exemplifies the direct interaction between herself and the participant, the collaborative team of American Bear created prompts and assignments for the public to engage with one another. As the assignments are completed, American Bear hopes to foster a more compassionate and community-minded city.

Like many college towns, there is and has always been an underlying fissure between Syracuse University students and the permanent residents. In recent years, Nancy Cantor, former Syracuse University Chancellor, has worked to mend that divide by creating the initiative, Scholarship in Action. CampusNeighbor is a bartering website that builds on that idea by linking these two groups together through skill-sharing, with the hopes that these exchanges will help to dismantle barriers that have been created through the years.

Although all of the above require participation in order to activate the piece, damali abrams, a performance-based artist, takes a different approach by reading from her diary. By exposing herself in this vulnerable manner, it elicits the viewer to relate to her through shared experiences.

Whether one is simply telling their story to Allié or participating in CampusNeighbor, the exhibition aims to get to know you.

Max Ginsburg: Master of Social Realism
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Max Ginsburg is a New York City artist with a conscience who earned his BFA from Syracuse University. He is regarded as one of the most respected and accomplished contemporary realist painters who paints the provocative issues of our time to comment on issues of class, gender and race. A Social Realist, he is outraged by war, the hypocrisy of our leaders and the social policies of a government leaving its people behind. His concern for social justice makes him a humanist but not a sentimentalist.

Opening: The Photography of J.R. Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm.

J.R. Hughto is a filmmaker and photographer whose work explores duality, principally the friction between nostalgia/modernity and documentary/lyricism. Hughto's photography has appeared in print in the German edition of Wired Magazine, and has shown in Los Angeles and San Diego, CA, and Syracuse and Buffalo.

Slide: Persistence of Vision
SALTQuarters Gallery

Price: Free
SALTQuarters Gallery
115 Otisco St., Syracuse

SALTQuarters artist-in-residence Colleen Woolpert joins forces with Syracuse photo imaging wizard Dave Broda for this interactive voyage into another time and space. Never before exhibited, Broda's polaroid stereographs from the late 1970s will be viewable using the TwinScope, a stereoscope designed by Woolpert and being produced in the SALTQuarters' Near Westside neighborhood during her residency.

Ann Hamilton: table of contents
Urban Video Project

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

World premiere of table of contents (2013-2014), a new piece by celebrated multimedia artist, Ann Hamilton.

When composer David Lang wrote the score for his notoriously difficult piece, "Table of Contents", he envisioned a nearly-impossible synchronization of two percussionists. After seeing a performance in 2011, Hamilton imagined attaching an array of low-resolution mini surveillance cameras to the hands of the percussionists and instruments. In the resulting piece, Hamilton's "table of contents", the cameras occupy the gap between hearing and seeing. The edit generates a counter-rhythm--a back-and-forth that brings us intimately into "impossible" virtuosity.

LeMoyne Student Dance Company Spring Recital
LeMoyne College

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

LSDC presents their spring 2014 recital of student choreographed routines.

The Long Bike Back
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 one movie, $15 Friday night, $30 both days
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

What if your lifelong dream was a bike trip across the U.S., something you'd trained years to achieve? And what if, just before you left, you were hit and seriously injured? Julia Wong's inspiring documentary follows Pearson Constantino on his journey -- from injury to recovery, and beyond.

Diamond on Vinyl
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 one movie, $15 Friday night, $30 both days
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Photos + audio recordings + secrecy + the obsessive pursuit of "the perfect interaction." Result: a compelling, quirky, "tautly wound" film that will have you spellbound!

Creative Conversations: Elinor Freer and David Ying, with Holly Gregg
SKARTS

Price: $25
The Loft
42 Genesee St., Skaneateles

Award-wining musicians Elinor Freer and David Ying, currently serving their last year as co-artistic directors of the Skaneateles Festival, will be featured speakers in the next Creative Conversations, presented by the Skaneateles Area Arts Council (SKARTS).

The event, featuring an open discussion with questions from the audience, "will provide an opportunity for the audience to learn more about how this husband-and-wife team discovered their musical gifts and blossomed in a highly competitive field," says moderator Holly Gregg. It will not include a performance.

Ying, cellist in the Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet, has also won recognition as an individual artist, including prizes in the Naumburg Cello Competition and the Washington International Competition. With the quartet, he has performed worldwide at such diverse venues as the White House, Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House. He earned degrees from the Juilliard School and the Eastman School of Music, where he is on the cello and chamber music faculty.

Freer, a pianist, has built a versatile career as a soloist and chamber musician, performing across the United States and Europe. She was one of two American pianists selected to perform throughout China in tours designed to promote cultural relations. For her efforts to bring classical music to new audiences, she has received multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. She, too, is on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music.

Their imaginative view of music has helped earn the Skaneateles Festival a devoted following and national recognition, including a special ASCAP award for adventurous programming.

Gregg is a member of the Dean Brothers band, and owned and operated World Media Communications, a television production company with offices in seven Northeastern cities and Canada, from 1985 to 2002. In addition to SKARTS, he holds leadership positions with Citizens to Preserve the Character of Skaneateles and the Finger Lakes Land Trust. He also is chief operating officer of Patience Brewster Inc., a worldwide ornament and gifts company that he and his wife established in 2002.

Tickets may be purchased at skarts.org/tickets. Attendance is limited and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Ensemble Series: SU Symphony Band
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Featuring March, op.99; Sketches on a Tudor Psalm; Variations on a Korean Folk Song; Midway March; Amazing grace; and Godzilla Eats Las Vegas.

An Evening of Jazz & Wine
Community Folk Art Center
Featuring Mimi Jones

Price: $40
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Mimi Jones is a multitalented bassist, vocalist, and composer who uses her sultry voice and elegant sounds to create eclectic jazz rhythms. Jones combines elements of folk, rock, and blues to captivate her audiences, leading them to a fresh, inspiring form of jazz. Jones earned her Bachelor's Degree in Music from the Manhattan School of Music Conservatory, where she worked with jazz greats Charles Davis, Barry Harris, Ron Carter, and more. In 2003, Jones co founded the group, "Jazz Sabroson," and was commissioned by the Kennedy Center and the Department of State to participate in the cultural exchange in countries including Brazil, Uruguay, and Ecuador. In 2006, she was elected by Jazz at Lincoln Center to participate in the Rhythm Abroad Program, where she performed in Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Morocco, Algeria, and other countries. In September 2009, Jones released her debut album, "A New Day," which is loaded with original compositions that encourage positivity and inspiration. Jones has since performed at the Jazz Standard, the Blue Note, the Kennedy Center, and Dizzy's Coca Cola.

Wine tastings will be presented by vineyards from the region. Some of these wineries include Stone Age Winery, Cherry Knoll Farm, and Greenwood Winery LLC. A silent auction will also be held featuring items generously donated by local Syracuse artists, arts and businesses.

Tickets are available via the website.

Rockin' the Redhouse
Redhouse

Price: $15 at the door, $10 in advance
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

8 bands. 3 hours. 1 epic night.

Featured bands include CX Dinosaurs from CXtec, The Chillerz" from Carrier, Six-Pack from Anheuser-Busch, Defense Mechanism from Lockheed Martin, Old School from Manlius Pebble Hill, Actuators from Young & Franklin/TACTAIR, Anonymous Sources from Syracuse Media Group, The Side Shifters from Raymond Corporation, plus Redhouse Rock Camp bands!

For tickets, phone 315-362-2785 or talk to a participating band member.

Matt and Shannon Heaton
Folkus Project

Price: $15 regular, $12 members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Traditional and updated Irish music on flute, accordion, guitar, bouzouki, and voices.

Boston-based Matt and Shannon Heaton pursue an inventive approach to traditional tunes and ballads. With a variety of instruments and blend of new and old music, they create a robust sound the Boston Herald called "majestic excellence." They are winners of Live Ireland's "Trad Fusion Album of the Year."

Chris Trapper

Price: $15
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Chris Trapper is a musician based in Boston, best known as the lead singer of The Push Stars. With The Push Stars, Trapper has written material for four studio albums and three self-produced discs. Several of his songs have been picked up for major motion picture soundtracks including "There's Something About Mary" and "Say It Isn't So" and for television shows such as Pepper Dennis, ER, and Malcolm in the Middle. His music has been featured on The Devil Wears Prada and August Rush Soundtracks and he is considered one of the best signer songwriters of our time.

Dopapod, with Aqueous, Universal Transit
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Poet Dimitris Lyacos
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Dimitris Lyacos is the author of the Poena Damni trilogy, one of the leading examples of contemporary European avant-garde literature. Originally written in Greek, the three books (Z213: EXIT, With the people from the bridge, The first death), have been translated into English, German, Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese and performed across Europe and the USA. Dimitris Lyacos is Fellow at the International Writing Program, University of Iowa.

On Golden Pond
Appleseed Productions
CJ Young, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The play is a classic American comedy/drama that's every bit as touching, warm, and witty today as when it debuted on Broadway in 1979. Retired couple Ethel and Norman Thayer spend every summer at their home on Golden Pond. This year, their adult daughter visits, bringing along her new boyfriend and his 13-year-old son.

In this anniversary production for Appleseed, Tom Minion reprises his role from 2001, along with original director CJ Young and, joining the 2013-14 production, Anne Fitzgerald as Ethel Thayer.

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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Trevor F. Hill, director

Price: $22 advance, $25 at the door
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

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Salomé
Black Box Players

Price: Free, but reservations required
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Reserve tickets at blackboxplayers.ticketleap.com.

Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

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

Set in 1953, Neil Simon's "flat-out funniest play in years" (Dennis Cunningham, CBS-TV) re-creates the mayhem, neuroses, nonstop gags, and constant one-upmanship of a team of brilliantly funny social misfits as they write The Max Prince Show, a weekly variety program. Among the crew are Milt, the insult artist; Ira, the hypochondriac whose dream is to have a virus named after him; and Val, a Russian émigré who takes a Berlitz course so he can curse without an accent. They are devoted to their boss, Max, a comic genius, a tyrant, and a paranoiac with a heart of gold. But his penchant for tippling and popping too many pills is growing under the pressures of a rising McCarthyism, network executives, and sponsors who want him to cut back his "too-smart" show and staff so that they can chase after the Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best audience.

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LAB Series: Almost, Maine
Redhouse
Marguerite Mitchell, director

Price: $10
Redhouse Lab Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

On a cold, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote town of Almost, Maine. John Cariani's Almost, Maine is a series of vignettes that follow several of the town's residents at crucial moments-of-choice in their relationships with one another, as they find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways.

Spring Awakening
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Winner of eight Tony Awards, Spring Awakening is a hard-hitting rock musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind's expressionist play. Set in late 19th-century Germany, the story follows Wendla Bergmann, Moritz Stiefel, Mechior Gabor, and their peers as they struggle to understand the meaning of sexuality and violence in an oppressive, repressed society where adults refuse to answer any hard questions. Book and lyrics by Steven Sater, music by Duncan Sheik; choreographed by Anthiny Salatino, music direction by Brian Cimmet.

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Saturday, April 26, 2014

Slide: Persistence of Vision
SALTQuarters Gallery

Price: Free
SALTQuarters Gallery
115 Otisco St., Syracuse

Gallery hours are by appointment. Email cwoolpert@gmail.com or dpbroda@syr.edu.

SALTQuarters artist-in-residence Colleen Woolpert joins forces with Syracuse photo imaging wizard Dave Broda for this interactive voyage into another time and space. Never before exhibited, Broda's polaroid stereographs from the late 1970s will be viewable using the TwinScope, a stereoscope designed by Woolpert and being produced in the SALTQuarters' Near Westside neighborhood during her residency.

In Da Window 4: Paper installation by Theresa Barry
Echo

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

Theresa will be installing a paper sculpture in the Echo Studio windows that is meant to celebrate the coming of spring with color and whimsy. For Theresa, one of the biggest pleasures of the end of winter is shedding all the dark, heavy clothing we wear for so many months to keep warm. In March, we begin looking forward to lighter days, lighter clothing, and colorful things popping up out of the ground.

Two of her favorite things are store display windows and working with paper three dimensionally, and she loves that she is able to combine these things for this project. The sculpture will start in one window as a dress form and will visually continue in the second window, taking on a more abstract shape. Think: Pure fantasy, pure color, pure fun.

Theresa was inspired by the work of Bea Svenfeld, Jen Stark, Roxy Paine, and the late Alexander McQueen.

Independent Potters' Association Annual Spring Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

The Independent Potters' Association (IPA) is pleased to announce its upcoming Annual Spring Show, a group exhibition featuring ceramics created by the group's members.

The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels. Participating artists include Jen Gandee, Bobbi Lamb, Tom Montague, Jessica Pilowa, Lindsey Scott, Tim See, Don Seymour, Bob Shenfeld, Peter Valenti, Wes Weiss, and new IPA members Ed Feldman, Leslie Green-Guilbault, and Millie St. John.

LeMoyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

Student Architecture & Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

Exhibit: Works by John O'Neil Heard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Mr. Heard has been an artist in the Syracuse area for over 20 years and a musician for over 30 years. His medium is working with recycled materials such as wooden cigar boxes and shipping tubes. Most of his art is made from 80 % recycled materials. Using acrylic paint he creates rainsticks, tube drums and an instrument call a rhythm box. One of his styles is reverse painting on glass. His latest project is painting with light.

Watercolors by Christy Lemp and Photographs by Chris Murray
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Students within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse exhibit their work to be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.