Thursday, June 20, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings and sketches by Skaneateles artist Hetty Easter and her Sketch Club students will be on display. Hetty and her students created all the artwork while outside. Easter's Sketch Club gives children the opportunity to enjoy being creative in a relaxed setting. She started the club last September. It meets approximately once a week after school, with a break during the coldest winter months. This exhibit will include work from more than 20 children, in grades 1-6, who have participated in the group since its inception.

They Left 150 Years Ago
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

"They Left 150 Years Ago," a solo photography exhibition by Jason DeBose, is a visual introduction to the Finnish city of Tampere and its local lifestyle, as well as a visual look at the Finnish influence on America's northeast cities and at Finnish-American heritage. The exhibition also aims to reenergize the dormant sister city relationship between the cities of Syracuse, NY, and Tampere, Finland. Official ties originally established over 20 years ago with the co-hosting of a boxing competition. This exhibit will be the first portion of a two-part engagement that focuses on the sister city relationship. The second portion, a premier screening of the Finnish black comedy film, Iron Sky will be announced shortly.

Jason DeBose is an acclaimed photographer from Pasadena, CA. Mr. DeBose's work has been showcased internationally, including in Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Estonia, and United States.

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press. Founded by Barney Rosset in 1951, Grove Press became one of the 20th-century's great avant-garde publishing houses. What began as a small independent publisher on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village grew into a multimillion dollar publishing company that has been credited with introducing important authors from around the world to American readers during the postwar period.

Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable Victorian Library. Each book published by Grove, the exhibition reveals, was in its own way, a "strange victory." For while Grove altered the American literary landscape and its relationship to social mores, equality, and freedom of expression, Grove also aggressively deployed savvy marketing strategies, became embroiled in labor union battles, floundered in its own success, and offended the sensibilities of not only "squares," but feminists, Marxists, academics, and many others. Strange Victories tells the complicated story of Grove's many literary and political achievements, whose profound influence on American culture endures today.

Splendor in the Glass: Rain Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The June show features new stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho. The Michos specialize in stained glass for your home and garden.

Saturation of Color
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by ceramist Jerry Randall of Tully and silkscreen artist Michael Foster of Marcellus will be featured.

Randall, whose works have appeared in more than 60 shows nationwide, exhibited this past year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show and at shows in Atlanta, Boston, Northampton, MA, and Nashua, NH. Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

Foster, who graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in May with a bachelor's degree in architectural studies, was represented in Imagine's May show, "HWS Printmaking Workshop." In addition to Imagine, he has exhibited at HWS's Davis Gallery and at the Hobart and William Smith Library. During his junior year, he studied at Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, in Rome.

Earth Tones: Works by Carol Boyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Earth Tones is an exhibit of the fabric art of Carol Boyer, a fiber artist who has been creating non-traditional quilts for almost 40 years.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

The Last Hurrah
Szozda Gallery

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

In a final tribute to the many Central New York artists who have shown at Szozda Gallery, owner Caroline Szozda-McGowan has chosen to do a salon-style multimedia show of their works to cover all walls throughout the entire Delavan Center display areas. Called "The Last Hurrah," the retrospective exhibit ends Sunday, June 30, with a closing reception that also marks the official closing of the gallery.

Bloom
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Bloom" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition features artwork with the theme of renewal and investigates the innate beauty of nature. The show includes drawing, photography, watercolor, sculpture, and ceramics.

Participating artists include Anne Novado Capuccilli, Willson Cummer, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Kelly Sullivan, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

Read a review!

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting" is a collection of oil and acrylic pieces on canvas showcasing three contemporary Colombian artists exploring non-figurative art. The exhibit is conceived as a bridge-building opportunity and artistic exchange between artists residing at home and in the diaspora, in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. It includes paintings by Fernando Manrique, Rafael Ordoñez, and Esperanza Tielbaard Pazmiño, all of whom explore the of textural and composition possibilities in abstract art.

The artistic proposals of Manrique, Ordoñez and Pazmiño share an interest in communicating the rich sensory experiences and of the conceptual suggestions possible in pictorial abstraction. Their works explore alternative ways of engaging reality and ask viewers to see through the senses as they travel through interweaving forms, suggestive textures, and provoking compositions. Their canvases challenge accepted distinctions between abstract and figurative painting, as well as between purist and committed art from Latin America, since they incorporate issues of identity, technology, nature, and affect as themes to be explored through the senses.

The collection invites us to be seduced by the mix and to reflect on our understanding of artistic creation and perception, and changing patterns in the 21st century.

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

An exhibit of photos by the participants of the teen photography workshop at La Casita in collaboration with the Department of Child and Family Studies of Syracuse University. The program is part of the Creative Corner Program at La Casita which is a multi-modal artistic space in which children and youth explore diverse forms and processes of art-making. In addition, the Teen Photography Workshop series is part of the 2013 Reducing Teen Violence Initiative in the Near West Side.

Remnants of a Secret War: Photographs by Mike Greenlar
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

An award-winning photographer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, Mike Greenlar traveled 10 times to a remote mountain region of Laos to document the effects of cluster bombing on the Hmong people. The US covert bombing campaign between 1964 and 1973 gave Laos the distinction of being the most bombed country in the history of warfare--over two million tons of ordnance was dropped. Mike documented life in two resettlement villages where the Hmong continue to farm land rife with unexploded cluster bombs and other munitions. His work shows the resourcefulness of a people who rely on each other, and on those very bombs, for their livelihood. The result is a stunning collection of documentary photographs. "Remnants of a Secret War," also the title of his recently published book, displays both some of the collection found in the book and some never before published. The legacy of the "secret" bombings of Laos takes many forms and offers many stories. In this collection of painfully yet beautifully rendered black and white photographs, he shares some of them with us.

Trees: Totems of Life
bc Restaurant

bc Restaurant
247 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Maria Rizzo is known for her paintings that celebrate trees, nature, and life. bc Restaurant will be the last Syracuse venue in which Rizzo's series, "Trees: Totems of Life," will be shown before hanging on the walls of the Living Room Gallery at St. Peter's Church in New York City.

Academic Art...Teachers That Do: Works by Mark McIntyre
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Opening reception for "Academic Art...Teachers That Do," featuring the work of Mark McIntyre who teaches art at Tecumseh Elementary School in the Jamesville-DeWitt school system. Mark, who will be in attendance, will have a series of original drawings called "Thornden Nightfall" as well as a series of Mezotints called "The Aristocrat" and he will also be installing a ceramic sculpture piece.

Let It Flow: A Path of Ease
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

Pourings, dyed fabric journeys, and henna creations -- acrylics on canvas and mixed media. Suzanne Masters is a henna artist, a healing arts teacher, and an alternative therapies coach.

Open House
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Delavan Center, #119
112 Wyoming St., Syracuse

Our doors will be open -- browse our gift shop and visit with the guild's artists.

Facing the Facts
Westcott Community Art Gallery
Open Figure Drawing

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

There will be a reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm, with light refreshments and special guest musician Jesse Collins on the saxophone. The reception is presented in conjunction with Th3, the Third Thursday citywide art walk.

Open Figure Drawing presents their 2013 Portrait show "Facing the Facts."

UVP Annual Summer Review: Sightings by Shimon Attie
Urban Video Project

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

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

The Goo House Comedy Show
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $3
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Goo House, a comedy group from Rochester, makes their first Syracuse appearance.

