Thursday, October 25, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Lynette Blake: Within and Beyond
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

Lynette Blake's oil paintings draw the viewer in through complex layers of shape and color. The use of overlapping imagery conveys a depth that extends deep below the surface of the canvas. Objects, whether used directly or evoked by abstract shapes, float in and out of light illuminating them with a pervasive warm glow. The effect is otherworldly -- a feeling of being outside time and space is conveyed.

Blake has exhibited her work throughout the Northeast, and is currently represented locally by the Szozda Gallery in Syracuse, as well as national venues. She studied art at Brown University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Upstate NY.

More information on the Weeks Gallery at Baltimore Woods can be found at www.baltimorewoods.org.

Gallery Exhibit: Brendan Rose & Michael Barletta: Paper, Staple, String
Onondaga Community College

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

"Paper, Staple, String" is a spatial installation, transforming Onondaga's Gallery into a dynamic field of suspended objects. Educational remnants (the discarded paperwork of students) are reclaimed as monochromatic pixels of a space defining cloud. This three-dimensional form transfigures as it intersects with the gallery walls, flattening and expanding against the two-dimensional surface.

Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

Investigations
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of the work and design process of Stephan Jaklitsch and Mark Gardner through sketches, models, renderings, construction drawings, and photographs of six projects. Their work addresses specific conditions of site, use, the psychology of experience, sustainability, techniques of construction craft in detail, and materiality of building.

Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects (J/GA) is an award-winning NYC-based design practice that focuses on urban scale projects, buildings, interiors, and objects. Award-winning projects include the Marc Jacobs Tokyo Flagship Building (2010); a bike rack for the NYC Dept. of Transportation that was exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (2008); and the Marc Jacobs International Showroom (2012).

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Propaganda images generated during the Cultural Revolution in China have been remixed to create commentary on the modern Cultural Revolution society is undergoing in the form of music, art, and media. Elements of the old and new are mixed together to evolve into something new.

Play on Light
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Adriana Meiss: Pastel landscapes
John Franklin: Turned wood and sculptural vessels
Paul Riccardi: Pastel florals and still-lifes
Judy McCumber: Silver and gemstone jewelry

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, and the City of Syracuse. Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Community Folk Art Center TONY 2012 featured artists are Elizabeth Leader, Michael Moody, Abisay Puentes, Sandra Stephens, who each use their art to engage in a larger conversation about significant but often overlooked social issues, including racial identity and urban decay.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Drama From the Garden: New Work by Terry Askey-Cole
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Terry Askey-Cole brings her love of nature and the outdoors to all her new pieces inspired by her beautiful gardens.

Carl Hoffner Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of limited-edition color lithographs and digital paintings by Fayetteville artist Carl Hoffner.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

TONY: 2012: "Manifest Destiny and the American West" and "Last House"
Onondaga Historical Association

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

These exhibits are mounted as part of the The Other New York (TONY): 2012, Syracuse's art biennial. OHA's TONY: 2012 exhibits are artistically presented interpretations of dynamic social trends that are part of the historic legacy of Central New York.

In a three-dimensional display employing nearly 1,000 images set in glass jars, "Manifest Destiny and the American West," an exhibit by Buffalo artist Robert Hirsch, asks the visitor to think about how our nation's geographic progression across the continent has shaped American culture. The desire to exploit the salt brine reserves on Onondaga Lake contributed to a westward migration of settlers across Central New York in the post-American Revolution era, while the construction of the Erie Canal enhanced this movement through the 19th century and enabled many travelers to reach lands in the farther reaches of the American continent.

"Last House" is a multi-channel video installation by media artist Carl Lee that explores the aesthetics and means of a house demolition in Buffalo. Cities like Buffalo and Syracuse are faced with a large number of abandoned houses. This video asks us to think about what we gain and lose in demolishing them. This installation will be accompanied by three paintings by Western New York artist Amy Greenan of vacant houses in Syracuse awaiting an uncertain future, including "Not Here, Not Now," her interpretation of 711 Tully Street, which seems poised to have a different fate on Syracuse's Near West Side than that if the house in Last House.

Onondaga Historical Association is proud to be one of 14 Central New York venues for TONY: 2012. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

100 posters celebrating 30 years. Since 1982, SCW has published and distributed over 700 posters across North America and a bit on other continents. This selection of 100 titles represents the best, the boldest, and the oldest.

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

Altered Environments: Works of Willson Cummer and Laura Wellner
Szozda Gallery

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

This show brings together two artists, Laura J. Wellner and Willson Cummer, who view environments in different ways but whose works compliment each other's.

Wellner always tries to create something 'extraordinary out of the ordinary elements of nature' in her mixed media paintings, thereby, one might say, seeing something that's not physically there. Fine art photographer Willson Cummer gives viewers another dimension to familiar landmarks by including man-made intrusions that 'explore humanity's place in the environment.'

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Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

An exhibition of artists with a dual practice, featuring Abby Carter, Samantha Harmon, Lori Hawke, Stephanie Koenig, Lynette K Stephenson, and Marion Wilson.

Harvest
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A group exhibition of Central New York artists which explores the inherit beauty of food and farming. It is during this time of year that the fruits of a farmer's labor are most appreciated, and preparation for winter, a time of hibernation and dormancy in the natural world, commences. The artists in Harvest celebrate this annual transition. The show will include photography, painting, pastel, and ceramics. Participating artists include Lisa Barker, Bob Gates, Wendy Harris, Jeremy Randall, Lucie Wellner, and Jamie Young.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The works of 67 amateur artists in media such as metal, fiber art, marble, watercolors, acrylics, oils, ink, and photography is featured.

On My Own Time was created by the Cultural Resources Council to encourage local businesses, nonprofits, government and civic organizations to celebrate the artistic talents of their employees.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Prophecy" is a timely exhibition pertaining to Indigenous prophecies. By incorporating themes of ecology, creation, demise and the future according to the Mayan calendar, traditional Iroquois teachings and other cultural beliefs, Jones provides a visual representation of the foretold truths.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage-The Norton Putter Gallery, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena: A Graphic History
La Casita Cultural Center

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

The exhibit presents the works of nine Puerto Rican master artists who were commissioned to create screen prints to capture the spirit of the annual Bomba and Plena Festivals held in Puerto Rico. Their posters have been collected and preserved by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan.

Featured artists are José R. Alicea, Luis Alonso, Luis Germán Cajigas, Jesús Cardona, Sixto Cotto, David Goitia, Samuel Lind, Luis Maisonet Ramos, and Nelson Sambolin.

Lov U
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Lov U" is a multimedia installation by Senga Nengudi.

Colorado-based Senga Nengudi is a key figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Known primarily for performance-based art installations, her work focuses on movement and the human body, is multidisciplinary in nature and international in scope, with cultural references to Africa, the African Diaspora, and Asia. For her multimedia, performance-based exhibition "Lov U," Nengudi explores the physical senses of being human, and includes photographs and video to reflect on the essence of love. Drawn to discarded, everyday materials, the ephemerality of Nengudi's work is a metaphor for life's transience.

life. love. time travel.
Echo

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

Group show of works by over 20 artists.

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial, titled "The Other New York: 2012," is being exhibited in community art galleries across Syracuse this year. ArtRage is honored to participate by exhibiting the work of four artists chosen in collaboration with the Everson Museum.

