Friday, February 21, 2014

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

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

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

Penny Santy: The Nature of Our Soul
LeMoyne College

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

Penny Santy's works are representational pieces that break from that, at times, to abstraction. Her paintings embrace the human experience that is effected by or reflected in our natural surroundings. She has been inspired by the works of Gustav Klimpt, the impressionists, and the tonalists for the spiritual connection captured in their work, and by abstract expressionists like Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell and Willem de Kooning for the energy, paint textures and movement expressed in their works.

Gallery Exhibit: Meredith Cantor-Feller, Model American
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
As an observer and artist I get my inspiration from the varied experiences of living and life. Using the mediums of photography and video allows me to put myself, if only briefly, into the experience of my subjects. Borrowing the still-life, snap-shots or momentary records of their lives. At times my subjects are aware of me and my camera yet there often remains a strong sense of invading of publicly private moments. I use these ready-made observations as the foundation for my questions about the living experience.

"Model American" is a working series of environmental portraits that examine the conflict of consumer expectations, behaviors and economics. This series features the employees of commonplace consumer environments posing as "Model Americans". The combination of environment and prop narrates the conflict between consumer want and human need, and the friction between consumer and citizen driving the Model American engine.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Crystal Glow
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Karen Kosicki: infrared photography
Max Block: dichroic fused glass jewelry and objects d'art
Mary Giehl: crystal sculpture grown from alum, and mixed media wall hangings featuring crochet elements

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Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Art Riot: Works by Vykky Ebner
The Art Store Gallery

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

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

We are thrilled to have Stone Canoe Cover Artist Vykky Ebner showing a few of her masterpieces here.

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We will be featuring a selection of beautiful black and white stoneware functional pottery with a botanical theme by Leslie Green Guilbault of Hamilton.

Ice: Work by Bryan Hopkins and Jamie Young
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jamie Young is a Syracuse-area commercial and fine art photographer who studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His stunning photos in the Ice exhibition were taken on a 2012 trip to Iceland. Young said "the power of nature to constanlty change the landscape is more evident in Iceland than anywhere else on Earth." The images in the show feature ice formations and dynamic landscapes.

Ceramist Bryan Hopkins lives in Buffalo and teaches art at Niagara Community College. He recieved his MFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz. His sculptural and utilitarian ceramics are made with porcelain "following in in the lineage of fine china" and embody the physical qualities of the material, "strength, fagility, translucence".

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

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

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

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

Equilibrium: Works by Juan Alberto Cruz
Gallery 4040

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

Featured in this exhibition are new and recent works including Cruz's lyrical figurative-based abstract paintings in oil on canvas, dynamic paper collages that utilize geometric shapes to create visually energetic patterns and new assemblage wood sculptures.

Portals: Urban Landscapes from Havana to Syracuse
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

An exhibit of 46 photographs of Havana and Syracuse, exhibited on old wooden doors and over a skyline of Havana created on foam. The multicolored lights above the skyline represent the lights of the city of Havana. The blue shimmers below represent the sea that surrounds the city.

A portal opened for Danisley Perez Bravo between two worlds. The exhibition combines the last images that she captured with her lens when she left her beloved city of Havana, and the first ones she took when she arrived in Syracuse to make this her new home.

Guided visits are offered in English or Spanish by appointment. For a guided tour, please email us at lacasita@syr.edu to schedule your visit.

Domestic Vicissitudes: Works by Analia Segal
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Comprised of both a site-specific installation and a large scale video projection, this exhibition navigates the porous boundaries between art, design and architecture intertwining the conceptual, aesthetic and functional nature of the objects that compose the everyday scenarios we live in.

Argentina-born Analia Segalis a Guggenheim Fellow, and has received grants that include: Pollock Krassner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fundación Konex, Fundación Antorchas, Bienal de Diseño-Universidad de Buenos Aires, and 100% Design. Her works has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, as well as published in specialized magazines, catalogues and books, and it is included in private and public collections. She graduated as a Graphic Designer from the University of Buenos Aires and received her Masters Degree in Art from New York University. She lives and works in New York City since 1999.

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

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art, Design and Concept: The Process of Scenic Design For the Theater
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

The scenic model is one of the tools that theatrical scenic designers use as part of their creative process to represent the appearance of the final stage setting. Models communicate the shape, volume and relationship of elements of the setting in the performance space and showcase the art, design and conceptual ideas that create a visual representation of the performance environment.

The opening of "Art, Design and Concept" coincides with the opening of the Department of Drama's production of Speed-the-Plow, which features scenic design by SU Drama students.

914Works is an intimate space for VPA students and faculty to present individual or group exhibitions, readings and small-scale performances.

Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth & other works
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition will include Yui Kugimiya's works Cat Brushing Teeth (2008), Cronica de Una Muerte Anunciada (2012), and Sunset Donut (2012).

Society for New Music: Post Minimalist Music
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Three recent pieces for mallet percussion by the current darlings of post-minimalism

Gravity (2103) by Marc Mellits
Goldrush (2000) by Jacob TV (Jacob ter Veldhuis)
Mallet Quarter (2009) by Steve Reich

The performers are Jennifer Vacanti, Jon Lee, Jeff Moore and Rob Bridge.