Pork Pie Hat
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Join Salt City Improv Theatre for 60 minutes of non-stop laughter!

Spatial Profiling
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The self-proclaimed Susan Boyle of comedy, Anna Phillips performs her first one-woman show combining elements of stand-up comedy, storytelling, and poetry to share her outlook on life from Baltimore to Syracuse. Tales of addiction, violence, weight gain, depression, and more sprinkled with humor along the way, this level of vulnerability on stage is a new experiment for this up-and-coming local comedienne.

Spring Collection: Dancing from Chicago to Milan
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Ruth Arena and Dancers present an evening of Modern Dance. Enjoy a variety of dance pieces ranging from the joyful to the exuberant, silly, and poignant. Ruth Arena and Melissa Gould present original choreography performed by dancers from Ballet & Dance of Upstate NY.

Bombies
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The most appalling episode of lawless cruelty in American history is the bombing of Laos. If you want to know what Afghanistan will be like in 20 years, watch Bombies. In a cohesive, well-documented approach, Bombies beautifully captures the history and effects of the U.S. carpet bombing in Laos. Between 1964 and 1973 the United States conducted a secret air war, dropping over 2 million tons of bombs and making tiny Laos the most heavily bombed country in history. Millions of these cluster bombs did not explode when dropped, leaving the country massively contaminated with bombies as dangerous now as when they fell 30 years ago. Bombies examines the problem of unexploded cluster bombs through the personal experiences of a group of Laotians and foreigners and argues for their elimination as a weapon of war. Unfortunately they are still a standard part of the US arsenal and were dropped in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. (2002, 57 minutes, directed by Jack Silberman)

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

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

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

Total Request Live
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Join regionally renowned vocalist Greg Giovanini in a zany, hilarious, heartwarming performance of original works and re-interpreted classics. Not your average concert, filled with unexpected twists, turns and characters -- you'll never know what is going to happen next!

Aoife O'Donovan
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Enlightened Men
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Enlightened Men is a suite of three 15-minute plays. One piece deals with the nature of love and how a man come to terms with it. Another deals with power and how it so defines a man. And a third conversation discusses the very presence of man and the effect that it has. While each of these conversations are different, by the end of all of them, one or both men will have become enlightened--whether they like it or not.

The Trial
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

It's the court case of the year and you never know what will happen next! When male nurse Chaz is put on trial, will his friends and family be enough to prove his innocence? Dedicated journalists, power hungry lawyers, fame-seeking judges, and other zany characters abound in this award-winning original work presented by the Jamesville-DeWitt High School Drama Club in a special scholastic stage performance.

Divine Milieu
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

L. John Cieslinski delivers a compelling performance as 20th-century philosopher, theologian, paleontologist, and priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Discouraged and frustrated by the Vatican's efforts to silence him for his views on evolution and his Order's heavy-handedness in dealing with him, Teilhard confides his feelings to a sympathetic friend. Raw with truth and emotion, a lifetime struggle between religion and science rests upon one last confession.

The Strange Case of Sheik Yerbuti (or Camel Lot)
Acme Mystery Company

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

Welcome to the Western Sahara and the tiny camel-trading nation of Yerbuti. Tonight, Ambassador Lassiter plans to announce a peace accord between the Yerbuti and their ancient enemies, the Fugari. Hold onto your pith helmet. Rumor has it that Yerbuti might be sitting on a large, untapped deposit of oil and you know what that means. Everyone will be going all out to get their hands on Yerbuti.

A Little Tipsy
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Join sideshow artist David Doyle on his quest to earn some cash to keep up his luxurious lifestyle of expensive beers and cheap ramen going in the best way he knows how--hurting himself for your entertainment! Having lost a bar bet or two in his life, he's come up with quite the repertoire of stupid human tricks. Things will be swallowed, bondage applied, nails will be laid upon, and much more.

Friday, June 21, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings and sketches by Skaneateles artist Hetty Easter and her Sketch Club students will be on display. Hetty and her students created all the artwork while outside. Easter's Sketch Club gives children the opportunity to enjoy being creative in a relaxed setting. She started the club last September. It meets approximately once a week after school, with a break during the coldest winter months. This exhibit will include work from more than 20 children, in grades 1-6, who have participated in the group since its inception.

They Left 150 Years Ago
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

"They Left 150 Years Ago," a solo photography exhibition by Jason DeBose, is a visual introduction to the Finnish city of Tampere and its local lifestyle, as well as a visual look at the Finnish influence on America's northeast cities and at Finnish-American heritage. The exhibition also aims to reenergize the dormant sister city relationship between the cities of Syracuse, NY, and Tampere, Finland. Official ties originally established over 20 years ago with the co-hosting of a boxing competition. This exhibit will be the first portion of a two-part engagement that focuses on the sister city relationship. The second portion, a premier screening of the Finnish black comedy film, Iron Sky will be announced shortly.

Jason DeBose is an acclaimed photographer from Pasadena, CA. Mr. DeBose's work has been showcased internationally, including in Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Estonia, and United States.

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press. Founded by Barney Rosset in 1951, Grove Press became one of the 20th-century's great avant-garde publishing houses. What began as a small independent publisher on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village grew into a multimillion dollar publishing company that has been credited with introducing important authors from around the world to American readers during the postwar period.

Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable Victorian Library. Each book published by Grove, the exhibition reveals, was in its own way, a "strange victory." For while Grove altered the American literary landscape and its relationship to social mores, equality, and freedom of expression, Grove also aggressively deployed savvy marketing strategies, became embroiled in labor union battles, floundered in its own success, and offended the sensibilities of not only "squares," but feminists, Marxists, academics, and many others. Strange Victories tells the complicated story of Grove's many literary and political achievements, whose profound influence on American culture endures today.

Opening: Give & Take: The Currency of Culture
Community Folk Art Center

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm, featuring a hair-related art performance by Nontsikelelo Mutiti. Visitors will also have the opportunity to participate in the creation of an art score, an interactive performance, by Aisha Cousins.

"Give & Take: The Currency of Culture" features new, site-specific installations and performance art by Aisha Cousins, Nzuji De Magalhaes and Nontsikelelo Mutiti. The exhibition explores the complex and symbiotic relationship between Africans and African Americans. The artists in this exhibit investigate a wide range of topics from Fela Kuti's Africa American lover, Sandra Smith, to misconceptions about Africa and Africans.

Read a review!

Splendor in the Glass: Rain Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The June show features new stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho. The Michos specialize in stained glass for your home and garden.

Saturation of Color
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by ceramist Jerry Randall of Tully and silkscreen artist Michael Foster of Marcellus will be featured.

Randall, whose works have appeared in more than 60 shows nationwide, exhibited this past year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show and at shows in Atlanta, Boston, Northampton, MA, and Nashua, NH. Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

Foster, who graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in May with a bachelor's degree in architectural studies, was represented in Imagine's May show, "HWS Printmaking Workshop." In addition to Imagine, he has exhibited at HWS's Davis Gallery and at the Hobart and William Smith Library. During his junior year, he studied at Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, in Rome.

Earth Tones: Works by Carol Boyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Earth Tones is an exhibit of the fabric art of Carol Boyer, a fiber artist who has been creating non-traditional quilts for almost 40 years.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

The Last Hurrah
Szozda Gallery

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

In a final tribute to the many Central New York artists who have shown at Szozda Gallery, owner Caroline Szozda-McGowan has chosen to do a salon-style multimedia show of their works to cover all walls throughout the entire Delavan Center display areas. Called "The Last Hurrah," the retrospective exhibit ends Sunday, June 30, with a closing reception that also marks the official closing of the gallery.

