Saturday, July 28, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Natural Abstractions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Fernando Llosa: oil paintings, sumi ink drawings, stone assemblage
David Harper: wood and mixed media sculpture
Carol Ackles: ceramic bead jewelry

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

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

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

Fire and Water
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Vibrant new watercolors, acrylics, and gold leaf paintings by Kathleen Schneider and hot new sculptural glass jewelry by Heather Hennigan.

Soul Cages: An Exploration of Change, Time and Process
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibition showcases R. Jason Howard's flame-worked glass sculptures, ornaments and functional pieces.

Art by Virginia Vilchis

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

An exhibit of the dreamy, inward, otherworldly scapes by local artist Virginia Vilchis.

A native of Mexico, Vilchis received her associate's degree in fine arts from Onondaga Community College in 2009 and her bachelor's degree in fine arts from Syracuse University in 2011. She works in ceramics, oils, acrylics, and mixed media.

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

Radiant Hues: Works by Therese Verley Strodel
Redhouse

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

Large-scale abstract paintings celebrate the use of color through myriad layering of acrylic paint.

When Night Falls
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In its July offering, Szozda Gallery takes a different approach in featuring two young newcomers to the gallery, Cayetano Valenzuela and Isaac Bidwell, in a mounting of their works that are a little darker than most shown here.

"When Night Falls" is composed of oil paintings plus acrylic and ink paintings by Valenzuela and ink or digital drawings by Bidwell. Most pieces submitted by the two bear an aura of the mystique. Valenzuela explores ideas about death, magic and storytelling in America; Bidwell's newest series, "Skeleton Ladies" represent control, mortality, destruction and beauty.

Though new to Szozda Gallery and still young in their careers, the two local artists have earned acclaim in some notable exhibitions throughout Central New York and beyond. Valenzuela's credits include galleries in San Francisco, San Diego, St. Louis, San Antonio, Atlanta and Chicago. He has been published in several art and culture magazines including Baron Magazine (Canada), IDN the New Twenties and Small Press publication, Atlas. Bidwell's work has appeared in San Diego, Chicago, Long Beach, and New York City.

The Unexpected Journey: Works By Beverly McIver and How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our summer exhibition will feature acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and California-based weaver Spencer McClay. These two artists offer different and refreshing perspectives on disability.

"The Unexpected Journey: Works by Beverly McIver" is a selection of paintings that examine McIver's unpredictable relationship with her mentally disabled sister, Renee.

"How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay" is a collection of vibrant hand-woven wall sculptures by an artist with a unique vision and sensibility for the materials he uses.

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Portals of Perception: Works of Barry Grose
Echo

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

The series combines a mix of pure aesthetic floral beauty with subtle seduction. The paintings evoke mystery and curiosity with their strong glows of color that peer from the darkness.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

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.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

And the Whole Room Laughed
XL Projects

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

Work drawn from the collaborative writings of three artists is featured in the current exhibition, "And the Whole Room Laughed." The exhibit includes painting, drawing, sculpture and video by Ford Bostwick, a dual architecture and sculpture major at Syracuse University's School of Architecture and College of Visual and Performing Arts; Becky Reiser, a graduate sculpture student in VPA; and Alexander Svoboda, a dual sculpture and philosophy major in VPA and The College of Arts and Sciences.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

UVP Annual Summer Review 2012
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This year's Annual Summer Review will feature all the past videos from the 2011-2012 programming year running together in a continuous loop. If you missed one of the past year's artists, now's your chance! On view will be works by Pae White, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, John Knecht, and William Wegman.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

"Final Frontier" Show
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $5
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

Our esteemed colleague and team member, John, is leaving us to explore strange new worlds. He's going to seek out new life and new civilizations. He's going to...New Jersey? That's right. As we prepare to jettison him out to the Garden State, it will be in his honor that we dedicate this show to all things Trek-ish.

Join us for John's last performance with Salt City Improv's house team, Pork Pie Hat (short-form improv comedy in the style of the hit TV show "Whose Line Is It, Anyway"). There are sure to be Star Trek references a-plenty...and maybe we'll even throw in some random Star Wars stuff, just for fun.

Summer Dance Performance
Syracuse University Summer Dance Intensive Program

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

The performance showcases the talent of students who have completed three weeks of vigorous study with world-renowned faculty. The diversity and brevity of this performance is the perfect cultural event for both children and adults.

The program will open with an exuberant classical ballet set to Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin's "Polonaise", with featured guest artist Momchil Mladenov and Syracuse native Evelyn Kocak. Kocak will also perform a ravishing variation of technical purity from the ballet "Paquita." This year's international scholarship student from Bulgaria, Elena Dimitrova, will dance the colorful variation from "Don Quixote," followed by excerpts from the ballet "Le Corsaire." Other works on the program include a student-choreographed improvisational work, a modern work and a section from the hit Broadway musical A Chorus Line.

22nd Annual Street Painting Festival

Price: Free
200 Block of Montgomery St.
Syracuse

A chalk art contest for artists ranging from young kids to seasoned professionals. The Masters Competition is the highest level of chalk art competition, in which the artist will recreate a renowned masters painting in chalk on the sidewalk. Cash and prizes will be awarded. The art will be photographed and showcased in the Syracuse New Times newspaper and web site. To participate, pre-registration is recommended: call 315-422-7011.

Syracuse Arts and Crafts Festival

Price: Free
Columbus Circle
Jefferson and Montgomery Sts., Syracuse

This showcase by nearly 200 of the country's most talented artists, craftspeople, and entertainers presents an exceptionally wide selection of contemporary arts and crafts, ranging from functional to decorative. Both 2- and 3-dimensional works will be featured including ceramics, fabric and fiber, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, wood, painting, graphics, drawing, sculpture, and photography. Exhibitors participate from over 30 states and 4 countries.

Browse among the art and craft exhibits and enjoy a wide variety of music, multi-cultural performances, summer refreshments, and participatory activities.

There will be performances by Trio Los Arpegios, Colin Aberdeen, Syracuse Highland Pipe & Drums, Jane Zell, La Joven Gurdia Del Teatro Latino, Too Tall String Band, Biboti, Girls Night Out, the Joe and Jane Show throughout the festival.

Typewriter Poetry Gallery

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Come type a poem on an old-fashioned typewriter and make an artistic contribution to a gallery of poems written by Syracuse poets, young and old. Everyone is welcome! Drawing material will also be provided if you'd like to illustrate your work. A digital gallery of all poems will be posted online. Recent art work entitled "The Contemplation of Language" by Mark Povinelli will also be on exhibit. This event is brought to you by the StoreFront and the 40-Below Public Arts Task Force.

Syracuse Stories

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The documentary about last July's ArtsWeek Syracuse Stories Festival, "Syracuse Stories" by Courtney Rile, will be shown several times each day at the Downtown Writers' Center and the Erie Canal Museum. Come see how members of the CNY and Syracuse community shared their stories last summer. Stay for a story circle or tell your own Syracuse story. Contact syracusestories@gmail.com for more information.

50th Anniversary Community Celebration
Erie Canal Museum

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

Fifty years ago, the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building, the last remaining building of its kind in the world, was saved from destruction by a group of community members and transformed into a museum. To thank the community for its support through all of these years, the Erie Canal Museum invites everyone to celebrate the Museum's 50th anniversary. Activities for children will include making ice cream, butter, mule puppets, paper, and more. Presentations will be given during the day about the Erie Canal, including "80 Years Workin' on the Erie Canal" with Dr. David and Liz Beebe, co-founders of the Camillus Erie Canal Park. And of course, Franklin the Mule will be available to meet and get a picture with from 12:00-2:00 pm.

Northeast Jazz & Wine Festival
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Main Stage: Scholastic Festival
12:00 pm: Stan Colella Parks & Rec All-Stars
1:00 pm: Marcellus High School Jazz Ensemble

Main Stage: Battle of the Community Jazz Bands
2:00 pm: The Jazz Kats
3:00 pm: Tradewind
4:00 pm: Bevel

Main Stage: Evening Jazz
6:30-7:30 pm: Steve Wilson with the Noah Kellman Trio
8:15-9:15 pm: Urban Jazz Coalition
10:00-11:00 pm: Jessy J

Mardi Gras Pavilion
5:00-6:30 pm: Jeff Stockham's Jazz Police
7:30-8:15 pm: Jeff Stockham's Jazz Police
9:15-10:00 pm: Jeff Stockham's Jazz Police

World Beat Pavilion
1:00-4:00 pm: CNY Jazz Alumni Reunion
5:00-6:30 pm: Brownskin
7:30-8:15 pm: Brownskin
9:15-10:00 pm: Brownskin

Wise Guys Comedy Club
11:00 pm: Late Night Jam ($5 cover charge): E.S.P. with Noah Kellman

Blue Rain ECOfest

Price: Free
Stage of Nations
Hanover Square, Syracuse

11:30 am: Lacrosse Stick making exhibition Alfie Jacques
12:00-1:00 pm: Haudenosaunee Singers and dancers
1:15-2:30 pm: Los Blancos
2:45-3:45 pm: Haudenosaunee Singers and Dancers
4:00-5:30 pm: The Fabulous Ripcords
5:45-6:30 pm: Presentation of Iroquois Nationals by Oren Lyons
6:45-7:30 pm: Haudenosaunee Singers and Dancers
7:45-9:00 pm: JANA
9:15-10:30 pm: Joanne Shenandoah

The Three Little Princess Pigs
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Our own original, interactive, comedic version of the traditional three little pigs story, starring Mae-Mae, Dixie, and Priscilla Pig, who foil the big bad wolf with their combination of southern charm, and, of course, help from the children in the audience.

Circus Camp Performance
Open Hand Theater

Ed Smith Elementary School
Corner of Lancaster Ave. and Broad St., Syracuse

Seussical the Musical
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Daniel Mullarney, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Grease
The Talent Company

Price: $28 regular, $25 students/seniors, $20 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Talent Company salutes the rock 'n' roll era of the 1950s with its rollicking and raucous revival of the musical Grease. One of the longest-running Broadway hits ever, with two successful Broadway revivals, it's been over a decade since The Talent Company played its critically acclaimed version to sold out houses.

Come join the Rydell High spirited class of '59 with the super cool, hot-rod loving Burger Palace Boys with D.A.s and leather jackets and their gum chewing, hip-swinging Pink Ladies in poodle skirts and bobby sox as they sing and dance their way through the pajama party, the prom, the burger palace and the drive-in movie with hit songs Summer Nights, Freddy My Love, We Go Together, Greased Lightnin', Hopelessly Devoted To You, You're The One That I Want, Hand Jive and many more!

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

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

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

When Night Falls
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In its July offering, Szozda Gallery takes a different approach in featuring two young newcomers to the gallery, Cayetano Valenzuela and Isaac Bidwell, in a mounting of their works that are a little darker than most shown here.

"When Night Falls" is composed of oil paintings plus acrylic and ink paintings by Valenzuela and ink or digital drawings by Bidwell. Most pieces submitted by the two bear an aura of the mystique. Valenzuela explores ideas about death, magic and storytelling in America; Bidwell's newest series, "Skeleton Ladies" represent control, mortality, destruction and beauty.

Though new to Szozda Gallery and still young in their careers, the two local artists have earned acclaim in some notable exhibitions throughout Central New York and beyond. Valenzuela's credits include galleries in San Francisco, San Diego, St. Louis, San Antonio, Atlanta and Chicago. He has been published in several art and culture magazines including Baron Magazine (Canada), IDN the New Twenties and Small Press publication, Atlas. Bidwell's work has appeared in San Diego, Chicago, Long Beach, and New York City.

Fire and Water
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Vibrant new watercolors, acrylics, and gold leaf paintings by Kathleen Schneider and hot new sculptural glass jewelry by Heather Hennigan.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Soul Cages: An Exploration of Change, Time and Process
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibition showcases R. Jason Howard's flame-worked glass sculptures, ornaments and functional pieces.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

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.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

And the Whole Room Laughed
XL Projects

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

Work drawn from the collaborative writings of three artists is featured in the current exhibition, "And the Whole Room Laughed." The exhibit includes painting, drawing, sculpture and video by Ford Bostwick, a dual architecture and sculpture major at Syracuse University's School of Architecture and College of Visual and Performing Arts; Becky Reiser, a graduate sculpture student in VPA; and Alexander Svoboda, a dual sculpture and philosophy major in VPA and The College of Arts and Sciences.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Radiant Hues: Works by Therese Verley Strodel
Redhouse

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

Large-scale abstract paintings celebrate the use of color through myriad layering of acrylic paint.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Circle of Life Dancers
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Native American Circle of Life dancers will perform a native shawl dance in the museum as part of the Syracuse Arts and Crafts Festival and Arts Week.

Syracuse Arts and Crafts Festival

Price: Free
Columbus Circle
Jefferson and Montgomery Sts., Syracuse

This showcase by nearly 200 of the country's most talented artists, craftspeople, and entertainers presents an exceptionally wide selection of contemporary arts and crafts, ranging from functional to decorative. Both 2- and 3-dimensional works will be featured including ceramics, fabric and fiber, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, wood, painting, graphics, drawing, sculpture, and photography. Exhibitors participate from over 30 states and 4 countries.

Browse among the art and craft exhibits and enjoy a wide variety of music, multi-cultural performances, summer refreshments, and participatory activities.

There will be performances by Trio Los Arpegios, Colin Aberdeen, Syracuse Highland Pipe & Drums, Jane Zell, La Joven Gurdia Del Teatro Latino, Too Tall String Band, Biboti, Girls Night Out, the Joe and Jane Show throughout the festival.

Typewriter Poetry Gallery

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Come type a poem on an old-fashioned typewriter and make an artistic contribution to a gallery of poems written by Syracuse poets, young and old. Everyone is welcome! Drawing material will also be provided if you'd like to illustrate your work. A digital gallery of all poems will be posted online. Recent art work entitled "The Contemplation of Language" by Mark Povinelli will also be on exhibit. This event is brought to you by the StoreFront and the 40-Below Public Arts Task Force.

Syracuse Stories

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The documentary about last July's ArtsWeek Syracuse Stories Festival, "Syracuse Stories" by Courtney Rile, will be shown several times each day at the Downtown Writers' Center and the Erie Canal Museum. Come see how members of the CNY and Syracuse community shared their stories last summer. Stay for a story circle or tell your own Syracuse story. Contact syracusestories@gmail.com for more information.

Summer Workshop Performance
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse

Assumption Church
812 N. Salina St., Syracuse

The performance will feature works by Salamone Rossi (d. 1630), a Jewish-Italian contemporary of Monteverde, with selections from both his Hebrew liturgical music and his Italian madrigals.

The BlackLites, with special guest Bobby Green
Southwest Showcase Sunday

Price: Free
Spirit of Jubilee Park
South Ave. (100 Block), Syracuse

Alabama Shakes, with Jonny Corndawg, Simone Felice
Paper Mill Island

Paper Mill Island
Baldwinsville

Alabama Shakes, which Rolling Stone calls the "soulful young crew channels Aretha, Janis and Otis," lives up to the year-long buzz surrounding them and have now launched into mainstream success. Their April album release of "Boys & Girls" debuted at No. 8 on the US Billboard Top 200 chart and at No. 3 in the UK. They are making a splash with their spectacular live performance with headlining shows and slots at festivals all around the country.

Grease
The Talent Company

Price: $28 regular, $25 students/seniors, $20 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Talent Company salutes the rock 'n' roll era of the 1950s with its rollicking and raucous revival of the musical Grease. One of the longest-running Broadway hits ever, with two successful Broadway revivals, it's been over a decade since The Talent Company played its critically acclaimed version to sold out houses.

Come join the Rydell High spirited class of '59 with the super cool, hot-rod loving Burger Palace Boys with D.A.s and leather jackets and their gum chewing, hip-swinging Pink Ladies in poodle skirts and bobby sox as they sing and dance their way through the pajama party, the prom, the burger palace and the drive-in movie with hit songs Summer Nights, Freddy My Love, We Go Together, Greased Lightnin', Hopelessly Devoted To You, You're The One That I Want, Hand Jive and many more!

Seussical the Musical
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Daniel Mullarney, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Monday, July 30, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

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

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Fire and Water
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Vibrant new watercolors, acrylics, and gold leaf paintings by Kathleen Schneider and hot new sculptural glass jewelry by Heather Hennigan.

Soul Cages: An Exploration of Change, Time and Process
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibition showcases R. Jason Howard's flame-worked glass sculptures, ornaments and functional pieces.

Art by Virginia Vilchis

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

An exhibit of the dreamy, inward, otherworldly scapes by local artist Virginia Vilchis.

A native of Mexico, Vilchis received her associate's degree in fine arts from Onondaga Community College in 2009 and her bachelor's degree in fine arts from Syracuse University in 2011. She works in ceramics, oils, acrylics, and mixed media.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Fabulous Ripcords
Liverpool is the Place

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

Rockabilly

Into the Woods
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $20 regular, $10 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

When a Baker and his Wife learn they've been cursed with childlessness by the Witch next door, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell by swindling, lying to and stealing from Cinderella, Little Red, Rapunzel, and Jack (the one who climbed the beanstalk). What begins a lively irreverent fantasy becomes a moving lesson about community responsibility and the stories we tell our children. By Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

Natural Abstractions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Fernando Llosa: oil paintings, sumi ink drawings, stone assemblage
David Harper: wood and mixed media sculpture
Carol Ackles: ceramic bead jewelry

The Unexpected Journey: Works By Beverly McIver and How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our summer exhibition will feature acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and California-based weaver Spencer McClay. These two artists offer different and refreshing perspectives on disability.

"The Unexpected Journey: Works by Beverly McIver" is a selection of paintings that examine McIver's unpredictable relationship with her mentally disabled sister, Renee.

"How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay" is a collection of vibrant hand-woven wall sculptures by an artist with a unique vision and sensibility for the materials he uses.

Read a review!

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

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

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Fire and Water
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Vibrant new watercolors, acrylics, and gold leaf paintings by Kathleen Schneider and hot new sculptural glass jewelry by Heather Hennigan.

Soul Cages: An Exploration of Change, Time and Process
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibition showcases R. Jason Howard's flame-worked glass sculptures, ornaments and functional pieces.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

Portals of Perception: Works of Barry Grose
Echo

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

The series combines a mix of pure aesthetic floral beauty with subtle seduction. The paintings evoke mystery and curiosity with their strong glows of color that peer from the darkness.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Pops in the Park
Syracuse Parks Department

Price: Free
Upper Onondaga Park Gazebo
Roberts Avenue, Syracuse

Bring lawn chairs/blankets for seating. Gannon's ice cream will be available for purchase.

Teddy Geiger, with Ryan Coughlin, Jennings, Melanie Dewey
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

Natural Abstractions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Fernando Llosa: oil paintings, sumi ink drawings, stone assemblage
David Harper: wood and mixed media sculpture
Carol Ackles: ceramic bead jewelry

The Unexpected Journey: Works By Beverly McIver and How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our summer exhibition will feature acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and California-based weaver Spencer McClay. These two artists offer different and refreshing perspectives on disability.

"The Unexpected Journey: Works by Beverly McIver" is a selection of paintings that examine McIver's unpredictable relationship with her mentally disabled sister, Renee.

"How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay" is a collection of vibrant hand-woven wall sculptures by an artist with a unique vision and sensibility for the materials he uses.

Read a review!

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

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

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

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.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

Radiant Hues: Works by Therese Verley Strodel
Redhouse

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

Large-scale abstract paintings celebrate the use of color through myriad layering of acrylic paint.

When Night Falls
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In its July offering, Szozda Gallery takes a different approach in featuring two young newcomers to the gallery, Cayetano Valenzuela and Isaac Bidwell, in a mounting of their works that are a little darker than most shown here.

"When Night Falls" is composed of oil paintings plus acrylic and ink paintings by Valenzuela and ink or digital drawings by Bidwell. Most pieces submitted by the two bear an aura of the mystique. Valenzuela explores ideas about death, magic and storytelling in America; Bidwell's newest series, "Skeleton Ladies" represent control, mortality, destruction and beauty.

Though new to Szozda Gallery and still young in their careers, the two local artists have earned acclaim in some notable exhibitions throughout Central New York and beyond. Valenzuela's credits include galleries in San Francisco, San Diego, St. Louis, San Antonio, Atlanta and Chicago. He has been published in several art and culture magazines including Baron Magazine (Canada), IDN the New Twenties and Small Press publication, Atlas. Bidwell's work has appeared in San Diego, Chicago, Long Beach, and New York City.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

Portals of Perception: Works of Barry Grose
Echo

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

The series combines a mix of pure aesthetic floral beauty with subtle seduction. The paintings evoke mystery and curiosity with their strong glows of color that peer from the darkness.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Crazy Stupid Love
Flicks on the Crick

Price: Free
Sound Garden
310 W. Jefferson St., Syracuse

Starting at dusk, film will be projected on the side of Sound Garden's building. Blankets and lawn chairs are recommended.

For more information or to check for weather delays or cancellations, visit the Flicks on the Crick Facebook page

The AdVentures
Liverpool is the Place

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

Instrumental rock

New Riders of the Purple Sage, with Project Weather Machine
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

Natural Abstractions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Fernando Llosa: oil paintings, sumi ink drawings, stone assemblage
David Harper: wood and mixed media sculpture
Carol Ackles: ceramic bead jewelry

The Unexpected Journey: Works By Beverly McIver and How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our summer exhibition will feature acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and California-based weaver Spencer McClay. These two artists offer different and refreshing perspectives on disability.

"The Unexpected Journey: Works by Beverly McIver" is a selection of paintings that examine McIver's unpredictable relationship with her mentally disabled sister, Renee.

"How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay" is a collection of vibrant hand-woven wall sculptures by an artist with a unique vision and sensibility for the materials he uses.

Read a review!

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

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

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

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.

Radiant Hues: Works by Therese Verley Strodel
Redhouse

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

Large-scale abstract paintings celebrate the use of color through myriad layering of acrylic paint.

When Night Falls
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In its July offering, Szozda Gallery takes a different approach in featuring two young newcomers to the gallery, Cayetano Valenzuela and Isaac Bidwell, in a mounting of their works that are a little darker than most shown here.

"When Night Falls" is composed of oil paintings plus acrylic and ink paintings by Valenzuela and ink or digital drawings by Bidwell. Most pieces submitted by the two bear an aura of the mystique. Valenzuela explores ideas about death, magic and storytelling in America; Bidwell's newest series, "Skeleton Ladies" represent control, mortality, destruction and beauty.

Though new to Szozda Gallery and still young in their careers, the two local artists have earned acclaim in some notable exhibitions throughout Central New York and beyond. Valenzuela's credits include galleries in San Francisco, San Diego, St. Louis, San Antonio, Atlanta and Chicago. He has been published in several art and culture magazines including Baron Magazine (Canada), IDN the New Twenties and Small Press publication, Atlas. Bidwell's work has appeared in San Diego, Chicago, Long Beach, and New York City.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

And the Whole Room Laughed
XL Projects

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

Work drawn from the collaborative writings of three artists is featured in the current exhibition, "And the Whole Room Laughed." The exhibit includes painting, drawing, sculpture and video by Ford Bostwick, a dual architecture and sculpture major at Syracuse University's School of Architecture and College of Visual and Performing Arts; Becky Reiser, a graduate sculpture student in VPA; and Alexander Svoboda, a dual sculpture and philosophy major in VPA and The College of Arts and Sciences.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

UVP Annual Summer Review 2012
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This year's Annual Summer Review will feature all the past videos from the 2011-2012 programming year running together in a continuous loop. If you missed one of the past year's artists, now's your chance! On view will be works by Pae White, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, John Knecht, and William Wegman.

About Time Band

Price: Free
Lakeland Park
Alhadn Parkway, Solvay

Jazz in the City: The Blacklites
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Dunk & Bright lawn
2648 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Legendary Syracuse R'n'B outfit celebrating 40 years in the business. Also performing will be Imagine Syracuse African Drum & Dance Troupe and the Stan Colella All-Stars Soloists.

Bring blankets or lawn chairs for seating.

Yeasayer, with Daedelus
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Homestyle Homicide: The Freagan Family Reunion
Acme Mystery Company

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

Come a runnin', cousins, 'cause it's time again for the annual family reunion and the whole Freagan family is gonna be there! We're gonna have vittles, singin', hootin' and hollerin', and, of course, no family gatherin' would be complete without the annual pig-callin' contest! Dang! You might even win a big ol' slop bucket full of cash money! Yeehaw! Best watch yer step around the pig farm this year, though. Word is that Pa's been hittin' the moonshine a might too hard and is about to lose the farm to that no good snake, Beauregard Hogwallerin! When the girls find out, somebody could end up on the barbecue!

For reservations, phone 315-475-1807 or email syracuse@meatballs.com.

Seussical the Musical
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Daniel Mullarney, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Grease
The Talent Company

Price: $28 regular, $25 students/seniors, $20 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Talent Company salutes the rock 'n' roll era of the 1950s with its rollicking and raucous revival of the musical Grease. One of the longest-running Broadway hits ever, with two successful Broadway revivals, it's been over a decade since The Talent Company played its critically acclaimed version to sold out houses.

Come join the Rydell High spirited class of '59 with the super cool, hot-rod loving Burger Palace Boys with D.A.s and leather jackets and their gum chewing, hip-swinging Pink Ladies in poodle skirts and bobby sox as they sing and dance their way through the pajama party, the prom, the burger palace and the drive-in movie with hit songs Summer Nights, Freddy My Love, We Go Together, Greased Lightnin', Hopelessly Devoted To You, You're The One That I Want, Hand Jive and many more!

Friday, August 3, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

Natural Abstractions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Fernando Llosa: oil paintings, sumi ink drawings, stone assemblage
David Harper: wood and mixed media sculpture
Carol Ackles: ceramic bead jewelry

The Unexpected Journey: Works By Beverly McIver and How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our summer exhibition will feature acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and California-based weaver Spencer McClay. These two artists offer different and refreshing perspectives on disability.

"The Unexpected Journey: Works by Beverly McIver" is a selection of paintings that examine McIver's unpredictable relationship with her mentally disabled sister, Renee.

"How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay" is a collection of vibrant hand-woven wall sculptures by an artist with a unique vision and sensibility for the materials he uses.

Read a review!

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

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

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Precious Hues
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Precious Hues features Sharon Bottle Souva's colorful fiber art and Dana Blythe Stenson's fine metals and semi precious stone jewelry. Both artists pieces are inspired by nature and express their interpretation of the beauty found around us.

Visions of Skaneateles
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Visions of Skaneateles features watercolors by Lucie Wellner and photographs by James Peluso.

Wellner, of Pompey, has been painting with watercolors since 1997. Her work has been seen in some 30 exhibitions throughout the region.

Peluso, of Skaneateles, is owner of Alexandria Photography. His images in the show were "captured over a period of time, as I saw cool things when I was out and about in Skaneateles," he says.

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.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

Radiant Hues: Works by Therese Verley Strodel
Redhouse

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

Large-scale abstract paintings celebrate the use of color through myriad layering of acrylic paint.

When Night Falls
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In its July offering, Szozda Gallery takes a different approach in featuring two young newcomers to the gallery, Cayetano Valenzuela and Isaac Bidwell, in a mounting of their works that are a little darker than most shown here.

"When Night Falls" is composed of oil paintings plus acrylic and ink paintings by Valenzuela and ink or digital drawings by Bidwell. Most pieces submitted by the two bear an aura of the mystique. Valenzuela explores ideas about death, magic and storytelling in America; Bidwell's newest series, "Skeleton Ladies" represent control, mortality, destruction and beauty.

Though new to Szozda Gallery and still young in their careers, the two local artists have earned acclaim in some notable exhibitions throughout Central New York and beyond. Valenzuela's credits include galleries in San Francisco, San Diego, St. Louis, San Antonio, Atlanta and Chicago. He has been published in several art and culture magazines including Baron Magazine (Canada), IDN the New Twenties and Small Press publication, Atlas. Bidwell's work has appeared in San Diego, Chicago, Long Beach, and New York City.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

And the Whole Room Laughed
XL Projects

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

Work drawn from the collaborative writings of three artists is featured in the current exhibition, "And the Whole Room Laughed." The exhibit includes painting, drawing, sculpture and video by Ford Bostwick, a dual architecture and sculpture major at Syracuse University's School of Architecture and College of Visual and Performing Arts; Becky Reiser, a graduate sculpture student in VPA; and Alexander Svoboda, a dual sculpture and philosophy major in VPA and The College of Arts and Sciences.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

UVP Annual Summer Review 2012
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This year's Annual Summer Review will feature all the past videos from the 2011-2012 programming year running together in a continuous loop. If you missed one of the past year's artists, now's your chance! On view will be works by Pae White, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, John Knecht, and William Wegman.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Skaneateles Community Band
Philip Krasicky, conductor

Price: Free
Clift Park
Genesee St., Skaneateles

Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating.

*CANCELLED* Bela Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio
Paper Mill Island

Price: $25
Paper Mill Island
Baldwinsville

Bela Fleck is often considered the premier banjo player in the world. A New York City native, he picked up the banjo at age 15 after being awed by the bluegrass music of Flatt & Scruggs. While still in high school he began experimenting with playing bebop jazz on his banjo, mentored by fellow banjo renegade Tony Trischka. In 1980, he released his first solo album, "Crossing The Tracks," with material that ranged from straight ahead bluegrass to Chick Corea's "Spain." There are some who say he's the premiere banjo player in the world; others claim that Béla has virtually reinvented the image and the sound of the banjo through a remarkable performing and recording career that has taken him all over the musical map and on a range of solo projects and collaborations. The recipient of 11 Grammy awards going back to 1998, and 27 nominations, Béla Fleck has been nominated in more different categories than anyone in Grammy history.

Marcus Roberts is a Grammy-nominated jazz pianist who uses early ragtime, blues, and New Orleans jazz influences combined with virtuosic Harlem styles to create an entirely new sound. After losing his sight at age five, he began teaching himself to play piano a few years later. While at Florida State, Roberts won the first of many competitions and awards garnered over the years. At age 21, he began touring with Wynton Marsalis and stayed for over six years. Roberts has developed an approach to piano that encompasses just about every development in mainstream jazz history. What makes him such a significant musician is that he's translated his ambitious concept into a group setting with his long-time trio featuring bassist Roland Guerin and drummer Kason Marsalis. Their trio brings an innovative approach to the musical influences of Ellington, Joplin, Monk, and Fats Waller.

Seussical the Musical
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Daniel Mullarney, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Dirty Dancing Experience
Redhouse

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

A completely original interactive experience in front of a screening of everyone's favorite, Dirty Dancing. Actors from the Adirondack Lakes Arts Center's professional acting company will perform songs, scenes and dancing alongside the movie all while inviting the audience to participate in various numbers and scenes. Audience participation kits will be sold at the door containing the lyrics to "Time of your Life," "Kellerman's Anthem," steps to the Cha Cha, and more. So join us at the Redhouse for an unforgettable "Time of your Life"!

Grease
The Talent Company

Price: $28 regular, $25 students/seniors, $20 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Talent Company salutes the rock 'n' roll era of the 1950s with its rollicking and raucous revival of the musical Grease. One of the longest-running Broadway hits ever, with two successful Broadway revivals, it's been over a decade since The Talent Company played its critically acclaimed version to sold out houses.

Come join the Rydell High spirited class of '59 with the super cool, hot-rod loving Burger Palace Boys with D.A.s and leather jackets and their gum chewing, hip-swinging Pink Ladies in poodle skirts and bobby sox as they sing and dance their way through the pajama party, the prom, the burger palace and the drive-in movie with hit songs Summer Nights, Freddy My Love, We Go Together, Greased Lightnin', Hopelessly Devoted To You, You're The One That I Want, Hand Jive and many more!

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Natural Abstractions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Fernando Llosa: oil paintings, sumi ink drawings, stone assemblage
David Harper: wood and mixed media sculpture
Carol Ackles: ceramic bead jewelry

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

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

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

Precious Hues
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Precious Hues features Sharon Bottle Souva's colorful fiber art and Dana Blythe Stenson's fine metals and semi precious stone jewelry. Both artists pieces are inspired by nature and express their interpretation of the beauty found around us.

Visions of Skaneateles
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Visions of Skaneateles features watercolors by Lucie Wellner and photographs by James Peluso.

Wellner, of Pompey, has been painting with watercolors since 1997. Her work has been seen in some 30 exhibitions throughout the region.

Peluso, of Skaneateles, is owner of Alexandria Photography. His images in the show were "captured over a period of time, as I saw cool things when I was out and about in Skaneateles," he says.

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

Radiant Hues: Works by Therese Verley Strodel
Redhouse

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

Large-scale abstract paintings celebrate the use of color through myriad layering of acrylic paint.

When Night Falls
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In its July offering, Szozda Gallery takes a different approach in featuring two young newcomers to the gallery, Cayetano Valenzuela and Isaac Bidwell, in a mounting of their works that are a little darker than most shown here.

"When Night Falls" is composed of oil paintings plus acrylic and ink paintings by Valenzuela and ink or digital drawings by Bidwell. Most pieces submitted by the two bear an aura of the mystique. Valenzuela explores ideas about death, magic and storytelling in America; Bidwell's newest series, "Skeleton Ladies" represent control, mortality, destruction and beauty.

Though new to Szozda Gallery and still young in their careers, the two local artists have earned acclaim in some notable exhibitions throughout Central New York and beyond. Valenzuela's credits include galleries in San Francisco, San Diego, St. Louis, San Antonio, Atlanta and Chicago. He has been published in several art and culture magazines including Baron Magazine (Canada), IDN the New Twenties and Small Press publication, Atlas. Bidwell's work has appeared in San Diego, Chicago, Long Beach, and New York City.

The Unexpected Journey: Works By Beverly McIver and How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our summer exhibition will feature acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and California-based weaver Spencer McClay. These two artists offer different and refreshing perspectives on disability.

"The Unexpected Journey: Works by Beverly McIver" is a selection of paintings that examine McIver's unpredictable relationship with her mentally disabled sister, Renee.

"How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay" is a collection of vibrant hand-woven wall sculptures by an artist with a unique vision and sensibility for the materials he uses.

Read a review!

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

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.

And the Whole Room Laughed
XL Projects

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

Work drawn from the collaborative writings of three artists is featured in the current exhibition, "And the Whole Room Laughed." The exhibit includes painting, drawing, sculpture and video by Ford Bostwick, a dual architecture and sculpture major at Syracuse University's School of Architecture and College of Visual and Performing Arts; Becky Reiser, a graduate sculpture student in VPA; and Alexander Svoboda, a dual sculpture and philosophy major in VPA and The College of Arts and Sciences.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

UVP Annual Summer Review 2012
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This year's Annual Summer Review will feature all the past videos from the 2011-2012 programming year running together in a continuous loop. If you missed one of the past year's artists, now's your chance! On view will be works by Pae White, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, John Knecht, and William Wegman.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Ryan Montbleau Band, Big Eyed Phish (DMB tribute), with Dark Hollow (Grateful Dead tribute), Steep & The Boatmen
Paper Mill Island

Paper Mill Island
Baldwinsville

Seussical the Musical
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Daniel Mullarney, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Grease
The Talent Company

Price: $28 regular, $25 students/seniors, $20 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Talent Company salutes the rock 'n' roll era of the 1950s with its rollicking and raucous revival of the musical Grease. One of the longest-running Broadway hits ever, with two successful Broadway revivals, it's been over a decade since The Talent Company played its critically acclaimed version to sold out houses.

Come join the Rydell High spirited class of '59 with the super cool, hot-rod loving Burger Palace Boys with D.A.s and leather jackets and their gum chewing, hip-swinging Pink Ladies in poodle skirts and bobby sox as they sing and dance their way through the pajama party, the prom, the burger palace and the drive-in movie with hit songs Summer Nights, Freddy My Love, We Go Together, Greased Lightnin', Hopelessly Devoted To You, You're The One That I Want, Hand Jive and many more!