Jazz@Sitrus: E.S.P.
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Music from the Heart of Latin America
La Casita Cultural Center

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

La Casita Cultural Center, Symphoria, and Signature Music present a string recital featuring classical compositions, rhythms and melodies of Latin America.

The first half of the hour-long recital features the work of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa Lobos, String Quartet No. 1. This is the first of his 17 string quartets, written in 1915. Villa Lobos is considered one of the most significant composers of the 20th century.

The second half of the program will feature popular Latin American tunes including bolero, tango, danza, music from the plains, and bossa nova. Each country has a unique culture and character, providing Latin-America a widely diverse universe of music.

SU Ensemble Series: Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"A New Jazz Suite," featuring Mike Dubaniewicz and Jeff Stockham, faculty soloists, and John Coggiola, director

Mike Powell, with special guest Scott Danger Bravo
Folkus Project

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

One of Syracuse's most exciting and interesting young songwriters in his Folkus debut.

He's back. A few years ago, the former SU lacrosse player surprised everyone with his stage charisma, performance skills, and surprisingly mature songwriting style. Then he disappeared, only to reappear a few months ago and then take Syracuse by storm (again). Don't miss this chance to catch this buzzed-about local talent for the first time at May Memorial.

Poet Ishion Hutchinson
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He attended the University of the West Indies, Mona, New York University, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah. His poetry and essays have appeared in such publications as Attica, Caribbean Review of Books, and LA Review. His first book of poems, Far District, won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. He teaches at Cornell University.

Winter Break Camp Student Performance
Open Hand Theater

International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

An original performance created for the February Winter Break Camp, featuring the artwork and puppetry of some of our favorite student artists.

King Lear
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students; $7 SU students, faculty, staff, and alumni
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Gerard Moses stars as Lear, a father who divides his kingdom based on declarations of love from his three daughters. When he realizes he's made a mistake, it's too late and the world devolves into chaos.

Tickets available at the door or at ticketleap.com/.

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The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Appleseed Productions
Tina Lee, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Heat waves. Garbage strikes. Noisy neighbors. Burglars. No place dishes it out quite like New York City, and with his job hanging by a thread, Mel Edison is in no mood to grin and bear it. Sparkling with Neil Simon's usual wit and fueled by a still-resonant anger at the dehumanizing effects of modern city life, this comedy classic pits Mel and his steadfast wife Edna against an assault by 1970s Manhattan—and it's anybody's guess who'll win.

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The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love Suicide
LeMoyne College
Boot and Buskin

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

With the brevity and directness of a Greek tragedy, The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide explores the depths of the human experience as seen through the eyes of fourth graders. At times funny, at times horrifying, this haunting new play, with talkbacks after every performance, is a unique theatrical experience that should not be missed.

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Moonshine Movie Madness: Galaxy Quest
Redhouse

Price: $20 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Don't miss this live reading of this 1999 science fiction parody film about a troupe of actors who defend a group of aliens against an alien warlord.

Admission includes one free drink.

Speed-the-Plow
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

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

This Tony Award-nominated play by David Mamet is a hilarious satire of Hollywood. Charlie Fox has a terrific vehicle for a currently hot client. Bringing the script to his friend Bobby Gould, the newly appointed Head of Production at a major studio, both see the work as their ticket to the Big Time. The star wants to do it; as they prepare their pitch to the studio boss, Bobby wagers Charlie that he can seduce the temp/secretary. The New York Daily News called Speed-the-Plow Mamet's "clearest, wittiest play."

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Saturday, February 22, 2014

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

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

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

Art, Design and Concept: The Process of Scenic Design For the Theater
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The scenic model is one of the tools that theatrical scenic designers use as part of their creative process to represent the appearance of the final stage setting. Models communicate the shape, volume and relationship of elements of the setting in the performance space and showcase the art, design and conceptual ideas that create a visual representation of the performance environment.

The opening of "Art, Design and Concept" coincides with the opening of the Department of Drama's production of Speed-the-Plow, which features scenic design by SU Drama students.

914Works is an intimate space for VPA students and faculty to present individual or group exhibitions, readings and small-scale performances.

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

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

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

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We will be featuring a selection of beautiful black and white stoneware functional pottery with a botanical theme by Leslie Green Guilbault of Hamilton.

Art Riot: Works by Vykky Ebner
The Art Store Gallery

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

We are thrilled to have Stone Canoe Cover Artist Vykky Ebner showing a few of her masterpieces here.

Ice: Work by Bryan Hopkins and Jamie Young
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jamie Young is a Syracuse-area commercial and fine art photographer who studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His stunning photos in the Ice exhibition were taken on a 2012 trip to Iceland. Young said "the power of nature to constanlty change the landscape is more evident in Iceland than anywhere else on Earth." The images in the show feature ice formations and dynamic landscapes.

Ceramist Bryan Hopkins lives in Buffalo and teaches art at Niagara Community College. He recieved his MFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz. His sculptural and utilitarian ceramics are made with porcelain "following in in the lineage of fine china" and embody the physical qualities of the material, "strength, fagility, translucence".

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Collector Dan Lenchner will be at the gallery from 12:00-4:00 pm to discuss his collection with visitors.

Dan Lenchner's collection of photos of Third Reich life makes the power of the "uncanny" visible. They are both strange and somehow familiar, these snapshots: Nazi officers at family picnics, weddings and christenings, relaxing off-duty and courting their sweethearts, along with mischievous boys at Hitler Youth summer camps, smiling nurses, teenage girls practicing their goose-step, nuns posing with former students in uniform. Here are the threads in the fabric of a nation given over to war, close to 70 years ago. Still we struggle with what to make of their deeds, which lie so outside the frame. Lenchner, a photographer himself, is acutely attuned to this quality about the truth of any image. His book quotes Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, that the "trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him...terribly and terrifyingly normal."

Equilibrium: Works by Juan Alberto Cruz
Gallery 4040

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

Featured in this exhibition are new and recent works including Cruz's lyrical figurative-based abstract paintings in oil on canvas, dynamic paper collages that utilize geometric shapes to create visually energetic patterns and new assemblage wood sculptures.

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

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SUArt Kids: Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Families will be given a personalized tour that examines contemporary paintings from the Mithila region of India. After the tour, children and parents are invited to participate in a studio workshop to create original artwork based on the exhibition tour. Designed for children ages 8-12.

Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth & other works
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition will include Yui Kugimiya's works Cat Brushing Teeth (2008), Cronica de Una Muerte Anunciada (2012), and Sunset Donut (2012).

Opening reception: Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 7:00-9:00 pm with collector Dan Lenchner and curator Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

Dan Lenchner's collection of photos of Third Reich life makes the power of the "uncanny" visible. They are both strange and somehow familiar, these snapshots: Nazi officers at family picnics, weddings and christenings, relaxing off-duty and courting their sweethearts, along with mischievous boys at Hitler Youth summer camps, smiling nurses, teenage girls practicing their goose-step, nuns posing with former students in uniform. Here are the threads in the fabric of a nation given over to war, close to 70 years ago. Still we struggle with what to make of their deeds, which lie so outside the frame. Lenchner, a photographer himself, is acutely attuned to this quality about the truth of any image. His book quotes Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, that the "trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him...terribly and terrifyingly normal."

Cuse Comedy Showcase
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $7 advance, $10 at the door
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Featuring local comics from Central New York, and organized and hosted by Anna Phillips. This time our headliner is nationally recognized Nick Marra. Also appearing are Steve Rogers, Grant Fletcher, Justin Jackson, Corey Smithson, and Screech Munroe.

Cinemagogue: Driving Miss Daisy
Temple Society of Concord

Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly wins her over with his native good graces. The movie covers over 20 years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences. This film ties in with Rabbi Fellman's class on American Jewish Communities, particularly the Jewish South.

Student Recital Series: Sangmi Borneman, cello
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

John Price and the Usual Suspects
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $10
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Paul O'Dette, lute
NYS Baroque

Price: $25 regular, $20 seniors, $10 college students, children free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Described as "the clearest case of genius ever to touch his instrument", this world-renowned lutenist takes time out of his international touring schedule to make a rare upstate New York appearance. Music of J.S. Bach and his friend, virtuoso lutenist Sylvius Leopold Weiss, will be performed.

Student Recital Series: Deeanna Dimmick, clarinet
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

Raq, with Vapor Eyes
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Speed-the-Plow
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

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

This Tony Award-nominated play by David Mamet is a hilarious satire of Hollywood. Charlie Fox has a terrific vehicle for a currently hot client. Bringing the script to his friend Bobby Gould, the newly appointed Head of Production at a major studio, both see the work as their ticket to the Big Time. The star wants to do it; as they prepare their pitch to the studio boss, Bobby wagers Charlie that he can seduce the temp/secretary. The New York Daily News called Speed-the-Plow Mamet's "clearest, wittiest play."

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King Lear
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students; $7 SU students, faculty, staff, and alumni
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Gerard Moses stars as Lear, a father who divides his kingdom based on declarations of love from his three daughters. When he realizes he's made a mistake, it's too late and the world devolves into chaos.

Tickets available at the door or at ticketleap.com/.

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The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Appleseed Productions
Tina Lee, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Heat waves. Garbage strikes. Noisy neighbors. Burglars. No place dishes it out quite like New York City, and with his job hanging by a thread, Mel Edison is in no mood to grin and bear it. Sparkling with Neil Simon's usual wit and fueled by a still-resonant anger at the dehumanizing effects of modern city life, this comedy classic pits Mel and his steadfast wife Edna against an assault by 1970s Manhattan—and it's anybody's guess who'll win.

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The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love Suicide
LeMoyne College
Boot and Buskin

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

With the brevity and directness of a Greek tragedy, The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide explores the depths of the human experience as seen through the eyes of fourth graders. At times funny, at times horrifying, this haunting new play, with talkbacks after every performance, is a unique theatrical experience that should not be missed.

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Brian Detlefs
Redhouse

Price: $15 regukar, $10 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

You may know him as Andrew Jackson from our hit production of Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, but his alter ego, Brian Detlefs, is coming back to Redhouse as our second Singer/Songwriter resident. A NYC based singer-songwriter whose musical influences range from folk to jazz to grunge, Detlefs juxtaposes the absurd with the lovely. With a voice that can flip from tender to brazen in an instant, Detlefs lures listeners into his world of songs that are often as confessional as they are comic.

Speed-the-Plow
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

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

This Tony Award-nominated play by David Mamet is a hilarious satire of Hollywood. Charlie Fox has a terrific vehicle for a currently hot client. Bringing the script to his friend Bobby Gould, the newly appointed Head of Production at a major studio, both see the work as their ticket to the Big Time. The star wants to do it; as they prepare their pitch to the studio boss, Bobby wagers Charlie that he can seduce the temp/secretary. The New York Daily News called Speed-the-Plow Mamet's "clearest, wittiest play."

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Sunday, February 23, 2014

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

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

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We will be featuring a selection of beautiful black and white stoneware functional pottery with a botanical theme by Leslie Green Guilbault of Hamilton.

Ice: Work by Bryan Hopkins and Jamie Young
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jamie Young is a Syracuse-area commercial and fine art photographer who studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His stunning photos in the Ice exhibition were taken on a 2012 trip to Iceland. Young said "the power of nature to constanlty change the landscape is more evident in Iceland than anywhere else on Earth." The images in the show feature ice formations and dynamic landscapes.

Ceramist Bryan Hopkins lives in Buffalo and teaches art at Niagara Community College. He recieved his MFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz. His sculptural and utilitarian ceramics are made with porcelain "following in in the lineage of fine china" and embody the physical qualities of the material, "strength, fagility, translucence".

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Dan Lenchner's collection of photos of Third Reich life makes the power of the "uncanny" visible. They are both strange and somehow familiar, these snapshots: Nazi officers at family picnics, weddings and christenings, relaxing off-duty and courting their sweethearts, along with mischievous boys at Hitler Youth summer camps, smiling nurses, teenage girls practicing their goose-step, nuns posing with former students in uniform. Here are the threads in the fabric of a nation given over to war, close to 70 years ago. Still we struggle with what to make of their deeds, which lie so outside the frame. Lenchner, a photographer himself, is acutely attuned to this quality about the truth of any image. His book quotes Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, that the "trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him...terribly and terrifyingly normal."

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

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

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

Equilibrium: Works by Juan Alberto Cruz
Gallery 4040

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

Featured in this exhibition are new and recent works including Cruz's lyrical figurative-based abstract paintings in oil on canvas, dynamic paper collages that utilize geometric shapes to create visually energetic patterns and new assemblage wood sculptures.

SUArt Kids: Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Families will be given a personalized tour that examines contemporary paintings from the Mithila region of India. After the tour, children and parents are invited to participate in a studio workshop to create original artwork based on the exhibition tour. Designed for children ages 8-12.

Film Series: The Met: Live in HD - Shostakovich's The Nose
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Nose, one of the Metropolitan Opera's most acclaimed productions of recent seasons, according to the New York Times, displays William Kentridge's "unflagging energy and unfettered imagination, [and] powerfully seconds both the irreverent zaniness of the Gogol story on which the opera is based and the teeming exuberance of Shostakovich's music." This simulcast encore presentation is being shown by special permission.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition, "William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects."

Music: A Vehicle for Networking and Entrepreneurship
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Joan Rucker Hillsman, PhD

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

Dr. Joan Hillsman was born and raised in Anderson, SC. She earned a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Music Education at Howard University, Washington, DC, and a PhD in Musicology in Cincinnati (Dissertation topic on Gospel Music). While in DC, she advanced from teacher to Supervising Director of Music for all of the DC Public School System. She is a curriculum writer, author, lecturer, and performer. She relocated to Syracuse, NY in 2010. She organized the Syracuse Chapter of the Gospel Music Workshop of America, has her own studio, and incorporated JHMN, Inc. (Joan Hillsman's Music Network, Inc.)

Student Recital Series: Morgan Mills, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

Student Recital Series: Nina Pelligra, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Soprano Nina Pelligra will be honoring women in music through time. The recital will feature works by influential composers, musicians, theorists, conductors, performers, and teachers in music history such as Nadia Boulanger, Isabella Colbran, Libby Larsen, Ella Fitzgerald, Clara Schumann, and P!nk, who was named Woman of the Year for 2013 by Billboard Magazine. She will also premier a piece by Setnor student Alex Ganes called "Eve" with poetry by Christina Rossetti, an inspiring feminist writer of the Romantic Era.

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

Student Recital Series: Stephanie Mata, flute
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

An evening of flute music including works by C.P.E. Bach, Boehm, Sancan and Taktakishvili, accompanied by Sabine Krantz.

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

The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Appleseed Productions
Tina Lee, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Heat waves. Garbage strikes. Noisy neighbors. Burglars. No place dishes it out quite like New York City, and with his job hanging by a thread, Mel Edison is in no mood to grin and bear it. Sparkling with Neil Simon's usual wit and fueled by a still-resonant anger at the dehumanizing effects of modern city life, this comedy classic pits Mel and his steadfast wife Edna against an assault by 1970s Manhattan—and it's anybody's guess who'll win.

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King Lear
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students; $7 SU students, faculty, staff, and alumni
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Gerard Moses stars as Lear, a father who divides his kingdom based on declarations of love from his three daughters. When he realizes he's made a mistake, it's too late and the world devolves into chaos.

Tickets available at the door or at ticketleap.com/.

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Speed-the-Plow
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

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

This Tony Award-nominated play by David Mamet is a hilarious satire of Hollywood. Charlie Fox has a terrific vehicle for a currently hot client. Bringing the script to his friend Bobby Gould, the newly appointed Head of Production at a major studio, both see the work as their ticket to the Big Time. The star wants to do it; as they prepare their pitch to the studio boss, Bobby wagers Charlie that he can seduce the temp/secretary. The New York Daily News called Speed-the-Plow Mamet's "clearest, wittiest play."

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Monday, February 24, 2014

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

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

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

Gallery Exhibit: Meredith Cantor-Feller, Model American
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
As an observer and artist I get my inspiration from the varied experiences of living and life. Using the mediums of photography and video allows me to put myself, if only briefly, into the experience of my subjects. Borrowing the still-life, snap-shots or momentary records of their lives. At times my subjects are aware of me and my camera yet there often remains a strong sense of invading of publicly private moments. I use these ready-made observations as the foundation for my questions about the living experience.

"Model American" is a working series of environmental portraits that examine the conflict of consumer expectations, behaviors and economics. This series features the employees of commonplace consumer environments posing as "Model Americans". The combination of environment and prop narrates the conflict between consumer want and human need, and the friction between consumer and citizen driving the Model American engine.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

Art Riot: Works by Vykky Ebner
The Art Store Gallery

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

We are thrilled to have Stone Canoe Cover Artist Vykky Ebner showing a few of her masterpieces here.

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We will be featuring a selection of beautiful black and white stoneware functional pottery with a botanical theme by Leslie Green Guilbault of Hamilton.

Portals: Urban Landscapes from Havana to Syracuse
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

An exhibit of 46 photographs of Havana and Syracuse, exhibited on old wooden doors and over a skyline of Havana created on foam. The multicolored lights above the skyline represent the lights of the city of Havana. The blue shimmers below represent the sea that surrounds the city.

A portal opened for Danisley Perez Bravo between two worlds. The exhibition combines the last images that she captured with her lens when she left her beloved city of Havana, and the first ones she took when she arrived in Syracuse to make this her new home.

Guided visits are offered in English or Spanish by appointment. For a guided tour, please email us at lacasita@syr.edu to schedule your visit.

Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble

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

Explore the relationship of art, nature, spirituality, and song through the lens of America's most frequently performed contemporary choral composer, Morten Lauridsen, with commentary from composers, conductors, and singers. Shining Night is the first episode in a documentary film series exploring and celebrating the transformative power of song, www.songwithoutborders.net.

This 60-minute film has been screened at film festivals and performing arts venues across America and Europe, and is the winner of the 2012 DC Independent Film Festival Best Documentary. Here is your chance to see it prior to SVE's March 8 and 9 performances of Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

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

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

Gallery Exhibit: Meredith Cantor-Feller, Model American
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
As an observer and artist I get my inspiration from the varied experiences of living and life. Using the mediums of photography and video allows me to put myself, if only briefly, into the experience of my subjects. Borrowing the still-life, snap-shots or momentary records of their lives. At times my subjects are aware of me and my camera yet there often remains a strong sense of invading of publicly private moments. I use these ready-made observations as the foundation for my questions about the living experience.

"Model American" is a working series of environmental portraits that examine the conflict of consumer expectations, behaviors and economics. This series features the employees of commonplace consumer environments posing as "Model Americans". The combination of environment and prop narrates the conflict between consumer want and human need, and the friction between consumer and citizen driving the Model American engine.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Art, Design and Concept: The Process of Scenic Design For the Theater
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The scenic model is one of the tools that theatrical scenic designers use as part of their creative process to represent the appearance of the final stage setting. Models communicate the shape, volume and relationship of elements of the setting in the performance space and showcase the art, design and conceptual ideas that create a visual representation of the performance environment.

The opening of "Art, Design and Concept" coincides with the opening of the Department of Drama's production of Speed-the-Plow, which features scenic design by SU Drama students.

914Works is an intimate space for VPA students and faculty to present individual or group exhibitions, readings and small-scale performances.

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Art Riot: Works by Vykky Ebner
The Art Store Gallery

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

We are thrilled to have Stone Canoe Cover Artist Vykky Ebner showing a few of her masterpieces here.

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We will be featuring a selection of beautiful black and white stoneware functional pottery with a botanical theme by Leslie Green Guilbault of Hamilton.

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Portals: Urban Landscapes from Havana to Syracuse
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

An exhibit of 46 photographs of Havana and Syracuse, exhibited on old wooden doors and over a skyline of Havana created on foam. The multicolored lights above the skyline represent the lights of the city of Havana. The blue shimmers below represent the sea that surrounds the city.

A portal opened for Danisley Perez Bravo between two worlds. The exhibition combines the last images that she captured with her lens when she left her beloved city of Havana, and the first ones she took when she arrived in Syracuse to make this her new home.

Guided visits are offered in English or Spanish by appointment. For a guided tour, please email us at lacasita@syr.edu to schedule your visit.

Enemy at the Gates
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The battle for Stalingrad (1942-43) remains legendary for the extreme losses and suffering endured by the city's people, the defending Soviet troops and invading Germans, all stranded without outside support or supplies over one of the coldest winters on record. Based loosely on Soviet sniper Vasily Zeitsev's account, EATG focuses on two dueling, elite snipers (Jude Law & Ed Harris) but is noteworthy for its depiction of the uses of propaganda. (Directed by Jean-Jacques Arnaud, 2001, 131 minutes)

Leadership of Today's Arts Organizations
LeMoyne College
Featuring Trey Devey

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Join Trey Devey, president of the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestra, for a dialogue centered on leadership within the arts and culture sector. A graduate of the MBA program at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. Devey previously led orchestras in Syracuse, Florida, and Alabama. He also worked for a time with the Boston Consulting Group.

For more information, phone 315-445-4201.

Twilight of the Elites
University Lectures
Featuring Chris Hayes

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Chris Hayes hosts "All In with Chris Hayes" at 8 p.m. (Eastern) Monday through Friday on MSNBC. Hayes is also editor-at-large of The Nation. Previously, Hayes hosted the weekend program "Up with Chris Hayes," which premiered in 2011. Prior to joining MSNBC as an anchor, Hayes served as a frequent substitute host for "The Rachel Maddow Show" and "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell." He became a MSNBC contributor in 2010 and has been with The Nation since 2007.

He is a former fellow at Harvard University's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. From 2008-10, he was a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. From 2005 to 2006, Hayes was a Schumann Center Writing Fellow at In These Times.

Since 2002, Hayes has written on a wide variety of political and social issues, from union organizing and economic democracy to the intersection of politics and technology. His essays, articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Time, The Nation, The American Prospect, The New Republic, The Washington Monthly, The Guardian and The Chicago Reader.

His first book, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy, which is about the crisis of authority in American life, was published in June 2012.

A native of the Bronx, Hayes received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Brown University in 2001.

Clinton String Quartet
Temple Society of Concord

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

For over 15 years, the quartet's most prominent works have been the debuts of many 20th century classical recordings with the Syracuse Society for New Music. Michael Bosetti, violin; Sonya Stith Williams; violin, Kit Dodd; viola, George Macero, cello.

Guest Artist Series: Jonathan Biggers, organ
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

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

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Art, Design and Concept: The Process of Scenic Design For the Theater
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The scenic model is one of the tools that theatrical scenic designers use as part of their creative process to represent the appearance of the final stage setting. Models communicate the shape, volume and relationship of elements of the setting in the performance space and showcase the art, design and conceptual ideas that create a visual representation of the performance environment.

The opening of "Art, Design and Concept" coincides with the opening of the Department of Drama's production of Speed-the-Plow, which features scenic design by SU Drama students.

914Works is an intimate space for VPA students and faculty to present individual or group exhibitions, readings and small-scale performances.

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Art Riot: Works by Vykky Ebner
The Art Store Gallery

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

We are thrilled to have Stone Canoe Cover Artist Vykky Ebner showing a few of her masterpieces here.

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We will be featuring a selection of beautiful black and white stoneware functional pottery with a botanical theme by Leslie Green Guilbault of Hamilton.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

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

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

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

Portals: Urban Landscapes from Havana to Syracuse
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

An exhibit of 46 photographs of Havana and Syracuse, exhibited on old wooden doors and over a skyline of Havana created on foam. The multicolored lights above the skyline represent the lights of the city of Havana. The blue shimmers below represent the sea that surrounds the city.

A portal opened for Danisley Perez Bravo between two worlds. The exhibition combines the last images that she captured with her lens when she left her beloved city of Havana, and the first ones she took when she arrived in Syracuse to make this her new home.

Guided visits are offered in English or Spanish by appointment. For a guided tour, please email us at lacasita@syr.edu to schedule your visit.

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

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Dan Lenchner's collection of photos of Third Reich life makes the power of the "uncanny" visible. They are both strange and somehow familiar, these snapshots: Nazi officers at family picnics, weddings and christenings, relaxing off-duty and courting their sweethearts, along with mischievous boys at Hitler Youth summer camps, smiling nurses, teenage girls practicing their goose-step, nuns posing with former students in uniform. Here are the threads in the fabric of a nation given over to war, close to 70 years ago. Still we struggle with what to make of their deeds, which lie so outside the frame. Lenchner, a photographer himself, is acutely attuned to this quality about the truth of any image. His book quotes Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, that the "trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him...terribly and terrifyingly normal."

Lunchtime Lectures: William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Join SUArt Galleries Director and exhibition curator Domenic Iacono as he tours William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects, celebrating recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, Nose and Other Subjects contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

Katia Dinas, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Music by Mozart and Bach.

Intonarumori Open Demonstration
Arts Engage
Featuring Kronos Quartet

Price: Free
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Kronos Quartet returns to Syracuse for a residency to explore the art of noise through the long-lost Futurist instrument, the intonarumori. Zeke Leonard, an Assistant Professor of Design at SU, has been commissioned to construct a special quartet of intonarumori based on the original patent drawings from 1913. These instruments will be featured in an open demonstration, following two days of residency activities, which explore sound and technology through the eyes of the Futurists.

What is the intonarumori? Who were the Futurists? Find out at this open demonstration.

American Idiot
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A critical smash on Broadway and in London, the two-time Tony Award winning hit musical American Idiot tells the story of three lifelong friends, forced to choose between their dreams and the safety of suburbia. Their quest for true meaning in a post 9/11 world leads them on the most exhilarating theatrical journey of the season. Based on Green Day's GRAMMY Award-winning multi-platinum album, American Idiot boldly takes the American musical where it's never gone before. The result is an experience Charles Isherwood­­ of The New York Times declares "thrilling, emotionally charged, and as moving as any Broadway musical I've seen this year!" Featuring the hits "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," "21 Guns," "Wake Me Up When September Ends," "Holiday" and the blockbuster title track, American Idiot features the music of Green Day and the lyrics of its lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong, direction by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening), choreography by Olivier Award winner Steven Hoggett (Once), music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Kitt (Next to Normal), Tony Award winning set design by Christine Jones and Tony Award winning lighting design by Kevin Adams.

Preview: Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

A hilarious new comedy by David Henry Hwang about the misadventures of miscommunication. An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract, but the deal isn't the only thing lost in translation as he tangles with a government official, a bumbling consultant, and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat. Time magazine named Chinglish one of the best plays of 2011.

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Speed-the-Plow
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

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

This Tony Award-nominated play by David Mamet is a hilarious satire of Hollywood. Charlie Fox has a terrific vehicle for a currently hot client. Bringing the script to his friend Bobby Gould, the newly appointed Head of Production at a major studio, both see the work as their ticket to the Big Time. The star wants to do it; as they prepare their pitch to the studio boss, Bobby wagers Charlie that he can seduce the temp/secretary. The New York Daily News called Speed-the-Plow Mamet's "clearest, wittiest play."

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Thursday, February 27, 2014

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

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

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Art, Design and Concept: The Process of Scenic Design For the Theater
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The scenic model is one of the tools that theatrical scenic designers use as part of their creative process to represent the appearance of the final stage setting. Models communicate the shape, volume and relationship of elements of the setting in the performance space and showcase the art, design and conceptual ideas that create a visual representation of the performance environment.

The opening of "Art, Design and Concept" coincides with the opening of the Department of Drama's production of Speed-the-Plow, which features scenic design by SU Drama students.

914Works is an intimate space for VPA students and faculty to present individual or group exhibitions, readings and small-scale performances.

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Art Riot: Works by Vykky Ebner
The Art Store Gallery

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

We are thrilled to have Stone Canoe Cover Artist Vykky Ebner showing a few of her masterpieces here.

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We will be featuring a selection of beautiful black and white stoneware functional pottery with a botanical theme by Leslie Green Guilbault of Hamilton.

Ice: Work by Bryan Hopkins and Jamie Young
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jamie Young is a Syracuse-area commercial and fine art photographer who studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His stunning photos in the Ice exhibition were taken on a 2012 trip to Iceland. Young said "the power of nature to constanlty change the landscape is more evident in Iceland than anywhere else on Earth." The images in the show feature ice formations and dynamic landscapes.

Ceramist Bryan Hopkins lives in Buffalo and teaches art at Niagara Community College. He recieved his MFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz. His sculptural and utilitarian ceramics are made with porcelain "following in in the lineage of fine china" and embody the physical qualities of the material, "strength, fagility, translucence".

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Portals: Urban Landscapes from Havana to Syracuse
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

An exhibit of 46 photographs of Havana and Syracuse, exhibited on old wooden doors and over a skyline of Havana created on foam. The multicolored lights above the skyline represent the lights of the city of Havana. The blue shimmers below represent the sea that surrounds the city.

A portal opened for Danisley Perez Bravo between two worlds. The exhibition combines the last images that she captured with her lens when she left her beloved city of Havana, and the first ones she took when she arrived in Syracuse to make this her new home.

Guided visits are offered in English or Spanish by appointment. For a guided tour, please email us at lacasita@syr.edu to schedule your visit.

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

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Dan Lenchner's collection of photos of Third Reich life makes the power of the "uncanny" visible. They are both strange and somehow familiar, these snapshots: Nazi officers at family picnics, weddings and christenings, relaxing off-duty and courting their sweethearts, along with mischievous boys at Hitler Youth summer camps, smiling nurses, teenage girls practicing their goose-step, nuns posing with former students in uniform. Here are the threads in the fabric of a nation given over to war, close to 70 years ago. Still we struggle with what to make of their deeds, which lie so outside the frame. Lenchner, a photographer himself, is acutely attuned to this quality about the truth of any image. His book quotes Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, that the "trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him...terribly and terrifyingly normal."

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

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

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

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

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

At the River I Stand
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A film about the 1986 Memphis sanitation workers strike and Dr. Martin Luther King's evolving vision of justice. Winner of Best Documentary Award, Organization of American Historians. The documentary brings into sharp relief issues that have only become more urgent in the intervening years, offering new insights into the intersection of race and class. Stirring historical footage shows community mobilization in support of the workers as they took on the white power structure. As the struggle developed the national leadership of AFSCME put the international union's full resources behind the strike. One day, a sign showed up on the picket line that expressed in its poignant simplify what the struggle of the 1300 sanitation workers was all about: "I am a man." The film unflinchingly depicts the internal controversies that took place among Dr. King's advisors, local leaders and younger militants. "At the River I Stand," is a riveting portrait of grit and determination of ordinary people will inspire viewers to re-dedicate themselves to racial and economic justice. As the income gap between poor and rich Americans grows even wider, this film will deepen reflection and action on what kind of nation we wish to create today. Conversation and refreshments will follow the film screening. (1993, 58 minutes)

The Loving Story
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Eggers Hall, Room 060
Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse

In collaboration with the National Endowment for the Humanities, Community Folk Art Center will be hosting a screening of the award-winning documentary, "The Loving Family," followed by a panel discussion. Join us in watching the compelling story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple who fought the state of Virginia to have their marriage legally recognized. This poignant documentary will explore the expression and challenges of love within the bounds of legalized oppression.

15th Annual PRISM concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The annual PRISM concert will include innovative performances by Setnor School of Music students and students from the SU community. For this concert, Setnor School of Music is delighted to welcome visiting students from Senzoku Gakuen Music School in Japan.

Students and faculty from Japan will visit Syracuse in February and will participate in this Setnor PRISM concert, as well as performing at the Lost Horizon in Syracuse in a show produced by Setnor faculty member, Dan Mastronardi.

There are 23 musicians coming from Senzoku including rhythm section (guitar, bass, drums) and vocalists. These students are from the college's Rock & Pops degree program. The rhythm section players along with Professor Tomotsune Maeno (keyboards) will back the vocalists in performances in the PRISM concert and at Lost Horizon.

Athena Margarites and Rob Righthand, B.M. Music Industry seniors are the PRISM concert co-producers. They accompanied the GRUPO PAGÁN TRIO to Japan to hear perform and meet with the Japanese students who are coming to Setnor.

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

Zach Deputy, with Big Something, Fox Richardson
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Death Takes a Cruise
Acme Mystery Company

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

Pack your costume, grab your party hat, and step aboard our venerable riverboat, The Mississippi Mistress, as we prepare to set sail down the "Big Muddy" for New Orleans and Mardi Gras! Woooo-hooo! The mighty Captain "Crawdaddy" Cretin will help you navigate the shoals, sand bars, (and wet bars), while Scooter, the Porter, and your Cruise Director, Lucy Belle Juniper, see to your comfort and entertainment. Watch out for the other passengers (They look pretty suspicious). Someone might not make it to the "Big Easy" alive.

Preview: Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

A hilarious new comedy by David Henry Hwang about the misadventures of miscommunication. An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract, but the deal isn't the only thing lost in translation as he tangles with a government official, a bumbling consultant, and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat. Time magazine named Chinglish one of the best plays of 2011.

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The Curious Case of Phineas Gage
Redhouse
Split Knuckle Theatre

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

Split Knuckle Theatre is known for its highly physical and creative work. This play explores the true story of Phineas Gage, a 19th-century railroad worker who was injured when an explosion drove a three foot iron spike through his brain. Miraculously, he survived and recovered. But somehow, he was no longer himself. Gage's story became a seminal one in the history of neuroscience, and led to powerful new theories about our minds and our personalities.

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Speed-the-Plow
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

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

This Tony Award-nominated play by David Mamet is a hilarious satire of Hollywood. Charlie Fox has a terrific vehicle for a currently hot client. Bringing the script to his friend Bobby Gould, the newly appointed Head of Production at a major studio, both see the work as their ticket to the Big Time. The star wants to do it; as they prepare their pitch to the studio boss, Bobby wagers Charlie that he can seduce the temp/secretary. The New York Daily News called Speed-the-Plow Mamet's "clearest, wittiest play."

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Friday, February 28, 2014

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

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

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

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

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Art, Design and Concept: The Process of Scenic Design For the Theater
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The scenic model is one of the tools that theatrical scenic designers use as part of their creative process to represent the appearance of the final stage setting. Models communicate the shape, volume and relationship of elements of the setting in the performance space and showcase the art, design and conceptual ideas that create a visual representation of the performance environment.

The opening of "Art, Design and Concept" coincides with the opening of the Department of Drama's production of Speed-the-Plow, which features scenic design by SU Drama students.

914Works is an intimate space for VPA students and faculty to present individual or group exhibitions, readings and small-scale performances.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Art Riot: Works by Vykky Ebner
The Art Store Gallery

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

We are thrilled to have Stone Canoe Cover Artist Vykky Ebner showing a few of her masterpieces here.

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We will be featuring a selection of beautiful black and white stoneware functional pottery with a botanical theme by Leslie Green Guilbault of Hamilton.

Ice: Work by Bryan Hopkins and Jamie Young
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jamie Young is a Syracuse-area commercial and fine art photographer who studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His stunning photos in the Ice exhibition were taken on a 2012 trip to Iceland. Young said "the power of nature to constanlty change the landscape is more evident in Iceland than anywhere else on Earth." The images in the show feature ice formations and dynamic landscapes.

Ceramist Bryan Hopkins lives in Buffalo and teaches art at Niagara Community College. He recieved his MFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz. His sculptural and utilitarian ceramics are made with porcelain "following in in the lineage of fine china" and embody the physical qualities of the material, "strength, fagility, translucence".