Bloom
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Bloom" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition features artwork with the theme of renewal and investigates the innate beauty of nature. The show includes drawing, photography, watercolor, sculpture, and ceramics.

Participating artists include Anne Novado Capuccilli, Willson Cummer, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Kelly Sullivan, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

Read a review!

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting" is a collection of oil and acrylic pieces on canvas showcasing three contemporary Colombian artists exploring non-figurative art. The exhibit is conceived as a bridge-building opportunity and artistic exchange between artists residing at home and in the diaspora, in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. It includes paintings by Fernando Manrique, Rafael Ordoñez, and Esperanza Tielbaard Pazmiño, all of whom explore the of textural and composition possibilities in abstract art.

The artistic proposals of Manrique, Ordoñez and Pazmiño share an interest in communicating the rich sensory experiences and of the conceptual suggestions possible in pictorial abstraction. Their works explore alternative ways of engaging reality and ask viewers to see through the senses as they travel through interweaving forms, suggestive textures, and provoking compositions. Their canvases challenge accepted distinctions between abstract and figurative painting, as well as between purist and committed art from Latin America, since they incorporate issues of identity, technology, nature, and affect as themes to be explored through the senses.

The collection invites us to be seduced by the mix and to reflect on our understanding of artistic creation and perception, and changing patterns in the 21st century.

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

An exhibit of photos by the participants of the teen photography workshop at La Casita in collaboration with the Department of Child and Family Studies of Syracuse University. The program is part of the Creative Corner Program at La Casita which is a multi-modal artistic space in which children and youth explore diverse forms and processes of art-making. In addition, the Teen Photography Workshop series is part of the 2013 Reducing Teen Violence Initiative in the Near West Side.

Remnants of a Secret War: Photographs by Mike Greenlar
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

An award-winning photographer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, Mike Greenlar traveled 10 times to a remote mountain region of Laos to document the effects of cluster bombing on the Hmong people. The US covert bombing campaign between 1964 and 1973 gave Laos the distinction of being the most bombed country in the history of warfare--over two million tons of ordnance was dropped. Mike documented life in two resettlement villages where the Hmong continue to farm land rife with unexploded cluster bombs and other munitions. His work shows the resourcefulness of a people who rely on each other, and on those very bombs, for their livelihood. The result is a stunning collection of documentary photographs. "Remnants of a Secret War," also the title of his recently published book, displays both some of the collection found in the book and some never before published. The legacy of the "secret" bombings of Laos takes many forms and offers many stories. In this collection of painfully yet beautifully rendered black and white photographs, he shares some of them with us.

Opening: Convergence: Where Line Meets Form
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

R. Jason Howard: internationally recognized glass artist using both traditional Italian techniques and self-invented processes

Marilyn Forth: uses the ancient art process of batik in a contemporary fashion--painting dye onto silk

DeeAnn von Hunke: new works in jewelry design exploring combinations of medium, materials, and methods in metalsmithing

UVP Annual Summer Review: Sightings by Shimon Attie
Urban Video Project

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

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

Pork Pie Hat
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Join Salt City Improv Theatre for 60 minutes of non-stop laughter!

Spatial Profiling
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The self-proclaimed Susan Boyle of comedy, Anna Phillips performs her first one-woman show combining elements of stand-up comedy, storytelling, and poetry to share her outlook on life from Baltimore to Syracuse. Tales of addiction, violence, weight gain, depression, and more sprinkled with humor along the way, this level of vulnerability on stage is a new experiment for this up-and-coming local comedienne.

Spring Collection: Dancing from Chicago to Milan
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Ruth Arena and Dancers present an evening of Modern Dance. Enjoy a variety of dance pieces ranging from the joyful to the exuberant, silly, and poignant. Ruth Arena and Melissa Gould present original choreography performed by dancers from Ballet & Dance of Upstate NY.

Polish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Polish food, music, dancing. For more information, visit www.polishscholarship.com.

4:00-7:00: Melody Lane (Rochester)
7:00-10:00 pm: Desire (Toronto)

Unfinished Spaces
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free (donations to Pastors for Peace accepted)
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Cuba's ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro's Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.

In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba's National Art Schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana, Cuba. Construction of their radical designs began immediately and the school's first classes soon followed. Dancers, musicians, and artists from all over the country reveled in the beauty of the schools, but as the dream of the revolution quickly became a reality, construction was abruptly halted and the architects and their designs were deemed irrelevant in the prevailing political climate. Forty years later the schools are in use, but remain unfinished and decaying. Castro has invited the exiled architects back to finish their unrealized dream. "Unfinished Spaces" features intimate footage of Fidel Castro, revealing his devotion to creating a worldwide showcase for art, and it documents the struggle and passion of three revolutionary artists whose inspiration and ideals could ultimately destroy them. (86 minutes, 2011)

Sponsored by the May Memorial Social Justice Committee and Caribbean Latin America Coalition.

Premiere: King Lee

Price: $5-$10
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

"King Lee" is a crowd-funded feature film produced by an all-volunteer cast and crew that is set, and was shot in, Syracuse. Set in 1970s Syracuse, it is a story about a mayor whose corruption threatens to destroy all of the good that he has done for the city he loves. Though based on the notorious real-life Syracuse mayor Lee Alexander, the movie is fictional. The movie addresses some of the challenges faced by American cities in the 1970s, and parallels factual events is some unusual ways. We don't want to tell too much about the story as there are some real surprises...and you won't believe how it ends.

For more information, visit weforlee.com.

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

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

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

Total Request Live
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Join regionally renowned vocalist Greg Giovanini in a zany, hilarious, heartwarming performance of original works and re-interpreted classics. Not your average concert, filled with unexpected twists, turns and characters -- you'll never know what is going to happen next!

First Day of Summer: Brillz, with Turnup, Chemicals of Creation, Natronic
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Divine Milieu
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

L. John Cieslinski delivers a compelling performance as 20th-century philosopher, theologian, paleontologist, and priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Discouraged and frustrated by the Vatican's efforts to silence him for his views on evolution and his Order's heavy-handedness in dealing with him, Teilhard confides his feelings to a sympathetic friend. Raw with truth and emotion, a lifetime struggle between religion and science rests upon one last confession.

The Trial
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

It's the court case of the year and you never know what will happen next! When male nurse Chaz is put on trial, will his friends and family be enough to prove his innocence? Dedicated journalists, power hungry lawyers, fame-seeking judges, and other zany characters abound in this award-winning original work presented by the Jamesville-DeWitt High School Drama Club in a special scholastic stage performance.

Titus Andronicus
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Dan Stevens, director

Price: Pay what you can
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating.

Read a review!

A Little Tipsy
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Join sideshow artist David Doyle on his quest to earn some cash to keep up his luxurious lifestyle of expensive beers and cheap ramen going in the best way he knows how--hurting himself for your entertainment! Having lost a bar bet or two in his life, he's come up with quite the repertoire of stupid human tricks. Things will be swallowed, bondage applied, nails will be laid upon, and much more.

