Monday, February 24, 2014

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

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

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

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

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

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

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

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Artist's Statement:

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

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

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

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Art Riot: Works by Vykky Ebner
The Art Store Gallery

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

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

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

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

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

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

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

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

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

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

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

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

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Artist's Statement:

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

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

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

Art Riot: Works by Vykky Ebner
The Art Store Gallery

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

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

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Enemy at the Gates
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

For more information, phone 315-445-4201.

Twilight of the Elites
University Lectures
Featuring Chris Hayes

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Clinton String Quartet
Temple Society of Concord

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

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

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

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

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Artist's Statement:

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

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

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

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Art Riot: Works by Vykky Ebner
The Art Store Gallery

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

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

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Katia Dinas, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Music by Mozart and Bach.

Intonarumori Open Demonstration
Arts Engage
Featuring Kronos Quartet

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

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

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

American Idiot
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

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

Preview: Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

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

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

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

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

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Thursday, February 27, 2014

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

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

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

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Artist's Statement:

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

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

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

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Art Riot: Works by Vykky Ebner
The Art Store Gallery

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

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

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

Ice: Work by Bryan Hopkins and Jamie Young
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

At the River I Stand
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

The Loving Story
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

15th Annual PRISM concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zach Deputy, with Big Something, Fox Richardson
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Death Takes a Cruise
Acme Mystery Company

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

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

Preview: Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

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

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The Curious Case of Phineas Gage
Redhouse
Split Knuckle Theatre

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

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

Read a review!

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

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

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

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Friday, February 28, 2014

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

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

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

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

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

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Artist's Statement:

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

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

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

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Art Riot: Works by Vykky Ebner
The Art Store Gallery

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

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

Botanical Ceramics by Leslie Green Guibault
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

Ice: Work by Bryan Hopkins and Jamie Young
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Equilibrium: Works by Juan Alberto Cruz
Gallery 4040

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

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

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

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Opening: Introspections
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Gary Trento: figurative oil paintings
Dana Stenson: mixed media jewelry
Sean Flaherty: portraiture in oil painting
Sharon BuMann: figurative sculpture

The Bank Show
Syracuse Improv Collective

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

The Syracuse Improv collective brings back their eclectic blend of long form improv, stand up comedy, and musical guests.

Creative Conversations with Bruce Coville
Skaneateles Area Arts Council

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

Internationally acclaimed children's author and educator Bruce Coville will be the featured speaker in the next installment of Creative Conversations, moderated by artist and entrepreneur Patience Brewster. The two will discuss Coville's prolific work, life and business, and then take questions from the audience.

Coville, who often works with his wife, Kathy, an illustrator, has more than 18 million copies in print. His 100-plus titles include the international bestseller "My Teacher Is an Alien," along with "Aliens Ate My Homework" the Unicorn Chronicles series and a Shakespearean series for children. He has won numerous awards and honors, including "Children's Choice" awards from more than a dozen states, and has been named "Best Local Author" by readers of the Syracuse New Times.

In 2002, he founded Full Cast Audio, an audiobook publishing company that produces full-cast, unabridged recordings of children's and young adult literature.

As befits an author, Coville has had a storied career, serving as a teacher, toymaker, magazine editor, gravedigger and cookware salesman before becoming a full-time writer.

Moderator Patience Brewster is an artist, author, illustrator and longtime friend of Coville. Since signing her first book contract at the age of 25, she has illustrated more than 34 books, working in a style that is immediately recognizable. Brewster founded her greeting card company in 2002 and the company's Ornaments and Gifts Division in 2008. She is the sole creative force behind Patience Brewster Inc., which has sales around the world.

Tickets may be purchased for $25 at www.skarts.org/tickets. Attendance is limited and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Reservations are requested by Feb. 24.

Legends of Jazz Series: Don Byron New Gospel Quintet with Carla Cook
Onondaga Community College

Price: $25
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Don Byron is a master jazz clarinetist and saxophone player who has been named "Jazz Artist of the Year" on numerous occasions. The Don Byron New Gospel Quintet began touring in 2009 and features the vocals of the great Carla Cook.

Season and individual tickets may be purchased online at www.srcarena.com or by phone at 315-498-2772. Both season and individual tickets must be purchased in pairs. Tickets go on sale Monday, July 8 at 10 am.

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

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

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

An Evening with Mike Gordon
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

East Meets West
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: $5
Lost Horizon
5863 Thompson Rd., Syracuse

Syracuse University and Senzoki Gakuen Music College present East meets West, featuring Senzoku Acoustic Band, Setnor Jazz Funk Combo, and other performers.

Sesame Street Live
Landmark Theatre

Price: $15-$50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

When Elmo gets his furry fingers on Abby Cadabby's magic wand, there's something in the air - and Sesame Street becomes a nonstop, all-singing, all-dancing musical montage! Grover and Baby Bear sing their highs and lows, Cookie Monster sings fast and slow, Bert and Ernie converse in song and Murray makes mouth music for all to sing along! Learn why it feels good to sing a song, but why it feels good to stop, too! What will Elmo learn about the power of musical magic? Join the conga line of fun to find out!

Tickets can be purchased through the box office at 315-475-7979 or through TicketMaster.com.

Stud: A Play about Black Male Masculinity and Sexuality
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
SU Community Theater Initiative

Price: Free
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Featuring 11 men from Syracuse University, Onondaga Community College, and the Syracuse Community, Stud is a powerful play that explores portrayals and depictions of Black men and seeks to provide a fresh perspective on what it means to be a man of color. SU College of Arts and Sciences, OCC, and SU Arts Engage partner to present the world premiere of this unique, devised production. Free Admission. For more information please contact 315-443-4203 or rjtravis@syr.edu.

The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Appleseed Productions
Tina Lee, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

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

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The Curious Case of Phineas Gage
Redhouse
Split Knuckle Theatre

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

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

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Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

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

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

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

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

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Saturday, March 1, 2014

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

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

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

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

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

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

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

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Introspections
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Gary Trento: figurative oil paintings
Dana Stenson: mixed media jewelry
Sean Flaherty: portraiture in oil painting
Sharon BuMann: figurative sculpture

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

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

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

Art Riot: Works by Vykky Ebner
The Art Store Gallery

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

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

Ice: Work by Bryan Hopkins and Jamie Young
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Equilibrium: Works by Juan Alberto Cruz
Gallery 4040

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

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

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

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Improv Comedy Night: Annual Prop Show
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: $20 dinner and show, $10 show only
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

This time, the kids of DFtA challenge you to a prop and they will work it into the show.

DFtA specializes in audience interactive improv and is one of the longest-running improv troupes in Central New York. Having toured all over the area, their large stable of theatrically trained actors rotate in and out of each show, ensuring a unique experience each time. Come enjoy an evening of improv in the style of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and Drew Carey's "Improvaganza."

The performance will be preceded by dinner at 6:30 pm.

Young People's Concert: Sound of Nature
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

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

Learn all about how nature makes sounds and inspires composers. This performance features the music of Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 and works by other composers who were inspired by nature.

Jazz on Demand
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

Performed by the CNY Jazz Trio, Jazz on Demand will demonstrate how jazz musicians think about improvising by showing how they build their ideas on the basic architecture of the song. The one-hour, narrated, family program includes historic background, a call-and-response blues that invites the audience to co-create a blues melody, and a flash card experiment that gives the audience control over what song the combo plays, in what musical style, and at what tempo.

Student Recital Series: Cody Engstrom and Jaclyn Clark, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

This recital is a selection of musical works that cover classical, romantic, and contemporary era music. Each sub-section tackles four different emotions experienced throughout love and loss.

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

Student Recital Series: Ariana Walker, trumpet
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

Masterworks Series: The Four Seasons
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Matthew Kraemer, conductor
Featuring Elmar Oliveira, violin

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

Vivaldi Four Seasons
Grieg "Last Spring" from Two Elegiac Melodies
Copland Appalachian Spring

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Student Recital Series: Xiaolu Chen, piano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

Spinning Straw into Gold
Open Hand Theater
Purple Rock Productions

Price: $8
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Rolande Dupres of Purple Rock Productions mesmerizes young and old with her inventive version of the tale of Rumplestiltskin. The wizened old puppet dances through the tale, bringing the common baker's daughter into the palace with his magical spinning of common straw; tricking her into giving up what she loves best yet finally falling victim to his own boastings. A captivating performance by one of our favorite puppeteers.

Sesame Street Live
Landmark Theatre

Price: $15-$50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

When Elmo gets his furry fingers on Abby Cadabby's magic wand, there's something in the air - and Sesame Street becomes a nonstop, all-singing, all-dancing musical montage! Grover and Baby Bear sing their highs and lows, Cookie Monster sings fast and slow, Bert and Ernie converse in song and Murray makes mouth music for all to sing along! Learn why it feels good to sing a song, but why it feels good to stop, too! What will Elmo learn about the power of musical magic? Join the conga line of fun to find out!

Tickets can be purchased through the box office at 315-475-7979 or through TicketMaster.com.

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

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

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

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Sesame Street Live
Landmark Theatre

Price: $15-$50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

When Elmo gets his furry fingers on Abby Cadabby's magic wand, there's something in the air - and Sesame Street becomes a nonstop, all-singing, all-dancing musical montage! Grover and Baby Bear sing their highs and lows, Cookie Monster sings fast and slow, Bert and Ernie converse in song and Murray makes mouth music for all to sing along! Learn why it feels good to sing a song, but why it feels good to stop, too! What will Elmo learn about the power of musical magic? Join the conga line of fun to find out!

Tickets can be purchased through the box office at 315-475-7979 or through TicketMaster.com.

Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

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

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Stud: A Play about Black Male Masculinity and Sexuality
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
SU Community Theater Initiative

Price: Free
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Featuring 11 men from Syracuse University, Onondaga Community College, and the Syracuse Community, Stud is a powerful play that explores portrayals and depictions of Black men and seeks to provide a fresh perspective on what it means to be a man of color. SU College of Arts and Sciences, OCC, and SU Arts Engage partner to present the world premiere of this unique, devised production. Free Admission. For more information please contact 315-443-4203 or rjtravis@syr.edu.

The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Appleseed Productions
Tina Lee, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

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

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The Curious Case of Phineas Gage
Redhouse
Split Knuckle Theatre

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

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

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Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

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

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

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

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

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Sunday, March 2, 2014

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

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

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

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

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

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Artist's Statement:

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

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

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

Ice: Work by Bryan Hopkins and Jamie Young
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Equilibrium: Works by Juan Alberto Cruz
Gallery 4040

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

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

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

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

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

A French Festival
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Kevin Moore, piano

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors, free for children under 9
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Faure Pavane
Franck Symphonic Variations, for piano and orchestra
Gounod Symphony No. 1

SU Ensemble Series: SU Orchestra
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

Student Recital Series: Li Meng, piano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

Sesame Street Live
Landmark Theatre

Price: $15-$50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

When Elmo gets his furry fingers on Abby Cadabby's magic wand, there's something in the air - and Sesame Street becomes a nonstop, all-singing, all-dancing musical montage! Grover and Baby Bear sing their highs and lows, Cookie Monster sings fast and slow, Bert and Ernie converse in song and Murray makes mouth music for all to sing along! Learn why it feels good to sing a song, but why it feels good to stop, too! What will Elmo learn about the power of musical magic? Join the conga line of fun to find out!

Tickets can be purchased through the box office at 315-475-7979 or through TicketMaster.com.

Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

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

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

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

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

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Sesame Street Live
Landmark Theatre

Price: $15-$50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

When Elmo gets his furry fingers on Abby Cadabby's magic wand, there's something in the air - and Sesame Street becomes a nonstop, all-singing, all-dancing musical montage! Grover and Baby Bear sing their highs and lows, Cookie Monster sings fast and slow, Bert and Ernie converse in song and Murray makes mouth music for all to sing along! Learn why it feels good to sing a song, but why it feels good to stop, too! What will Elmo learn about the power of musical magic? Join the conga line of fun to find out!

Tickets can be purchased through the box office at 315-475-7979 or through TicketMaster.com.

Monday, March 3, 2014

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

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

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

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

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

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

It's a Zoo Out There
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Photography exhibit, consisting primarily of animals Kelly Parker has photographed during her travels to different zoos, most of which are in the CNY area. Parker has been photographing for more than 20 years but has recently begun to show her work publicly. She hopes that when you look through her photos you too can see some of the many images that she has seen through the lens of her camera.

Gallery Exhibit: Lin Price--Realities, Dreams and Myths
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
These recent works are part of an ongoing series, which often features an "Everyman" character, who exists in invented painterly terrains. It is an alternate dream-like world that mirrors back to us the difficulties of daily existence and unspoken longings. And, although I've chosen to depict a particular model, there is an element of autobiography in many of the paintings.

Recurring themes emerge; work, isolation, stress, searching, anticipation, and caring, and I believe many people in our times can identify with them. The paintings are idiosyncratic and I attempt to execute them with empathy towards the human condition.

Through imagination, playful creation of abstracted spaces, and color composition, I attempt to show an inner world that is mysterious, somehow noble, and non-linear--as dreams and life often are.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Artist's Statement:

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

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

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

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Price: Free
Dewitt Community Library
Shoppingtown Mall, Dewitt

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

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

Flashback Mondays Movie Series: Harold and Maude

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