Saturday, February 23, 2013

Important Persons Project
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Students from Henniger High School are exhibiting their own "Significant Souls" artwork in our gallery windows. The work was done by the art students of Ms. Lizzio in a workshop conducted by visiting artist Gail Hoffman. The work will be on view throughout the Significant Souls exhibition.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Juan A. Cruz's "Mini Retrospective of the '80s, '90s and '00s," takes a look at the artist's journeys to Spain, Mexico, Central America and Cuba. The works reflect his search for his past and an understanding of where tribal and modern worlds meet.

Cruz is the artist-in-residence of the Near West Side Initiative, an urban revitalization program in the Near Westside neighborhood in Syracuse. Cruz lives and works in his "Patch-Up Studio" hoping to provide a community place for children and adults to learn art.

Cruz's work has shown extensively in Upstate New York, California, and Puerto Rico and some are now in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, the Gifford Foundation, and the Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Upstate New York.

CNY Scholastic Arts Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A mixed media exhibit featuring award-winning work from high school students across Central New York.
The Scholastic Art Awards recognize nearly 30,000 teen artists and writers. One thousand of these artists receive national awards. Each piece is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Sacred Paradox: Photography by Willson Cummer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs by local artist Willson Cummer focus on exploring humanity's place in the environment. This group of photographs depicts images of Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, taken from a canoe and from the shore. The exhibit title, Sacred Paradox, refers to the conflicting reality of Onondaga Lake -- it is both a Superfund cleanup site and a holy lake for the nearby Onondaga Indian Nation.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jeff Robinson: metal and glass sculpture
Charles Golden: mixed media wall hangings
Sharon Alama: mixed media jewelry

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

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Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

In her first solo exhibition at the Everson, Yvonne Buchanan presents a sound installation entitled Strange Tongue, a contemporary altered version of a well-known American gospel song by Mahalia Jackson. All associations to the lyrics have been excised, leaving a wordless voice, emphasizing the expression of sorrow and hope. The audio track can be accessed by dialing (315) 703-3063 and pressing 13.

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist statement: "The cast resin works of 'Within' represent both mystery and metaphor. The use of clear resin and lost wax surfaces allows me to capture, reflect and diffract light to create a constantly changing vision. The surfaces of the sculpture act as a mirror or prism and offer the contrast of surprise yet familiarity. I find a strong connection between the material and myself. Time disappears. There is a kind of magic that takes place during the act of creating art."

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Salon Style 2
Szozda Gallery

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

In a continuing "mix & match" mode, walls at Szozda Gallery in February will be enveloped in a salon-style exhibit of diverse works by a number of artists; however, this second rendering differs from the last in that works shown are mostly all new pieces created by those artists.

Among the works included in "Salon Style 2" are figurative oil paintings by Phil Parsons, Stephen Perrone, Cayetano Valenzuela, and John Fitzsimmons; pastel and mixed media paintings by Roscha Folger, media by Laura J. Wellner and Linda Esterley; works of societal commentaries expressed by Fred Wellner in his acrylic surrealistic series; archival fiber print photography by Barbara Conte-Gaugel; and more beautiful renderings of Central New York landscapes created by Rob Glisson's plein air painting and Bob Niedzwiecki's oils.

Stone Canoe Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Stone Canoe annual exhibition, in tandem with the launch of the 2013 issue of Stone Canoe Journal, will feature the work of 29 artists, some emerging and some well-established, with connections to the Upstate New York region. The show is curated by Amy Cheng, professor of art at SUNY New Paltz and visual arts editor for Stone Canoe 7. Stone Canoe, an award-winning journal of arts, literature and social commentary, is published each January by University College of Syracuse University.

The Connective Thread: Wearable to Sculptural Fibers
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"The Connective Thread" aims to bring together wearable and sculptural fiber artists who incorporate a range of different techniques into their artwork. Ultimately, goal of the exhibition is to allow the audience to appreciate the almost limitless possibilities of the medium. Participating artists include Kathy Barry, Sharon Bottle-Souva, Lauren Bristol, Mary Giehl, Jean Henry, Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, Nancy Kramer, Laurel Moranz, Rebecca Mushtare, Jen Pepper, Sarah Saulson, Kim Waale, and Davana Wilkins.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Neil Welliver Prints is an exhibition of over 60 examples of the artist's woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and screen prints. Welliver was regarded as one of the preeminent American landscape painters of the 20th century and from the late 1970s to his death in 2005 he considered printmaking an integral part of his artistic activity. Neil Welliver Prints provides an overview of the artist's prolific graphic career, assembling signature wildlife and landscape impressions from over 30 years. Welliver's compelling, larger-than-life paintings of Maine's natural landscape often became series of intimate woodcuts using traditional Japanese methods in collaboration with the noted printmaker Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi. All of the works are on loan from the Alexandre Gallery, New York City, which represented Welliver for years.

Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress" is an exhibition that investigates the impact that work, recreational activities, and independent living had on women during the turn of the 19th to 20th century. The exhibition will feature more than 70 original objects, including color lithography posters from the Arts and Crafts movement, accompanied by examples of furniture, lamps, vases, clothing and other accessories.

The guest curators for this exhibition are graduate students enrolled in the Syracuse University Museum Studies Advanced Curatorship class, under the guidance of Professor Edward Aiken. The works in the exhibition are drawn from a variety of Central New York lenders, including the SU Art Collection, The Stickley Museum, Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center, Dalton's American Decorative Arts, the Cortland County Historical Society, and Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center.

Significant Souls: Paintings by Patrick Fiore
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Utica-native Patrick Fiore has created a series of 34 paintings inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States 1492-Present, which will be on exhibit.

Patrick does not conceal his intention. He wants, by putting the people and events of the People's History into graphic, startling form, to draw attention to the history of our nation, to the stories omitted, the heroes of dissent missing from the pages of the textbooks. He wants to reach people by his paintings and to inspire them to think for themselves about our society, to tell them about the way people through the centuries have behaved with compassion and kindness, against all odds, have thought for themselves, have organized and agitated, and refused obedience to laws and practices that offend common decency.

This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation.

Synchronized Mélange
XL Projects

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

"Synchronized Mélange" features a variety of works from international graduate students from across the Departments of Art and Transmedia. The show is co-organized by Stephen Zaima, VPA associate dean of global academic programs and initiatives and a professor of painting in the Department of Art, and Alex Mendez, assistant professor in the Department of Transmedia.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand.

Snow Show
Public Art Task Force

Price: Free
317 W. Fayette St.
Syracuse

The Snow Show is a snow party and gallery exhibit featuring artworks by the Public Art Task Force collective and friends. Coinciding with the event, there will also be a snow sculpture extravaganza on the front lawn at the Most on Saturday the 23rd from noon - melt. All are welcome to participate. Bring your own tools and supplies to help create a great sculpture!

Yvonne Buchanan: in Court (Basketball)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Yvonne Buchanan's video work creates micro-narratives of the ghostly presence of histories. Individual, family and community experiences of otherness, and the perpetual small and large traumas sustained, is the focus of her recent work. She is particularly interested in the strategies employed to endure these experiences, especially ideas of religiosity and beliefs in the afterlife. Her subject is often the black body as object and symbol, the embodiment of curiosity, and a "dark" and weighty presence. In constructing her work, she frequently uses the loop, in creating a circular story, one that can be read differently, as scenes repeat.

The piece in Court features a basketball court, where the hopes and dreams of young black men are played out, at the same time as it seems to fluctuate between a site for sport and a cage. The projection of the piece at the UVP Everson venue, with its close proximity to the Onondaga County jail, takes on a special and literal resonance with the audible but invisible play of the inmates on the rooftop court of the correctional facility.