Squids will be Squids
CNY Shakespeare
Terry LaCasse, director

Price: Pay what you can
Jewish Community Center
5655 Thompson Rd., Dewitt

The stage adaptation of John Sciezska's famous children's book, Squids Will be Squids. Three actors take on a multitude of zany characters and crazy fables. This show is perfect for kids and the whole family.

Read a review!

The Breakfast Club ... A Tribute
Central New York Playhouse

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

In a tribute to the original John Hughes film and a fund raiser for CNY Playhouse. Newly adapted for the stage and starring:
Brian Johnson: Justin Polly
Claire Standish: Kim Panek
Andrew Clark: Geoff Hawthorne
John Bender: Jordan Glaski
Allison Reynolds: Kasey McHale
Richard Vernon: Nathan Faudree
Carl: Sean Pratt

Read a Review!

Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical was created for the New York Fringe Festival in 2001. The story, dialogue and characters are mostly faithful to the original film, performed as a tongue-in-cheek spoof. After playing to sell-out crowds, it was picked up and had a successful four-month run Off-Broadway in 2002. Since then, it's played to packed houses around the world.

Adapted by Erica Schmidt; composed by Andrew Sherman; choreographer: Jodi Bova-Mele.

Read a Review!

From Cuba to 'Cuse
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The unapologetic story of Jose Miguel Hernandez, raised with the wisdom of his grandmother during the Cuban Revolution in a little town called Santa Clara: "This is my story. My personal story of growing up in Cuba and the Culture Clash I encountered upon immigrating to the United States. I will be sharing stories of my life that I shouldn't be telling you, but I am going to tell them anyway. These stories are my gift. If you want to cry, cry; if you want to laugh, laugh. You'll leave with part of my essence, my being, my soul..."

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings and sketches by Skaneateles artist Hetty Easter and her Sketch Club students will be on display. Hetty and her students created all the artwork while outside. Easter's Sketch Club gives children the opportunity to enjoy being creative in a relaxed setting. She started the club last September. It meets approximately once a week after school, with a break during the coldest winter months. This exhibit will include work from more than 20 children, in grades 1-6, who have participated in the group since its inception.

Convergence: Where Line Meets Form
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

R. Jason Howard: internationally recognized glass artist using both traditional Italian techniques and self-invented processes

Marilyn Forth: uses the ancient art process of batik in a contemporary fashion--painting dye onto silk

DeeAnn von Hunke: new works in jewelry design exploring combinations of medium, materials, and methods in metalsmithing

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

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20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

Splendor in the Glass: Rain Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The June show features new stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho. The Michos specialize in stained glass for your home and garden.

Saturation of Color
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by ceramist Jerry Randall of Tully and silkscreen artist Michael Foster of Marcellus will be featured.

Randall, whose works have appeared in more than 60 shows nationwide, exhibited this past year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show and at shows in Atlanta, Boston, Northampton, MA, and Nashua, NH. Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

Foster, who graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in May with a bachelor's degree in architectural studies, was represented in Imagine's May show, "HWS Printmaking Workshop." In addition to Imagine, he has exhibited at HWS's Davis Gallery and at the Hobart and William Smith Library. During his junior year, he studied at Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, in Rome.

Earth Tones: Works by Carol Boyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Earth Tones is an exhibit of the fabric art of Carol Boyer, a fiber artist who has been creating non-traditional quilts for almost 40 years.

The Last Hurrah
Szozda Gallery

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

In a final tribute to the many Central New York artists who have shown at Szozda Gallery, owner Caroline Szozda-McGowan has chosen to do a salon-style multimedia show of their works to cover all walls throughout the entire Delavan Center display areas. Called "The Last Hurrah," the retrospective exhibit ends Sunday, June 30, with a closing reception that also marks the official closing of the gallery.

Give & Take: The Currency of Culture
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Give & Take: The Currency of Culture" features new, site-specific installations and performance art by Aisha Cousins, Nzuji De Magalhaes and Nontsikelelo Mutiti. The exhibition explores the complex and symbiotic relationship between Africans and African Americans. The artists in this exhibit investigate a wide range of topics from Fela Kuti's Africa American lover, Sandra Smith, to misconceptions about Africa and Africans.

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Bloom
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Bloom" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition features artwork with the theme of renewal and investigates the innate beauty of nature. The show includes drawing, photography, watercolor, sculpture, and ceramics.

Participating artists include Anne Novado Capuccilli, Willson Cummer, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Kelly Sullivan, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

Remnants of a Secret War: Photographs by Mike Greenlar
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

An award-winning photographer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, Mike Greenlar traveled 10 times to a remote mountain region of Laos to document the effects of cluster bombing on the Hmong people. The US covert bombing campaign between 1964 and 1973 gave Laos the distinction of being the most bombed country in the history of warfare--over two million tons of ordnance was dropped. Mike documented life in two resettlement villages where the Hmong continue to farm land rife with unexploded cluster bombs and other munitions. His work shows the resourcefulness of a people who rely on each other, and on those very bombs, for their livelihood. The result is a stunning collection of documentary photographs. "Remnants of a Secret War," also the title of his recently published book, displays both some of the collection found in the book and some never before published. The legacy of the "secret" bombings of Laos takes many forms and offers many stories. In this collection of painfully yet beautifully rendered black and white photographs, he shares some of them with us.

UVP Annual Summer Review: Sightings by Shimon Attie
Urban Video Project

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

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

Spatial Profiling
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The self-proclaimed Susan Boyle of comedy, Anna Phillips performs her first one-woman show combining elements of stand-up comedy, storytelling, and poetry to share her outlook on life from Baltimore to Syracuse. Tales of addiction, violence, weight gain, depression, and more sprinkled with humor along the way, this level of vulnerability on stage is a new experiment for this up-and-coming local comedienne.

Spring Collection: Dancing from Chicago to Milan
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Ruth Arena and Dancers present an evening of Modern Dance. Enjoy a variety of dance pieces ranging from the joyful to the exuberant, silly, and poignant. Ruth Arena and Melissa Gould present original choreography performed by dancers from Ballet & Dance of Upstate NY.

Polish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Polish food, music, dancing. For more information, visit www.polishscholarship.com.

12:00-1:00 pm: Salt City Brass
1:00-2:00 pm: Figiel Brothers Band (Albany)
2:00-3:00 pm: Salt City Brass
3:00-4:00 pm: Figiel Brothers Band
4:00-5:00 pm: Salt City Brass
5:00-6:00 pm: Figiel Brothers Band
6:00 pm: Pole of the Year and Lechowia Dance Company
7:00 pm: Lenny Gomulka (Springfield, MA)
8:00 pm: Al Piatkowski (Canastota)
8:30-10:00 pm: Lenny Gomulka

Beautiful Thing
ArtRage Gallery

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

At once warm, witty, and honest, Beautiful Thing reveals the lives and inner emotions of two teenage boys in working-class London who despite themselves become more than just friends. Jamie and Ste are as different as can be, one introspective and sensitive, the other brash and athletic. But grappling with malfunctioning parents will draw them together along with surprising feelings for each other in a film that is equally "hard to resist" (film.com). (1996, 90 minutes)

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

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

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

An Evening of Jazz

Price: Freewill offering
Westminster Presbyterian Church
1601 Park St., Syracuse

Performers include Cinnamon Jones, Jesse Collins, Kara Shiedmantle, Cookie Coogan, Tyrone Newton, and Isaiah Simpson. Proceeds to benefit the Summer Enrichment Program, which provides reading, arts, music, and piano lessons for urban children in 2nd-8th grade.

Total Request Live
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Join regionally renowned vocalist Greg Giovanini in a zany, hilarious, heartwarming performance of original works and re-interpreted classics. Not your average concert, filled with unexpected twists, turns and characters -- you'll never know what is going to happen next!

Hooray for Hollywood!
Berwald Singers
Ian Kirkpatrick, conductor

Price: $10 regular, $5 children ages 6-12, free for children 5 and under
Blessed Sacrament Church
3127 James St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-345-5256.

McLovins
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Macbeth
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Enjoy this 60-minute outdoor adaptation of Shakespeare's classic thriller! Six performers play all the roles, blending inventive physicality, evocative design, and original text to create this mesmerizing and chilling tale of greed and ambition. Set in a 20th-century militaristic society, this accessible adaptation will appeal to audiences new to Macbeth as well as those already acquainted with this renowned tragedy.

Read a review!

A Little Tipsy
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Join sideshow artist David Doyle on his quest to earn some cash to keep up his luxurious lifestyle of expensive beers and cheap ramen going in the best way he knows how--hurting himself for your entertainment! Having lost a bar bet or two in his life, he's come up with quite the repertoire of stupid human tricks. Things will be swallowed, bondage applied, nails will be laid upon, and much more.

Titus Andronicus
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Dan Stevens, director

Price: Pay what you can
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating.

Read a review!

Divine Milieu
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

L. John Cieslinski delivers a compelling performance as 20th-century philosopher, theologian, paleontologist, and priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Discouraged and frustrated by the Vatican's efforts to silence him for his views on evolution and his Order's heavy-handedness in dealing with him, Teilhard confides his feelings to a sympathetic friend. Raw with truth and emotion, a lifetime struggle between religion and science rests upon one last confession.

Squids will be Squids
CNY Shakespeare
Terry LaCasse, director

Price: Pay what you can
Jewish Community Center
5655 Thompson Rd., Dewitt

The stage adaptation of John Sciezska's famous children's book, Squids Will be Squids. Three actors take on a multitude of zany characters and crazy fables. This show is perfect for kids and the whole family.

Read a review!

Macbeth
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: Free
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Enjoy this 60-minute outdoor adaptation of Shakespeare's classic thriller! Six performers play all the roles, blending inventive physicality, evocative design, and original text to create this mesmerizing and chilling tale of greed and ambition. Set in a 20th-century militaristic society, this accessible adaptation will appeal to audiences new to Macbeth as well as those already acquainted with this renowned tragedy.

Read a review!

The Breakfast Club ... A Tribute
Central New York Playhouse

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

In a tribute to the original John Hughes film and a fund raiser for CNY Playhouse. Newly adapted for the stage and starring:
Brian Johnson: Justin Polly
Claire Standish: Kim Panek
Andrew Clark: Geoff Hawthorne
John Bender: Jordan Glaski
Allison Reynolds: Kasey McHale
Richard Vernon: Nathan Faudree
Carl: Sean Pratt

Read a Review!

Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical was created for the New York Fringe Festival in 2001. The story, dialogue and characters are mostly faithful to the original film, performed as a tongue-in-cheek spoof. After playing to sell-out crowds, it was picked up and had a successful four-month run Off-Broadway in 2002. Since then, it's played to packed houses around the world.

Adapted by Erica Schmidt; composed by Andrew Sherman; choreographer: Jodi Bova-Mele.

Read a Review!

Enlightened Men
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: $7, plus one-time $3 access button
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Enlightened Men is a suite of three 15-minute plays. One piece deals with the nature of love and how a man come to terms with it. Another deals with power and how it so defines a man. And a third conversation discusses the very presence of man and the effect that it has. While each of these conversations are different, by the end of all of them, one or both men will have become enlightened--whether they like it or not.

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

The Last Hurrah
Szozda Gallery

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

In a final tribute to the many Central New York artists who have shown at Szozda Gallery, owner Caroline Szozda-McGowan has chosen to do a salon-style multimedia show of their works to cover all walls throughout the entire Delavan Center display areas. Called "The Last Hurrah," the retrospective exhibit ends Sunday, June 30, with a closing reception that also marks the official closing of the gallery.

Splendor in the Glass: Rain Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The June show features new stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho. The Michos specialize in stained glass for your home and garden.

Bloom
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Bloom" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition features artwork with the theme of renewal and investigates the innate beauty of nature. The show includes drawing, photography, watercolor, sculpture, and ceramics.

Participating artists include Anne Novado Capuccilli, Willson Cummer, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Kelly Sullivan, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Saturation of Color
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by ceramist Jerry Randall of Tully and silkscreen artist Michael Foster of Marcellus will be featured.

Randall, whose works have appeared in more than 60 shows nationwide, exhibited this past year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show and at shows in Atlanta, Boston, Northampton, MA, and Nashua, NH. Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

Foster, who graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in May with a bachelor's degree in architectural studies, was represented in Imagine's May show, "HWS Printmaking Workshop." In addition to Imagine, he has exhibited at HWS's Davis Gallery and at the Hobart and William Smith Library. During his junior year, he studied at Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, in Rome.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

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Polish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Polish food, music, dancing. For more information, visit www.polishscholarship.com.

12:00 pm: The Noise Boys (Syracuse)
1:00 pm: Lechowia Dance Company (Toronto)
2:00 pm: John Gora & Gorale (Burlington, Canada)
3:00 pm: Scholarship Awards, Miss Polonia
3:30-5:00 pm: John Gora & Gorale

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

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

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

Long Branch Jam

Price: $22 in advance, $30 at the door
Long Branch Park
Liverpool

1:30-2:15 pm: The Shakedown
2:30-3:20 pm: Master Thieves
3:40-4:30 pm: Los Blancos
4:50-6:00 pm: Emefe
6:30-8:00 pm: John Brown's Body
8:30-10:00 pm: Rusted Root

For tickets or more information, visit www.longbranchjam.com.

Greater Syracuse Honors Middle School Concert Band
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Bradly Ethington, conductor

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

The band is open to sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade band students by nomination of their band director.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; parking for patrons with disabilities is available in the Q1 lot. Patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

The Breakfast Club ... A Tribute
Central New York Playhouse

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

In a tribute to the original John Hughes film and a fund raiser for CNY Playhouse. Newly adapted for the stage and starring:
Brian Johnson: Justin Polly
Claire Standish: Kim Panek
Andrew Clark: Geoff Hawthorne
John Bender: Jordan Glaski
Allison Reynolds: Kasey McHale
Richard Vernon: Nathan Faudree
Carl: Sean Pratt

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Titus Andronicus
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Dan Stevens, director

Price: Pay what you can
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating.

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Monday, June 24, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings and sketches by Skaneateles artist Hetty Easter and her Sketch Club students will be on display. Hetty and her students created all the artwork while outside. Easter's Sketch Club gives children the opportunity to enjoy being creative in a relaxed setting. She started the club last September. It meets approximately once a week after school, with a break during the coldest winter months. This exhibit will include work from more than 20 children, in grades 1-6, who have participated in the group since its inception.

They Left 150 Years Ago
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

"They Left 150 Years Ago," a solo photography exhibition by Jason DeBose, is a visual introduction to the Finnish city of Tampere and its local lifestyle, as well as a visual look at the Finnish influence on America's northeast cities and at Finnish-American heritage. The exhibition also aims to reenergize the dormant sister city relationship between the cities of Syracuse, NY, and Tampere, Finland. Official ties originally established over 20 years ago with the co-hosting of a boxing competition. This exhibit will be the first portion of a two-part engagement that focuses on the sister city relationship. The second portion, a premier screening of the Finnish black comedy film, Iron Sky will be announced shortly.

Jason DeBose is an acclaimed photographer from Pasadena, CA. Mr. DeBose's work has been showcased internationally, including in Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Estonia, and United States.

Splendor in the Glass: Rain Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The June show features new stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho. The Michos specialize in stained glass for your home and garden.

Saturation of Color
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by ceramist Jerry Randall of Tully and silkscreen artist Michael Foster of Marcellus will be featured.

Randall, whose works have appeared in more than 60 shows nationwide, exhibited this past year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show and at shows in Atlanta, Boston, Northampton, MA, and Nashua, NH. Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

Foster, who graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in May with a bachelor's degree in architectural studies, was represented in Imagine's May show, "HWS Printmaking Workshop." In addition to Imagine, he has exhibited at HWS's Davis Gallery and at the Hobart and William Smith Library. During his junior year, he studied at Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, in Rome.

Earth Tones: Works by Carol Boyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Earth Tones is an exhibit of the fabric art of Carol Boyer, a fiber artist who has been creating non-traditional quilts for almost 40 years.

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

An exhibit of photos by the participants of the teen photography workshop at La Casita in collaboration with the Department of Child and Family Studies of Syracuse University. The program is part of the Creative Corner Program at La Casita which is a multi-modal artistic space in which children and youth explore diverse forms and processes of art-making. In addition, the Teen Photography Workshop series is part of the 2013 Reducing Teen Violence Initiative in the Near West Side.

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting" is a collection of oil and acrylic pieces on canvas showcasing three contemporary Colombian artists exploring non-figurative art. The exhibit is conceived as a bridge-building opportunity and artistic exchange between artists residing at home and in the diaspora, in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. It includes paintings by Fernando Manrique, Rafael Ordoñez, and Esperanza Tielbaard Pazmiño, all of whom explore the of textural and composition possibilities in abstract art.

The artistic proposals of Manrique, Ordoñez and Pazmiño share an interest in communicating the rich sensory experiences and of the conceptual suggestions possible in pictorial abstraction. Their works explore alternative ways of engaging reality and ask viewers to see through the senses as they travel through interweaving forms, suggestive textures, and provoking compositions. Their canvases challenge accepted distinctions between abstract and figurative painting, as well as between purist and committed art from Latin America, since they incorporate issues of identity, technology, nature, and affect as themes to be explored through the senses.

The collection invites us to be seduced by the mix and to reflect on our understanding of artistic creation and perception, and changing patterns in the 21st century.

Matt Chase & Thunder Canyon
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Country rock

Nation of Wealth, with Xombie, TDK Thundakattz, Catastrophe Me, Agrestic
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings and sketches by Skaneateles artist Hetty Easter and her Sketch Club students will be on display. Hetty and her students created all the artwork while outside. Easter's Sketch Club gives children the opportunity to enjoy being creative in a relaxed setting. She started the club last September. It meets approximately once a week after school, with a break during the coldest winter months. This exhibit will include work from more than 20 children, in grades 1-6, who have participated in the group since its inception.

They Left 150 Years Ago
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

"They Left 150 Years Ago," a solo photography exhibition by Jason DeBose, is a visual introduction to the Finnish city of Tampere and its local lifestyle, as well as a visual look at the Finnish influence on America's northeast cities and at Finnish-American heritage. The exhibition also aims to reenergize the dormant sister city relationship between the cities of Syracuse, NY, and Tampere, Finland. Official ties originally established over 20 years ago with the co-hosting of a boxing competition. This exhibit will be the first portion of a two-part engagement that focuses on the sister city relationship. The second portion, a premier screening of the Finnish black comedy film, Iron Sky will be announced shortly.

Jason DeBose is an acclaimed photographer from Pasadena, CA. Mr. DeBose's work has been showcased internationally, including in Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Estonia, and United States.

Convergence: Where Line Meets Form
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

R. Jason Howard: internationally recognized glass artist using both traditional Italian techniques and self-invented processes

Marilyn Forth: uses the ancient art process of batik in a contemporary fashion--painting dye onto silk

DeeAnn von Hunke: new works in jewelry design exploring combinations of medium, materials, and methods in metalsmithing

Give & Take: The Currency of Culture
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Give & Take: The Currency of Culture" features new, site-specific installations and performance art by Aisha Cousins, Nzuji De Magalhaes and Nontsikelelo Mutiti. The exhibition explores the complex and symbiotic relationship between Africans and African Americans. The artists in this exhibit investigate a wide range of topics from Fela Kuti's Africa American lover, Sandra Smith, to misconceptions about Africa and Africans.

Read a review!

Splendor in the Glass: Rain Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The June show features new stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho. The Michos specialize in stained glass for your home and garden.

Saturation of Color
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by ceramist Jerry Randall of Tully and silkscreen artist Michael Foster of Marcellus will be featured.

Randall, whose works have appeared in more than 60 shows nationwide, exhibited this past year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show and at shows in Atlanta, Boston, Northampton, MA, and Nashua, NH. Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

Foster, who graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in May with a bachelor's degree in architectural studies, was represented in Imagine's May show, "HWS Printmaking Workshop." In addition to Imagine, he has exhibited at HWS's Davis Gallery and at the Hobart and William Smith Library. During his junior year, he studied at Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, in Rome.

Earth Tones: Works by Carol Boyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Earth Tones is an exhibit of the fabric art of Carol Boyer, a fiber artist who has been creating non-traditional quilts for almost 40 years.

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

Read a review!

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

An exhibit of photos by the participants of the teen photography workshop at La Casita in collaboration with the Department of Child and Family Studies of Syracuse University. The program is part of the Creative Corner Program at La Casita which is a multi-modal artistic space in which children and youth explore diverse forms and processes of art-making. In addition, the Teen Photography Workshop series is part of the 2013 Reducing Teen Violence Initiative in the Near West Side.

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting" is a collection of oil and acrylic pieces on canvas showcasing three contemporary Colombian artists exploring non-figurative art. The exhibit is conceived as a bridge-building opportunity and artistic exchange between artists residing at home and in the diaspora, in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. It includes paintings by Fernando Manrique, Rafael Ordoñez, and Esperanza Tielbaard Pazmiño, all of whom explore the of textural and composition possibilities in abstract art.

The artistic proposals of Manrique, Ordoñez and Pazmiño share an interest in communicating the rich sensory experiences and of the conceptual suggestions possible in pictorial abstraction. Their works explore alternative ways of engaging reality and ask viewers to see through the senses as they travel through interweaving forms, suggestive textures, and provoking compositions. Their canvases challenge accepted distinctions between abstract and figurative painting, as well as between purist and committed art from Latin America, since they incorporate issues of identity, technology, nature, and affect as themes to be explored through the senses.

The collection invites us to be seduced by the mix and to reflect on our understanding of artistic creation and perception, and changing patterns in the 21st century.

Toubab Krewe, with Andrew & Noah Band, Solaris
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings and sketches by Skaneateles artist Hetty Easter and her Sketch Club students will be on display. Hetty and her students created all the artwork while outside. Easter's Sketch Club gives children the opportunity to enjoy being creative in a relaxed setting. She started the club last September. It meets approximately once a week after school, with a break during the coldest winter months. This exhibit will include work from more than 20 children, in grades 1-6, who have participated in the group since its inception.

They Left 150 Years Ago
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

"They Left 150 Years Ago," a solo photography exhibition by Jason DeBose, is a visual introduction to the Finnish city of Tampere and its local lifestyle, as well as a visual look at the Finnish influence on America's northeast cities and at Finnish-American heritage. The exhibition also aims to reenergize the dormant sister city relationship between the cities of Syracuse, NY, and Tampere, Finland. Official ties originally established over 20 years ago with the co-hosting of a boxing competition. This exhibit will be the first portion of a two-part engagement that focuses on the sister city relationship. The second portion, a premier screening of the Finnish black comedy film, Iron Sky will be announced shortly.

Jason DeBose is an acclaimed photographer from Pasadena, CA. Mr. DeBose's work has been showcased internationally, including in Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Estonia, and United States.

Convergence: Where Line Meets Form
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

R. Jason Howard: internationally recognized glass artist using both traditional Italian techniques and self-invented processes

Marilyn Forth: uses the ancient art process of batik in a contemporary fashion--painting dye onto silk

DeeAnn von Hunke: new works in jewelry design exploring combinations of medium, materials, and methods in metalsmithing

Give & Take: The Currency of Culture
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Give & Take: The Currency of Culture" features new, site-specific installations and performance art by Aisha Cousins, Nzuji De Magalhaes and Nontsikelelo Mutiti. The exhibition explores the complex and symbiotic relationship between Africans and African Americans. The artists in this exhibit investigate a wide range of topics from Fela Kuti's Africa American lover, Sandra Smith, to misconceptions about Africa and Africans.

Read a review!

Splendor in the Glass: Rain Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The June show features new stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho. The Michos specialize in stained glass for your home and garden.

Saturation of Color
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by ceramist Jerry Randall of Tully and silkscreen artist Michael Foster of Marcellus will be featured.

Randall, whose works have appeared in more than 60 shows nationwide, exhibited this past year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show and at shows in Atlanta, Boston, Northampton, MA, and Nashua, NH. Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

Foster, who graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in May with a bachelor's degree in architectural studies, was represented in Imagine's May show, "HWS Printmaking Workshop." In addition to Imagine, he has exhibited at HWS's Davis Gallery and at the Hobart and William Smith Library. During his junior year, he studied at Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, in Rome.

Earth Tones: Works by Carol Boyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Earth Tones is an exhibit of the fabric art of Carol Boyer, a fiber artist who has been creating non-traditional quilts for almost 40 years.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

The Last Hurrah
Szozda Gallery

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

In a final tribute to the many Central New York artists who have shown at Szozda Gallery, owner Caroline Szozda-McGowan has chosen to do a salon-style multimedia show of their works to cover all walls throughout the entire Delavan Center display areas. Called "The Last Hurrah," the retrospective exhibit ends Sunday, June 30, with a closing reception that also marks the official closing of the gallery.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

Read a review!

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting" is a collection of oil and acrylic pieces on canvas showcasing three contemporary Colombian artists exploring non-figurative art. The exhibit is conceived as a bridge-building opportunity and artistic exchange between artists residing at home and in the diaspora, in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. It includes paintings by Fernando Manrique, Rafael Ordoñez, and Esperanza Tielbaard Pazmiño, all of whom explore the of textural and composition possibilities in abstract art.

The artistic proposals of Manrique, Ordoñez and Pazmiño share an interest in communicating the rich sensory experiences and of the conceptual suggestions possible in pictorial abstraction. Their works explore alternative ways of engaging reality and ask viewers to see through the senses as they travel through interweaving forms, suggestive textures, and provoking compositions. Their canvases challenge accepted distinctions between abstract and figurative painting, as well as between purist and committed art from Latin America, since they incorporate issues of identity, technology, nature, and affect as themes to be explored through the senses.

The collection invites us to be seduced by the mix and to reflect on our understanding of artistic creation and perception, and changing patterns in the 21st century.

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

An exhibit of photos by the participants of the teen photography workshop at La Casita in collaboration with the Department of Child and Family Studies of Syracuse University. The program is part of the Creative Corner Program at La Casita which is a multi-modal artistic space in which children and youth explore diverse forms and processes of art-making. In addition, the Teen Photography Workshop series is part of the 2013 Reducing Teen Violence Initiative in the Near West Side.

Remnants of a Secret War: Photographs by Mike Greenlar
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

An award-winning photographer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, Mike Greenlar traveled 10 times to a remote mountain region of Laos to document the effects of cluster bombing on the Hmong people. The US covert bombing campaign between 1964 and 1973 gave Laos the distinction of being the most bombed country in the history of warfare--over two million tons of ordnance was dropped. Mike documented life in two resettlement villages where the Hmong continue to farm land rife with unexploded cluster bombs and other munitions. His work shows the resourcefulness of a people who rely on each other, and on those very bombs, for their livelihood. The result is a stunning collection of documentary photographs. "Remnants of a Secret War," also the title of his recently published book, displays both some of the collection found in the book and some never before published. The legacy of the "secret" bombings of Laos takes many forms and offers many stories. In this collection of painfully yet beautifully rendered black and white photographs, he shares some of them with us.

Summer Film Under the Stars: Madagascar
Everson Museum of Art

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

Bring your lounge chair and munchies, and settle in under the stars on the Everson Plaza for the first installment of the Everson Summer Film Under the Stars Series.

At New York's Central Park Zoo, a lion, a zebra, a giraffe, and a hippo are best friends living a blissful life in captivity. When one of them turns up missing, the others search for him only to find themselves on a ship headed to the exotic island of Madagascar. When their boat wrecks, these native New Yorkers must take on a much different jungle in this computer animated comedy. The result is hilarious fun! (Directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, 86 minutes)

Join us at 8:30 pm to make your favorite animal out of pipe cleaners before the film begins at 9:00 pm.

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

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

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

Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers Trio
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Original rock

Ben Taylor, with Roses & Revolutions
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Ben Taylor, the musically-talented child of James Taylor and Carly Simon, is coming to The Westcott Theatre to promoting his new album, Listening. His single "By Your Side," was recently featured on ABC's "The Bachelor."

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Rust Belt: New Pants
Lipe Art Park

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

"Rust Belt: New Pants" is an outdoor art exhibit that examines the evolving identity of the city of Syracuse, starting with its industrial, manufacturing beginnings and going to its presence as a post-industrial and cultural hub. Seven local Syracuse artists will be showing their work in the exhibition. While these artists each approached the symbolization of the city's evolution differently in their work, they all recognized the effects post-industrial renewal is having on Syracuse's identity. Furthermore, they chose to represent the city's past by utilizing materials and creating structures that are reminiscent of Syracuse's industrial age. The works encompass a variety of mediums including mural, sculpture, and video.

In My Footsteps: Photography by Everet D. Regal

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

"In My Footsteps" is a varied collection of landscape, water, city and diverse subjects, largely comprised from local and Upstate New York areas.

Spring Discoveries en Plein Air
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings and sketches by Skaneateles artist Hetty Easter and her Sketch Club students will be on display. Hetty and her students created all the artwork while outside. Easter's Sketch Club gives children the opportunity to enjoy being creative in a relaxed setting. She started the club last September. It meets approximately once a week after school, with a break during the coldest winter months. This exhibit will include work from more than 20 children, in grades 1-6, who have participated in the group since its inception.

They Left 150 Years Ago
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

"They Left 150 Years Ago," a solo photography exhibition by Jason DeBose, is a visual introduction to the Finnish city of Tampere and its local lifestyle, as well as a visual look at the Finnish influence on America's northeast cities and at Finnish-American heritage. The exhibition also aims to reenergize the dormant sister city relationship between the cities of Syracuse, NY, and Tampere, Finland. Official ties originally established over 20 years ago with the co-hosting of a boxing competition. This exhibit will be the first portion of a two-part engagement that focuses on the sister city relationship. The second portion, a premier screening of the Finnish black comedy film, Iron Sky will be announced shortly.

Jason DeBose is an acclaimed photographer from Pasadena, CA. Mr. DeBose's work has been showcased internationally, including in Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Estonia, and United States.

Convergence: Where Line Meets Form
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

R. Jason Howard: internationally recognized glass artist using both traditional Italian techniques and self-invented processes

Marilyn Forth: uses the ancient art process of batik in a contemporary fashion--painting dye onto silk

DeeAnn von Hunke: new works in jewelry design exploring combinations of medium, materials, and methods in metalsmithing

Give & Take: The Currency of Culture
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Give & Take: The Currency of Culture" features new, site-specific installations and performance art by Aisha Cousins, Nzuji De Magalhaes and Nontsikelelo Mutiti. The exhibition explores the complex and symbiotic relationship between Africans and African Americans. The artists in this exhibit investigate a wide range of topics from Fela Kuti's Africa American lover, Sandra Smith, to misconceptions about Africa and Africans.

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Splendor in the Glass: Rain Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The June show features new stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho. The Michos specialize in stained glass for your home and garden.

Saturation of Color
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by ceramist Jerry Randall of Tully and silkscreen artist Michael Foster of Marcellus will be featured.

Randall, whose works have appeared in more than 60 shows nationwide, exhibited this past year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show and at shows in Atlanta, Boston, Northampton, MA, and Nashua, NH. Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

Foster, who graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in May with a bachelor's degree in architectural studies, was represented in Imagine's May show, "HWS Printmaking Workshop." In addition to Imagine, he has exhibited at HWS's Davis Gallery and at the Hobart and William Smith Library. During his junior year, he studied at Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, in Rome.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

The Last Hurrah
Szozda Gallery

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

In a final tribute to the many Central New York artists who have shown at Szozda Gallery, owner Caroline Szozda-McGowan has chosen to do a salon-style multimedia show of their works to cover all walls throughout the entire Delavan Center display areas. Called "The Last Hurrah," the retrospective exhibit ends Sunday, June 30, with a closing reception that also marks the official closing of the gallery.

Bloom
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Bloom" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition features artwork with the theme of renewal and investigates the innate beauty of nature. The show includes drawing, photography, watercolor, sculpture, and ceramics.

Participating artists include Anne Novado Capuccilli, Willson Cummer, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Kelly Sullivan, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

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Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Transfiguring Art: Contemporary Colombian Abstract Painting" is a collection of oil and acrylic pieces on canvas showcasing three contemporary Colombian artists exploring non-figurative art. The exhibit is conceived as a bridge-building opportunity and artistic exchange between artists residing at home and in the diaspora, in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. It includes paintings by Fernando Manrique, Rafael Ordoñez, and Esperanza Tielbaard Pazmiño, all of whom explore the of textural and composition possibilities in abstract art.

The artistic proposals of Manrique, Ordoñez and Pazmiño share an interest in communicating the rich sensory experiences and of the conceptual suggestions possible in pictorial abstraction. Their works explore alternative ways of engaging reality and ask viewers to see through the senses as they travel through interweaving forms, suggestive textures, and provoking compositions. Their canvases challenge accepted distinctions between abstract and figurative painting, as well as between purist and committed art from Latin America, since they incorporate issues of identity, technology, nature, and affect as themes to be explored through the senses.

The collection invites us to be seduced by the mix and to reflect on our understanding of artistic creation and perception, and changing patterns in the 21st century.

West Side Through My Eyes
La Casita Cultural Center

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

An exhibit of photos by the participants of the teen photography workshop at La Casita in collaboration with the Department of Child and Family Studies of Syracuse University. The program is part of the Creative Corner Program at La Casita which is a multi-modal artistic space in which children and youth explore diverse forms and processes of art-making. In addition, the Teen Photography Workshop series is part of the 2013 Reducing Teen Violence Initiative in the Near West Side.

Remnants of a Secret War: Photographs by Mike Greenlar
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

An award-winning photographer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, Mike Greenlar traveled 10 times to a remote mountain region of Laos to document the effects of cluster bombing on the Hmong people. The US covert bombing campaign between 1964 and 1973 gave Laos the distinction of being the most bombed country in the history of warfare--over two million tons of ordnance was dropped. Mike documented life in two resettlement villages where the Hmong continue to farm land rife with unexploded cluster bombs and other munitions. His work shows the resourcefulness of a people who rely on each other, and on those very bombs, for their livelihood. The result is a stunning collection of documentary photographs. "Remnants of a Secret War," also the title of his recently published book, displays both some of the collection found in the book and some never before published. The legacy of the "secret" bombings of Laos takes many forms and offers many stories. In this collection of painfully yet beautifully rendered black and white photographs, he shares some of them with us.

UVP Annual Summer Review: Sightings by Shimon Attie
Urban Video Project

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

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

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

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

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

Start Making Sense: Talking Heads Tribute
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Strange Case of Sheik Yerbuti (or Camel Lot)
Acme Mystery Company

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

Welcome to the Western Sahara and the tiny camel-trading nation of Yerbuti. Tonight, Ambassador Lassiter plans to announce a peace accord between the Yerbuti and their ancient enemies, the Fugari. Hold onto your pith helmet. Rumor has it that Yerbuti might be sitting on a large, untapped deposit of oil and you know what that means. Everyone will be going all out to get their hands on Yerbuti.

*SOLD OUT* Cabaret
Redhouse

Price: $30 regular, $20 members
Sherwood Inn
26 W. Genesee St., Skaneateles

This year's site-specific performance puts an unique twist on the musical Cabaret. The production will be set in a modern "Spiegeltent," an Austrian traveling mirrored circus tent, complete with classic German beer and goodies including Knödel, Bratwurst, Sauerkraut, Sausages and Pretzels. Cabaret is a musical set in 1931 Berlin as the Nazis are rising to power; it focuses on nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub and revolves around the 19-year-old English cabaret performer Sally Bowles and her relationship with the young American writer Cliff Bradshaw. Overseeing the action is the Master of Ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub. This classic is sure to dazzle and delight audiences! Note: teen and adult content.

Reserve early -- only 80 seats available per show.

The Breakfast Club ... A Tribute
Central New York Playhouse

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

In a tribute to the original John Hughes film and a fund raiser for CNY Playhouse. Newly adapted for the stage and starring:
Brian Johnson: Justin Polly
Claire Standish: Kim Panek
Andrew Clark: Geoff Hawthorne
John Bender: Jordan Glaski
Allison Reynolds: Kasey McHale
Richard Vernon: Nathan Faudree
Carl: Sean Pratt

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The Mandorla, or Lying to Tell the Truth
Gerard Moses, director

Price: $20 regular, $15 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse