Wednesday, January 20, 2016

A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Baltimore Woods celebrates the art of one of our former directors and one of The Woods' most beloved naturalists, John A. Weeks, in this exhibit of bird and wildlife art. Prints, books and stationery will be for sale.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit of over 1,500 of the 5,000+ pieces of art submitted from approximately 2,000 7th through 12th grade students in a 13-county region of Central New York.

Veterans Book Project: Objects for Deployment, by Monica Haller
Onondaga Community College

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

The Veterans Book Project is an artwork consisting of 50 books, each written by artist Monica Haller and individuals with firsthand experience of war. To present this artwork, The Gallery is arranged as a reading room where viewers are invited to sit and read the words of veterans, their family members, and Iraqi and Afghan civilian refugees. By presenting the Veterans Book Project here as an exhibition, we aim to create a quiet space for contemplation and thoughtful discussion about war and its impact on our lives.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Small Planets: Imaginative Creations from Another Planet
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

J.P. Crangle: Paintings on board and sculpture
Dan Shanahan: Hand-colored prints
Sharon Alama: Colorful paper jewelry

Joanne Balfour and Barb Schramm: Theorums and Victorian Santas
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Both Barbara Schramm and Joanne Balfour are well known in the Central New York art community. Schramm is a painter of old-world Victorian Santas, and Joanne Balfour uses 19th-century techniques for inspiration for her theorem paintings.

Joanne Balfour was drawn to the history and type of home decorative arts done in 17th and 18th century England and America. Her theorem paintings exhibit a technique practiced by young ladies in early 19th-century American academies. Stencils were often provided by their teachers and used in various combinations by the girls to create their oil paintings or watercolors on cotton velveteen, often embellished with freehand details.

Barbara Schramm's Old World, Victorian Santas (or Father Christmases) are painted on quarter-sawn Finger Lakes sycamore, oak or pine. The reverse of each painting indicates where in the world the depicted Santa became popular.

Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Mary Mattingly.

Mary Mattingly is an artist based in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Kitchen, Museo National de Belles Artes de la Habana, International Center of Photography, The Seoul Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and The Palais de Tokyo. She participated in smARTpower, an initiative between the U.S. Department of State and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the Philippines. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the James L. Knight Foundation, A Blade of Grass, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Yale University School of Art, The Harpo Foundation, NYFA, The Jerome Foundation, and The Art Matters Foundation. Her work has been featured in Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, on BBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, NBC, as well as on Art21's "New York Close Up" series. Her work has been included in books such as the Whitechapel/MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series titled Nature, edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Triple Canopy's Speculations, the Future Is... published by Artbook, and Henry Sayer's A World of Art, 8th edition, published by Pearson Education Inc. Mattingly participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in November 2014.

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2016 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition, featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting students include Allie Chernick, Courtney Garvin, Rachel Glynn, Hana Katz, Sarah Kearns, Shelley Kendall, Maddie McNamara, Elizabeth Olson, Jenna Petruzziello, and Meg Stahl.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

Over and Over
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Work by Stefan Marc Zoller and Brent Michael Erickson, both graduate students in the SU School of Art, is featured in the new exhibition "Over and Over." Memory plays a significant role in the work of both artists, both in the sense of drawing from a memory and in the use of repetition. The repeated motif in Zoller's "Interior Witness Group" is based on a nondescript yet familiar space that has been the site of years of memory. Through its repetition, Zoller contemplates and confronts the host of memory to which it has borne witness. Erickson's "White Noise" presents works both in the present and past as documentation of temporary wall drawings, which no longer exist, are paired next to lithographs to question how the memory of a work can be used to inform new works. "Over and Over" is meant to question the role memory plays in the artist's studio as well as how these memories can relate to others to create a connection or conversation.

The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.

Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In the landscape of contemporary practice, representational imagery has seemingly gone into hiding. With few exceptions, imagery that incorporates a realistic visual space, modeled figures and natural surroundings is largely absent from the lexicon of art making. Over his more than 40 years as a painter and professor at Syracuse University, internationally recognized artist and co-curator Jerome Within has championed representation and narrative in his work and his teaching. Poetry of Content is an examination and celebration of the work of five painters who share Witkin's interest in the subject: Bill Murphy, Gillian Pederson-Krag, Joel Sheesley, Robert Birmelin and Tim Lowly. Featuring over 40 pieces of original artwork, this exhibition displays a variety of representational imagery as paintings, drawings, and prints.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.

Mastering a Medium: The Porcelains of Adelaide Alsop Robineau
Everson Museum of Art

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

Adelaide Alsop Robineau, a major figure in the Arts and Crafts movement and today considered one of America's preeminent art potters, is known for her exquisite porcelains decorated with intricate carvings and crystalline glazes. This exhibition features more than seventy of Robineau's works, a number of which were part of the Everson's original purchase of Robineau's porcelains in 1916, an acquisition that set the course for the Museum's long-term commitment to collecting ceramics. On display in the exhibition are many visitor favorites, including the famous Scarab Vase, believed to be Robineau's masterpiece.

The Way I See It
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Way I See It" is a selection of photographs made by Syracuse City School students in response to the street photography of Helen Levitt and others. Working in collaboration with Syracuse University's Photography and Literacy Project (PAL Project), students from Edward Smith School, South West Community Center, and Institute of Technology at Central were given cameras and asked to document their world. Classes met weekly with Syracuse University student mentors, and students viewed and discussed the work of Levitt and contemporary photographers, edited their photographs and discussed the elements of picture making. Above all, the students learned that the camera can be a tool to tell a story and give a voice — a voice that deserves to be heard.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

Lunchtime Lecture
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Join Professor Jerome Witkin for a gallery tour and discussion about the artists selected for "Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists."

Jazz at the Plaza: Dave Solazzo
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
LeMoyne Plaza
1135 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Jillian Honn, oboe; Allan Kolsky, clarinet; Julie Bridge, horn; Gregory Quick, bassoon; Sar Shalom Strong, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Symphoria principal wind musicians play music for winds and piano by Mozart.

Meet the Orchestra at Your Library: Wind Instruments
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

Price: Free
Mundy Branch Library
1204 S. Geddes St., Syracuse

Introduce your child to the orchestra and the instrument families within. Symphoria musicians share stories about their instruments and what it's like to play in an orchestra. Listen to them play and see the instruments up close!

Attend any Meet the Orchestra at Your Library event and your child in Grades K-4 will receive a passport. Show this passport to receive priority seating (and a prize for attending) at Symphoria's Meet the Orchestra performance at Inspiration Hall on Saturday, February 6, 2016.

Meet the Orchestra at Your Library: Wind Instruments
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

Price: Free
Marcellus Free Library
32 Maple St, Marcellus

Introduce your child to the orchestra and the instrument families within. Symphoria musicians share stories about their instruments and what it's like to play in an orchestra. Listen to them play and see the instruments up close!

Attend any Meet the Orchestra at Your Library event and your child in Grades K-4 will receive a passport. Show this passport to receive priority seating (and a prize for attending) at Symphoria's Meet the Orchestra performance at Inspiration Hall on Saturday, February 6, 2016.

Preview: Stupid F***ing Bird
Syracuse Stage
Howard Shalwitz, director

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

A ripe mash-up of mock and awe marks this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov's The Seagull. Award-winning playwright Aaron Posner wages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true meaning of it all. An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother's generation. A nubile young actress wrestles with an aging Hollywood star for the affections of a renowned novelist. And everyone discovers just how disappointing love, art, and growing up can be. A huge hit for D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre where it has been revived twice and performed to sold-out houses.

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Thursday, January 21, 2016

A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Baltimore Woods celebrates the art of one of our former directors and one of The Woods' most beloved naturalists, John A. Weeks, in this exhibit of bird and wildlife art. Prints, books and stationery will be for sale.

Veterans Book Project: Objects for Deployment, by Monica Haller
Onondaga Community College

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

The Veterans Book Project is an artwork consisting of 50 books, each written by artist Monica Haller and individuals with firsthand experience of war. To present this artwork, The Gallery is arranged as a reading room where viewers are invited to sit and read the words of veterans, their family members, and Iraqi and Afghan civilian refugees. By presenting the Veterans Book Project here as an exhibition, we aim to create a quiet space for contemplation and thoughtful discussion about war and its impact on our lives.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit of over 1,500 of the 5,000+ pieces of art submitted from approximately 2,000 7th through 12th grade students in a 13-county region of Central New York.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Opening: Big Will and Friends
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Rodger Mack Gallery, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening starting at 5:15 pm. The reception will feature a series of dance performances choreographed by architecture student Stephanie White.

The exhibition Big Will and Friends investigates the optical effects, figural relationships, and illusions found in wallpaper and ways in which these domestic images and decorations shape space and impact our social relations. Big Will and Friends is a collaboration by Syracuse Architecture Assistant Professor Jonathan Louie and SU:VPA Associate Dean and Professor Stephen Zaima.

Structured as a series of three 7-foot-by-7-foot shotgun house-type wallpapered rooms within the gallery's linear space, Big Will will invite visitors—"friends"—to be part of, and alter, the perceptual and visual experience of the objects in the space. Through his work, Louie exploits the logics of wallpaper design to construct a habitable series of rooms, imprinted wearable suits, and a series of wallpaper prints. Hung on the walls will be a series of architectural collages by Zaima.

Small Planets: Imaginative Creations from Another Planet
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

J.P. Crangle: Paintings on board and sculpture
Dan Shanahan: Hand-colored prints
Sharon Alama: Colorful paper jewelry

Joanne Balfour and Barb Schramm: Theorums and Victorian Santas
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Both Barbara Schramm and Joanne Balfour are well known in the Central New York art community. Schramm is a painter of old-world Victorian Santas, and Joanne Balfour uses 19th-century techniques for inspiration for her theorem paintings.

Joanne Balfour was drawn to the history and type of home decorative arts done in 17th and 18th century England and America. Her theorem paintings exhibit a technique practiced by young ladies in early 19th-century American academies. Stencils were often provided by their teachers and used in various combinations by the girls to create their oil paintings or watercolors on cotton velveteen, often embellished with freehand details.

Barbara Schramm's Old World, Victorian Santas (or Father Christmases) are painted on quarter-sawn Finger Lakes sycamore, oak or pine. The reverse of each painting indicates where in the world the depicted Santa became popular.

Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Mary Mattingly.

Mary Mattingly is an artist based in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Kitchen, Museo National de Belles Artes de la Habana, International Center of Photography, The Seoul Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and The Palais de Tokyo. She participated in smARTpower, an initiative between the U.S. Department of State and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the Philippines. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the James L. Knight Foundation, A Blade of Grass, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Yale University School of Art, The Harpo Foundation, NYFA, The Jerome Foundation, and The Art Matters Foundation. Her work has been featured in Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, on BBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, NBC, as well as on Art21's "New York Close Up" series. Her work has been included in books such as the Whitechapel/MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series titled Nature, edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Triple Canopy's Speculations, the Future Is... published by Artbook, and Henry Sayer's A World of Art, 8th edition, published by Pearson Education Inc. Mattingly participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in November 2014.

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2016 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition, featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting students include Allie Chernick, Courtney Garvin, Rachel Glynn, Hana Katz, Sarah Kearns, Shelley Kendall, Maddie McNamara, Elizabeth Olson, Jenna Petruzziello, and Meg Stahl.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

Over and Over
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Work by Stefan Marc Zoller and Brent Michael Erickson, both graduate students in the SU School of Art, is featured in the new exhibition "Over and Over." Memory plays a significant role in the work of both artists, both in the sense of drawing from a memory and in the use of repetition. The repeated motif in Zoller's "Interior Witness Group" is based on a nondescript yet familiar space that has been the site of years of memory. Through its repetition, Zoller contemplates and confronts the host of memory to which it has borne witness. Erickson's "White Noise" presents works both in the present and past as documentation of temporary wall drawings, which no longer exist, are paired next to lithographs to question how the memory of a work can be used to inform new works. "Over and Over" is meant to question the role memory plays in the artist's studio as well as how these memories can relate to others to create a connection or conversation.

Holiday Show 2015
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit and to shop locally. The exhibition features jewelry, up-cycled jewelry and ornaments by Betsy Menson Sio, ceramics by Jen Gandee and Brooke Millecchia, pastels by Mary Padgett and Adriana Meiss, woven scarves by Laurel Moranz, and earrings by Susan Machamer.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

There will be a gallery reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

In the landscape of contemporary practice, representational imagery has seemingly gone into hiding. With few exceptions, imagery that incorporates a realistic visual space, modeled figures and natural surroundings is largely absent from the lexicon of art making. Over his more than 40 years as a painter and professor at Syracuse University, internationally recognized artist and co-curator Jerome Within has championed representation and narrative in his work and his teaching. Poetry of Content is an examination and celebration of the work of five painters who share Witkin's interest in the subject: Bill Murphy, Gillian Pederson-Krag, Joel Sheesley, Robert Birmelin and Tim Lowly. Featuring over 40 pieces of original artwork, this exhibition displays a variety of representational imagery as paintings, drawings, and prints.

The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

There will be a closing reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.

Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

There will be a closing reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.

Mastering a Medium: The Porcelains of Adelaide Alsop Robineau
Everson Museum of Art

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

Adelaide Alsop Robineau, a major figure in the Arts and Crafts movement and today considered one of America's preeminent art potters, is known for her exquisite porcelains decorated with intricate carvings and crystalline glazes. This exhibition features more than seventy of Robineau's works, a number of which were part of the Everson's original purchase of Robineau's porcelains in 1916, an acquisition that set the course for the Museum's long-term commitment to collecting ceramics. On display in the exhibition are many visitor favorites, including the famous Scarab Vase, believed to be Robineau's masterpiece.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

The Way I See It
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Way I See It" is a selection of photographs made by Syracuse City School students in response to the street photography of Helen Levitt and others. Working in collaboration with Syracuse University's Photography and Literacy Project (PAL Project), students from Edward Smith School, South West Community Center, and Institute of Technology at Central were given cameras and asked to document their world. Classes met weekly with Syracuse University student mentors, and students viewed and discussed the work of Levitt and contemporary photographers, edited their photographs and discussed the elements of picture making. Above all, the students learned that the camera can be a tool to tell a story and give a voice — a voice that deserves to be heard.

Mary Mattingly: Selected Video Work
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This short exhibition of selected video work by multimedia artist Mary Mattingly is held in conjunction with her solo show at Light Work Gallery. Through the building of ecosystems and mobile environments, Mattingly's work explores issues of access to basic resources, supply and waste chains, and our shared present and future.

Fiddler on the Loose
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $34.75 (includes meal, show, tax and gratuities)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

The milkman, Skeevya, and his family have been forced to leave their beloved little village of Havavodka and immigrate to America. The quaint Russian countryside has been replaced by the bright lights of New York City and the old world traditions have been replaced by the new world permissions. In fact, Skeevya now has a new job ... with the Russian mafia! At last he is a rich man but how long can it last? Remember: you're gonna get a little on you when you're playing in the borscht.

Preview: Stupid F***ing Bird
Syracuse Stage
Howard Shalwitz, director

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

A ripe mash-up of mock and awe marks this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov's The Seagull. Award-winning playwright Aaron Posner wages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true meaning of it all. An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother's generation. A nubile young actress wrestles with an aging Hollywood star for the affections of a renowned novelist. And everyone discovers just how disappointing love, art, and growing up can be. A huge hit for D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre where it has been revived twice and performed to sold-out houses.

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Move Over Mrs. Markham
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

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

To Sylvie, it's the "goose" that she learned from Alistair, but to Philip, Joanna Markham's husband, it's "a variety of geese," and 15 years of marriage is just about undone along with everything else in this wild, zany free-for-all. Everything from Philip's business deals with Bow Wow Books and Alistair's near escape from Joanna's chiding seduction to the naked G.P.O. girl and the specter of scandal is hilarious. A lot of bedhopping occurs as Sylvie winds up taking Alistair on "walkies" and the amazing Mrs. Markham gets her man her husband! It all takes place in an elegant top-floor London flat.

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Friday, January 22, 2016

Opening: Maria Rizzo: Trees of Onondaga
LeMoyne College

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

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

An exhibit of paintings inspired by the outdoors and reflecting the gratitude the artist has for nature and the human connection to it.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Baltimore Woods celebrates the art of one of our former directors and one of The Woods' most beloved naturalists, John A. Weeks, in this exhibit of bird and wildlife art. Prints, books and stationery will be for sale.

Veterans Book Project: Objects for Deployment, by Monica Haller
Onondaga Community College

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

The Veterans Book Project is an artwork consisting of 50 books, each written by artist Monica Haller and individuals with firsthand experience of war. To present this artwork, The Gallery is arranged as a reading room where viewers are invited to sit and read the words of veterans, their family members, and Iraqi and Afghan civilian refugees. By presenting the Veterans Book Project here as an exhibition, we aim to create a quiet space for contemplation and thoughtful discussion about war and its impact on our lives.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit of over 1,500 of the 5,000+ pieces of art submitted from approximately 2,000 7th through 12th grade students in a 13-county region of Central New York.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Big Will and Friends
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Rodger Mack Gallery, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

The exhibition Big Will and Friends investigates the optical effects, figural relationships, and illusions found in wallpaper and ways in which these domestic images and decorations shape space and impact our social relations. Big Will and Friends is a collaboration by Syracuse Architecture Assistant Professor Jonathan Louie and SU:VPA Associate Dean and Professor Stephen Zaima.

Structured as a series of three 7-foot-by-7-foot shotgun house-type wallpapered rooms within the gallery's linear space, Big Will will invite visitors—"friends"—to be part of, and alter, the perceptual and visual experience of the objects in the space. Through his work, Louie exploits the logics of wallpaper design to construct a habitable series of rooms, imprinted wearable suits, and a series of wallpaper prints. Hung on the walls will be a series of architectural collages by Zaima.

Small Planets: Imaginative Creations from Another Planet
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

J.P. Crangle: Paintings on board and sculpture
Dan Shanahan: Hand-colored prints
Sharon Alama: Colorful paper jewelry

Joanne Balfour and Barb Schramm: Theorums and Victorian Santas
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Both Barbara Schramm and Joanne Balfour are well known in the Central New York art community. Schramm is a painter of old-world Victorian Santas, and Joanne Balfour uses 19th-century techniques for inspiration for her theorem paintings.

Joanne Balfour was drawn to the history and type of home decorative arts done in 17th and 18th century England and America. Her theorem paintings exhibit a technique practiced by young ladies in early 19th-century American academies. Stencils were often provided by their teachers and used in various combinations by the girls to create their oil paintings or watercolors on cotton velveteen, often embellished with freehand details.

Barbara Schramm's Old World, Victorian Santas (or Father Christmases) are painted on quarter-sawn Finger Lakes sycamore, oak or pine. The reverse of each painting indicates where in the world the depicted Santa became popular.

2016 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition, featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting students include Allie Chernick, Courtney Garvin, Rachel Glynn, Hana Katz, Sarah Kearns, Shelley Kendall, Maddie McNamara, Elizabeth Olson, Jenna Petruzziello, and Meg Stahl.

Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Mary Mattingly.

Mary Mattingly is an artist based in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Kitchen, Museo National de Belles Artes de la Habana, International Center of Photography, The Seoul Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and The Palais de Tokyo. She participated in smARTpower, an initiative between the U.S. Department of State and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the Philippines. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the James L. Knight Foundation, A Blade of Grass, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Yale University School of Art, The Harpo Foundation, NYFA, The Jerome Foundation, and The Art Matters Foundation. Her work has been featured in Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, on BBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, NBC, as well as on Art21's "New York Close Up" series. Her work has been included in books such as the Whitechapel/MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series titled Nature, edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Triple Canopy's Speculations, the Future Is... published by Artbook, and Henry Sayer's A World of Art, 8th edition, published by Pearson Education Inc. Mattingly participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in November 2014.

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A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

Over and Over
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Work by Stefan Marc Zoller and Brent Michael Erickson, both graduate students in the SU School of Art, is featured in the new exhibition "Over and Over." Memory plays a significant role in the work of both artists, both in the sense of drawing from a memory and in the use of repetition. The repeated motif in Zoller's "Interior Witness Group" is based on a nondescript yet familiar space that has been the site of years of memory. Through its repetition, Zoller contemplates and confronts the host of memory to which it has borne witness. Erickson's "White Noise" presents works both in the present and past as documentation of temporary wall drawings, which no longer exist, are paired next to lithographs to question how the memory of a work can be used to inform new works. "Over and Over" is meant to question the role memory plays in the artist's studio as well as how these memories can relate to others to create a connection or conversation.

Holiday Show 2015
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit and to shop locally. The exhibition features jewelry, up-cycled jewelry and ornaments by Betsy Menson Sio, ceramics by Jen Gandee and Brooke Millecchia, pastels by Mary Padgett and Adriana Meiss, woven scarves by Laurel Moranz, and earrings by Susan Machamer.

The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.

Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In the landscape of contemporary practice, representational imagery has seemingly gone into hiding. With few exceptions, imagery that incorporates a realistic visual space, modeled figures and natural surroundings is largely absent from the lexicon of art making. Over his more than 40 years as a painter and professor at Syracuse University, internationally recognized artist and co-curator Jerome Within has championed representation and narrative in his work and his teaching. Poetry of Content is an examination and celebration of the work of five painters who share Witkin's interest in the subject: Bill Murphy, Gillian Pederson-Krag, Joel Sheesley, Robert Birmelin and Tim Lowly. Featuring over 40 pieces of original artwork, this exhibition displays a variety of representational imagery as paintings, drawings, and prints.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.

Mastering a Medium: The Porcelains of Adelaide Alsop Robineau
Everson Museum of Art

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

Adelaide Alsop Robineau, a major figure in the Arts and Crafts movement and today considered one of America's preeminent art potters, is known for her exquisite porcelains decorated with intricate carvings and crystalline glazes. This exhibition features more than seventy of Robineau's works, a number of which were part of the Everson's original purchase of Robineau's porcelains in 1916, an acquisition that set the course for the Museum's long-term commitment to collecting ceramics. On display in the exhibition are many visitor favorites, including the famous Scarab Vase, believed to be Robineau's masterpiece.

The Way I See It
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Way I See It" is a selection of photographs made by Syracuse City School students in response to the street photography of Helen Levitt and others. Working in collaboration with Syracuse University's Photography and Literacy Project (PAL Project), students from Edward Smith School, South West Community Center, and Institute of Technology at Central were given cameras and asked to document their world. Classes met weekly with Syracuse University student mentors, and students viewed and discussed the work of Levitt and contemporary photographers, edited their photographs and discussed the elements of picture making. Above all, the students learned that the camera can be a tool to tell a story and give a voice — a voice that deserves to be heard.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

Mary Mattingly: Selected Video Work
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This short exhibition of selected video work by multimedia artist Mary Mattingly is held in conjunction with her solo show at Light Work Gallery. Through the building of ecosystems and mobile environments, Mattingly's work explores issues of access to basic resources, supply and waste chains, and our shared present and future.

Opening: Blades for Art
La Casita Cultural Center

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-8:00 pm.

Impressions of large-scale, hand-carved woodblocks, pressed by an industrial steamroller and made into finely-rolled relief prints on white cotton muslin.

This exhibit presents the work of students from Syracuse University's Printmaking Program and a group of Syracuse-area residents, mostly youths, who participated in the workshop.

Jazz@Sitrus: Scott Dennis
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover
Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse

Faculty Recital Series: Jonathan English, tenor
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Tenor Jonathan English will present a faculty recital and perform Schubert's Die Winterreise. With Sar-Shalom Strong, piano.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315.443.2191 for current information.

*SOLD OUT* Tom Rush
Folkus Project

Price: $30 regular, $25 members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

His distinctive guitar style, wry humor and warm, expressive voice have made him both a legend and a lure to audiences around the world.

Tom Rush is a gifted musician and performer, whose shows offer a musical celebration...a journey into the tradition and spectrum of what music has been, can be, and will become. His distinctive guitar style, wry humor, and warm, expressive voice have made him both a legend and a lure to audiences around the world. His shows are filled with the rib-aching laughter of terrific story-telling, the sweet melancholy of ballads and the passion of gritty blues.

Rush's impact on the American music scene has been profound. He helped shape the folk revival in the '60s and the renaissance of the '80s and '90s, his music having left its stamp on generations of artists.

Sweeney Todd
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Korrie Taylor, director

Price: $25 in advance, $30 at the door
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

One of the darkest musicals ever written, Sweeney Todd: A Musical Thriller is the unsettling tale of a Victorian-era barber who returns home to London after 15 years of exile to take revenge on the corrupt judge who ruined his life. When revenge eludes him, Sweeney swears vengeance on the entire human race, murdering as many people as he can, while his business associate Mrs. Lovett bakes the bodies into meat pies and sells them to the unsuspecting public. Perhaps composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim's most perfect score, Sweeney Todd is lush, operatic, and full of soaring beauty, pitch-black comedy and stunning terror. It's one of the signal achievements of the American musical theater of the last 50 years, and it's the high water mark of Sondheim's six remarkable collaborations with director Harold Prince.

Music directed by Abel Searor.

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Move Over Mrs. Markham
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $17
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

To Sylvie, it's the "goose" that she learned from Alistair, but to Philip, Joanna Markham's husband, it's "a variety of geese," and 15 years of marriage is just about undone along with everything else in this wild, zany free-for-all. Everything from Philip's business deals with Bow Wow Books and Alistair's near escape from Joanna's chiding seduction to the naked G.P.O. girl and the specter of scandal is hilarious. A lot of bedhopping occurs as Sylvie winds up taking Alistair on "walkies" and the amazing Mrs. Markham gets her man her husband! It all takes place in an elegant top-floor London flat.

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Into the Woods
Redhouse

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

Meet Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, and many more of your favorite fairy tale characters as they journey together to learn that getting what you want in life comes with great responsibility. Truly one of Sondheim's best loved musicals! Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine.

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Stupid F***ing Bird
Syracuse Stage
Howard Shalwitz, director

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

A ripe mash-up of mock and awe marks this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov's The Seagull. Award-winning playwright Aaron Posner wages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true meaning of it all. An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother's generation. A nubile young actress wrestles with an aging Hollywood star for the affections of a renowned novelist. And everyone discovers just how disappointing love, art, and growing up can be. A huge hit for D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre where it has been revived twice and performed to sold-out houses.

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Saturday, January 23, 2016

Maria Rizzo: Trees of Onondaga
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings inspired by the outdoors and reflecting the gratitude the artist has for nature and the human connection to it.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit of over 1,500 of the 5,000+ pieces of art submitted from approximately 2,000 7th through 12th grade students in a 13-county region of Central New York.

A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Baltimore Woods celebrates the art of one of our former directors and one of The Woods' most beloved naturalists, John A. Weeks, in this exhibit of bird and wildlife art. Prints, books and stationery will be for sale.

Small Planets: Imaginative Creations from Another Planet
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

J.P. Crangle: Paintings on board and sculpture
Dan Shanahan: Hand-colored prints
Sharon Alama: Colorful paper jewelry

Mastering a Medium: The Porcelains of Adelaide Alsop Robineau
Everson Museum of Art

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

Adelaide Alsop Robineau, a major figure in the Arts and Crafts movement and today considered one of America's preeminent art potters, is known for her exquisite porcelains decorated with intricate carvings and crystalline glazes. This exhibition features more than seventy of Robineau's works, a number of which were part of the Everson's original purchase of Robineau's porcelains in 1916, an acquisition that set the course for the Museum's long-term commitment to collecting ceramics. On display in the exhibition are many visitor favorites, including the famous Scarab Vase, believed to be Robineau's masterpiece.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

The Way I See It
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Way I See It" is a selection of photographs made by Syracuse City School students in response to the street photography of Helen Levitt and others. Working in collaboration with Syracuse University's Photography and Literacy Project (PAL Project), students from Edward Smith School, South West Community Center, and Institute of Technology at Central were given cameras and asked to document their world. Classes met weekly with Syracuse University student mentors, and students viewed and discussed the work of Levitt and contemporary photographers, edited their photographs and discussed the elements of picture making. Above all, the students learned that the camera can be a tool to tell a story and give a voice — a voice that deserves to be heard.

Joanne Balfour and Barb Schramm: Theorums and Victorian Santas
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Both Barbara Schramm and Joanne Balfour are well known in the Central New York art community. Schramm is a painter of old-world Victorian Santas, and Joanne Balfour uses 19th-century techniques for inspiration for her theorem paintings.

Joanne Balfour was drawn to the history and type of home decorative arts done in 17th and 18th century England and America. Her theorem paintings exhibit a technique practiced by young ladies in early 19th-century American academies. Stencils were often provided by their teachers and used in various combinations by the girls to create their oil paintings or watercolors on cotton velveteen, often embellished with freehand details.

Barbara Schramm's Old World, Victorian Santas (or Father Christmases) are painted on quarter-sawn Finger Lakes sycamore, oak or pine. The reverse of each painting indicates where in the world the depicted Santa became popular.

Holiday Show 2015
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit and to shop locally. The exhibition features jewelry, up-cycled jewelry and ornaments by Betsy Menson Sio, ceramics by Jen Gandee and Brooke Millecchia, pastels by Mary Padgett and Adriana Meiss, woven scarves by Laurel Moranz, and earrings by Susan Machamer.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In the landscape of contemporary practice, representational imagery has seemingly gone into hiding. With few exceptions, imagery that incorporates a realistic visual space, modeled figures and natural surroundings is largely absent from the lexicon of art making. Over his more than 40 years as a painter and professor at Syracuse University, internationally recognized artist and co-curator Jerome Within has championed representation and narrative in his work and his teaching. Poetry of Content is an examination and celebration of the work of five painters who share Witkin's interest in the subject: Bill Murphy, Gillian Pederson-Krag, Joel Sheesley, Robert Birmelin and Tim Lowly. Featuring over 40 pieces of original artwork, this exhibition displays a variety of representational imagery as paintings, drawings, and prints.

The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.

Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.

Mary Mattingly: Selected Video Work
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This short exhibition of selected video work by multimedia artist Mary Mattingly is held in conjunction with her solo show at Light Work Gallery. Through the building of ecosystems and mobile environments, Mattingly's work explores issues of access to basic resources, supply and waste chains, and our shared present and future.

A Face in the Crowd (1957)
ArtRage Gallery

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

Directed by Elia Kazan, and starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, and Walter Matthau.
Kazan said in his book Kazan On Directing that he and Schulberg conceived the movie "as a warning to the American people." This early yet startling film takes a blistering look at the unholy ties that bind mass media, celebrity, and shabby values to the political process. Wait 'till you see Andy Griffith (in an atypical role) go from jailbird drunk to greedy, manipulative public idol.

"A dark cautionary tale that couldn't be more relevant today" —Village Voice
"Next time you feel like you're getting fooled again by a demagogue, see this movie and get centered" —filmcritic.com.

Gallery Talk: A Life in Art
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Marcellus native Anna DeWan Carlson will be giving a tour of OHA's current exhibition "A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection." Carlson, who is a featured artist in this exhibit, has extensive knowledge on local printmakers and was the guest curator of a 1992 OHA exhibition which highlighted the Syracuse Printmakers, a prominent social club during the 20th century. Art Institute of Pittsburgh grad, who has been listed in Who's Who in American Art for the last 23 years, will be focusing on the prints in the exhibit, the artists who made them, and an explanation of the printmaking process.

Meet the Orchestra at Your Library: String Instruments
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

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

Introduce your child to the orchestra and the instrument families within. Symphoria musicians share stories about their instruments and what it's like to play in an orchestra. Listen to them play and see the instruments up close!

Attend any Meet the Orchestra at Your Library event and your child in Grades K-4 will receive a passport. Show this passport to receive priority seating (and a prize for attending) at Symphoria's Meet the Orchestra performance at Inspiration Hall on Saturday, February 6, 2016.

Meet the Orchestra at Your Library: Percussion Instruments
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

Price: Free
Northern Onondaga Public Library (North Syracuse)
100 Trolley Barn Lane, North Syracuse

Introduce your child to the orchestra and the instrument families within. Symphoria musicians share stories about their instruments and what it's like to play in an orchestra. Listen to them play and see the instruments up close!

Attend any Meet the Orchestra at Your Library event and your child in Grades K-4 will receive a passport. Show this passport to receive priority seating (and a prize for attending) at Symphoria's Meet the Orchestra performance at Inspiration Hall on Saturday, February 6, 2016.

Vinyl Albums Live VI
Palace Theatre

Price: $21
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The show will debut three iconic '70s rock albums performed in their entirety. The three bands will feature 20 Syracuse musicians in total with ten who are new to the Vinyl Albums Live family!
Albums to be performed:
The Eagles' 1976 "Hotel California" (Jeff Bradbury, keys/vox; Kevin Farrell, guitar; Mike Frisina, guitar/vox; Brett Hobin, bass; Shawn Hobin, drums/vox; Doug Moncrief, guitar/vox)
Rolling Stones' 1971 "Sticky Fingers" (Justin DeAmbra, keys; Jeff Gordon, lead vox; Kristopher Heels, guitar; Bob Kane, drums; Dave Kane, bass; Scott Sterling, guitar; Don Williams, sax)
Bruce Springsteen's 1975 "Born To Run" (Bill Barry, keys; Joe Beccheria, guitar; Michael Crissan, lead vox; Tony Greene, sax; Bob Caraher, piano; Lenny Milano, drums; Steven T. Winston, bass)

Isreal Hagan
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $10 suggested donation covers entertainment, dessert, coffee/tea
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Isreal Hagan has been a performer on the CNY music scene for 30+ years, is a SAMMY award recipient and member of the SAMMY Hall of Fame, and lead singer of Stroke, in addition to being a solo performer.

Masterworks Series: Orchestra Spotlight
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Fawzi Haimor, conductor
Featuring Principal Symphoria Winds

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

Beethoven Coriolan Overture, op. 62
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major
Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, op. 60

OHA Book Club and Book Signing
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Jim Farfaglia will discuss his book Voices In The Storm: Stories From The Blizzard of '66. In this work, Mr. Farfaglia recounts the formidable and unforgettable winter storm of 1966. The author will present a slide show featuring more images and information and will be available to sign books.

Alice in Wonderland
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive version of the children's classic.

Into the Woods
Redhouse

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

Meet Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, and many more of your favorite fairy tale characters as they journey together to learn that getting what you want in life comes with great responsibility. Truly one of Sondheim's best loved musicals! Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine.

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Stupid F***ing Bird
Syracuse Stage
Howard Shalwitz, director

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

A ripe mash-up of mock and awe marks this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov's The Seagull. Award-winning playwright Aaron Posner wages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true meaning of it all. An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother's generation. A nubile young actress wrestles with an aging Hollywood star for the affections of a renowned novelist. And everyone discovers just how disappointing love, art, and growing up can be. A huge hit for D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre where it has been revived twice and performed to sold-out houses.

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Sweeney Todd
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Korrie Taylor, director

Price: $25 in advance, $30 at the door
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

One of the darkest musicals ever written, Sweeney Todd: A Musical Thriller is the unsettling tale of a Victorian-era barber who returns home to London after 15 years of exile to take revenge on the corrupt judge who ruined his life. When revenge eludes him, Sweeney swears vengeance on the entire human race, murdering as many people as he can, while his business associate Mrs. Lovett bakes the bodies into meat pies and sells them to the unsuspecting public. Perhaps composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim's most perfect score, Sweeney Todd is lush, operatic, and full of soaring beauty, pitch-black comedy and stunning terror. It's one of the signal achievements of the American musical theater of the last 50 years, and it's the high water mark of Sondheim's six remarkable collaborations with director Harold Prince.

Music directed by Abel Searor.

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Move Over Mrs. Markham
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $17
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

To Sylvie, it's the "goose" that she learned from Alistair, but to Philip, Joanna Markham's husband, it's "a variety of geese," and 15 years of marriage is just about undone along with everything else in this wild, zany free-for-all. Everything from Philip's business deals with Bow Wow Books and Alistair's near escape from Joanna's chiding seduction to the naked G.P.O. girl and the specter of scandal is hilarious. A lot of bedhopping occurs as Sylvie winds up taking Alistair on "walkies" and the amazing Mrs. Markham gets her man her husband! It all takes place in an elegant top-floor London flat.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Redhouse

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

Hermia loves "bad boy" Lysander, but her father wants her to marry Demetrius, who's also the heartthrob of her best-friend-forever, Helena. Threatened with death or a convent if she doesn't do what Daddy wants, Hermia and Lysander head for the woods. With Helena and Demetrius in hot pursuit, they — and some well-meaning, artistically challenged local Thespians — run right into a magical free-for-all between Lumberjack Oberon, the Fairy King, and Hippy Titania, his Fairy Queen. It's a wild night for lovers and lunatics, swirling with Adirondack-inspired flourishes, in this family-friendly comedy by William Shakespeare.

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Stupid F***ing Bird
Syracuse Stage
Howard Shalwitz, director

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

A ripe mash-up of mock and awe marks this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov's The Seagull. Award-winning playwright Aaron Posner wages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true meaning of it all. An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother's generation. A nubile young actress wrestles with an aging Hollywood star for the affections of a renowned novelist. And everyone discovers just how disappointing love, art, and growing up can be. A huge hit for D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre where it has been revived twice and performed to sold-out houses.

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Sunday, January 24, 2016

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit of over 1,500 of the 5,000+ pieces of art submitted from approximately 2,000 7th through 12th grade students in a 13-county region of Central New York.

Joanne Balfour and Barb Schramm: Theorums and Victorian Santas
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Both Barbara Schramm and Joanne Balfour are well known in the Central New York art community. Schramm is a painter of old-world Victorian Santas, and Joanne Balfour uses 19th-century techniques for inspiration for her theorem paintings.

Joanne Balfour was drawn to the history and type of home decorative arts done in 17th and 18th century England and America. Her theorem paintings exhibit a technique practiced by young ladies in early 19th-century American academies. Stencils were often provided by their teachers and used in various combinations by the girls to create their oil paintings or watercolors on cotton velveteen, often embellished with freehand details.

Barbara Schramm's Old World, Victorian Santas (or Father Christmases) are painted on quarter-sawn Finger Lakes sycamore, oak or pine. The reverse of each painting indicates where in the world the depicted Santa became popular.

2016 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition, featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting students include Allie Chernick, Courtney Garvin, Rachel Glynn, Hana Katz, Sarah Kearns, Shelley Kendall, Maddie McNamara, Elizabeth Olson, Jenna Petruzziello, and Meg Stahl.

Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Mary Mattingly.

Mary Mattingly is an artist based in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Kitchen, Museo National de Belles Artes de la Habana, International Center of Photography, The Seoul Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and The Palais de Tokyo. She participated in smARTpower, an initiative between the U.S. Department of State and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the Philippines. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the James L. Knight Foundation, A Blade of Grass, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Yale University School of Art, The Harpo Foundation, NYFA, The Jerome Foundation, and The Art Matters Foundation. Her work has been featured in Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, on BBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, NBC, as well as on Art21's "New York Close Up" series. Her work has been included in books such as the Whitechapel/MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series titled Nature, edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Triple Canopy's Speculations, the Future Is... published by Artbook, and Henry Sayer's A World of Art, 8th edition, published by Pearson Education Inc. Mattingly participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in November 2014.

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Holiday Show 2015
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit and to shop locally. The exhibition features jewelry, up-cycled jewelry and ornaments by Betsy Menson Sio, ceramics by Jen Gandee and Brooke Millecchia, pastels by Mary Padgett and Adriana Meiss, woven scarves by Laurel Moranz, and earrings by Susan Machamer.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.

Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In the landscape of contemporary practice, representational imagery has seemingly gone into hiding. With few exceptions, imagery that incorporates a realistic visual space, modeled figures and natural surroundings is largely absent from the lexicon of art making. Over his more than 40 years as a painter and professor at Syracuse University, internationally recognized artist and co-curator Jerome Within has championed representation and narrative in his work and his teaching. Poetry of Content is an examination and celebration of the work of five painters who share Witkin's interest in the subject: Bill Murphy, Gillian Pederson-Krag, Joel Sheesley, Robert Birmelin and Tim Lowly. Featuring over 40 pieces of original artwork, this exhibition displays a variety of representational imagery as paintings, drawings, and prints.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.

Mastering a Medium: The Porcelains of Adelaide Alsop Robineau
Everson Museum of Art

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

Adelaide Alsop Robineau, a major figure in the Arts and Crafts movement and today considered one of America's preeminent art potters, is known for her exquisite porcelains decorated with intricate carvings and crystalline glazes. This exhibition features more than seventy of Robineau's works, a number of which were part of the Everson's original purchase of Robineau's porcelains in 1916, an acquisition that set the course for the Museum's long-term commitment to collecting ceramics. On display in the exhibition are many visitor favorites, including the famous Scarab Vase, believed to be Robineau's masterpiece.

The Way I See It
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Way I See It" is a selection of photographs made by Syracuse City School students in response to the street photography of Helen Levitt and others. Working in collaboration with Syracuse University's Photography and Literacy Project (PAL Project), students from Edward Smith School, South West Community Center, and Institute of Technology at Central were given cameras and asked to document their world. Classes met weekly with Syracuse University student mentors, and students viewed and discussed the work of Levitt and contemporary photographers, edited their photographs and discussed the elements of picture making. Above all, the students learned that the camera can be a tool to tell a story and give a voice — a voice that deserves to be heard.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

Maria Rizzo: Trees of Onondaga
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings inspired by the outdoors and reflecting the gratitude the artist has for nature and the human connection to it.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

The Central New York Music Scene
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Larry Hoyt

Price: $10 regular, $5 with student ID
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Larry Hoyt has been involved in Syracuse's music scene since the early 1970s as head of Le Moyne College's Student Union. In addition to booking bands for various on-campus events, Hoyt was a founding member of WLMU, Le Moyne's on-campus radio station. In the late '80s and early '90s, Hoyt wrote music reviews for the Post-Standard, interviewing artists such as Pete Seeger, Billy Joel, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Randy Travis. For the past 18 years as host of WAER's "Common Threads" Hoyt has interviewed artists such as Dave Van Ronk, Christine Lavin, and Roger McGuinn. Currently, Hoyt performs solo and with his band, the Good Acoustics.

Stupid F***ing Bird
Syracuse Stage
Howard Shalwitz, director

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

A ripe mash-up of mock and awe marks this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov's The Seagull. Award-winning playwright Aaron Posner wages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true meaning of it all. An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother's generation. A nubile young actress wrestles with an aging Hollywood star for the affections of a renowned novelist. And everyone discovers just how disappointing love, art, and growing up can be. A huge hit for D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre where it has been revived twice and performed to sold-out houses.

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Monday, January 25, 2016

Maria Rizzo: Trees of Onondaga
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings inspired by the outdoors and reflecting the gratitude the artist has for nature and the human connection to it.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Baltimore Woods celebrates the art of one of our former directors and one of The Woods' most beloved naturalists, John A. Weeks, in this exhibit of bird and wildlife art. Prints, books and stationery will be for sale.

Veterans Book Project: Objects for Deployment, by Monica Haller
Onondaga Community College

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

The Veterans Book Project is an artwork consisting of 50 books, each written by artist Monica Haller and individuals with firsthand experience of war. To present this artwork, The Gallery is arranged as a reading room where viewers are invited to sit and read the words of veterans, their family members, and Iraqi and Afghan civilian refugees. By presenting the Veterans Book Project here as an exhibition, we aim to create a quiet space for contemplation and thoughtful discussion about war and its impact on our lives.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit of over 1,500 of the 5,000+ pieces of art submitted from approximately 2,000 7th through 12th grade students in a 13-county region of Central New York.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Big Will and Friends
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Rodger Mack Gallery, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

The exhibition Big Will and Friends investigates the optical effects, figural relationships, and illusions found in wallpaper and ways in which these domestic images and decorations shape space and impact our social relations. Big Will and Friends is a collaboration by Syracuse Architecture Assistant Professor Jonathan Louie and SU:VPA Associate Dean and Professor Stephen Zaima.

Structured as a series of three 7-foot-by-7-foot shotgun house-type wallpapered rooms within the gallery's linear space, Big Will will invite visitors—"friends"—to be part of, and alter, the perceptual and visual experience of the objects in the space. Through his work, Louie exploits the logics of wallpaper design to construct a habitable series of rooms, imprinted wearable suits, and a series of wallpaper prints. Hung on the walls will be a series of architectural collages by Zaima.

Joanne Balfour and Barb Schramm: Theorums and Victorian Santas
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Both Barbara Schramm and Joanne Balfour are well known in the Central New York art community. Schramm is a painter of old-world Victorian Santas, and Joanne Balfour uses 19th-century techniques for inspiration for her theorem paintings.

Joanne Balfour was drawn to the history and type of home decorative arts done in 17th and 18th century England and America. Her theorem paintings exhibit a technique practiced by young ladies in early 19th-century American academies. Stencils were often provided by their teachers and used in various combinations by the girls to create their oil paintings or watercolors on cotton velveteen, often embellished with freehand details.

Barbara Schramm's Old World, Victorian Santas (or Father Christmases) are painted on quarter-sawn Finger Lakes sycamore, oak or pine. The reverse of each painting indicates where in the world the depicted Santa became popular.

2016 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition, featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting students include Allie Chernick, Courtney Garvin, Rachel Glynn, Hana Katz, Sarah Kearns, Shelley Kendall, Maddie McNamara, Elizabeth Olson, Jenna Petruzziello, and Meg Stahl.

Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Mary Mattingly.

Mary Mattingly is an artist based in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Kitchen, Museo National de Belles Artes de la Habana, International Center of Photography, The Seoul Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and The Palais de Tokyo. She participated in smARTpower, an initiative between the U.S. Department of State and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the Philippines. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the James L. Knight Foundation, A Blade of Grass, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Yale University School of Art, The Harpo Foundation, NYFA, The Jerome Foundation, and The Art Matters Foundation. Her work has been featured in Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, on BBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, NBC, as well as on Art21's "New York Close Up" series. Her work has been included in books such as the Whitechapel/MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series titled Nature, edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Triple Canopy's Speculations, the Future Is... published by Artbook, and Henry Sayer's A World of Art, 8th edition, published by Pearson Education Inc. Mattingly participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in November 2014.

Read a review!

Blades for Art
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Impressions of large-scale, hand-carved woodblocks, pressed by an industrial steamroller and made into finely-rolled relief prints on white cotton muslin.

This exhibit presents the work of students from Syracuse University's Printmaking Program and a group of Syracuse-area residents, mostly youths, who participated in the workshop.

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Maria Rizzo: Trees of Onondaga
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings inspired by the outdoors and reflecting the gratitude the artist has for nature and the human connection to it.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Baltimore Woods celebrates the art of one of our former directors and one of The Woods' most beloved naturalists, John A. Weeks, in this exhibit of bird and wildlife art. Prints, books and stationery will be for sale.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit of over 1,500 of the 5,000+ pieces of art submitted from approximately 2,000 7th through 12th grade students in a 13-county region of Central New York.

Veterans Book Project: Objects for Deployment, by Monica Haller
Onondaga Community College

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

The Veterans Book Project is an artwork consisting of 50 books, each written by artist Monica Haller and individuals with firsthand experience of war. To present this artwork, The Gallery is arranged as a reading room where viewers are invited to sit and read the words of veterans, their family members, and Iraqi and Afghan civilian refugees. By presenting the Veterans Book Project here as an exhibition, we aim to create a quiet space for contemplation and thoughtful discussion about war and its impact on our lives.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Big Will and Friends
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Rodger Mack Gallery, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

The exhibition Big Will and Friends investigates the optical effects, figural relationships, and illusions found in wallpaper and ways in which these domestic images and decorations shape space and impact our social relations. Big Will and Friends is a collaboration by Syracuse Architecture Assistant Professor Jonathan Louie and SU:VPA Associate Dean and Professor Stephen Zaima.

Structured as a series of three 7-foot-by-7-foot shotgun house-type wallpapered rooms within the gallery's linear space, Big Will will invite visitors—"friends"—to be part of, and alter, the perceptual and visual experience of the objects in the space. Through his work, Louie exploits the logics of wallpaper design to construct a habitable series of rooms, imprinted wearable suits, and a series of wallpaper prints. Hung on the walls will be a series of architectural collages by Zaima.

Small Planets: Imaginative Creations from Another Planet
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

J.P. Crangle: Paintings on board and sculpture
Dan Shanahan: Hand-colored prints
Sharon Alama: Colorful paper jewelry

Joanne Balfour and Barb Schramm: Theorums and Victorian Santas
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Both Barbara Schramm and Joanne Balfour are well known in the Central New York art community. Schramm is a painter of old-world Victorian Santas, and Joanne Balfour uses 19th-century techniques for inspiration for her theorem paintings.

Joanne Balfour was drawn to the history and type of home decorative arts done in 17th and 18th century England and America. Her theorem paintings exhibit a technique practiced by young ladies in early 19th-century American academies. Stencils were often provided by their teachers and used in various combinations by the girls to create their oil paintings or watercolors on cotton velveteen, often embellished with freehand details.

Barbara Schramm's Old World, Victorian Santas (or Father Christmases) are painted on quarter-sawn Finger Lakes sycamore, oak or pine. The reverse of each painting indicates where in the world the depicted Santa became popular.

Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Mary Mattingly.

Mary Mattingly is an artist based in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Kitchen, Museo National de Belles Artes de la Habana, International Center of Photography, The Seoul Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and The Palais de Tokyo. She participated in smARTpower, an initiative between the U.S. Department of State and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the Philippines. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the James L. Knight Foundation, A Blade of Grass, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Yale University School of Art, The Harpo Foundation, NYFA, The Jerome Foundation, and The Art Matters Foundation. Her work has been featured in Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, on BBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, NBC, as well as on Art21's "New York Close Up" series. Her work has been included in books such as the Whitechapel/MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series titled Nature, edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Triple Canopy's Speculations, the Future Is... published by Artbook, and Henry Sayer's A World of Art, 8th edition, published by Pearson Education Inc. Mattingly participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in November 2014.

Read a review!

2016 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition, featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting students include Allie Chernick, Courtney Garvin, Rachel Glynn, Hana Katz, Sarah Kearns, Shelley Kendall, Maddie McNamara, Elizabeth Olson, Jenna Petruzziello, and Meg Stahl.

Over and Over
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Work by Stefan Marc Zoller and Brent Michael Erickson, both graduate students in the SU School of Art, is featured in the new exhibition "Over and Over." Memory plays a significant role in the work of both artists, both in the sense of drawing from a memory and in the use of repetition. The repeated motif in Zoller's "Interior Witness Group" is based on a nondescript yet familiar space that has been the site of years of memory. Through its repetition, Zoller contemplates and confronts the host of memory to which it has borne witness. Erickson's "White Noise" presents works both in the present and past as documentation of temporary wall drawings, which no longer exist, are paired next to lithographs to question how the memory of a work can be used to inform new works. "Over and Over" is meant to question the role memory plays in the artist's studio as well as how these memories can relate to others to create a connection or conversation.

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings: Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing was developed by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor of Art History in the College of Arts and Sciences, and includes 30 works on paper, selected from the Syracuse University Art Collection and a private collection. The exhibition presents etching, engravings, and drawings by Northern Baroque masters including Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan van de Velde II, and more. Scholarly research, including in-depth didactic labels, will be presented by graduate students Olivia Pek G'17 and Irene Garcia G'17. This exhibition was developed during the fall 2016 semester graduate level course, Graduate Research and Scholarly Writing, in the Department of Art and Music Histories, College of Arts and Sciences.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In the landscape of contemporary practice, representational imagery has seemingly gone into hiding. With few exceptions, imagery that incorporates a realistic visual space, modeled figures and natural surroundings is largely absent from the lexicon of art making. Over his more than 40 years as a painter and professor at Syracuse University, internationally recognized artist and co-curator Jerome Within has championed representation and narrative in his work and his teaching. Poetry of Content is an examination and celebration of the work of five painters who share Witkin's interest in the subject: Bill Murphy, Gillian Pederson-Krag, Joel Sheesley, Robert Birmelin and Tim Lowly. Featuring over 40 pieces of original artwork, this exhibition displays a variety of representational imagery as paintings, drawings, and prints.

Blades for Art
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Impressions of large-scale, hand-carved woodblocks, pressed by an industrial steamroller and made into finely-rolled relief prints on white cotton muslin.

This exhibit presents the work of students from Syracuse University's Printmaking Program and a group of Syracuse-area residents, mostly youths, who participated in the workshop.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Maria Rizzo: Trees of Onondaga
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings inspired by the outdoors and reflecting the gratitude the artist has for nature and the human connection to it.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

A Retrospective Exhibit: Works by John A. Weeks
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Baltimore Woods celebrates the art of one of our former directors and one of The Woods' most beloved naturalists, John A. Weeks, in this exhibit of bird and wildlife art. Prints, books and stationery will be for sale.

Veterans Book Project: Objects for Deployment, by Monica Haller
Onondaga Community College

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

The Veterans Book Project is an artwork consisting of 50 books, each written by artist Monica Haller and individuals with firsthand experience of war. To present this artwork, The Gallery is arranged as a reading room where viewers are invited to sit and read the words of veterans, their family members, and Iraqi and Afghan civilian refugees. By presenting the Veterans Book Project here as an exhibition, we aim to create a quiet space for contemplation and thoughtful discussion about war and its impact on our lives.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit of over 1,500 of the 5,000+ pieces of art submitted from approximately 2,000 7th through 12th grade students in a 13-county region of Central New York.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Big Will and Friends
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Rodger Mack Gallery, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

The exhibition Big Will and Friends investigates the optical effects, figural relationships, and illusions found in wallpaper and ways in which these domestic images and decorations shape space and impact our social relations. Big Will and Friends is a collaboration by Syracuse Architecture Assistant Professor Jonathan Louie and SU:VPA Associate Dean and Professor Stephen Zaima.

Structured as a series of three 7-foot-by-7-foot shotgun house-type wallpapered rooms within the gallery's linear space, Big Will will invite visitors—"friends"—to be part of, and alter, the perceptual and visual experience of the objects in the space. Through his work, Louie exploits the logics of wallpaper design to construct a habitable series of rooms, imprinted wearable suits, and a series of wallpaper prints. Hung on the walls will be a series of architectural collages by Zaima.

Small Planets: Imaginative Creations from Another Planet
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

J.P. Crangle: Paintings on board and sculpture
Dan Shanahan: Hand-colored prints
Sharon Alama: Colorful paper jewelry

Joanne Balfour and Barb Schramm: Theorums and Victorian Santas
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Both Barbara Schramm and Joanne Balfour are well known in the Central New York art community. Schramm is a painter of old-world Victorian Santas, and Joanne Balfour uses 19th-century techniques for inspiration for her theorem paintings.

Joanne Balfour was drawn to the history and type of home decorative arts done in 17th and 18th century England and America. Her theorem paintings exhibit a technique practiced by young ladies in early 19th-century American academies. Stencils were often provided by their teachers and used in various combinations by the girls to create their oil paintings or watercolors on cotton velveteen, often embellished with freehand details.

Barbara Schramm's Old World, Victorian Santas (or Father Christmases) are painted on quarter-sawn Finger Lakes sycamore, oak or pine. The reverse of each painting indicates where in the world the depicted Santa became popular.

2016 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

There will be an exhibit reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

Light Work is pleased to announce the 2016 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition, featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting students include Allie Chernick, Courtney Garvin, Rachel Glynn, Hana Katz, Sarah Kearns, Shelley Kendall, Maddie McNamara, Elizabeth Olson, Jenna Petruzziello, and Meg Stahl.

Gallery Talk and Reception: Mary Mattingly: Mass and Obstruction
Light Work Gallery

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

There will be an exhibit reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm, with a Gallery Talk at 6:00 pm.

A solo exhibition of work by artist Mary Mattingly.

Mary Mattingly is an artist based in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Kitchen, Museo National de Belles Artes de la Habana, International Center of Photography, The Seoul Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and The Palais de Tokyo. She participated in smARTpower, an initiative between the U.S. Department of State and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the Philippines. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the James L. Knight Foundation, A Blade of Grass, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Yale University School of Art, The Harpo Foundation, NYFA, The Jerome Foundation, and The Art Matters Foundation. Her work has been featured in Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, on BBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, NBC, as well as on Art21's "New York Close Up" series. Her work has been included in books such as the Whitechapel/MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series titled Nature, edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Triple Canopy's Speculations, the Future Is... published by Artbook, and Henry Sayer's A World of Art, 8th edition, published by Pearson Education Inc. Mattingly participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in November 2014.

Read a review!

Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

Over and Over
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Work by Stefan Marc Zoller and Brent Michael Erickson, both graduate students in the SU School of Art, is featured in the new exhibition "Over and Over." Memory plays a significant role in the work of both artists, both in the sense of drawing from a memory and in the use of repetition. The repeated motif in Zoller's "Interior Witness Group" is based on a nondescript yet familiar space that has been the site of years of memory. Through its repetition, Zoller contemplates and confronts the host of memory to which it has borne witness. Erickson's "White Noise" presents works both in the present and past as documentation of temporary wall drawings, which no longer exist, are paired next to lithographs to question how the memory of a work can be used to inform new works. "Over and Over" is meant to question the role memory plays in the artist's studio as well as how these memories can relate to others to create a connection or conversation.

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Dutch Master Prints and Drawings: Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing was developed by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor of Art History in the College of Arts and Sciences, and includes 30 works on paper, selected from the Syracuse University Art Collection and a private collection. The exhibition presents etching, engravings, and drawings by Northern Baroque masters including Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan van de Velde II, and more. Scholarly research, including in-depth didactic labels, will be presented by graduate students Olivia Pek G'17 and Irene Garcia G'17. This exhibition was developed during the fall 2016 semester graduate level course, Graduate Research and Scholarly Writing, in the Department of Art and Music Histories, College of Arts and Sciences.

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.

Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In the landscape of contemporary practice, representational imagery has seemingly gone into hiding. With few exceptions, imagery that incorporates a realistic visual space, modeled figures and natural surroundings is largely absent from the lexicon of art making. Over his more than 40 years as a painter and professor at Syracuse University, internationally recognized artist and co-curator Jerome Within has championed representation and narrative in his work and his teaching. Poetry of Content is an examination and celebration of the work of five painters who share Witkin's interest in the subject: Bill Murphy, Gillian Pederson-Krag, Joel Sheesley, Robert Birmelin and Tim Lowly. Featuring over 40 pieces of original artwork, this exhibition displays a variety of representational imagery as paintings, drawings, and prints.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

Mastering a Medium: The Porcelains of Adelaide Alsop Robineau
Everson Museum of Art

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

Adelaide Alsop Robineau, a major figure in the Arts and Crafts movement and today considered one of America's preeminent art potters, is known for her exquisite porcelains decorated with intricate carvings and crystalline glazes. This exhibition features more than seventy of Robineau's works, a number of which were part of the Everson's original purchase of Robineau's porcelains in 1916, an acquisition that set the course for the Museum's long-term commitment to collecting ceramics. On display in the exhibition are many visitor favorites, including the famous Scarab Vase, believed to be Robineau's masterpiece.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

The Way I See It
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Way I See It" is a selection of photographs made by Syracuse City School students in response to the street photography of Helen Levitt and others. Working in collaboration with Syracuse University's Photography and Literacy Project (PAL Project), students from Edward Smith School, South West Community Center, and Institute of Technology at Central were given cameras and asked to document their world. Classes met weekly with Syracuse University student mentors, and students viewed and discussed the work of Levitt and contemporary photographers, edited their photographs and discussed the elements of picture making. Above all, the students learned that the camera can be a tool to tell a story and give a voice — a voice that deserves to be heard.

Blades for Art
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Impressions of large-scale, hand-carved woodblocks, pressed by an industrial steamroller and made into finely-rolled relief prints on white cotton muslin.

This exhibit presents the work of students from Syracuse University's Printmaking Program and a group of Syracuse-area residents, mostly youths, who participated in the workshop.

Mary Mattingly: Selected Video Work
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A special Wednesday-night screening at UVP Everson takes place tonight in celebration of the reception and gallery talk with the artist at Light Work from 5:00-7:00 pm.

This short exhibition of selected video work by multimedia artist Mary Mattingly is held in conjunction with her solo show at Light Work Gallery. Through the building of ecosystems and mobile environments, Mattingly's work explores issues of access to basic resources, supply and waste chains, and our shared present and future.

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Join us for a Lunchtime Lecture with curator David L. Prince. Robert Kipniss' printmaking was initially spurred by commercial considerations but over a relatively short time frame the artist developed an aesthetic interest and facility for the medium. The prints in this exhibition examine subjects similar to his paintings, but offer different insights, often reflecting the print medium's particular visual and technical characteristics of line and tone.

Jazz at the Plaza: John Spillett
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
LeMoyne Plaza
1135 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Pianists John Spradling and Christopher Spinelli
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Pianists John Spradling and Christopher Spinelli, an emerging artist from John Spradling's studio, perform Beethoven's Waldstein" sonata, Rachmaninov's Suite No. 2 for two pianos, and pieces by Chopin and Kapustin.

Meet the Orchestra at Your Library: Brass Instruments
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

Price: Free
Salina Free Library
100 Belmont St., Mattydale

Introduce your child to the orchestra and the instrument families within. Symphoria musicians share stories about their instruments and what it's like to play in an orchestra. Listen to them play and see the instruments up close!

Attend any Meet the Orchestra at Your Library event and your child in Grades K-4 will receive a passport. Show this passport to receive priority seating (and a prize for attending) at Symphoria's Meet the Orchestra performance at Inspiration Hall on Saturday, February 6, 2016.

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Redhouse

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

Hermia loves "bad boy" Lysander, but her father wants her to marry Demetrius, who's also the heartthrob of her best-friend-forever, Helena. Threatened with death or a convent if she doesn't do what Daddy wants, Hermia and Lysander head for the woods. With Helena and Demetrius in hot pursuit, they — and some well-meaning, artistically challenged local Thespians — run right into a magical free-for-all between Lumberjack Oberon, the Fairy King, and Hippy Titania, his Fairy Queen. It's a wild night for lovers and lunatics, swirling with Adirondack-inspired flourishes, in this family-friendly comedy by William Shakespeare.

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Stupid F***ing Bird
Syracuse Stage
Howard Shalwitz, director

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

A ripe mash-up of mock and awe marks this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov's The Seagull. Award-winning playwright Aaron Posner wages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true meaning of it all. An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother's generation. A nubile young actress wrestles with an aging Hollywood star for the affections of a renowned novelist. And everyone discovers just how disappointing love, art, and growing up can be. A huge hit for D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre where it has been revived twice and performed to sold-out houses.

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