Total runtime: 13:22

Cradle Will Rock
ArtRage Gallery

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

Directed by Tim Robbins with Susan Sarandon, John and Joan Cusack, Vanessa Redgrave, Bill Murray, Hank Azaria & Rubén Blades.
Watch art and politics clash in a rare moment in 1930s American culture -- and a stirring film that proves why "artists should get to do art without being destroyed by mean rich people" -- efilmcritic.com. 1999, 132 minutes.

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Featured in this eclectic display are the bookshelf, counter, calliope, and international doll collection from The Magic Toy Shop, Syracuse's local children's TV show from the 1950s through 1980s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see hand-carved trains and boats, Punch & Judy marionettes, Victorian dolls, 1950s board games, and many other vintage toys, some made in central New York. The exhibit also includes historic photos of downtown Syracuse, and boxes from bygone stores such as Chappell's, Dey Bros., Flah's, Madame Netter, and E. W. Edwards.

Junior Recital: Maggie Swartout, trumpet; Meghan O'Keefe, violin
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Henze Sonatina
Bach Sonata No. 2 in A minor
Torelli Sonata in D Major (G.1)
Saint-Saens Concerto No. 3 in B minor
Eugène Bozza Rustiques
Eric Ewazen Trio in E-flat for Violin, Trumpet and Piano

Senior Percussion Recital: Jared Grubow and Will Anderson, percussion
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Featuring works by William Dorn, Kirk J. Gay, Jesse Monkman, Emma Logan, Benjamin Finley, Vincent Youmans, and Dave Hollinden

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 Friends
Steeple Coffeehouse

Price: $7 in advance, $10 at the door
Fayetteville United Church
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Admission includes beverage and dessert.

For more information, phone 315-663-7415.

Judy Collins

Price: $27.50; $35
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Tickets available at sherpaconcerts.com.

Red House Regulars: Chris Trapper
Redhouse

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

Chris Trapper began his career as the front man for late-90's alternative rock band The Push Stars (Capitol Records). With four CD releases and several high profile national tours - including a run with Matchbox Twenty - The Push Stars served to establish Chris as an authentic talent. Redhouse is thrilled to welcome back this brilliant singer/songwriter. The New York Times calls his work "classic pop perfection."

The Wood Brothers, with Jamie Kent
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Top Girls
Syracuse University Drama Department
Tim Davis-Reed, director

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

A skeptical and comic look at the role of women in contemporary society, Top Girls flashes with Caryl Churchill's razor-sharp wit and ingenious theatricality. Set in the early days of Margaret Thatcher's England, the play follows two sisters: hard-nosed, successful businesswoman Marlene, and Joyce who has stayed true to their working class background in rural Suffolk. It famously opens with Marlene's fantastic dinner party, celebrating her promotion with women from myth and history. As the action swings from a smart London Women's Employment Agency to a cottage in rural East Anglia, Top Girls considers the personal sacrifices and compromises women must endure in the pursuit of "success."

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Merchant of Venice
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: $12 regular, $10 seniors/students, $5 with SU ID
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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Lost in Yonkers
Appleseed Productions
CJ Young, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

By America's great comic playwright, Neil Simon, this memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942. Bella is in her early 30s, mentally challenged and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne'er-do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady's doorstep. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers.

Featuring Marcia Mele as “Grandma Kurnitz.

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Mr. Marmalade
Black Box Players

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

To reserve or for more information, email blackboxplayersinformation@gmail.com.

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A Streetcar Named Desire
Central New York Playhouse
Patricia Catchouny, director

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

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

The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject--so far as possible--the realities of life with which she is faced and which she consistently ignores. The pressure brought to bear upon her by her sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, intensified by the earthy and extremely "normal" young husband of the latter, leads to a revelation of her tragic self-delusion and, in the end, to madness.

Starring Sara Caliva as Stella, Jordan Glaski as Stanley, and Jodie Baum as Blanche.

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Reckless
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students
Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

It's Christmas Eve and Rachel is informed by her husband that he has hired a hitman to kill her -- and then things get really strange! This richly inventive and often startling dark comedy is a bittersweet fable for contemporary America.

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Spooky Dog and the Teenage Gang Mysteries
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

A "South Park" version of Scooby-Doo, written by Eric Pliner and Amy Rhodes. Uncover the hilarious secret subtext of your favorite cartoon! The uproarious and campy adventures of a dog detective named Spooky, his spaced-out hippie friend, and their gang.

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Top Girls
Syracuse University Drama Department
Tim Davis-Reed, director

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

A skeptical and comic look at the role of women in contemporary society, Top Girls flashes with Caryl Churchill's razor-sharp wit and ingenious theatricality. Set in the early days of Margaret Thatcher's England, the play follows two sisters: hard-nosed, successful businesswoman Marlene, and Joyce who has stayed true to their working class background in rural Suffolk. It famously opens with Marlene's fantastic dinner party, celebrating her promotion with women from myth and history. As the action swings from a smart London Women's Employment Agency to a cottage in rural East Anglia, Top Girls considers the personal sacrifices and compromises women must endure in the pursuit of "success."

Read a Review!

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Important Persons Project
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Students from Henniger High School are exhibiting their own "Significant Souls" artwork in our gallery windows. The work was done by the art students of Ms. Lizzio in a workshop conducted by visiting artist Gail Hoffman. The work will be on view throughout the Significant Souls exhibition.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Juan A. Cruz's "Mini Retrospective of the '80s, '90s and '00s," takes a look at the artist's journeys to Spain, Mexico, Central America and Cuba. The works reflect his search for his past and an understanding of where tribal and modern worlds meet.

Cruz is the artist-in-residence of the Near West Side Initiative, an urban revitalization program in the Near Westside neighborhood in Syracuse. Cruz lives and works in his "Patch-Up Studio" hoping to provide a community place for children and adults to learn art.

Cruz's work has shown extensively in Upstate New York, California, and Puerto Rico and some are now in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, the Gifford Foundation, and the Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Upstate New York.

CNY Scholastic Arts Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A mixed media exhibit featuring award-winning work from high school students across Central New York.
The Scholastic Art Awards recognize nearly 30,000 teen artists and writers. One thousand of these artists receive national awards. Each piece is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

Salon Style 2
Szozda Gallery

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

In a continuing "mix & match" mode, walls at Szozda Gallery in February will be enveloped in a salon-style exhibit of diverse works by a number of artists; however, this second rendering differs from the last in that works shown are mostly all new pieces created by those artists.

Among the works included in "Salon Style 2" are figurative oil paintings by Phil Parsons, Stephen Perrone, Cayetano Valenzuela, and John Fitzsimmons; pastel and mixed media paintings by Roscha Folger, media by Laura J. Wellner and Linda Esterley; works of societal commentaries expressed by Fred Wellner in his acrylic surrealistic series; archival fiber print photography by Barbara Conte-Gaugel; and more beautiful renderings of Central New York landscapes created by Rob Glisson's plein air painting and Bob Niedzwiecki's oils.

The Connective Thread: Wearable to Sculptural Fibers
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"The Connective Thread" aims to bring together wearable and sculptural fiber artists who incorporate a range of different techniques into their artwork. Ultimately, goal of the exhibition is to allow the audience to appreciate the almost limitless possibilities of the medium. Participating artists include Kathy Barry, Sharon Bottle-Souva, Lauren Bristol, Mary Giehl, Jean Henry, Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, Nancy Kramer, Laurel Moranz, Rebecca Mushtare, Jen Pepper, Sarah Saulson, Kim Waale, and Davana Wilkins.

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress" is an exhibition that investigates the impact that work, recreational activities, and independent living had on women during the turn of the 19th to 20th century. The exhibition will feature more than 70 original objects, including color lithography posters from the Arts and Crafts movement, accompanied by examples of furniture, lamps, vases, clothing and other accessories.

The guest curators for this exhibition are graduate students enrolled in the Syracuse University Museum Studies Advanced Curatorship class, under the guidance of Professor Edward Aiken. The works in the exhibition are drawn from a variety of Central New York lenders, including the SU Art Collection, The Stickley Museum, Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center, Dalton's American Decorative Arts, the Cortland County Historical Society, and Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center.

Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Neil Welliver Prints is an exhibition of over 60 examples of the artist's woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and screen prints. Welliver was regarded as one of the preeminent American landscape painters of the 20th century and from the late 1970s to his death in 2005 he considered printmaking an integral part of his artistic activity. Neil Welliver Prints provides an overview of the artist's prolific graphic career, assembling signature wildlife and landscape impressions from over 30 years. Welliver's compelling, larger-than-life paintings of Maine's natural landscape often became series of intimate woodcuts using traditional Japanese methods in collaboration with the noted printmaker Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi. All of the works are on loan from the Alexandre Gallery, New York City, which represented Welliver for years.

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

In her first solo exhibition at the Everson, Yvonne Buchanan presents a sound installation entitled Strange Tongue, a contemporary altered version of a well-known American gospel song by Mahalia Jackson. All associations to the lyrics have been excised, leaving a wordless voice, emphasizing the expression of sorrow and hope. The audio track can be accessed by dialing (315) 703-3063 and pressing 13.

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

Read a review!

Synchronized Mélange
XL Projects

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

"Synchronized Mélange" features a variety of works from international graduate students from across the Departments of Art and Transmedia. The show is co-organized by Stephen Zaima, VPA associate dean of global academic programs and initiatives and a professor of painting in the Department of Art, and Alex Mendez, assistant professor in the Department of Transmedia.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand.

Significant Souls Unveiling
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
Matilda Joslyn Gage House
210 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

The Gage Foundation will unveil the work of Patrick Fiore as an addition to the Underground Railroad Room in the historic Gage house. For more information, phone 315-637-9511 or contact info@matildajoslyngage.org.

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Featured in this eclectic display are the bookshelf, counter, calliope, and international doll collection from The Magic Toy Shop, Syracuse's local children's TV show from the 1950s through 1980s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see hand-carved trains and boats, Punch & Judy marionettes, Victorian dolls, 1950s board games, and many other vintage toys, some made in central New York. The exhibit also includes historic photos of downtown Syracuse, and boxes from bygone stores such as Chappell's, Dey Bros., Flah's, Madame Netter, and E. W. Edwards.

How to Make a Product People LOVE: Product Development Lessons from the Lead Designer of BrandYourself.com
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Pete Kistler

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

Pete Kistler is the co-founder and Lead Designer at BrandYourself.com, the only do-it-yourself platform that makes it easy for anyone improve their own Google results. At 24 years old, he's been named one of the Top 100 Entrepreneurs Under 30 by the White House, the Top Young Entrepreneur of 2011 by the SBA, a Top 5 Collegiate Entrepreneur of 2009 by Entrepreneur Magazine, the #1 Emerging Tech Business in New York, and winner of NY's Creative Core $200k business competition. Born in Needham, MA and a proud iSchool alumnus at Syracuse University, Pete is a keyboard player/composer, wordplay lover, and optimist.

Sunday Musicale: John Piazza and Friends
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: $5 suggested donation
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

21st Century Prize Winners
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors, $10 students, free for children under 18
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Music from this year's Brian Israel prize winners Ted Goldman and Joseph N. Rubenstein take center stage for this concert. In addition to their works, you will hear other prize-winning composers, including Mark Olivieri, David Liptak, Greg Wanamaker, 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner Zhou Long, Tyler Ogilvie, and the second performance of The Last Whirlispring by Edward Ruchalski, featuring a musical puppet created by Open Hand Theater's founder, Geoff Navias.

The Jazzuits Sing Frank Sinatra
LeMoyne College
Featuring Ronnie Leigh

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors, $5 students
James Commons
Le Moyne College, Syracuse

World-class jazz singer Ronnie Leigh joins the Jazzuits with his renditions of Frank Sinatra's hit recordings.

For more information, call 315-445-4523.

Junior Voice Recital: Jesstina Allinger, soprano, with Evan Bianchi, piano and Carolyn Steinberg, soprano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Mozart Vedrai carino from Don Giovanni
Fauré Clair de lune
Adam Guettel How Glory Goes
Stephen Schwartz I Couldnt Be Happier from Wicked
Harold Arlen and Milton Ager Happy Days are Here Again/Get Happy

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.

Aaron Carter, with Justin Levinson, Jay Loftus, Leo Lemay, Big Dan's iPad Experience
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Lost in Yonkers
Appleseed Productions
CJ Young, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

By America's great comic playwright, Neil Simon, this memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942. Bella is in her early 30s, mentally challenged and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne'er-do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady's doorstep. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers.

Featuring Marcia Mele as “Grandma Kurnitz.

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Merchant of Venice
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: $12 regular, $10 seniors/students, $5 with SU ID
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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Top Girls
Syracuse University Drama Department
Tim Davis-Reed, director

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

A skeptical and comic look at the role of women in contemporary society, Top Girls flashes with Caryl Churchill's razor-sharp wit and ingenious theatricality. Set in the early days of Margaret Thatcher's England, the play follows two sisters: hard-nosed, successful businesswoman Marlene, and Joyce who has stayed true to their working class background in rural Suffolk. It famously opens with Marlene's fantastic dinner party, celebrating her promotion with women from myth and history. As the action swings from a smart London Women's Employment Agency to a cottage in rural East Anglia, Top Girls considers the personal sacrifices and compromises women must endure in the pursuit of "success."

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Spooky Dog and the Teenage Gang Mysteries
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

A "South Park" version of Scooby-Doo, written by Eric Pliner and Amy Rhodes. Uncover the hilarious secret subtext of your favorite cartoon! The uproarious and campy adventures of a dog detective named Spooky, his spaced-out hippie friend, and their gang.

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Monday, February 25, 2013

Important Persons Project
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Students from Henniger High School are exhibiting their own "Significant Souls" artwork in our gallery windows. The work was done by the art students of Ms. Lizzio in a workshop conducted by visiting artist Gail Hoffman. The work will be on view throughout the Significant Souls exhibition.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Juan A. Cruz's "Mini Retrospective of the '80s, '90s and '00s," takes a look at the artist's journeys to Spain, Mexico, Central America and Cuba. The works reflect his search for his past and an understanding of where tribal and modern worlds meet.

Cruz is the artist-in-residence of the Near West Side Initiative, an urban revitalization program in the Near Westside neighborhood in Syracuse. Cruz lives and works in his "Patch-Up Studio" hoping to provide a community place for children and adults to learn art.

Cruz's work has shown extensively in Upstate New York, California, and Puerto Rico and some are now in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, the Gifford Foundation, and the Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Upstate New York.

Sacred Paradox: Photography by Willson Cummer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs by local artist Willson Cummer focus on exploring humanity's place in the environment. This group of photographs depicts images of Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, taken from a canoe and from the shore. The exhibit title, Sacred Paradox, refers to the conflicting reality of Onondaga Lake -- it is both a Superfund cleanup site and a holy lake for the nearby Onondaga Indian Nation.

Neil Chowdhury Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Neil Chowdhury will showcase two photographic series exploring Indian heritage and culture. Chowdhury's body of work depicts laborers and vendors eking out a living on the street of India's biggest city.

CNY Scholastic Arts Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A mixed media exhibit featuring award-winning work from high school students across Central New York.
The Scholastic Art Awards recognize nearly 30,000 teen artists and writers. One thousand of these artists receive national awards. Each piece is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

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

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

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

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

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist statement: "The cast resin works of 'Within' represent both mystery and metaphor. The use of clear resin and lost wax surfaces allows me to capture, reflect and diffract light to create a constantly changing vision. The surfaces of the sculpture act as a mirror or prism and offer the contrast of surprise yet familiarity. I find a strong connection between the material and myself. Time disappears. There is a kind of magic that takes place during the act of creating art."

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Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Angels on the Border" is an exhibition of religious paintings commissioned by Mexican immigrants from 1912 to 1996.

Retablos are Mexican folk paintings, usually created on small pieces of tin, offered as votives to the Christ and the Virgin Mary in gratitude for a miracle granted or a favor received. Made by professional retablo artists, immigrant relatives or the immigrants themselves, the artwork is posted on walls inside Catholic churches in Mexico.

The Design Impact of Robert Blaich
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition showcasing the distinguished career of Robert Blaich and the importance and impact of his 60 years in the design field.

After earning a bachelor of fine arts degree in design from SU, Blaich worked for Herman Miller Inc., where he eventually became vice president of corporate design and communications. He went on to become senior managing director of design at Royal Philips Electronics in the Netherlands and established himself as an innovator in the industrial design field. In 1991, he founded his own company, Blaich Associates. He is a past member and chair of the board at Teague and a fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America.

"The Design Impact of Robert Blaich" is curated, designed and installed by first-year graduate museum studies students in VPA. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson, exhibition facilitator, at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Important Persons Project
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Students from Henniger High School are exhibiting their own "Significant Souls" artwork in our gallery windows. The work was done by the art students of Ms. Lizzio in a workshop conducted by visiting artist Gail Hoffman. The work will be on view throughout the Significant Souls exhibition.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Juan A. Cruz's "Mini Retrospective of the '80s, '90s and '00s," takes a look at the artist's journeys to Spain, Mexico, Central America and Cuba. The works reflect his search for his past and an understanding of where tribal and modern worlds meet.

Cruz is the artist-in-residence of the Near West Side Initiative, an urban revitalization program in the Near Westside neighborhood in Syracuse. Cruz lives and works in his "Patch-Up Studio" hoping to provide a community place for children and adults to learn art.

Cruz's work has shown extensively in Upstate New York, California, and Puerto Rico and some are now in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, the Gifford Foundation, and the Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Upstate New York.

Sacred Paradox: Photography by Willson Cummer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs by local artist Willson Cummer focus on exploring humanity's place in the environment. This group of photographs depicts images of Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, taken from a canoe and from the shore. The exhibit title, Sacred Paradox, refers to the conflicting reality of Onondaga Lake -- it is both a Superfund cleanup site and a holy lake for the nearby Onondaga Indian Nation.

CNY Scholastic Arts Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A mixed media exhibit featuring award-winning work from high school students across Central New York.
The Scholastic Art Awards recognize nearly 30,000 teen artists and writers. One thousand of these artists receive national awards. Each piece is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Neil Chowdhury Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Neil Chowdhury will showcase two photographic series exploring Indian heritage and culture. Chowdhury's body of work depicts laborers and vendors eking out a living on the street of India's biggest city.

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

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

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

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

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jeff Robinson: metal and glass sculpture
Charles Golden: mixed media wall hangings
Sharon Alama: mixed media jewelry

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist statement: "The cast resin works of 'Within' represent both mystery and metaphor. The use of clear resin and lost wax surfaces allows me to capture, reflect and diffract light to create a constantly changing vision. The surfaces of the sculpture act as a mirror or prism and offer the contrast of surprise yet familiarity. I find a strong connection between the material and myself. Time disappears. There is a kind of magic that takes place during the act of creating art."

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Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress" is an exhibition that investigates the impact that work, recreational activities, and independent living had on women during the turn of the 19th to 20th century. The exhibition will feature more than 70 original objects, including color lithography posters from the Arts and Crafts movement, accompanied by examples of furniture, lamps, vases, clothing and other accessories.

The guest curators for this exhibition are graduate students enrolled in the Syracuse University Museum Studies Advanced Curatorship class, under the guidance of Professor Edward Aiken. The works in the exhibition are drawn from a variety of Central New York lenders, including the SU Art Collection, The Stickley Museum, Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center, Dalton's American Decorative Arts, the Cortland County Historical Society, and Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center.

Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Neil Welliver Prints is an exhibition of over 60 examples of the artist's woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and screen prints. Welliver was regarded as one of the preeminent American landscape painters of the 20th century and from the late 1970s to his death in 2005 he considered printmaking an integral part of his artistic activity. Neil Welliver Prints provides an overview of the artist's prolific graphic career, assembling signature wildlife and landscape impressions from over 30 years. Welliver's compelling, larger-than-life paintings of Maine's natural landscape often became series of intimate woodcuts using traditional Japanese methods in collaboration with the noted printmaker Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi. All of the works are on loan from the Alexandre Gallery, New York City, which represented Welliver for years.

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

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Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

In her first solo exhibition at the Everson, Yvonne Buchanan presents a sound installation entitled Strange Tongue, a contemporary altered version of a well-known American gospel song by Mahalia Jackson. All associations to the lyrics have been excised, leaving a wordless voice, emphasizing the expression of sorrow and hope. The audio track can be accessed by dialing (315) 703-3063 and pressing 13.

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Angels on the Border" is an exhibition of religious paintings commissioned by Mexican immigrants from 1912 to 1996.

Retablos are Mexican folk paintings, usually created on small pieces of tin, offered as votives to the Christ and the Virgin Mary in gratitude for a miracle granted or a favor received. Made by professional retablo artists, immigrant relatives or the immigrants themselves, the artwork is posted on walls inside Catholic churches in Mexico.

The Design Impact of Robert Blaich
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition showcasing the distinguished career of Robert Blaich and the importance and impact of his 60 years in the design field.

After earning a bachelor of fine arts degree in design from SU, Blaich worked for Herman Miller Inc., where he eventually became vice president of corporate design and communications. He went on to become senior managing director of design at Royal Philips Electronics in the Netherlands and established himself as an innovator in the industrial design field. In 1991, he founded his own company, Blaich Associates. He is a past member and chair of the board at Teague and a fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America.

"The Design Impact of Robert Blaich" is curated, designed and installed by first-year graduate museum studies students in VPA. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson, exhibition facilitator, at bjhudson@syr.edu.

SU Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
James Tapia, conductor
Featuring Janet Brown, soprano

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Verdi La forza del destino
Strauss Mein Auge, op. 37 no. 4
Elgar Serenade for String Orchestra, op. 20
Ravel Ma mère l'oye ("Mother Goose")

The Road to Paid Dues Tour: Murs, with Prof, Fashawn, Black Cloud Music, Our Reality
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Important Persons Project
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Students from Henniger High School are exhibiting their own "Significant Souls" artwork in our gallery windows. The work was done by the art students of Ms. Lizzio in a workshop conducted by visiting artist Gail Hoffman. The work will be on view throughout the Significant Souls exhibition.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Juan A. Cruz's "Mini Retrospective of the '80s, '90s and '00s," takes a look at the artist's journeys to Spain, Mexico, Central America and Cuba. The works reflect his search for his past and an understanding of where tribal and modern worlds meet.

Cruz is the artist-in-residence of the Near West Side Initiative, an urban revitalization program in the Near Westside neighborhood in Syracuse. Cruz lives and works in his "Patch-Up Studio" hoping to provide a community place for children and adults to learn art.

Cruz's work has shown extensively in Upstate New York, California, and Puerto Rico and some are now in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, the Gifford Foundation, and the Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Upstate New York.

Sacred Paradox: Photography by Willson Cummer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs by local artist Willson Cummer focus on exploring humanity's place in the environment. This group of photographs depicts images of Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, taken from a canoe and from the shore. The exhibit title, Sacred Paradox, refers to the conflicting reality of Onondaga Lake -- it is both a Superfund cleanup site and a holy lake for the nearby Onondaga Indian Nation.

CNY Scholastic Arts Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A mixed media exhibit featuring award-winning work from high school students across Central New York.
The Scholastic Art Awards recognize nearly 30,000 teen artists and writers. One thousand of these artists receive national awards. Each piece is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

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

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

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

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

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jeff Robinson: metal and glass sculpture
Charles Golden: mixed media wall hangings
Sharon Alama: mixed media jewelry

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist statement: "The cast resin works of 'Within' represent both mystery and metaphor. The use of clear resin and lost wax surfaces allows me to capture, reflect and diffract light to create a constantly changing vision. The surfaces of the sculpture act as a mirror or prism and offer the contrast of surprise yet familiarity. I find a strong connection between the material and myself. Time disappears. There is a kind of magic that takes place during the act of creating art."

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Salon Style 2
Szozda Gallery

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

In a continuing "mix & match" mode, walls at Szozda Gallery in February will be enveloped in a salon-style exhibit of diverse works by a number of artists; however, this second rendering differs from the last in that works shown are mostly all new pieces created by those artists.

Among the works included in "Salon Style 2" are figurative oil paintings by Phil Parsons, Stephen Perrone, Cayetano Valenzuela, and John Fitzsimmons; pastel and mixed media paintings by Roscha Folger, media by Laura J. Wellner and Linda Esterley; works of societal commentaries expressed by Fred Wellner in his acrylic surrealistic series; archival fiber print photography by Barbara Conte-Gaugel; and more beautiful renderings of Central New York landscapes created by Rob Glisson's plein air painting and Bob Niedzwiecki's oils.

Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress" is an exhibition that investigates the impact that work, recreational activities, and independent living had on women during the turn of the 19th to 20th century. The exhibition will feature more than 70 original objects, including color lithography posters from the Arts and Crafts movement, accompanied by examples of furniture, lamps, vases, clothing and other accessories.

The guest curators for this exhibition are graduate students enrolled in the Syracuse University Museum Studies Advanced Curatorship class, under the guidance of Professor Edward Aiken. The works in the exhibition are drawn from a variety of Central New York lenders, including the SU Art Collection, The Stickley Museum, Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center, Dalton's American Decorative Arts, the Cortland County Historical Society, and Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center.

Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Neil Welliver Prints is an exhibition of over 60 examples of the artist's woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and screen prints. Welliver was regarded as one of the preeminent American landscape painters of the 20th century and from the late 1970s to his death in 2005 he considered printmaking an integral part of his artistic activity. Neil Welliver Prints provides an overview of the artist's prolific graphic career, assembling signature wildlife and landscape impressions from over 30 years. Welliver's compelling, larger-than-life paintings of Maine's natural landscape often became series of intimate woodcuts using traditional Japanese methods in collaboration with the noted printmaker Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi. All of the works are on loan from the Alexandre Gallery, New York City, which represented Welliver for years.

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

In her first solo exhibition at the Everson, Yvonne Buchanan presents a sound installation entitled Strange Tongue, a contemporary altered version of a well-known American gospel song by Mahalia Jackson. All associations to the lyrics have been excised, leaving a wordless voice, emphasizing the expression of sorrow and hope. The audio track can be accessed by dialing (315) 703-3063 and pressing 13.

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

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Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Angels on the Border" is an exhibition of religious paintings commissioned by Mexican immigrants from 1912 to 1996.

Retablos are Mexican folk paintings, usually created on small pieces of tin, offered as votives to the Christ and the Virgin Mary in gratitude for a miracle granted or a favor received. Made by professional retablo artists, immigrant relatives or the immigrants themselves, the artwork is posted on walls inside Catholic churches in Mexico.

Synchronized Mélange
XL Projects

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

"Synchronized Mélange" features a variety of works from international graduate students from across the Departments of Art and Transmedia. The show is co-organized by Stephen Zaima, VPA associate dean of global academic programs and initiatives and a professor of painting in the Department of Art, and Alex Mendez, assistant professor in the Department of Transmedia.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand.

The Design Impact of Robert Blaich
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

An exhibition showcasing the distinguished career of Robert Blaich and the importance and impact of his 60 years in the design field.

After earning a bachelor of fine arts degree in design from SU, Blaich worked for Herman Miller Inc., where he eventually became vice president of corporate design and communications. He went on to become senior managing director of design at Royal Philips Electronics in the Netherlands and established himself as an innovator in the industrial design field. In 1991, he founded his own company, Blaich Associates. He is a past member and chair of the board at Teague and a fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America.

"The Design Impact of Robert Blaich" is curated, designed and installed by first-year graduate museum studies students in VPA. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson, exhibition facilitator, at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Significant Souls: Paintings by Patrick Fiore
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Utica-native Patrick Fiore has created a series of 34 paintings inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States 1492-Present, which will be on exhibit.

Patrick does not conceal his intention. He wants, by putting the people and events of the People's History into graphic, startling form, to draw attention to the history of our nation, to the stories omitted, the heroes of dissent missing from the pages of the textbooks. He wants to reach people by his paintings and to inspire them to think for themselves about our society, to tell them about the way people through the centuries have behaved with compassion and kindness, against all odds, have thought for themselves, have organized and agitated, and refused obedience to laws and practices that offend common decency.

This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation.

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Featured in this eclectic display are the bookshelf, counter, calliope, and international doll collection from The Magic Toy Shop, Syracuse's local children's TV show from the 1950s through 1980s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see hand-carved trains and boats, Punch & Judy marionettes, Victorian dolls, 1950s board games, and many other vintage toys, some made in central New York. The exhibit also includes historic photos of downtown Syracuse, and boxes from bygone stores such as Chappell's, Dey Bros., Flah's, Madame Netter, and E. W. Edwards.

Lunchtime Lecture: Stickley and the Nouveau Risqué
Syracuse University Art Museum
Featuring Sarah Lanigan

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

Sarah Lanigan, Director of The Stickley Museum, will be our guest speaker in conjunction with the exhibition "Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress." Sarah will discuss the Stickley objects on loan as well as the historical impact of Stickley on Central New York during the early 1900s.

Artist Lecture
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Robert Blaich

Price: Free
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Blaich will give a lecture on his career, in conjunction with the exhibit, "The Design Impact of Robert Blaich."

The Human Condition: An Ocean Rower's Perspective
University Lectures
Featuring Roz Savage

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The ocean has forced Roz Savage -- ocean rower, adventurer and environmental ambassador -- to develop courage, tenacity, perseverance, and the strength to transcend self-imposed limits. In this lecture, she will share her insights on life purpose, motivation, spirituality and sustainability. The 2010 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, Savage holds four world records for ocean rowing, including one as the first woman to row three oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian.

Julie McKinstry, soprano; Tom McKay, clarinet; Ian Gallacher, viola; Sabine Krantz, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Five selections from Along the Field by Ralph Vaughan Williams, for soprano and viola
Three songs of Reynaldo Hahn, for soprano and piano
Four of Max Bruch's Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola and piano (Op. 83)

Justin Torres
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Justin Torres is a winner of the National Book Foundation 2012 "5 Under 35" award for We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011).

The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session 3:45-4:30 pm. Parking is available in SU's paid lots.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Important Persons Project
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Students from Henniger High School are exhibiting their own "Significant Souls" artwork in our gallery windows. The work was done by the art students of Ms. Lizzio in a workshop conducted by visiting artist Gail Hoffman. The work will be on view throughout the Significant Souls exhibition.

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Juan A. Cruz's "Mini Retrospective of the '80s, '90s and '00s," takes a look at the artist's journeys to Spain, Mexico, Central America and Cuba. The works reflect his search for his past and an understanding of where tribal and modern worlds meet.

Cruz is the artist-in-residence of the Near West Side Initiative, an urban revitalization program in the Near Westside neighborhood in Syracuse. Cruz lives and works in his "Patch-Up Studio" hoping to provide a community place for children and adults to learn art.

Cruz's work has shown extensively in Upstate New York, California, and Puerto Rico and some are now in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, the Gifford Foundation, and the Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Upstate New York.

Sacred Paradox: Photography by Willson Cummer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs by local artist Willson Cummer focus on exploring humanity's place in the environment. This group of photographs depicts images of Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, taken from a canoe and from the shore. The exhibit title, Sacred Paradox, refers to the conflicting reality of Onondaga Lake -- it is both a Superfund cleanup site and a holy lake for the nearby Onondaga Indian Nation.

CNY Scholastic Arts Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A mixed media exhibit featuring award-winning work from high school students across Central New York.
The Scholastic Art Awards recognize nearly 30,000 teen artists and writers. One thousand of these artists receive national awards. Each piece is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

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

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

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

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

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jeff Robinson: metal and glass sculpture
Charles Golden: mixed media wall hangings
Sharon Alama: mixed media jewelry

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist statement: "The cast resin works of 'Within' represent both mystery and metaphor. The use of clear resin and lost wax surfaces allows me to capture, reflect and diffract light to create a constantly changing vision. The surfaces of the sculpture act as a mirror or prism and offer the contrast of surprise yet familiarity. I find a strong connection between the material and myself. Time disappears. There is a kind of magic that takes place during the act of creating art."

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Salon Style 2
Szozda Gallery

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

In a continuing "mix & match" mode, walls at Szozda Gallery in February will be enveloped in a salon-style exhibit of diverse works by a number of artists; however, this second rendering differs from the last in that works shown are mostly all new pieces created by those artists.

Among the works included in "Salon Style 2" are figurative oil paintings by Phil Parsons, Stephen Perrone, Cayetano Valenzuela, and John Fitzsimmons; pastel and mixed media paintings by Roscha Folger, media by Laura J. Wellner and Linda Esterley; works of societal commentaries expressed by Fred Wellner in his acrylic surrealistic series; archival fiber print photography by Barbara Conte-Gaugel; and more beautiful renderings of Central New York landscapes created by Rob Glisson's plein air painting and Bob Niedzwiecki's oils.

The Connective Thread: Wearable to Sculptural Fibers
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"The Connective Thread" aims to bring together wearable and sculptural fiber artists who incorporate a range of different techniques into their artwork. Ultimately, goal of the exhibition is to allow the audience to appreciate the almost limitless possibilities of the medium. Participating artists include Kathy Barry, Sharon Bottle-Souva, Lauren Bristol, Mary Giehl, Jean Henry, Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, Nancy Kramer, Laurel Moranz, Rebecca Mushtare, Jen Pepper, Sarah Saulson, Kim Waale, and Davana Wilkins.

Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress" is an exhibition that investigates the impact that work, recreational activities, and independent living had on women during the turn of the 19th to 20th century. The exhibition will feature more than 70 original objects, including color lithography posters from the Arts and Crafts movement, accompanied by examples of furniture, lamps, vases, clothing and other accessories.

The guest curators for this exhibition are graduate students enrolled in the Syracuse University Museum Studies Advanced Curatorship class, under the guidance of Professor Edward Aiken. The works in the exhibition are drawn from a variety of Central New York lenders, including the SU Art Collection, The Stickley Museum, Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center, Dalton's American Decorative Arts, the Cortland County Historical Society, and Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center.

Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Neil Welliver Prints is an exhibition of over 60 examples of the artist's woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and screen prints. Welliver was regarded as one of the preeminent American landscape painters of the 20th century and from the late 1970s to his death in 2005 he considered printmaking an integral part of his artistic activity. Neil Welliver Prints provides an overview of the artist's prolific graphic career, assembling signature wildlife and landscape impressions from over 30 years. Welliver's compelling, larger-than-life paintings of Maine's natural landscape often became series of intimate woodcuts using traditional Japanese methods in collaboration with the noted printmaker Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi. All of the works are on loan from the Alexandre Gallery, New York City, which represented Welliver for years.

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

In her first solo exhibition at the Everson, Yvonne Buchanan presents a sound installation entitled Strange Tongue, a contemporary altered version of a well-known American gospel song by Mahalia Jackson. All associations to the lyrics have been excised, leaving a wordless voice, emphasizing the expression of sorrow and hope. The audio track can be accessed by dialing (315) 703-3063 and pressing 13.

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

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Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

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

"Angels on the Border" is an exhibition of religious paintings commissioned by Mexican immigrants from 1912 to 1996.

Retablos are Mexican folk paintings, usually created on small pieces of tin, offered as votives to the Christ and the Virgin Mary in gratitude for a miracle granted or a favor received. Made by professional retablo artists, immigrant relatives or the immigrants themselves, the artwork is posted on walls inside Catholic churches in Mexico.

Synchronized Mélange
XL Projects

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

"Synchronized Mélange" features a variety of works from international graduate students from across the Departments of Art and Transmedia. The show is co-organized by Stephen Zaima, VPA associate dean of global academic programs and initiatives and a professor of painting in the Department of Art, and Alex Mendez, assistant professor in the Department of Transmedia.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand.

The Design Impact of Robert Blaich
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition showcasing the distinguished career of Robert Blaich and the importance and impact of his 60 years in the design field.

After earning a bachelor of fine arts degree in design from SU, Blaich worked for Herman Miller Inc., where he eventually became vice president of corporate design and communications. He went on to become senior managing director of design at Royal Philips Electronics in the Netherlands and established himself as an innovator in the industrial design field. In 1991, he founded his own company, Blaich Associates. He is a past member and chair of the board at Teague and a fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America.

"The Design Impact of Robert Blaich" is curated, designed and installed by first-year graduate museum studies students in VPA. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson, exhibition facilitator, at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Significant Souls: Paintings by Patrick Fiore
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Utica-native Patrick Fiore has created a series of 34 paintings inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States 1492-Present, which will be on exhibit.

Patrick does not conceal his intention. He wants, by putting the people and events of the People's History into graphic, startling form, to draw attention to the history of our nation, to the stories omitted, the heroes of dissent missing from the pages of the textbooks. He wants to reach people by his paintings and to inspire them to think for themselves about our society, to tell them about the way people through the centuries have behaved with compassion and kindness, against all odds, have thought for themselves, have organized and agitated, and refused obedience to laws and practices that offend common decency.

This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation.

Opening: Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

There will be an opening night reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm. The artist will be present.
There will be a reading at 7:00 pm by design historian William Collins in association with the exhibition.

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

Yvonne Buchanan: in Court (Basketball)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Yvonne Buchanan's video work creates micro-narratives of the ghostly presence of histories. Individual, family and community experiences of otherness, and the perpetual small and large traumas sustained, is the focus of her recent work. She is particularly interested in the strategies employed to endure these experiences, especially ideas of religiosity and beliefs in the afterlife. Her subject is often the black body as object and symbol, the embodiment of curiosity, and a "dark" and weighty presence. In constructing her work, she frequently uses the loop, in creating a circular story, one that can be read differently, as scenes repeat.

The piece in Court features a basketball court, where the hopes and dreams of young black men are played out, at the same time as it seems to fluctuate between a site for sport and a cage. The projection of the piece at the UVP Everson venue, with its close proximity to the Onondaga County jail, takes on a special and literal resonance with the audible but invisible play of the inmates on the rooftop court of the correctional facility.

Total runtime: 13:22

Stretching the Boundaries: The Life and Work of Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A screening of Stretching the Boundaries: The Life and Work of Arlene Abend, a documentary film by Michael Barletta and Courtney Rile of Daylight Blue Media. The film paints a fascinating portrait of Arlene Abend's life as an artist and takes a look back at her journey. A reception will follow.

Miss Representation
ArtRage Gallery

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

Documentary directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom.

MissREPRESENTATION first premiered in the documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival where it caught the eye of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. It made its television debut as part of the OWN documentary film club in October 2011, with over 1.3 million people tuning in to its multiple airings. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, MissREPRESENTATION exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. The film challenges the media's limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself.

MissREPRESENTATION includes stories from teenage girls and provocative interviews with politicians, journalists, entertainers, activists and academics like Condoleezza Rice, Lisa Ling, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Rosario Dawson, Jackson Katz, Jean Kilbourne, and Gloria Steinem. The film offers startling facts and statistics that will leave audiences shaken and armed with a new perspective.

In a society where media is the most persuasive force shaping cultural norms, the collective message that our young women and men overwhelmingly receive is that a womans value and power lie in her youth, beauty, and sexuality--and not in her capacity as a leader. While women have made strides in leadership over the past few decades, the U.S. is 90th in the world in terms of women in national legislatures, women hold only 3 % of clout positions in mainstream media, and 65% of women and girls have disordered eating.

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Featured in this eclectic display are the bookshelf, counter, calliope, and international doll collection from The Magic Toy Shop, Syracuse's local children's TV show from the 1950s through 1980s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see hand-carved trains and boats, Punch & Judy marionettes, Victorian dolls, 1950s board games, and many other vintage toys, some made in central New York. The exhibit also includes historic photos of downtown Syracuse, and boxes from bygone stores such as Chappell's, Dey Bros., Flah's, Madame Netter, and E. W. Edwards.

Artist Talk: Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This talk is given in conjunction with the current exhibit "Within," a collection of Abend's resin sculptures.

PRISM Concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Music and Entertainment Industry Department Senior Class

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

The students of the Setnor School of Music's Music and Entertainment Industry Department presents their Annual PRISM concert. This event is produced entirely by the department's senior Music Industry students and presents a unique concert going experience where light, darkness, and music combine to offer a new way of concert going.

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.

Turkuaz, with Conehead Buddha
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Montana Smith and the Curse of the Golden Crocodile
Acme Mystery Company

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

Montana Smith has snatched the Golden Crocodile of the Amazon from its South American home. Now it's about to be unveiled at the Municipal Museum of Natural History, but everyone's been acting rather strangely. Could it be the dreaded Curse of the Golden Crocodile? Hmm? Join us for the gala event of the season to find out (but don't turn your back on the museum staff).

Mr. Marmalade
Black Box Players

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

To reserve or for more information, email blackboxplayersinformation@gmail.com.

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Friday, March 1, 2013

Important Persons Project
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Students from Henniger High School are exhibiting their own "Significant Souls" artwork in our gallery windows. The work was done by the art students of Ms. Lizzio in a workshop conducted by visiting artist Gail Hoffman. The work will be on view throughout the Significant Souls exhibition.

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Juan A. Cruz's "Mini Retrospective of the '80s, '90s and '00s," takes a look at the artist's journeys to Spain, Mexico, Central America and Cuba. The works reflect his search for his past and an understanding of where tribal and modern worlds meet.

Cruz is the artist-in-residence of the Near West Side Initiative, an urban revitalization program in the Near Westside neighborhood in Syracuse. Cruz lives and works in his "Patch-Up Studio" hoping to provide a community place for children and adults to learn art.

Cruz's work has shown extensively in Upstate New York, California, and Puerto Rico and some are now in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, the Gifford Foundation, and the Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Upstate New York.

Past Abstractions: Works by Diana Godfrey

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

"Past Abstractions" highlights some of the abstract pastel/collages and mixed-media paintings of Diana Godfrey. The artist's colorful, nonrepresentational art has been shown in many galleries and venues in Central New York and the Northeast.

Note that the venue is closed daily 12:00-1:00 pm.

CNY Scholastic Arts Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A mixed media exhibit featuring award-winning work from high school students across Central New York.
The Scholastic Art Awards recognize nearly 30,000 teen artists and writers. One thousand of these artists receive national awards. Each piece is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

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

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

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

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

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jeff Robinson: metal and glass sculpture
Charles Golden: mixed media wall hangings
Sharon Alama: mixed media jewelry

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist statement: "The cast resin works of 'Within' represent both mystery and metaphor. The use of clear resin and lost wax surfaces allows me to capture, reflect and diffract light to create a constantly changing vision. The surfaces of the sculpture act as a mirror or prism and offer the contrast of surprise yet familiarity. I find a strong connection between the material and myself. Time disappears. There is a kind of magic that takes place during the act of creating art."

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Salon Style 2
Szozda Gallery

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

In a continuing "mix & match" mode, walls at Szozda Gallery in February will be enveloped in a salon-style exhibit of diverse works by a number of artists; however, this second rendering differs from the last in that works shown are mostly all new pieces created by those artists.

Among the works included in "Salon Style 2" are figurative oil paintings by Phil Parsons, Stephen Perrone, Cayetano Valenzuela, and John Fitzsimmons; pastel and mixed media paintings by Roscha Folger, media by Laura J. Wellner and Linda Esterley; works of societal commentaries expressed by Fred Wellner in his acrylic surrealistic series; archival fiber print photography by Barbara Conte-Gaugel; and more beautiful renderings of Central New York landscapes created by Rob Glisson's plein air painting and Bob Niedzwiecki's oils.

The Connective Thread: Wearable to Sculptural Fibers
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"The Connective Thread" aims to bring together wearable and sculptural fiber artists who incorporate a range of different techniques into their artwork. Ultimately, goal of the exhibition is to allow the audience to appreciate the almost limitless possibilities of the medium. Participating artists include Kathy Barry, Sharon Bottle-Souva, Lauren Bristol, Mary Giehl, Jean Henry, Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, Nancy Kramer, Laurel Moranz, Rebecca Mushtare, Jen Pepper, Sarah Saulson, Kim Waale, and Davana Wilkins.

Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Nouveau Risqué: A Perspective on Women and Progress" is an exhibition that investigates the impact that work, recreational activities, and independent living had on women during the turn of the 19th to 20th century. The exhibition will feature more than 70 original objects, including color lithography posters from the Arts and Crafts movement, accompanied by examples of furniture, lamps, vases, clothing and other accessories.

The guest curators for this exhibition are graduate students enrolled in the Syracuse University Museum Studies Advanced Curatorship class, under the guidance of Professor Edward Aiken. The works in the exhibition are drawn from a variety of Central New York lenders, including the SU Art Collection, The Stickley Museum, Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and Research Center, Dalton's American Decorative Arts, the Cortland County Historical Society, and Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center.

Neil Welliver Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Neil Welliver Prints is an exhibition of over 60 examples of the artist's woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and screen prints. Welliver was regarded as one of the preeminent American landscape painters of the 20th century and from the late 1970s to his death in 2005 he considered printmaking an integral part of his artistic activity. Neil Welliver Prints provides an overview of the artist's prolific graphic career, assembling signature wildlife and landscape impressions from over 30 years. Welliver's compelling, larger-than-life paintings of Maine's natural landscape often became series of intimate woodcuts using traditional Japanese methods in collaboration with the noted printmaker Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi. All of the works are on loan from the Alexandre Gallery, New York City, which represented Welliver for years.

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

In her first solo exhibition at the Everson, Yvonne Buchanan presents a sound installation entitled Strange Tongue, a contemporary altered version of a well-known American gospel song by Mahalia Jackson. All associations to the lyrics have been excised, leaving a wordless voice, emphasizing the expression of sorrow and hope. The audio track can be accessed by dialing (315) 703-3063 and pressing 13.

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

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Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

Synchronized Mélange
XL Projects

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

"Synchronized Mélange" features a variety of works from international graduate students from across the Departments of Art and Transmedia. The show is co-organized by Stephen Zaima, VPA associate dean of global academic programs and initiatives and a professor of painting in the Department of Art, and Alex Mendez, assistant professor in the Department of Transmedia.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand.

Significant Souls: Paintings by Patrick Fiore
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Utica-native Patrick Fiore has created a series of 34 paintings inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States 1492-Present, which will be on exhibit.

Patrick does not conceal his intention. He wants, by putting the people and events of the People's History into graphic, startling form, to draw attention to the history of our nation, to the stories omitted, the heroes of dissent missing from the pages of the textbooks. He wants to reach people by his paintings and to inspire them to think for themselves about our society, to tell them about the way people through the centuries have behaved with compassion and kindness, against all odds, have thought for themselves, have organized and agitated, and refused obedience to laws and practices that offend common decency.

This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation.

Opening: Messages of Sisterhood: Works by Favianna Rodríguez
La Casita Cultural Center

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

There will be an opening reception today at 6:00 pm.

The reception will be preceded by a panel discussion about "Women, Art, Literature and Social Justice Movements." Artist Favianna Rodriguez will be in the panel with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Jackie Cuevas of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies in SU's College of Arts and Sciences; and Maria Revelles, organizer for Service Employees International Union and a resident of Syracuse's Near Westside.

A native of Oakland, CA, Favianna Rodriguez is renowned for her vibrant posters about issues of war, immigration, globalization, workers' rights, racism, homophobia, sexism and other contemporary issues. "Messages of Sisterhood" commemorates Women's History Month, focusing on the role of women in the struggles for social justice.

Rodriguez has lectured widely on the use of art in civic engagement and on the work of artists who are bridging the community and museum. Her works appear in collections at Bellas Artes (Mexico City), The Glasgow Print Studio (Glasgow, Scotland) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Yvonne Buchanan: in Court (Basketball)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Yvonne Buchanan's video work creates micro-narratives of the ghostly presence of histories. Individual, family and community experiences of otherness, and the perpetual small and large traumas sustained, is the focus of her recent work. She is particularly interested in the strategies employed to endure these experiences, especially ideas of religiosity and beliefs in the afterlife. Her subject is often the black body as object and symbol, the embodiment of curiosity, and a "dark" and weighty presence. In constructing her work, she frequently uses the loop, in creating a circular story, one that can be read differently, as scenes repeat.

The piece in Court features a basketball court, where the hopes and dreams of young black men are played out, at the same time as it seems to fluctuate between a site for sport and a cage. The projection of the piece at the UVP Everson venue, with its close proximity to the Onondaga County jail, takes on a special and literal resonance with the audible but invisible play of the inmates on the rooftop court of the correctional facility.

Total runtime: 13:22

The Bank Show
Syracuse Improv Collective

Price: $5
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The Collective specializes in bringing a show like no other combining long form improv with musical acts and stand up comedy. The March lineup includes Marcus Cox (stand up), Austin Lafond (stand up), Carnindyle (music), Broken Couch (long form improv), Satan's Closet (long form improv), and a special performance by the SIC Level 1 Workshop team.

Brew & View: Barbarella; The Warriors; Switchblade Sisters
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

The Brew & View series showcases classic cult-style films in 35mm. Don't miss the chance to see some of the most popular films ever made on the big screen.

Study of how feminism, violence and sexuality play a role in pop culture cinema.

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Featured in this eclectic display are the bookshelf, counter, calliope, and international doll collection from The Magic Toy Shop, Syracuse's local children's TV show from the 1950s through 1980s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see hand-carved trains and boats, Punch & Judy marionettes, Victorian dolls, 1950s board games, and many other vintage toys, some made in central New York. The exhibit also includes historic photos of downtown Syracuse, and boxes from bygone stores such as Chappell's, Dey Bros., Flah's, Madame Netter, and E. W. Edwards.

Syracuse Acoustic Blues Festival
Westcott Community Center

Price: $3 per person, $5 per family
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Performers include Hondo Mesa, Midnight Mike, Leo Crandall, Larry Hoyt, Butternut Creek Revival, Agatha Devore, and Sherri Williams.

Please feel free to bring food and discreet beverages.

Fleurs de Lis
NYS Baroque

Price: $25 regular, $20 seniors, $10 college students, children free
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Experience the gilded elegance of the French Baroque.

Couperin La Sultane
Boismortier Sonata in G major for flute and harpsichord
Clérambault Medée
Marais Suite in D Major for two viols and continuo
Clérambault Léandre et Héro
Leclair Chaconne from the Deuxième recréation de musique dune execution facile, Op. 8

Laura Heimes, soprano; Steven Zohn, flute; Julie Andrijeski and Boel Gidholm, violins; Heather Miller Lardin and David Morris, viols; Deborah Fox, theorbo; Leon Schelhase, harpsichord

Scott Ainslie
Folkus Project

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

For more than 40 years, Scott Ainslie has been playing the blues. A fine singer and master storyteller, he is well versed in the music of Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Etta Baker, and the Reverend Gary Davis. His robust sound and aggressive playing style were learned firsthand from Piedmont and Delta style players such as Lonnie Johnson and David Honeyboy Edwards.

With expertise in the Southern Appalachian fiddle and banjo traditions, as well as the blues, Ainslie has developed knowledge of the musical influences rooted in African traditions that remain vital in America's culture today. His concerts are a captivating mix of traditional acoustic blues and African-American songs, underscoring the connection between these diverse cultures. Ainslie looks for the right story--the right set of facts, the right bit of history--to introduce each song. He offers us a moment in history, a vignette to entice us into a song and to have it breathe among us like a living thing.

Dopapod, with The Manhattan Project
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Poet and Author Matthew Gavin Frank
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Author and poet Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of Barolo, a food memoir based on his illegal work in the Italian wine industry, and Pot Farm, about his time working on a medical marijuana farm in Northern California. His newest poetry collection, The Morrow Plots, was recently released by Black Lawrence Press/Dzanc Books; his other collections include Sagittarius Agitprop and Warranty in Zulu. More recent work appears in The New Republic, Field, Epoch, The Huffington Post, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, The Poetry Foundation, North American Review, Pleiades, The Best Food Writing and The Best Travel Writing anthologies, Creative Nonfiction, Gastronomica, Plate Magazine, and others.

Lost in Yonkers
Appleseed Productions
CJ Young, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

By America's great comic playwright, Neil Simon, this memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942. Bella is in her early 30s, mentally challenged and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne'er-do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady's doorstep. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers.

Featuring Marcia Mele as “Grandma Kurnitz.

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Mr. Marmalade
Black Box Players

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

To reserve or for more information, email blackboxplayersinformation@gmail.com.

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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Important Persons Project
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Students from Henniger High School are exhibiting their own "Significant Souls" artwork in our gallery windows. The work was done by the art students of Ms. Lizzio in a workshop conducted by visiting artist Gail Hoffman. The work will be on view throughout the Significant Souls exhibition.

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Juan A. Cruz Mini Retrospective
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Juan A. Cruz's "Mini Retrospective of the '80s, '90s and '00s," takes a look at the artist's journeys to Spain, Mexico, Central America and Cuba. The works reflect his search for his past and an understanding of where tribal and modern worlds meet.

Cruz is the artist-in-residence of the Near West Side Initiative, an urban revitalization program in the Near Westside neighborhood in Syracuse. Cruz lives and works in his "Patch-Up Studio" hoping to provide a community place for children and adults to learn art.

Cruz's work has shown extensively in Upstate New York, California, and Puerto Rico and some are now in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, the Gifford Foundation, and the Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Upstate New York.