Ben Altman, Neil Chowdhury, Bob Gates and Paul Pearce, the four photographers whose works comprise this exhibit, present work that, while distinctive, shares a key characteristic. All are documentary photographers who are a bit wary of being seen as truth tellers. Fully understanding that the "objective photograph" is a myth, their photographic work -- both in the process of its creation and the images presented -- casts into doubt our traditional notions of documentation, objectivity and veracity. Nonetheless, each photographer is visualizing a certain truth, which may be one we do not know, or one that we prefer to avoid knowing. Participating in the artist's unflinching gaze, we become complicit witnesses to situations -- torture, poverty, social class, and the effects of war -- often conveniently rendered invisible.

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Opening: Meditation on Video (&) Language, a show by Tom Sherman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A selection of new and previous works on video and drawings by artist Tom Sherman.

Reflecting on the work, the artist states: "The representation may be almost like a constellation of moments of awareness. It's impossible to summarize what you think in a video, but it is possible to create a veil of a series of works that contribute to the aggregate consciousness of a society, like a transparent curtain of events, of sub consciousness."

Sherman is a Professor of Arts, Design, and Transmedia at Syracuse University. He was a founding co-editor of Fuse magazine, Toronto (1980); founding director of Media Arts for the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa (1983-87), and co-founder of Nerve Theory, an international performance art/recording collaborative (1997). In 1980, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale, and in 1986, was appointed international commissioner for that same Biennale that is one of the worlds major contemporary art exhibitions every two years in Venice, Italy. Among numerous distinctions, Sherman received the Bell Canada prize for excellence in video art in 2003, and Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2010.

TONY 2012: Karen Brummund
Urban Video Project

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

The Everson is I.M. Pei's first museum commission. His art museums are commonly seen as art objects for art objects. They are sculptures in the landscape. Shortly after the Everson, Pei built the Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca. In this site-specific video installation, images of the form and materials of both art museums are projected onto the Everson Museum. The images capture the light, surfaces, and depth of the architecture. The video uses images from two different buildings, analyzing how Pei's ideas bridge individual communities. These disparate places are abstractly connected through the architect's development. The plaza is not only infused with the presence of the Pei's forms, but also the conversation that takes place through his practice.

This video by Karen Brummund is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims
to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York.

Video projection begins at dusk.

Guest Artist Series: Hudson Lanier, guitar
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

A native of Rochester, Hudson Lanier began playing the guitar at the age of 13. Mr. Lanier studied classical guitar at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Eastman School of Music. He currently studies at the ASU Herberger School of Music. Mr. Lanier has played in masterclasses with David Tannenbaum, William Kannengeiser, Dusan Bogdanovic, and many other notable performers. Lanier's performing career has featured a diverse array of venues ranging from concerts in prisons to a recent concert for Condoleezza Rice and Sandra Day O'Connor. Lanier has a diverse musical arsenal, performing on the classical guitar, renaissance vihuela, and 19th century guitar. His repertoire includes pieces from the past 500 years, spanning the globe from North and South America, Europe, and Asia.

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

The Lee Boys
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Domestic Violence Awareness Show
Underground Poetry Spot

Price: $10 (portion of proceeds to benefit Vera House)
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Underground Poetry Spot will host their 3rd Annual Domestic Violence Awareness Show. It is always a powerful event. Open mic will be from 7:00-8:00 pm, followed by a domestic violence skit written by Yaya Clark, coordinated with Rae Sunshine and performed by the ladies and a few gentlemen from the Underground Poetry spot, hosted by Kaushen Phillips.

The Sound of Murder
Acme Mystery Company

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

High on a hill died a lonely goatherd and some people around the Abbey are beginning to get the idea that sweet little Maria just might be a budding serial killer. Is she now 16, going on 17? What exactly are her favorite things? Mother Abbess and her new assistant, Sister Adolph, are calling in all nuns and townsfolk to decide what to do. Even the pompous Captain Von Trumpp and his bratty children will be there. Don't be late. You don't want Sister Adolph shaking her carrot at you.

Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Too good to be true!" raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

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Moby Dick
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Alive with a soundscape of 16 authentic sea shanties and performed by an ensemble of nine, this highly physical adaption cuts to the core of Melville's searing narrative and plays with the fury of a Nantucket sleigh ride. A young man seeks adventure on a whaling vessel and finds himself a pawn in an obsessive pursuit of vengeance that threatens death and destruction for all. Director Peter Amster returns to guide the ensemble in this thrilling and critically acclaimed telling of a classic American tale. Adapted for the stage by Julian Rad from the book by Herman Melville

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Red Light Series: Alice in Slasherland
Redhouse

Price: $25
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Vampire Cowboys, a "geek theatre" company that creates and produces new works of theatre based in action/adventure and dark comedy with a comic book aesthetic, premiered their bloodiest show yet, Alice in Slasherland! It is a slasher comedy about a teenage fanboy who accidentally opens a gateway into hell by resurrecting the soul of a brutally slain girl named Alice. The show garnered rave reviews and a completely soldout run as it blew up at the HERE Arts Center in NYC.

In keeping with our grisly and gruesome production, the Redhouse Café will feature artwork from local comic book artists, graphic artists, graffiti artists, and tattoo artists, whose images are filled with an aesthetic that will appeal to the pop culture nerd in all of us.

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Friday, October 26, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Lynette Blake: Within and Beyond
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

Lynette Blake's oil paintings draw the viewer in through complex layers of shape and color. The use of overlapping imagery conveys a depth that extends deep below the surface of the canvas. Objects, whether used directly or evoked by abstract shapes, float in and out of light illuminating them with a pervasive warm glow. The effect is otherworldly -- a feeling of being outside time and space is conveyed.

Blake has exhibited her work throughout the Northeast, and is currently represented locally by the Szozda Gallery in Syracuse, as well as national venues. She studied art at Brown University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Upstate NY.

More information on the Weeks Gallery at Baltimore Woods can be found at www.baltimorewoods.org.

Gallery Exhibit: Brendan Rose & Michael Barletta: Paper, Staple, String
Onondaga Community College

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

"Paper, Staple, String" is a spatial installation, transforming Onondaga's Gallery into a dynamic field of suspended objects. Educational remnants (the discarded paperwork of students) are reclaimed as monochromatic pixels of a space defining cloud. This three-dimensional form transfigures as it intersects with the gallery walls, flattening and expanding against the two-dimensional surface.

Meditation on Video (&) Language, a show by Tom Sherman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A selection of new and previous works on video and drawings by artist Tom Sherman.

Reflecting on the work, the artist states: "The representation may be almost like a constellation of moments of awareness. It's impossible to summarize what you think in a video, but it is possible to create a veil of a series of works that contribute to the aggregate consciousness of a society, like a transparent curtain of events, of sub consciousness."

Sherman is a Professor of Arts, Design, and Transmedia at Syracuse University. He was a founding co-editor of Fuse magazine, Toronto (1980); founding director of Media Arts for the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa (1983-87), and co-founder of Nerve Theory, an international performance art/recording collaborative (1997). In 1980, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale, and in 1986, was appointed international commissioner for that same Biennale that is one of the worlds major contemporary art exhibitions every two years in Venice, Italy. Among numerous distinctions, Sherman received the Bell Canada prize for excellence in video art in 2003, and Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2010.

Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Propaganda images generated during the Cultural Revolution in China have been remixed to create commentary on the modern Cultural Revolution society is undergoing in the form of music, art, and media. Elements of the old and new are mixed together to evolve into something new.

Play on Light
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Adriana Meiss: Pastel landscapes
John Franklin: Turned wood and sculptural vessels
Paul Riccardi: Pastel florals and still-lifes
Judy McCumber: Silver and gemstone jewelry

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, and the City of Syracuse. Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Community Folk Art Center TONY 2012 featured artists are Elizabeth Leader, Michael Moody, Abisay Puentes, Sandra Stephens, who each use their art to engage in a larger conversation about significant but often overlooked social issues, including racial identity and urban decay.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Drama From the Garden: New Work by Terry Askey-Cole
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Terry Askey-Cole brings her love of nature and the outdoors to all her new pieces inspired by her beautiful gardens.

Carl Hoffner Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of limited-edition color lithographs and digital paintings by Fayetteville artist Carl Hoffner.

Holiday Festival of Crafts
Rochester Folk Art Guild

Price: $2
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

TONY: 2012: "Manifest Destiny and the American West" and "Last House"
Onondaga Historical Association

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

These exhibits are mounted as part of the The Other New York (TONY): 2012, Syracuse's art biennial. OHA's TONY: 2012 exhibits are artistically presented interpretations of dynamic social trends that are part of the historic legacy of Central New York.

In a three-dimensional display employing nearly 1,000 images set in glass jars, "Manifest Destiny and the American West," an exhibit by Buffalo artist Robert Hirsch, asks the visitor to think about how our nation's geographic progression across the continent has shaped American culture. The desire to exploit the salt brine reserves on Onondaga Lake contributed to a westward migration of settlers across Central New York in the post-American Revolution era, while the construction of the Erie Canal enhanced this movement through the 19th century and enabled many travelers to reach lands in the farther reaches of the American continent.

"Last House" is a multi-channel video installation by media artist Carl Lee that explores the aesthetics and means of a house demolition in Buffalo. Cities like Buffalo and Syracuse are faced with a large number of abandoned houses. This video asks us to think about what we gain and lose in demolishing them. This installation will be accompanied by three paintings by Western New York artist Amy Greenan of vacant houses in Syracuse awaiting an uncertain future, including "Not Here, Not Now," her interpretation of 711 Tully Street, which seems poised to have a different fate on Syracuse's Near West Side than that if the house in Last House.

Onondaga Historical Association is proud to be one of 14 Central New York venues for TONY: 2012. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

100 posters celebrating 30 years. Since 1982, SCW has published and distributed over 700 posters across North America and a bit on other continents. This selection of 100 titles represents the best, the boldest, and the oldest.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

Altered Environments: Works of Willson Cummer and Laura Wellner
Szozda Gallery

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

This show brings together two artists, Laura J. Wellner and Willson Cummer, who view environments in different ways but whose works compliment each other's.

Wellner always tries to create something 'extraordinary out of the ordinary elements of nature' in her mixed media paintings, thereby, one might say, seeing something that's not physically there. Fine art photographer Willson Cummer gives viewers another dimension to familiar landmarks by including man-made intrusions that 'explore humanity's place in the environment.'

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Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

An exhibition of artists with a dual practice, featuring Abby Carter, Samantha Harmon, Lori Hawke, Stephanie Koenig, Lynette K Stephenson, and Marion Wilson.

Harvest
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A group exhibition of Central New York artists which explores the inherit beauty of food and farming. It is during this time of year that the fruits of a farmer's labor are most appreciated, and preparation for winter, a time of hibernation and dormancy in the natural world, commences. The artists in Harvest celebrate this annual transition. The show will include photography, painting, pastel, and ceramics. Participating artists include Lisa Barker, Bob Gates, Wendy Harris, Jeremy Randall, Lucie Wellner, and Jamie Young.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage-The Norton Putter Gallery, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Prophecy" is a timely exhibition pertaining to Indigenous prophecies. By incorporating themes of ecology, creation, demise and the future according to the Mayan calendar, traditional Iroquois teachings and other cultural beliefs, Jones provides a visual representation of the foretold truths.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The works of 67 amateur artists in media such as metal, fiber art, marble, watercolors, acrylics, oils, ink, and photography is featured.

On My Own Time was created by the Cultural Resources Council to encourage local businesses, nonprofits, government and civic organizations to celebrate the artistic talents of their employees.

Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena: A Graphic History
La Casita Cultural Center

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

The exhibit presents the works of nine Puerto Rican master artists who were commissioned to create screen prints to capture the spirit of the annual Bomba and Plena Festivals held in Puerto Rico. Their posters have been collected and preserved by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan.

Featured artists are José R. Alicea, Luis Alonso, Luis Germán Cajigas, Jesús Cardona, Sixto Cotto, David Goitia, Samuel Lind, Luis Maisonet Ramos, and Nelson Sambolin.

Lov U
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Lov U" is a multimedia installation by Senga Nengudi.

Colorado-based Senga Nengudi is a key figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Known primarily for performance-based art installations, her work focuses on movement and the human body, is multidisciplinary in nature and international in scope, with cultural references to Africa, the African Diaspora, and Asia. For her multimedia, performance-based exhibition "Lov U," Nengudi explores the physical senses of being human, and includes photographs and video to reflect on the essence of love. Drawn to discarded, everyday materials, the ephemerality of Nengudi's work is a metaphor for life's transience.

life. love. time travel.
Echo

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

Group show of works by over 20 artists.

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial, titled "The Other New York: 2012," is being exhibited in community art galleries across Syracuse this year. ArtRage is honored to participate by exhibiting the work of four artists chosen in collaboration with the Everson Museum.

Ben Altman, Neil Chowdhury, Bob Gates and Paul Pearce, the four photographers whose works comprise this exhibit, present work that, while distinctive, shares a key characteristic. All are documentary photographers who are a bit wary of being seen as truth tellers. Fully understanding that the "objective photograph" is a myth, their photographic work -- both in the process of its creation and the images presented -- casts into doubt our traditional notions of documentation, objectivity and veracity. Nonetheless, each photographer is visualizing a certain truth, which may be one we do not know, or one that we prefer to avoid knowing. Participating in the artist's unflinching gaze, we become complicit witnesses to situations -- torture, poverty, social class, and the effects of war -- often conveniently rendered invisible.

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Country Folk Art Craft Show

New York State Fairgrounds
581 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse

TONY 2012: Karen Brummund
Urban Video Project

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

The Everson is I.M. Pei's first museum commission. His art museums are commonly seen as art objects for art objects. They are sculptures in the landscape. Shortly after the Everson, Pei built the Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca. In this site-specific video installation, images of the form and materials of both art museums are projected onto the Everson Museum. The images capture the light, surfaces, and depth of the architecture. The video uses images from two different buildings, analyzing how Pei's ideas bridge individual communities. These disparate places are abstractly connected through the architect's development. The plaza is not only infused with the presence of the Pei's forms, but also the conversation that takes place through his practice.

This video by Karen Brummund is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims
to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York.

Video projection begins at dusk.

Black in Latin America Film Forum
La Casita Cultural Center

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

La Casita will present an episode of the acclaimed PBS series Black in Latin America: "Haiti and the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided". The screening will be followed by a conversation with Silvio Torres-Saillant, professor of English in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences. Torres- Saillant was a consultant and featured participant in the Haiti and Dominican Republic episode.

Jazz@Sitrus
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Melissa Gardiner Trio

Price: Free
Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse

Straight No Chaser

Price: $27-$42
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Straight No Chaser, the wildly popular all male a cappella group, has over 20 million hits on YouTube, performed for eight weeks at Harrah's Resort Atlantic City, and has performed in front of many sold out crowds. SNC will be recording their fourth full-length album this summer, which will be released in the fall. This is one unique group you don't want to miss!

Tickets can be purchased in person at The Oncenter Box Office, by calling 315-435-2121, or online here.

Faculty Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Harumi Rhodes, violin; Steven Heyman, piano

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

Works by Bach, Messiaen, Takemitsu, and Ravel.

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

For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

Circa Survive, with Touche Amore, Balance & Composure, O'Brother
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

An Evening with The Healing Muse
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Join us for an evening in celebration of The Healing Muse, featuring several local contributors to their latest issue. The Healing Muse began in 2001 as the literary journal of Upstate Medical University. Originally envisioned as an in-house journal, it quickly morphed into a regional and now international journal about healing, illness, disability, and the body. Their writers and artists are interested in furthering the dialog between health care professionals and patients, between people who are suffering and those who care for them. The journal is a place where all people who are engaged in the struggle for health and wellness can have their voices heard.

The Senator Wore Pantyhose
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, tax, and gratuity
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

Reservations required. Phone 315-673-2255.

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The Sunshine Boys
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Pat Bridenbaker, director

Price: $15 adults, $13 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Dessert is included with your ticket price. Please call 315-877-4183 to reserve your seats.

The Choice
Appleseed Productions
Pat Marzola, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The Choice, by Pat Marzola, tells the story of a couple expecting their first child. They learn that the child will have one chromosome too many (Down Syndrome). Should they continue the pregnancy? The decision is examined through a writer who presents a picture of her own warm relationship with her Down Syndrome brother, set against the anguish of the couple.

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Seascape With Sharks And Dancer
Black Box Players
David Siciliano, director

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

There will be a cabaret at Dolce Vita following tonight's performance.

Seascape With Sharks And Dancer is the story of two people who fall into each other's lives on the coast of Cape Cod. What starts as a cute comedy by Don Nigro turns into a haunting look at the extremes we'll go to prevent people from loving us.

Seating is limited. To reserve tickets, email blackboxplayerstickets@gmail.com or call 315-308-1227 with the following information:
* Your full name and the names of the people joining you
* Date of Show you wish to attend
* How many seats you wish to reserve

You will receive a confirmation e-mail verifying your reservation. Ticket reservations will not be honored if they are made after 7:00 pm the day before the performance. You will lose your reserved seat if you are not present 10 minutes before performance.

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Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Too good to be true!" raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

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The Tempest
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Shakespeare'’s final play is an enchanting fairy tale, weaving together magic, romance, comedy, and poetry in a compelling fable of revenge and forgiveness. Starring local theatre legend Mike Barbour as Prospero, The Tempest is a bewitching masterwork that continues to cast a spell hundreds of years after it was first performed.

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Musical of Musicals, The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Silly, smart, juicy, merciless -- just a few of the one-word adjectives used to describe this 5-act romp that lovingly parodies the musicals of Rogers & Hammerstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, and Kander & Ebb. Music by Eric Rockwell; lyrics by Joanne Bogart; book by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart.

Musical Director is Michael Copps, and the cast features Jodie Baum, Jimmy Curtin, Peter Irwin, and Aubry Panek.

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Red Light Series: Alice in Slasherland
Redhouse

Price: $25
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Vampire Cowboys, a "geek theatre" company that creates and produces new works of theatre based in action/adventure and dark comedy with a comic book aesthetic, premiered their bloodiest show yet, Alice in Slasherland! It is a slasher comedy about a teenage fanboy who accidentally opens a gateway into hell by resurrecting the soul of a brutally slain girl named Alice. The show garnered rave reviews and a completely soldout run as it blew up at the HERE Arts Center in NYC.

In keeping with our grisly and gruesome production, the Redhouse Café will feature artwork from local comic book artists, graphic artists, graffiti artists, and tattoo artists, whose images are filled with an aesthetic that will appeal to the pop culture nerd in all of us.

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Moby Dick
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Alive with a soundscape of 16 authentic sea shanties and performed by an ensemble of nine, this highly physical adaption cuts to the core of Melville's searing narrative and plays with the fury of a Nantucket sleigh ride. A young man seeks adventure on a whaling vessel and finds himself a pawn in an obsessive pursuit of vengeance that threatens death and destruction for all. Director Peter Amster returns to guide the ensemble in this thrilling and critically acclaimed telling of a classic American tale. Adapted for the stage by Julian Rad from the book by Herman Melville

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The Rocky Horror Show
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 seniors, $20 students
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Pottery Garage Sale

Shenfeld Studio
6361 Thompson Rd., Syracuse

Fifteen Syracuse-area potters are participating in this annual event.

There will be an 8:30 am preview for you to scope out the pots and spot the best bargains. These pots will be priced to sell -- mostly seconds and older stock. At 9:00 am, the bell rings, and it's a mad dash! Please bring boxes to carry home your treasures. Cash or check only.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The works of 67 amateur artists in media such as metal, fiber art, marble, watercolors, acrylics, oils, ink, and photography is featured.

On My Own Time was created by the Cultural Resources Council to encourage local businesses, nonprofits, government and civic organizations to celebrate the artistic talents of their employees.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Prophecy" is a timely exhibition pertaining to Indigenous prophecies. By incorporating themes of ecology, creation, demise and the future according to the Mayan calendar, traditional Iroquois teachings and other cultural beliefs, Jones provides a visual representation of the foretold truths.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage-The Norton Putter Gallery, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Drama From the Garden: New Work by Terry Askey-Cole
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Terry Askey-Cole brings her love of nature and the outdoors to all her new pieces inspired by her beautiful gardens.

Carl Hoffner Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of limited-edition color lithographs and digital paintings by Fayetteville artist Carl Hoffner.

Country Folk Art Craft Show

New York State Fairgrounds
581 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse

Holiday Festival of Crafts
Rochester Folk Art Guild

Price: $2
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

Altered Environments: Works of Willson Cummer and Laura Wellner
Szozda Gallery

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

This show brings together two artists, Laura J. Wellner and Willson Cummer, who view environments in different ways but whose works compliment each other's.

Wellner always tries to create something 'extraordinary out of the ordinary elements of nature' in her mixed media paintings, thereby, one might say, seeing something that's not physically there. Fine art photographer Willson Cummer gives viewers another dimension to familiar landmarks by including man-made intrusions that 'explore humanity's place in the environment.'

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TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, and the City of Syracuse. Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Community Folk Art Center TONY 2012 featured artists are Elizabeth Leader, Michael Moody, Abisay Puentes, Sandra Stephens, who each use their art to engage in a larger conversation about significant but often overlooked social issues, including racial identity and urban decay.

life. love. time travel.
Echo

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

Group show of works by over 20 artists.

Harvest
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A group exhibition of Central New York artists which explores the inherit beauty of food and farming. It is during this time of year that the fruits of a farmer's labor are most appreciated, and preparation for winter, a time of hibernation and dormancy in the natural world, commences. The artists in Harvest celebrate this annual transition. The show will include photography, painting, pastel, and ceramics. Participating artists include Lisa Barker, Bob Gates, Wendy Harris, Jeremy Randall, Lucie Wellner, and Jamie Young.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

TONY: 2012: "Manifest Destiny and the American West" and "Last House"
Onondaga Historical Association

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

These exhibits are mounted as part of the The Other New York (TONY): 2012, Syracuse's art biennial. OHA's TONY: 2012 exhibits are artistically presented interpretations of dynamic social trends that are part of the historic legacy of Central New York.

In a three-dimensional display employing nearly 1,000 images set in glass jars, "Manifest Destiny and the American West," an exhibit by Buffalo artist Robert Hirsch, asks the visitor to think about how our nation's geographic progression across the continent has shaped American culture. The desire to exploit the salt brine reserves on Onondaga Lake contributed to a westward migration of settlers across Central New York in the post-American Revolution era, while the construction of the Erie Canal enhanced this movement through the 19th century and enabled many travelers to reach lands in the farther reaches of the American continent.

"Last House" is a multi-channel video installation by media artist Carl Lee that explores the aesthetics and means of a house demolition in Buffalo. Cities like Buffalo and Syracuse are faced with a large number of abandoned houses. This video asks us to think about what we gain and lose in demolishing them. This installation will be accompanied by three paintings by Western New York artist Amy Greenan of vacant houses in Syracuse awaiting an uncertain future, including "Not Here, Not Now," her interpretation of 711 Tully Street, which seems poised to have a different fate on Syracuse's Near West Side than that if the house in Last House.

Onondaga Historical Association is proud to be one of 14 Central New York venues for TONY: 2012. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

100 posters celebrating 30 years. Since 1982, SCW has published and distributed over 700 posters across North America and a bit on other continents. This selection of 100 titles represents the best, the boldest, and the oldest.

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial, titled "The Other New York: 2012," is being exhibited in community art galleries across Syracuse this year. ArtRage is honored to participate by exhibiting the work of four artists chosen in collaboration with the Everson Museum.

Ben Altman, Neil Chowdhury, Bob Gates and Paul Pearce, the four photographers whose works comprise this exhibit, present work that, while distinctive, shares a key characteristic. All are documentary photographers who are a bit wary of being seen as truth tellers. Fully understanding that the "objective photograph" is a myth, their photographic work -- both in the process of its creation and the images presented -- casts into doubt our traditional notions of documentation, objectivity and veracity. Nonetheless, each photographer is visualizing a certain truth, which may be one we do not know, or one that we prefer to avoid knowing. Participating in the artist's unflinching gaze, we become complicit witnesses to situations -- torture, poverty, social class, and the effects of war -- often conveniently rendered invisible.

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Lov U
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Lov U" is a multimedia installation by Senga Nengudi.

Colorado-based Senga Nengudi is a key figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Known primarily for performance-based art installations, her work focuses on movement and the human body, is multidisciplinary in nature and international in scope, with cultural references to Africa, the African Diaspora, and Asia. For her multimedia, performance-based exhibition "Lov U," Nengudi explores the physical senses of being human, and includes photographs and video to reflect on the essence of love. Drawn to discarded, everyday materials, the ephemerality of Nengudi's work is a metaphor for life's transience.

TONY 2012: Karen Brummund
Urban Video Project

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

The Everson is I.M. Pei's first museum commission. His art museums are commonly seen as art objects for art objects. They are sculptures in the landscape. Shortly after the Everson, Pei built the Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca. In this site-specific video installation, images of the form and materials of both art museums are projected onto the Everson Museum. The images capture the light, surfaces, and depth of the architecture. The video uses images from two different buildings, analyzing how Pei's ideas bridge individual communities. These disparate places are abstractly connected through the architect's development. The plaza is not only infused with the presence of the Pei's forms, but also the conversation that takes place through his practice.

This video by Karen Brummund is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims
to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York.

Video projection begins at dusk.

Fellini Festival: Juliet of the Spirit (1965)
ArtRage Gallery

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

Discover the Fabulous Fellini, one of the most influential directors of our time!

Juliet of the Spirit (1965), with Giulette Messina, Mario Pisu, Valentina Cortese

An eye-popping peacock of a film, Fellini's first color production offers a visually dazzling look into the depths of the feminine psyche. Unable to confront her husband's infidelity, middle-aged Juliet enters a period of introspection and self-discovery via voyages into memory, dreams, and spirit. Fellini's creative eye and rich lens captures her surreal adventures in riotously opulent Technicolor dreamscapes.

Halloween Family Concert
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Featuring Empire State Dance Center

Price: $18 regular, $15 seniors/students, $9 children
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The orchestra will be joined by dancers from Empire State Dance Center for a performance of Halloween favorites. The performance also features a costume parade on stage.

Tickets are available from the OnCenter Box office 435-2121 and at the door.

Shanti, Pacem Peace: 10th Annual Womens Choir Festival
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Doreen Rao, conductor

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

Distinguished conductor Doreen Rao will be the guest conductor for Syracuse Universitys 10th Annual Women's Choir Festival. The theme of the festival, which is the first event of the 2012-13 SU Women's Choir season honoring 125 years of "Women in Song" at the University, will be "Shanti, Pacem Peace: Women as Peace Makers."

More than 200 high school, collegiate and adult women singers from New York State and Kingston, Ontario, will join forces with percussionists and the SU Symphony Orchestra.

The festival, hosted by the SU Women's Choir, will include Rochester's Rush-Henrietta High School Bel Canto Singers with Brian Bohrer, director; Cicero-North Syracuse High School Women's Choir with Caryn Patterson, director; Buffalo State Women's Chorus with John Fleischman, director; Buffalo Master Chorale Women's Ensemble, prepared by Fleischman; and Canada's Cantabile Women's Chorus with Mark Sirett, director. Sirett will also serve as composer-in-residence for the festival, which opens with his composition Shanti (Peace).

David Brunner's Earthsongs will be performed with orchestra, and the concert will conclude with Amani (Peace).

Performances by the individual choirs, interspersed throughout the concert, will include Joy by Jocelyn Hagen; Waters Ripple and Flow, arranged by Deems Taylor; Carrickfergu, arranged by Sarah Linnertz; Sim Shalom by Allan E. Naplan; and Ave maris stella by Eva Ugalde.

Free and accessible parking is available in the Q-1 lot; additional parking is available in the Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change; call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazengarb
Steeple Coffeehouse

Price: $12 in advance, $15 at the door
Fayetteville United Church
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Admission includes beverage and dessert.

For more information, phone 315-663-7415.

Master Works
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
José-Luis Novo, conductor
Featuring Jon Nakamatsu, piano

Price: $19-$45 regular, $10 students
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Glinka Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla
Grieg Piano Concerto
Rachmaninoff Second Symphony

Tickets available from the OnCenter Box office at 315-435-2121 and at the door.

Dark Hollow (Grateful Dead Tribute), with Master Thieves
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

There will be a costume contest to win tickets to future Westcott Theater shows.

Cinderella
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

In this interactive version of the children's classic, kids are invited to the ball and help Cinderella and the Prince.

Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Too good to be true!" raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

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Red Light Series: Alice in Slasherland
Redhouse

Price: $25
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Vampire Cowboys, a "geek theatre" company that creates and produces new works of theatre based in action/adventure and dark comedy with a comic book aesthetic, premiered their bloodiest show yet, Alice in Slasherland! It is a slasher comedy about a teenage fanboy who accidentally opens a gateway into hell by resurrecting the soul of a brutally slain girl named Alice. The show garnered rave reviews and a completely soldout run as it blew up at the HERE Arts Center in NYC.

In keeping with our grisly and gruesome production, the Redhouse Café will feature artwork from local comic book artists, graphic artists, graffiti artists, and tattoo artists, whose images are filled with an aesthetic that will appeal to the pop culture nerd in all of us.

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Moby Dick
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Alive with a soundscape of 16 authentic sea shanties and performed by an ensemble of nine, this highly physical adaption cuts to the core of Melville's searing narrative and plays with the fury of a Nantucket sleigh ride. A young man seeks adventure on a whaling vessel and finds himself a pawn in an obsessive pursuit of vengeance that threatens death and destruction for all. Director Peter Amster returns to guide the ensemble in this thrilling and critically acclaimed telling of a classic American tale. Adapted for the stage by Julian Rad from the book by Herman Melville

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The Senator Wore Pantyhose
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, tax, and gratuity
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

Reservations required. Phone 315-673-2255.

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The Sunshine Boys
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Pat Bridenbaker, director

Price: $15 adults, $13 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Dessert is included with your ticket price. Please call 315-877-4183 to reserve your seats.

The Choice
Appleseed Productions
Pat Marzola, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The Choice, by Pat Marzola, tells the story of a couple expecting their first child. They learn that the child will have one chromosome too many (Down Syndrome). Should they continue the pregnancy? The decision is examined through a writer who presents a picture of her own warm relationship with her Down Syndrome brother, set against the anguish of the couple.

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Seascape With Sharks And Dancer
Black Box Players
David Siciliano, director

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

Seascape With Sharks And Dancer is the story of two people who fall into each other's lives on the coast of Cape Cod. What starts as a cute comedy by Don Nigro turns into a haunting look at the extremes we'll go to prevent people from loving us.

Seating is limited. To reserve tickets, email blackboxplayerstickets@gmail.com or call 315-308-1227 with the following information:
* Your full name and the names of the people joining you
* Date of Show you wish to attend
* How many seats you wish to reserve

You will receive a confirmation e-mail verifying your reservation. Ticket reservations will not be honored if they are made after 7:00 pm the day before the performance. You will lose your reserved seat if you are not present 10 minutes before performance.

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Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Too good to be true!" raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

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The Tempest
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Shakespeare'’s final play is an enchanting fairy tale, weaving together magic, romance, comedy, and poetry in a compelling fable of revenge and forgiveness. Starring local theatre legend Mike Barbour as Prospero, The Tempest is a bewitching masterwork that continues to cast a spell hundreds of years after it was first performed.

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Musical of Musicals, The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Silly, smart, juicy, merciless -- just a few of the one-word adjectives used to describe this 5-act romp that lovingly parodies the musicals of Rogers & Hammerstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, and Kander & Ebb. Music by Eric Rockwell; lyrics by Joanne Bogart; book by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart.

Musical Director is Michael Copps, and the cast features Jodie Baum, Jimmy Curtin, Peter Irwin, and Aubry Panek.

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Red Light Series: Alice in Slasherland
Redhouse

Price: $25
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Vampire Cowboys, a "geek theatre" company that creates and produces new works of theatre based in action/adventure and dark comedy with a comic book aesthetic, premiered their bloodiest show yet, Alice in Slasherland! It is a slasher comedy about a teenage fanboy who accidentally opens a gateway into hell by resurrecting the soul of a brutally slain girl named Alice. The show garnered rave reviews and a completely soldout run as it blew up at the HERE Arts Center in NYC.

In keeping with our grisly and gruesome production, the Redhouse Café will feature artwork from local comic book artists, graphic artists, graffiti artists, and tattoo artists, whose images are filled with an aesthetic that will appeal to the pop culture nerd in all of us.

Read a review!

Moby Dick
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Alive with a soundscape of 16 authentic sea shanties and performed by an ensemble of nine, this highly physical adaption cuts to the core of Melville's searing narrative and plays with the fury of a Nantucket sleigh ride. A young man seeks adventure on a whaling vessel and finds himself a pawn in an obsessive pursuit of vengeance that threatens death and destruction for all. Director Peter Amster returns to guide the ensemble in this thrilling and critically acclaimed telling of a classic American tale. Adapted for the stage by Julian Rad from the book by Herman Melville

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The Rocky Horror Show
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 seniors, $20 students
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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The Rocky Horror Show
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 seniors, $20 students
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Sunday, October 28, 2012

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Country Folk Art Craft Show

New York State Fairgrounds
581 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse

Altered Environments: Works of Willson Cummer and Laura Wellner
Szozda Gallery

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

This show brings together two artists, Laura J. Wellner and Willson Cummer, who view environments in different ways but whose works compliment each other's.

Wellner always tries to create something 'extraordinary out of the ordinary elements of nature' in her mixed media paintings, thereby, one might say, seeing something that's not physically there. Fine art photographer Willson Cummer gives viewers another dimension to familiar landmarks by including man-made intrusions that 'explore humanity's place in the environment.'

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Drama From the Garden: New Work by Terry Askey-Cole
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Terry Askey-Cole brings her love of nature and the outdoors to all her new pieces inspired by her beautiful gardens.

Harvest
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A group exhibition of Central New York artists which explores the inherit beauty of food and farming. It is during this time of year that the fruits of a farmer's labor are most appreciated, and preparation for winter, a time of hibernation and dormancy in the natural world, commences. The artists in Harvest celebrate this annual transition. The show will include photography, painting, pastel, and ceramics. Participating artists include Lisa Barker, Bob Gates, Wendy Harris, Jeremy Randall, Lucie Wellner, and Jamie Young.

Carl Hoffner Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of limited-edition color lithographs and digital paintings by Fayetteville artist Carl Hoffner.

Holiday Festival of Crafts
Rochester Folk Art Guild

Price: $2
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

100 posters celebrating 30 years. Since 1982, SCW has published and distributed over 700 posters across North America and a bit on other continents. This selection of 100 titles represents the best, the boldest, and the oldest.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

TONY: 2012: "Manifest Destiny and the American West" and "Last House"
Onondaga Historical Association

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

These exhibits are mounted as part of the The Other New York (TONY): 2012, Syracuse's art biennial. OHA's TONY: 2012 exhibits are artistically presented interpretations of dynamic social trends that are part of the historic legacy of Central New York.

In a three-dimensional display employing nearly 1,000 images set in glass jars, "Manifest Destiny and the American West," an exhibit by Buffalo artist Robert Hirsch, asks the visitor to think about how our nation's geographic progression across the continent has shaped American culture. The desire to exploit the salt brine reserves on Onondaga Lake contributed to a westward migration of settlers across Central New York in the post-American Revolution era, while the construction of the Erie Canal enhanced this movement through the 19th century and enabled many travelers to reach lands in the farther reaches of the American continent.

"Last House" is a multi-channel video installation by media artist Carl Lee that explores the aesthetics and means of a house demolition in Buffalo. Cities like Buffalo and Syracuse are faced with a large number of abandoned houses. This video asks us to think about what we gain and lose in demolishing them. This installation will be accompanied by three paintings by Western New York artist Amy Greenan of vacant houses in Syracuse awaiting an uncertain future, including "Not Here, Not Now," her interpretation of 711 Tully Street, which seems poised to have a different fate on Syracuse's Near West Side than that if the house in Last House.

Onondaga Historical Association is proud to be one of 14 Central New York venues for TONY: 2012. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The works of 67 amateur artists in media such as metal, fiber art, marble, watercolors, acrylics, oils, ink, and photography is featured.

On My Own Time was created by the Cultural Resources Council to encourage local businesses, nonprofits, government and civic organizations to celebrate the artistic talents of their employees.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage-The Norton Putter Gallery, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Prophecy" is a timely exhibition pertaining to Indigenous prophecies. By incorporating themes of ecology, creation, demise and the future according to the Mayan calendar, traditional Iroquois teachings and other cultural beliefs, Jones provides a visual representation of the foretold truths.

Jazzuits Present Piano Man +1 with Todd Hobin
LeMoyne College

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors, $5 students
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Le Moyne College Jazzuits perform the classic tunes of Elton John, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Little Richard, Neil Sedaka, Ray Charles, and Carole King with guest Todd Hobin.

For more information, call 315-445-4523.

Sunday Musicale: Jeff Stockham and the Jazz Police
Fayetteville Free Library

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

Aural Auras and Their Reflections
Society for New Music

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Rob Deemer Aural Auras & Their Reflections, with visuals by videographer Courtney Rile
Andrew Waggoner Guitar Concerto
Rob Smith Chaw
Virgil Thomson Suite from "The Plough that Broke the Plains" (with film)
Patrick Long Analogous Sets for video robot drummer, clarinet, and cello

A collaboration with the Syracuse University Humanities Center and Syracuse Symposium in conjunction with their series on Memory/Media/Archive.

Jazzuits Present Piano Man +1 with Todd Hobin
LeMoyne College

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors, $5 students
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Le Moyne College Jazzuits perform the classic tunes of Elton John, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Little Richard, Neil Sedaka, Ray Charles, and Carole King with guest Todd Hobin.

For more information, call 315-445-4523.

Jazz Vespers
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

This informal event is open to people of all faiths. Music is drawn from sacred and secular sources, accompanied by inspirational readings and a homily.

Kathleen Roland, soprano; Kathleen Haddock, piano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Soprano Kathleen Roland and pianist Kathleen Haddock will perform a program of song by some of America's greatest composers, from Copland, Ives, and Weil to living composers Ricky Ian Gordon and William Bolcom. A highlight of the program will be Vignettes: Letters from George to Evelyn (from the Private Letters of a World War II Bride), by Alan Louis Smith.

Roland is a highly regarded concert soloist well known for her interpretation of the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. She has been a featured singer with many music festivals, including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Britten-Pears Institute and the Tanglewood Music Festival, and has performed with many prominent conductors, including James Conlon, Kent Nagano, Reinbert de Leeuw, James Mauceri and Oliver Knussen. She has been a frequent soloist with the Grammy Award-winning Southwest Chamber Music Society of Los Angeles, with whom she has garnered critical acclaim for her performances.

Parking is available in the Waverly lot. Campus parking availability is subject to change; call 315-443-2191 for current information.

2nd Annual Westcott Halloween Extravaganza
Westcott Theater
Zomboy, with Cyberoptics, Direktor, Anon & Pyro

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Senator Wore Pantyhose
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, tax, and gratuity
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

Reservations required. Phone 315-673-2255.

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Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Too good to be true!" raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

Read a Review!

Moby Dick
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Alive with a soundscape of 16 authentic sea shanties and performed by an ensemble of nine, this highly physical adaption cuts to the core of Melville's searing narrative and plays with the fury of a Nantucket sleigh ride. A young man seeks adventure on a whaling vessel and finds himself a pawn in an obsessive pursuit of vengeance that threatens death and destruction for all. Director Peter Amster returns to guide the ensemble in this thrilling and critically acclaimed telling of a classic American tale. Adapted for the stage by Julian Rad from the book by Herman Melville

Read a Review!

Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Too good to be true!" raves the New York Post for Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys, winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

Read a Review!

Seascape With Sharks And Dancer
Black Box Players
David Siciliano, director

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

Seascape With Sharks And Dancer is the story of two people who fall into each other's lives on the coast of Cape Cod. What starts as a cute comedy by Don Nigro turns into a haunting look at the extremes we'll go to prevent people from loving us.

Seating is limited. To reserve tickets, email blackboxplayerstickets@gmail.com or call 315-308-1227 with the following information:
* Your full name and the names of the people joining you
* Date of Show you wish to attend
* How many seats you wish to reserve

You will receive a confirmation e-mail verifying your reservation. Ticket reservations will not be honored if they are made after 7:00 pm the day before the performance. You will lose your reserved seat if you are not present 10 minutes before performance.

Read a review!

Moby Dick
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Alive with a soundscape of 16 authentic sea shanties and performed by an ensemble of nine, this highly physical adaption cuts to the core of Melville's searing narrative and plays with the fury of a Nantucket sleigh ride. A young man seeks adventure on a whaling vessel and finds himself a pawn in an obsessive pursuit of vengeance that threatens death and destruction for all. Director Peter Amster returns to guide the ensemble in this thrilling and critically acclaimed telling of a classic American tale. Adapted for the stage by Julian Rad from the book by Herman Melville

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Monday, October 29, 2012

Gallery Exhibit: Brendan Rose & Michael Barletta: Paper, Staple, String
Onondaga Community College

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

"Paper, Staple, String" is a spatial installation, transforming Onondaga's Gallery into a dynamic field of suspended objects. Educational remnants (the discarded paperwork of students) are reclaimed as monochromatic pixels of a space defining cloud. This three-dimensional form transfigures as it intersects with the gallery walls, flattening and expanding against the two-dimensional surface.

Meditation on Video (&) Language, a show by Tom Sherman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A selection of new and previous works on video and drawings by artist Tom Sherman.

Reflecting on the work, the artist states: "The representation may be almost like a constellation of moments of awareness. It's impossible to summarize what you think in a video, but it is possible to create a veil of a series of works that contribute to the aggregate consciousness of a society, like a transparent curtain of events, of sub consciousness."

Sherman is a Professor of Arts, Design, and Transmedia at Syracuse University. He was a founding co-editor of Fuse magazine, Toronto (1980); founding director of Media Arts for the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa (1983-87), and co-founder of Nerve Theory, an international performance art/recording collaborative (1997). In 1980, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale, and in 1986, was appointed international commissioner for that same Biennale that is one of the worlds major contemporary art exhibitions every two years in Venice, Italy. Among numerous distinctions, Sherman received the Bell Canada prize for excellence in video art in 2003, and Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2010.

*EARLY CLOSING* Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Propaganda images generated during the Cultural Revolution in China have been remixed to create commentary on the modern Cultural Revolution society is undergoing in the form of music, art, and media. Elements of the old and new are mixed together to evolve into something new.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Drama From the Garden: New Work by Terry Askey-Cole
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Terry Askey-Cole brings her love of nature and the outdoors to all her new pieces inspired by her beautiful gardens.

Carl Hoffner Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of limited-edition color lithographs and digital paintings by Fayetteville artist Carl Hoffner.

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

An exhibition of artists with a dual practice, featuring Abby Carter, Samantha Harmon, Lori Hawke, Stephanie Koenig, Lynette K Stephenson, and Marion Wilson.

Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena: A Graphic History
La Casita Cultural Center

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

The exhibit presents the works of nine Puerto Rican master artists who were commissioned to create screen prints to capture the spirit of the annual Bomba and Plena Festivals held in Puerto Rico. Their posters have been collected and preserved by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan.

Featured artists are José R. Alicea, Luis Alonso, Luis Germán Cajigas, Jesús Cardona, Sixto Cotto, David Goitia, Samuel Lind, Luis Maisonet Ramos, and Nelson Sambolin.

The Capitol Steps

Price: $22.50-$62.50 regular, $12.50 students
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Capitol Steps are coming -- in a presidential election year. The timing couldn't be much better for lovers of the group's polital-satire-in-song.

The group began in December 1981, when some staff members for Senator Charles Percy got together to entertain at a Christmas party. The rest is comedy history ... more than 30 albums worth, in fact. Members of the ensemble have worked in 18 different Congressional offices with a collective 62 years of House and Senate experience.

Tcikets available at the Oncenter box office, 315-435-2121, and at ticketmaster.com.

Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3.50 non-members, $3 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Director: Erle C. Kenton. Cast includes Lon Chaney, Jr., Bela Lugosi, Cedric Hardwicke, Lionel Atwill, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers.

Universal's sequel to "Son of Frankenstein," which was last year's Syracuse Cinephile Halloween feature, finds Ygor (Lugosi) offering his brain to Dr. Frankenstein (Hardwicke) to be put into the monster (Chaney). Another atmospheric and fun horror film from the studio who really knew how to make them.

*CANCELLED* Blood on the Dance Floor, with Jeffree Star, New Years Day, Davey Suicide
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Tickets can be refunded at point of purchase.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Gallery Exhibit: Brendan Rose & Michael Barletta: Paper, Staple, String
Onondaga Community College

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

"Paper, Staple, String" is a spatial installation, transforming Onondaga's Gallery into a dynamic field of suspended objects. Educational remnants (the discarded paperwork of students) are reclaimed as monochromatic pixels of a space defining cloud. This three-dimensional form transfigures as it intersects with the gallery walls, flattening and expanding against the two-dimensional surface.

Meditation on Video (&) Language, a show by Tom Sherman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A selection of new and previous works on video and drawings by artist Tom Sherman.

Reflecting on the work, the artist states: "The representation may be almost like a constellation of moments of awareness. It's impossible to summarize what you think in a video, but it is possible to create a veil of a series of works that contribute to the aggregate consciousness of a society, like a transparent curtain of events, of sub consciousness."

Sherman is a Professor of Arts, Design, and Transmedia at Syracuse University. He was a founding co-editor of Fuse magazine, Toronto (1980); founding director of Media Arts for the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa (1983-87), and co-founder of Nerve Theory, an international performance art/recording collaborative (1997). In 1980, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale, and in 1986, was appointed international commissioner for that same Biennale that is one of the worlds major contemporary art exhibitions every two years in Venice, Italy. Among numerous distinctions, Sherman received the Bell Canada prize for excellence in video art in 2003, and Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2010.

*CLOSED TODAY* Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Propaganda images generated during the Cultural Revolution in China have been remixed to create commentary on the modern Cultural Revolution society is undergoing in the form of music, art, and media. Elements of the old and new are mixed together to evolve into something new.

*CLOSED TODAY* TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, and the City of Syracuse. Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Community Folk Art Center TONY 2012 featured artists are Elizabeth Leader, Michael Moody, Abisay Puentes, Sandra Stephens, who each use their art to engage in a larger conversation about significant but often overlooked social issues, including racial identity and urban decay.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Drama From the Garden: New Work by Terry Askey-Cole
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Terry Askey-Cole brings her love of nature and the outdoors to all her new pieces inspired by her beautiful gardens.

Carl Hoffner Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of limited-edition color lithographs and digital paintings by Fayetteville artist Carl Hoffner.

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

An exhibition of artists with a dual practice, featuring Abby Carter, Samantha Harmon, Lori Hawke, Stephanie Koenig, Lynette K Stephenson, and Marion Wilson.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The works of 67 amateur artists in media such as metal, fiber art, marble, watercolors, acrylics, oils, ink, and photography is featured.

On My Own Time was created by the Cultural Resources Council to encourage local businesses, nonprofits, government and civic organizations to celebrate the artistic talents of their employees.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Prophecy" is a timely exhibition pertaining to Indigenous prophecies. By incorporating themes of ecology, creation, demise and the future according to the Mayan calendar, traditional Iroquois teachings and other cultural beliefs, Jones provides a visual representation of the foretold truths.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage-The Norton Putter Gallery, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena: A Graphic History
La Casita Cultural Center

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

The exhibit presents the works of nine Puerto Rican master artists who were commissioned to create screen prints to capture the spirit of the annual Bomba and Plena Festivals held in Puerto Rico. Their posters have been collected and preserved by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan.

Featured artists are José R. Alicea, Luis Alonso, Luis Germán Cajigas, Jesús Cardona, Sixto Cotto, David Goitia, Samuel Lind, Luis Maisonet Ramos, and Nelson Sambolin.

life. love. time travel.
Echo

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

Group show of works by over 20 artists.

The Storytelling Class
Onondaga Citizens League Refugee Film Series

Price: Free
Inspiration Hall (formerly St. Peter's Church)
709 James St., Syracuse

OCL presents documentary films about refugee resettlement efforts in other communities. Each film is followed by a moderated discussion.

For more information, visit the OCL website, email ocl@syr.edu, or call 315-443-4846.

Spirituals to Funk: Dr. John and The Blind Boys of Alabama

Price: $25, $35, $55
SRC Arena and Events Center
Onondaga Community College campus, Syracuse

"Spirituals to Funk" features Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Dr. John and 5-time Grammy Award Winners, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Under Dr. John's musical direction, the world premiere of "Spirituals to Funk" represents the first-ever touring partnership between two icons of American music. Dr. John and the Blind Boys of Alabama's performance will build on a legacy that started with Dr. John's appearance on the Blind Boys' Grammy Award-winning CD "Down in New Orleans," and continues with the Blind Boys' appearance on Dr. John's upcoming CD celebrating Louis Armstrong's 100th birthday.

Based on the legendary Carnegie Hall Spirituals to Swing concerts produced by John Hammond in the 1930s, "Spirituals to Funk" features an integrated show that explores the connections between jazz, blues and gospel.

For tickets or more information, visit the SRC Arena website.

Richie Hawtin, with Loco Dince, Ean Golden, Paco Osuna
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Moby Dick
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Alive with a soundscape of 16 authentic sea shanties and performed by an ensemble of nine, this highly physical adaption cuts to the core of Melville's searing narrative and plays with the fury of a Nantucket sleigh ride. A young man seeks adventure on a whaling vessel and finds himself a pawn in an obsessive pursuit of vengeance that threatens death and destruction for all. Director Peter Amster returns to guide the ensemble in this thrilling and critically acclaimed telling of a classic American tale. Adapted for the stage by Julian Rad from the book by Herman Melville

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Gallery Exhibit: Brendan Rose & Michael Barletta: Paper, Staple, String
Onondaga Community College

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

"Paper, Staple, String" is a spatial installation, transforming Onondaga's Gallery into a dynamic field of suspended objects. Educational remnants (the discarded paperwork of students) are reclaimed as monochromatic pixels of a space defining cloud. This three-dimensional form transfigures as it intersects with the gallery walls, flattening and expanding against the two-dimensional surface.

Meditation on Video (&) Language, a show by Tom Sherman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A selection of new and previous works on video and drawings by artist Tom Sherman.

Reflecting on the work, the artist states: "The representation may be almost like a constellation of moments of awareness. It's impossible to summarize what you think in a video, but it is possible to create a veil of a series of works that contribute to the aggregate consciousness of a society, like a transparent curtain of events, of sub consciousness."

Sherman is a Professor of Arts, Design, and Transmedia at Syracuse University. He was a founding co-editor of Fuse magazine, Toronto (1980); founding director of Media Arts for the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa (1983-87), and co-founder of Nerve Theory, an international performance art/recording collaborative (1997). In 1980, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale, and in 1986, was appointed international commissioner for that same Biennale that is one of the worlds major contemporary art exhibitions every two years in Venice, Italy. Among numerous distinctions, Sherman received the Bell Canada prize for excellence in video art in 2003, and Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2010.

Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

The dB Cultural Revolution series by Decibel
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Propaganda images generated during the Cultural Revolution in China have been remixed to create commentary on the modern Cultural Revolution society is undergoing in the form of music, art, and media. Elements of the old and new are mixed together to evolve into something new.

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, and the City of Syracuse. Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Community Folk Art Center TONY 2012 featured artists are Elizabeth Leader, Michael Moody, Abisay Puentes, Sandra Stephens, who each use their art to engage in a larger conversation about significant but often overlooked social issues, including racial identity and urban decay.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse