Monday, October 28, 2013

The Wisest Man Series: The Irish Language Through Time
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit featuring subtle speech and images from the Blasket Islands to Tipperary Hill by John Francis McCarthy.

For more information, call 315-445-4153. Co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Irish Literature Program.

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Louise Woodard's exhibit is a record of her investigation and discoveries in nature. It is an attempt through representation and design to communicate to others her visual and imaginative impressions. Certain images are depicted as the original subject; some parts are excluded; some enhanced, with the purpose of creating new visuals. The exhibit includes original watercolor paintings and drawings.

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement: My work is an attempt to illustrate transcendence. I believe that repetition is the foundation of clarity. The use of repeated patterns in my work serves the same function that a mantra does in meditation. The techniques I employ, screenprinting and non-traditional paint application, give the work the appearance of mechanical reproduction. The diminished evidence of the human hand creates a visual purity.

Kevin Mullins was born in Oklahoma and raised in New York. He received a A.A.S. in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina and completed a Master's Program in Printmaking at the Cheksea School of Art, London, England with graduate studies at Bariff School of Fine Art, Canada and the Institute Allende, Mexico. Mullins spent five years at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, leaving practice.

Mullins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship and grants from the Brandywine Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, the Wuritzer Foundation, Taos, NM and the New York State Arts Council. In 2003 he was an Artist-in-Residence at Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Japan.

Our World through Local Art
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

A group exhibition that celebrates our world through the art of five talented Syracuse-area based artists: Domenico Gigante, Shailesh Joshi, Ty Marshal, Wendy Pitoniak, and Clare Willson.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Mixed media works. Listen to the stories. Become a part of the tale. Find the magic within you.

From the Earth: New Works in Wood and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

The Syracuse Poster Project, established in 2001, brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the city's poster panels. Each year they produce 16 art posters, each featuring an illustrated poem about the downtown, the city, or the nearby countryside. The Project enlivens the city, builds community, and spreads its value by selling poster prints and poster-related products.

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Charles Barton. Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Glenn Strange, Lenore Aubert.

Universal's classic combination of comedy and genuine horror finds Bud and Lou tangling with Dracula (Lugosi), the Wolf Man (Chaney), and Frankenstein's Monster (Strange). A well-done special treat for our Halloween show!

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The Wisest Man Series: The Irish Language Through Time
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit featuring subtle speech and images from the Blasket Islands to Tipperary Hill by John Francis McCarthy.

For more information, call 315-445-4153. Co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Irish Literature Program.

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Louise Woodard's exhibit is a record of her investigation and discoveries in nature. It is an attempt through representation and design to communicate to others her visual and imaginative impressions. Certain images are depicted as the original subject; some parts are excluded; some enhanced, with the purpose of creating new visuals. The exhibit includes original watercolor paintings and drawings.

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement: My work is an attempt to illustrate transcendence. I believe that repetition is the foundation of clarity. The use of repeated patterns in my work serves the same function that a mantra does in meditation. The techniques I employ, screenprinting and non-traditional paint application, give the work the appearance of mechanical reproduction. The diminished evidence of the human hand creates a visual purity.

Kevin Mullins was born in Oklahoma and raised in New York. He received a A.A.S. in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina and completed a Master's Program in Printmaking at the Cheksea School of Art, London, England with graduate studies at Bariff School of Fine Art, Canada and the Institute Allende, Mexico. Mullins spent five years at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, leaving practice.

Mullins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship and grants from the Brandywine Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, the Wuritzer Foundation, Taos, NM and the New York State Arts Council. In 2003 he was an Artist-in-Residence at Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Japan.

Re-emergence
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Recent work by Michael Teres, professor in the Art Department at SUNY Geneseo. Works on exhibit are photographs that have been highly manipulated using Adobe Photoshop.

Our World through Local Art
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

A group exhibition that celebrates our world through the art of five talented Syracuse-area based artists: Domenico Gigante, Shailesh Joshi, Ty Marshal, Wendy Pitoniak, and Clare Willson.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Mixed media works. Listen to the stories. Become a part of the tale. Find the magic within you.

Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

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

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

Read a review!

From the Earth: New Works in Wood and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

The Syracuse Poster Project, established in 2001, brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the city's poster panels. Each year they produce 16 art posters, each featuring an illustrated poem about the downtown, the city, or the nearby countryside. The Project enlivens the city, builds community, and spreads its value by selling poster prints and poster-related products.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

Using blood collected from a slaughterhouse as his primary medium, the artist explores ideas about transformation, death, and rebirth. Jordan Eagles encases the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin panels; mounted on the gallery walls they create a sublime environment that envelops and engages the viewer. The exhibition title, "Red Giant," refers to a luminous giant star in its final phase of stellar evolution—what our Sun will become in five billion years—while also referencing the intense, potent color of blood. The abstract patterns and forms in the works may suggest internal organs as well as cosmological phenomena like solar storms, sunspots, craters, meteorites, and supernova explosions.

Eagles' works are in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Everson Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Causey Contemporary and Krause Gallery, New York; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.He has been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, L'Uomo Vogue, Architectural Digest and Wired.

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The Art of Video Games
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Part of a ten-city national tour, "The Art of Video Games" is one of the first major exhibitions to explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking graphics, creative storytelling, and player interactivity. The exhibition features some of the most influential artists and designers across five eras of game development, from early pioneers to contemporary designers. Video games use player participation to tell stories and engage audiences. In the same way as film, animation and performance, video games are a compelling and influential form of narrative art.

"The Art of Video Games" focuses on the interplay of graphics, technology and storytelling through some of the best games for 20 gaming systems ranging from the Atari VCS to the PlayStation 3. The exhibition features 80 video games that demonstrate the evolution of the medium. The games are presented through still images and video footage. In addition, the galleries include video interviews with developers and artists, historic game consoles and large prints of in-game screen shots.

New technologies allow designers to create increasingly interactive and sophisticated game environments while staying grounded in traditional game types. Five featured games, one from each era, are available in the exhibition galleries for visitors to play for a few minutes, to gain some feel for the interactivity. The playable gamesPac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst and Flowershow how players interact with the virtual worlds, highlighting innovative new techniques that set the standard for many subsequent games.

Visitors to the exhibition are greeted by excerpts from selected games projected 12 feet high, accompanied by a chipmusic soundtrack by 8 Bit Weapon and ComputeHer, including "The Art of Video Games Anthem" recorded by 8 Bit Weapon specifically for the exhibition. These multimedia elements convey the excitement and complexity of the featured video games. An interior gallery includes a series of short videos showing the range of emotional responses players have while interacting with games. Excerpts from interviews with 20 influential figures in the gaming world also are presented in the galleries.

Read a review!

Between the Spaces: Works by Cecile Gray Bazelon
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Distinguished artist and alumna Cecile Gray Bazelon's work has been described as surreal, Precisionist and hard-edged, as well as elegant and dislocating. A defining aesthetic in her paintings is the stylistic manipulation of space; she often uses wide-angle perspective to delineate her many images of the New York skyline, resulting in a striking series of conceptual viewpoints.

"Between the Spaces" was developed by graduate students enrolled in the "Advanced Curatorship" course in the graduate museum studies program in VPA's Department of Design, under the guidance of Professor Edward A. Aiken. The students also acted as associate curators.

Jeffrey Eugenides
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

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

A Pulitzer Prize winner whose works have been adapted into major motion pictures including Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides and the 2010 romantic comedy The Switch.

Krewella, with Seven Lions, Candyland
Creative Concerts

Price: $9.99-$34.94
F Shed at The Regional Market
2100 Park St., Syracuse

Tickets available online.

Guest Artist Series: Villiers Quartet
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Works by Britten, Ades, and Elgar.

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

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

The Wisest Man Series: The Irish Language Through Time
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit featuring subtle speech and images from the Blasket Islands to Tipperary Hill by John Francis McCarthy.

For more information, call 315-445-4153. Co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Irish Literature Program.

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Louise Woodard's exhibit is a record of her investigation and discoveries in nature. It is an attempt through representation and design to communicate to others her visual and imaginative impressions. Certain images are depicted as the original subject; some parts are excluded; some enhanced, with the purpose of creating new visuals. The exhibit includes original watercolor paintings and drawings.

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement: My work is an attempt to illustrate transcendence. I believe that repetition is the foundation of clarity. The use of repeated patterns in my work serves the same function that a mantra does in meditation. The techniques I employ, screenprinting and non-traditional paint application, give the work the appearance of mechanical reproduction. The diminished evidence of the human hand creates a visual purity.

Kevin Mullins was born in Oklahoma and raised in New York. He received a A.A.S. in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina and completed a Master's Program in Printmaking at the Cheksea School of Art, London, England with graduate studies at Bariff School of Fine Art, Canada and the Institute Allende, Mexico. Mullins spent five years at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, leaving practice.

Mullins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship and grants from the Brandywine Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, the Wuritzer Foundation, Taos, NM and the New York State Arts Council. In 2003 he was an Artist-in-Residence at Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Japan.

Re-emergence
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Recent work by Michael Teres, professor in the Art Department at SUNY Geneseo. Works on exhibit are photographs that have been highly manipulated using Adobe Photoshop.

Our World through Local Art
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

A group exhibition that celebrates our world through the art of five talented Syracuse-area based artists: Domenico Gigante, Shailesh Joshi, Ty Marshal, Wendy Pitoniak, and Clare Willson.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Mixed media works. Listen to the stories. Become a part of the tale. Find the magic within you.

Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

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

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

Read a review!

From the Earth: New Works in Wood and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

The Syracuse Poster Project, established in 2001, brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the city's poster panels. Each year they produce 16 art posters, each featuring an illustrated poem about the downtown, the city, or the nearby countryside. The Project enlivens the city, builds community, and spreads its value by selling poster prints and poster-related products.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

The Art of Video Games
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Part of a ten-city national tour, "The Art of Video Games" is one of the first major exhibitions to explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking graphics, creative storytelling, and player interactivity. The exhibition features some of the most influential artists and designers across five eras of game development, from early pioneers to contemporary designers. Video games use player participation to tell stories and engage audiences. In the same way as film, animation and performance, video games are a compelling and influential form of narrative art.

"The Art of Video Games" focuses on the interplay of graphics, technology and storytelling through some of the best games for 20 gaming systems ranging from the Atari VCS to the PlayStation 3. The exhibition features 80 video games that demonstrate the evolution of the medium. The games are presented through still images and video footage. In addition, the galleries include video interviews with developers and artists, historic game consoles and large prints of in-game screen shots.

New technologies allow designers to create increasingly interactive and sophisticated game environments while staying grounded in traditional game types. Five featured games, one from each era, are available in the exhibition galleries for visitors to play for a few minutes, to gain some feel for the interactivity. The playable gamesPac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst and Flowershow how players interact with the virtual worlds, highlighting innovative new techniques that set the standard for many subsequent games.

Visitors to the exhibition are greeted by excerpts from selected games projected 12 feet high, accompanied by a chipmusic soundtrack by 8 Bit Weapon and ComputeHer, including "The Art of Video Games Anthem" recorded by 8 Bit Weapon specifically for the exhibition. These multimedia elements convey the excitement and complexity of the featured video games. An interior gallery includes a series of short videos showing the range of emotional responses players have while interacting with games. Excerpts from interviews with 20 influential figures in the gaming world also are presented in the galleries.

Read a review!

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

Using blood collected from a slaughterhouse as his primary medium, the artist explores ideas about transformation, death, and rebirth. Jordan Eagles encases the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin panels; mounted on the gallery walls they create a sublime environment that envelops and engages the viewer. The exhibition title, "Red Giant," refers to a luminous giant star in its final phase of stellar evolution—what our Sun will become in five billion years—while also referencing the intense, potent color of blood. The abstract patterns and forms in the works may suggest internal organs as well as cosmological phenomena like solar storms, sunspots, craters, meteorites, and supernova explosions.

Eagles' works are in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Everson Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Causey Contemporary and Krause Gallery, New York; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.He has been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, L'Uomo Vogue, Architectural Digest and Wired.

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FULL
XL Projects

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

FULL is an exhibition of work by 13 sculpture students in the Department of Art who each produced 70 sculptures.

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

Between the Spaces: Works by Cecile Gray Bazelon
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:30-7:00 pm.

Distinguished artist and alumna Cecile Gray Bazelon's work has been described as surreal, Precisionist and hard-edged, as well as elegant and dislocating. A defining aesthetic in her paintings is the stylistic manipulation of space; she often uses wide-angle perspective to delineate her many images of the New York skyline, resulting in a striking series of conceptual viewpoints.

"Between the Spaces" was developed by graduate students enrolled in the "Advanced Curatorship" course in the graduate museum studies program in VPA's Department of Design, under the guidance of Professor Edward A. Aiken. The students also acted as associate curators.

Nourish: An Exploration of Consumption
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

With an overabundance of food, we are a culture obsessed with our next meal. The harsh reality is that much of the food produced goes to waste while others still go hungry at night. For this exhibition, the artists will explore the differing ways that people choose to nourish themselves and how it is reflective of who we are as a society and as an individual. The participating artists are Cynthia Herrera, Marisa Jahn and Steve Shada, Tattfoo Tan, various artists from the Hudson Valley Seed Library, and Viviane Le Courtois.

Halloween Fright Night Series: Frankenstein (1931) and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Price: $5
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tickets can be purchased at the door an hour before showtimes or by calling 315-475-7979.

Halloween Fright Night Series: Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Price: $5
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tickets can be purchased at the door an hour before showtimes or by calling 315-475-7979.

Aimless Love: New and Selected Poetry with Billy Collins
University Lectures

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Billy Collins is an American phenomenon. No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal. His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review and The American Scholar, and he is a Guggenheim fellow and a New York Public Library "Literary Lion."

The typical Collins poem opens on a clear and hospitable note but soon takes an unexpected turn; poems that begin in irony may end in a moment of lyric surprise. Collins sees his poetry as "a form of travel writing" and considers humor "a door into the serious."

Collins has published nine collections of poetry, including "Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, Picnic, Lightning, Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New & Selected Poems, Nine Horses, The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems, Ballistics, and most recently, Horoscopes for the Dead. A collection of his haiku, titled She Was Just Seventeen, was published by Modern Haiku Press in fall 2006. He also edited two anthologies of contemporary poetry: Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Everyday, was the guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2006, and edited Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems about Birds, with paintings by David Allen Sibley. His next book, Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems 2003–2013, was released in March.

Included among the honors Collins has received are fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has also been awarded the Oscar Blumenthal Prize, the Bess Hokin Prize, the Frederick Bock Prize, and the Levinson Prize — all awarded by Poetry magazine. In October 2004, Collins was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Poetry Foundation's Mark Twain Award for Humor in Poetry.

Collins was the United States Poet Laureate 2001-2003. He was New York State Poet Laureate 2004-2006. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York, as well as a Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute at Rollins College.

Gregory Wood, cello; Robert Auler, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Cello and piano music commemorating Benjamin Britten's 100th birthday.

Redhouse Idol
Redhouse

Redhouse Cafe
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Redhouse and the Redhouse Café are thrilled to bring back Redhouse Idol! The winner of this four-week performance competition will win free recording time at SubCat Studios.

The competition begins on 10/30, and continues on consecutive Wednesday nights. Each night, six soloists will perform in Redhouse Café. At the end of the night, the audience will vote for their favorite performers and the top two will be invited to the finals on 11/20.

The finals will be decided upon by three judges and the winner will receive free recording time in SubCat Studios.

To sign up, email rachel@theredhouse.org with the performer's name, the song selection, and whether they will bring an accompanist or will need a karaoke track.

Guest Artist Series: Aaron Tan, organ, Poister Competition Winner
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Works will include the music of Francis Jackson, Edward Bairstow, J.S. Bach, Joseph Bonnet, and Max Reger.

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

The 3rd Annual Westcott Halloween Extravaganza: Infected Mushroom, with Zomboy, Ridiculous Nights
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Scorched
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

An epic mystery that has captivated and stunned audiences around the globe. After their mother's death, twins Janine and Simon, guided by letters the mother has left each, travel to the Middle East to untangle family roots entwined in a war-ravaged past. A play of raw power and poetic resonance, the Syracuse Stage production will feature original music by the world renowned Kronos Quartet. Written by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau.

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

The Wisest Man Series: The Irish Language Through Time
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit featuring subtle speech and images from the Blasket Islands to Tipperary Hill by John Francis McCarthy.

For more information, call 315-445-4153. Co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Irish Literature Program.

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Louise Woodard's exhibit is a record of her investigation and discoveries in nature. It is an attempt through representation and design to communicate to others her visual and imaginative impressions. Certain images are depicted as the original subject; some parts are excluded; some enhanced, with the purpose of creating new visuals. The exhibit includes original watercolor paintings and drawings.

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement: My work is an attempt to illustrate transcendence. I believe that repetition is the foundation of clarity. The use of repeated patterns in my work serves the same function that a mantra does in meditation. The techniques I employ, screenprinting and non-traditional paint application, give the work the appearance of mechanical reproduction. The diminished evidence of the human hand creates a visual purity.

Kevin Mullins was born in Oklahoma and raised in New York. He received a A.A.S. in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina and completed a Master's Program in Printmaking at the Cheksea School of Art, London, England with graduate studies at Bariff School of Fine Art, Canada and the Institute Allende, Mexico. Mullins spent five years at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, leaving practice.

Mullins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship and grants from the Brandywine Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, the Wuritzer Foundation, Taos, NM and the New York State Arts Council. In 2003 he was an Artist-in-Residence at Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Japan.

Re-emergence
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Recent work by Michael Teres, professor in the Art Department at SUNY Geneseo. Works on exhibit are photographs that have been highly manipulated using Adobe Photoshop.

Our World through Local Art
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

A group exhibition that celebrates our world through the art of five talented Syracuse-area based artists: Domenico Gigante, Shailesh Joshi, Ty Marshal, Wendy Pitoniak, and Clare Willson.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Mixed media works. Listen to the stories. Become a part of the tale. Find the magic within you.

Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

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

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

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From the Earth: New Works in Wood and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

The Syracuse Poster Project, established in 2001, brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the city's poster panels. Each year they produce 16 art posters, each featuring an illustrated poem about the downtown, the city, or the nearby countryside. The Project enlivens the city, builds community, and spreads its value by selling poster prints and poster-related products.

All Creatures Great and Small
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

All Creatures Great and Small will feature artwork that incorporates animals into the form and/or surface of ceramic vessels and sculptures, and as subject matter of paintings, photographs and prints. Participating artists include Fredrick Bartolovic and Michelle Strader, Shanna Fliegel, Bob Gates, Steven Godfrey, Tom Huff, Ron Meyers, Hannah Niswonger, Brooke Noble, Donnalee Peden, Matt Smith, Stacy Stanhope, and Lucie Wellner.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

Using blood collected from a slaughterhouse as his primary medium, the artist explores ideas about transformation, death, and rebirth. Jordan Eagles encases the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin panels; mounted on the gallery walls they create a sublime environment that envelops and engages the viewer. The exhibition title, "Red Giant," refers to a luminous giant star in its final phase of stellar evolution—what our Sun will become in five billion years—while also referencing the intense, potent color of blood. The abstract patterns and forms in the works may suggest internal organs as well as cosmological phenomena like solar storms, sunspots, craters, meteorites, and supernova explosions.

Eagles' works are in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Everson Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Causey Contemporary and Krause Gallery, New York; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.He has been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, L'Uomo Vogue, Architectural Digest and Wired.

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The Art of Video Games
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Part of a ten-city national tour, "The Art of Video Games" is one of the first major exhibitions to explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking graphics, creative storytelling, and player interactivity. The exhibition features some of the most influential artists and designers across five eras of game development, from early pioneers to contemporary designers. Video games use player participation to tell stories and engage audiences. In the same way as film, animation and performance, video games are a compelling and influential form of narrative art.

"The Art of Video Games" focuses on the interplay of graphics, technology and storytelling through some of the best games for 20 gaming systems ranging from the Atari VCS to the PlayStation 3. The exhibition features 80 video games that demonstrate the evolution of the medium. The games are presented through still images and video footage. In addition, the galleries include video interviews with developers and artists, historic game consoles and large prints of in-game screen shots.

New technologies allow designers to create increasingly interactive and sophisticated game environments while staying grounded in traditional game types. Five featured games, one from each era, are available in the exhibition galleries for visitors to play for a few minutes, to gain some feel for the interactivity. The playable gamesPac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst and Flowershow how players interact with the virtual worlds, highlighting innovative new techniques that set the standard for many subsequent games.

Visitors to the exhibition are greeted by excerpts from selected games projected 12 feet high, accompanied by a chipmusic soundtrack by 8 Bit Weapon and ComputeHer, including "The Art of Video Games Anthem" recorded by 8 Bit Weapon specifically for the exhibition. These multimedia elements convey the excitement and complexity of the featured video games. An interior gallery includes a series of short videos showing the range of emotional responses players have while interacting with games. Excerpts from interviews with 20 influential figures in the gaming world also are presented in the galleries.

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FULL
XL Projects

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

FULL is an exhibition of work by 13 sculpture students in the Department of Art who each produced 70 sculptures.

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

Between the Spaces: Works by Cecile Gray Bazelon
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Distinguished artist and alumna Cecile Gray Bazelon's work has been described as surreal, Precisionist and hard-edged, as well as elegant and dislocating. A defining aesthetic in her paintings is the stylistic manipulation of space; she often uses wide-angle perspective to delineate her many images of the New York skyline, resulting in a striking series of conceptual viewpoints.

"Between the Spaces" was developed by graduate students enrolled in the "Advanced Curatorship" course in the graduate museum studies program in VPA's Department of Design, under the guidance of Professor Edward A. Aiken. The students also acted as associate curators.

Nourish: An Exploration of Consumption
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

With an overabundance of food, we are a culture obsessed with our next meal. The harsh reality is that much of the food produced goes to waste while others still go hungry at night. For this exhibition, the artists will explore the differing ways that people choose to nourish themselves and how it is reflective of who we are as a society and as an individual. The participating artists are Cynthia Herrera, Marisa Jahn and Steve Shada, Tattfoo Tan, various artists from the Hudson Valley Seed Library, and Viviane Le Courtois.

Film Screenings: Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound and Rebecca
Syracuse University Belfer Audio Archive at 50

Price: Free
Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Introduced by Nathan Platte of the University of Iowa.

For more information, visit library.syr.edu/belfer/programs/belferat50.

Halloween Fright Night Series: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Price: $5
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tickets can be purchased at the door an hour before showtimes or by calling 315-475-7979.

*SOLD OUT* Moonshine Movie Madness: Hocus Pocus Experience
Redhouse

Price: $20 regular, $15 members (includes one drink)
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Enjoy this comedy/horror classic film about three witches in Salem on Halloween night who are up to no good. There will be live performers and audience participation required! And we should mention, there will be drag!

This is a family friendly event, and both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks will be offered for the free drink. Come in costume (or don't) and bring the whole family and all of your friends!

Halloween Fright Night Series: The Shining (1980)

Price: $5
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tickets can be purchased at the door an hour before showtimes or by calling 315-475-7979.

Opening Lecture: Sound, Memory, and the Psychoanalytic Century
Syracuse University Belfer Audio Archive at 50

Price: Free
Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Paul Théberge, Carleton University, and Stephen Meyer, Syracuse University

Guest Artist Series: Boston Brass
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

For 26 years, Boston Brass has set out to establish a one-of-a-kind musical experience. From exciting classical arrangements to burning jazz standards and the best of the original brass quintet repertoire, Boston Brass treats audiences to a unique brand of entertainment, which captivates all ages.

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

Turkuaz
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Low Noon
Acme Mystery Company

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

Welcome to Hadleyville, the most lawless place in the whole Territory of New Mexico. What makes this place so bad? Why, that would be you, pardner, and all the other low-down snakes that live here. Problem is that Statehood is coming and the Federales are looking to pull this place right out from under you. The undertaker, Ewell Dye, has called a town meeting at the Ramirez Saloon to figure out what to do. Watch your back, buckaroo. Folks are about to get even nastier.

Scorched
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

There will be a Happy Hour with half price drinks and complimentary snacks preceding this evening's performance.

An epic mystery that has captivated and stunned audiences around the globe. After their mother's death, twins Janine and Simon, guided by letters the mother has left each, travel to the Middle East to untangle family roots entwined in a war-ravaged past. A play of raw power and poetic resonance, the Syracuse Stage production will feature original music by the world renowned Kronos Quartet. Written by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau.

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Vampire Lesbians of Sodom
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

One of the longest running plays in Off-Broadway history, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, by Charles Busch, tells the saga of two fatally seductive vampiresses whose paths first collide in ancient Sodom. Their bitter rivalry as bloodsuckers but more importantly, as actresses, endures for two thousand years with stops along the way in 1920s silent movie Hollywood and contemporary Las Vegas. Mature audiences (18+) only.

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Friday, November 1, 2013

The Wisest Man Series: The Irish Language Through Time
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit featuring subtle speech and images from the Blasket Islands to Tipperary Hill by John Francis McCarthy.

For more information, call 315-445-4153. Co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Irish Literature Program.

Works by Dan Shanahan
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Dan's work includes cartoons and portraits drawn from life. He fills in the background of many of his drawings with imaginary action scenes or whatever comes to mind, including but not limited to robots, cars, spiders and sound effects. Dan's media of choice are pastel, ink and watercolor. His sources of inspiration are kids' book illustrations, old cartoons and comics, and vague memories from past lives.

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement: My work is an attempt to illustrate transcendence. I believe that repetition is the foundation of clarity. The use of repeated patterns in my work serves the same function that a mantra does in meditation. The techniques I employ, screenprinting and non-traditional paint application, give the work the appearance of mechanical reproduction. The diminished evidence of the human hand creates a visual purity.

Kevin Mullins was born in Oklahoma and raised in New York. He received a A.A.S. in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina and completed a Master's Program in Printmaking at the Cheksea School of Art, London, England with graduate studies at Bariff School of Fine Art, Canada and the Institute Allende, Mexico. Mullins spent five years at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, leaving practice.

Mullins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship and grants from the Brandywine Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, the Wuritzer Foundation, Taos, NM and the New York State Arts Council. In 2003 he was an Artist-in-Residence at Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Japan.

Re-emergence
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Recent work by Michael Teres, professor in the Art Department at SUNY Geneseo. Works on exhibit are photographs that have been highly manipulated using Adobe Photoshop.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Mixed media works. Listen to the stories. Become a part of the tale. Find the magic within you.

Water Below, Sky Above
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Diane Menzies: landscape oil paintings
Deeann vonHunke and Robert vonHunke: collaborative pieces with Robert's painting and Dee's metalwork
Wes Weiss: ceramic sculptural forms
Deeann vonHunke: jewelry
Karen Burns: oil on canvas landscape paintings

Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

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

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

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The Beauty Within: A Collection of Metal and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-9:00 pm as part of the village's First Friday art walk. We invite you to meet artists Donna Smith and Sallie Thompson, and enjoy entertainment by singer/songwriter Jane Zell. Light refreshments will be served.

Works by featured artists Donna Smith and Sallie Thompson.

Boughs and Branches
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-9:00 pm as part of the village's First Friday art walk. Refreshments will be provided, along with entertainment by the Usual Suspects.

"Boughs and Branches" is an exhibition of paintings by cousins Joyce Burgess Snavlin and Linda Davis Reed.

For "Boughs and Branches," Reed and Snavlin have contributed small paintings by their mothers to hang above their own works. "Our mothers were the boughs, and we are the branches from them," Reed says.

Reed illustrated, and Snavlin wrote, "Adirondack ABCs," which introduces children to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited at Imagine in September.

Somewhere in the 20th Century: Still Life and Landscape Watercolors by Kyle Mort
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

All Creatures Great and Small
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

All Creatures Great and Small will feature artwork that incorporates animals into the form and/or surface of ceramic vessels and sculptures, and as subject matter of paintings, photographs and prints. Participating artists include Fredrick Bartolovic and Michelle Strader, Shanna Fliegel, Bob Gates, Steven Godfrey, Tom Huff, Ron Meyers, Hannah Niswonger, Brooke Noble, Donnalee Peden, Matt Smith, Stacy Stanhope, and Lucie Wellner.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

The Art of Video Games
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Part of a ten-city national tour, "The Art of Video Games" is one of the first major exhibitions to explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking graphics, creative storytelling, and player interactivity. The exhibition features some of the most influential artists and designers across five eras of game development, from early pioneers to contemporary designers. Video games use player participation to tell stories and engage audiences. In the same way as film, animation and performance, video games are a compelling and influential form of narrative art.

"The Art of Video Games" focuses on the interplay of graphics, technology and storytelling through some of the best games for 20 gaming systems ranging from the Atari VCS to the PlayStation 3. The exhibition features 80 video games that demonstrate the evolution of the medium. The games are presented through still images and video footage. In addition, the galleries include video interviews with developers and artists, historic game consoles and large prints of in-game screen shots.

New technologies allow designers to create increasingly interactive and sophisticated game environments while staying grounded in traditional game types. Five featured games, one from each era, are available in the exhibition galleries for visitors to play for a few minutes, to gain some feel for the interactivity. The playable gamesPac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst and Flowershow how players interact with the virtual worlds, highlighting innovative new techniques that set the standard for many subsequent games.

Visitors to the exhibition are greeted by excerpts from selected games projected 12 feet high, accompanied by a chipmusic soundtrack by 8 Bit Weapon and ComputeHer, including "The Art of Video Games Anthem" recorded by 8 Bit Weapon specifically for the exhibition. These multimedia elements convey the excitement and complexity of the featured video games. An interior gallery includes a series of short videos showing the range of emotional responses players have while interacting with games. Excerpts from interviews with 20 influential figures in the gaming world also are presented in the galleries.

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Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

Using blood collected from a slaughterhouse as his primary medium, the artist explores ideas about transformation, death, and rebirth. Jordan Eagles encases the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin panels; mounted on the gallery walls they create a sublime environment that envelops and engages the viewer. The exhibition title, "Red Giant," refers to a luminous giant star in its final phase of stellar evolution—what our Sun will become in five billion years—while also referencing the intense, potent color of blood. The abstract patterns and forms in the works may suggest internal organs as well as cosmological phenomena like solar storms, sunspots, craters, meteorites, and supernova explosions.

Eagles' works are in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Everson Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Causey Contemporary and Krause Gallery, New York; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.He has been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, L'Uomo Vogue, Architectural Digest and Wired.

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FULL
XL Projects

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

FULL is an exhibition of work by 13 sculpture students in the Department of Art who each produced 70 sculptures.

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

Between the Spaces: Works by Cecile Gray Bazelon
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Distinguished artist and alumna Cecile Gray Bazelon's work has been described as surreal, Precisionist and hard-edged, as well as elegant and dislocating. A defining aesthetic in her paintings is the stylistic manipulation of space; she often uses wide-angle perspective to delineate her many images of the New York skyline, resulting in a striking series of conceptual viewpoints.

"Between the Spaces" was developed by graduate students enrolled in the "Advanced Curatorship" course in the graduate museum studies program in VPA's Department of Design, under the guidance of Professor Edward A. Aiken. The students also acted as associate curators.

Nourish: An Exploration of Consumption
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

With an overabundance of food, we are a culture obsessed with our next meal. The harsh reality is that much of the food produced goes to waste while others still go hungry at night. For this exhibition, the artists will explore the differing ways that people choose to nourish themselves and how it is reflective of who we are as a society and as an individual. The participating artists are Cynthia Herrera, Marisa Jahn and Steve Shada, Tattfoo Tan, various artists from the Hudson Valley Seed Library, and Viviane Le Courtois.

Moonshine Movie Madness: Hocus Pocus Experience
Redhouse

Price: $20 regular, $15 members $20 regular, $15 members (includes one drink)
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Enjoy this comedy/horror classic film about three witches in Salem on Halloween night who are up to no good. There will be live performers and audience participation required! And we should mention, there will be drag!

This is a family friendly event, and both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks will be offered for the free drink. Come in costume (or don't) and bring the whole family and all of your friends!

Family Weekend Choral Sampler
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Concert Choir, University Singers, Windjammer, and Women's Choir

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

Free tickets are available at the Schine Box Office.

8 Bit Weapon & ComputeHer
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

8 Bit Weapon is a husband and wife team, Seth and Michelle Sternberger. Inspired by classic video game soundtracks and electronic music from the 70s and 80s, they use an arsenal of classic video game consoles and vintage computers as instruments. 8 Bit Weapon has independently released 11 albums, their latest of which, Bits with Byte, features The Art of Video Games anthem. ComputeHer is the solo project of Michelle Sternberger. Michelle creates intricate electronic music using retro gaming consoles and 8-bit computers. With hard beats and colorful melodies, ComputeHer's spirited catalog of music depicts a world of energized lo-fi bliss.

Legends of Jazz Series: Gregory Porter
Onondaga Community College

Price: $25
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Gregory Porter is a jazz vocalist and songwriter who has been nominated for Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album and Best Traditional R&B Performance.

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

Melissa Greener
Folkus Project

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

Refreshing, quirkily crafted lyrics, dynamic melodies and loads of groove.

Belfer Anniversary Concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Orchestra
James Tapia, conductor
Featuring Steven Heyman, piano; Janet Brown, soprano

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

Franz Waxman Rebecca Suite
Andrew Waggoner Goodnight Moon (world premiere)
Miklos Rozsa Spellbound Concerto

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

Particle, with Fikus
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Book Signing: Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family, and Community
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Join oral historian Rosalie Riegle as she introduces her new book on war resisters who say no to war-making in the strongest way possible—by engaging in civil disobedience and paying the consequences in jail or prison. The book highlights Syracuse activists who have been jailed for resisting at the School of the Americas.

DWC Faculty Reading
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Featuring Chris DelGuercio, Yvonne Murphy, and Megan Davidson.

Killjoy
Onondaga Hillplayers

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

Killjoy is a two-act comedy about a woman named Carol who has divorced from her husband, Victor, who owns an Italian restaurant. Victor has married a new much-younger woman, Claudia. Carol is constantly fighting the urge to kill her ex-husband, often talking to an imaginary priest/confessor. When she learns that Victor is making his new wife the second-in-command of the restaurant, Carol decides that the time is right to get rid of Victor and develops a plan with Victor's lawyer, Rick, who has a mad crush on Carol. The two plot how they'll get rid of Victor while Rick is actually also having an affair with Claudia and you wonder who he is actually working FOR!

Proceeds benefit the Onondaga Free and Marcellus libraries.

Harvey
Appleseed Productions
Roy Van Norstrand, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is the story of Elwood P. Dowd, a polite and friendly man with a very strange best friend—a six-foot, three-and-one-half-inch invisible rabbit named Harvey. Elwood's sister Veta is concerned the rabbit will interfere with her life as a socialite, so she tries to have Elwood committed at the local sanatorium.

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No Exit
Black Box Players

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

In Jean-Paul Sartre's classic, three damned souls, Garcin, Inés, and Estelle are brought to the same room in Hell by a mysterious valet. Despite their expectations of medieval torture devices as punishment, they are shocked to find just a plain room furnished in the style of the Second French Empire. None of them will admit the reason for their damnation. Will they find salvation in each other or live out Sartre's view that Hell truly is other people?

Reserve tickets at blackboxplayers.ticketleap.com/noexit.

Reservoir Dogs
Central New York Playhouse
J. Brazil, director

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

Our next screen-to-stage adaptation, adapted for the stage by J. Brazil.

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Dead Man's Cell Phone
LeMoyne College
Boot and Buskin
Matt Chiorini, director

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

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet cafe. A stranger at a next table who has had enough. And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends. So begins this wildly imaginative new comedy from MacArther "Genius" grant winner Sarah Ruhl that poetically and whimsically examines the ways that humans connect and disconnect in a technologically obsessed world.

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Vampire Lesbians of Sodom
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

One of the longest running plays in Off-Broadway history, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, by Charles Busch, tells the saga of two fatally seductive vampiresses whose paths first collide in ancient Sodom. Their bitter rivalry as bloodsuckers but more importantly, as actresses, endures for two thousand years with stops along the way in 1920s silent movie Hollywood and contemporary Las Vegas. Mature audiences (18+) only.

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Scorched
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

An epic mystery that has captivated and stunned audiences around the globe. After their mother's death, twins Janine and Simon, guided by letters the mother has left each, travel to the Middle East to untangle family roots entwined in a war-ravaged past. A play of raw power and poetic resonance, the Syracuse Stage production will feature original music by the world renowned Kronos Quartet. Written by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau.

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Saturday, November 2, 2013

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

The Wisest Man Series: The Irish Language Through Time
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit featuring subtle speech and images from the Blasket Islands to Tipperary Hill by John Francis McCarthy.

For more information, call 315-445-4153. Co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Irish Literature Program.

Works by Dan Shanahan
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Dan's work includes cartoons and portraits drawn from life. He fills in the background of many of his drawings with imaginary action scenes or whatever comes to mind, including but not limited to robots, cars, spiders and sound effects. Dan's media of choice are pastel, ink and watercolor. His sources of inspiration are kids' book illustrations, old cartoons and comics, and vague memories from past lives.

Water Below, Sky Above
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Diane Menzies: landscape oil paintings
Deeann vonHunke and Robert vonHunke: collaborative pieces with Robert's painting and Dee's metalwork
Wes Weiss: ceramic sculptural forms
Deeann vonHunke: jewelry
Karen Burns: oil on canvas landscape paintings

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

Using blood collected from a slaughterhouse as his primary medium, the artist explores ideas about transformation, death, and rebirth. Jordan Eagles encases the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin panels; mounted on the gallery walls they create a sublime environment that envelops and engages the viewer. The exhibition title, "Red Giant," refers to a luminous giant star in its final phase of stellar evolution—what our Sun will become in five billion years—while also referencing the intense, potent color of blood. The abstract patterns and forms in the works may suggest internal organs as well as cosmological phenomena like solar storms, sunspots, craters, meteorites, and supernova explosions.

Eagles' works are in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Everson Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Causey Contemporary and Krause Gallery, New York; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.He has been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, L'Uomo Vogue, Architectural Digest and Wired.

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The Art of Video Games
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Part of a ten-city national tour, "The Art of Video Games" is one of the first major exhibitions to explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking graphics, creative storytelling, and player interactivity. The exhibition features some of the most influential artists and designers across five eras of game development, from early pioneers to contemporary designers. Video games use player participation to tell stories and engage audiences. In the same way as film, animation and performance, video games are a compelling and influential form of narrative art.

"The Art of Video Games" focuses on the interplay of graphics, technology and storytelling through some of the best games for 20 gaming systems ranging from the Atari VCS to the PlayStation 3. The exhibition features 80 video games that demonstrate the evolution of the medium. The games are presented through still images and video footage. In addition, the galleries include video interviews with developers and artists, historic game consoles and large prints of in-game screen shots.

New technologies allow designers to create increasingly interactive and sophisticated game environments while staying grounded in traditional game types. Five featured games, one from each era, are available in the exhibition galleries for visitors to play for a few minutes, to gain some feel for the interactivity. The playable gamesPac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst and Flowershow how players interact with the virtual worlds, highlighting innovative new techniques that set the standard for many subsequent games.

Visitors to the exhibition are greeted by excerpts from selected games projected 12 feet high, accompanied by a chipmusic soundtrack by 8 Bit Weapon and ComputeHer, including "The Art of Video Games Anthem" recorded by 8 Bit Weapon specifically for the exhibition. These multimedia elements convey the excitement and complexity of the featured video games. An interior gallery includes a series of short videos showing the range of emotional responses players have while interacting with games. Excerpts from interviews with 20 influential figures in the gaming world also are presented in the galleries.

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The Beauty Within: A Collection of Metal and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by featured artists Donna Smith and Sallie Thompson.

Boughs and Branches
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Boughs and Branches" is an exhibition of paintings by cousins Joyce Burgess Snavlin and Linda Davis Reed.

For "Boughs and Branches," Reed and Snavlin have contributed small paintings by their mothers to hang above their own works. "Our mothers were the boughs, and we are the branches from them," Reed says.

Reed illustrated, and Snavlin wrote, "Adirondack ABCs," which introduces children to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited at Imagine in September.

Somewhere in the 20th Century: Still Life and Landscape Watercolors by Kyle Mort
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

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

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

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All Creatures Great and Small
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

All Creatures Great and Small will feature artwork that incorporates animals into the form and/or surface of ceramic vessels and sculptures, and as subject matter of paintings, photographs and prints. Participating artists include Fredrick Bartolovic and Michelle Strader, Shanna Fliegel, Bob Gates, Steven Godfrey, Tom Huff, Ron Meyers, Hannah Niswonger, Brooke Noble, Donnalee Peden, Matt Smith, Stacy Stanhope, and Lucie Wellner.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

FULL
XL Projects

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

FULL is an exhibition of work by 13 sculpture students in the Department of Art who each produced 70 sculptures.

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

Nourish: An Exploration of Consumption
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

With an overabundance of food, we are a culture obsessed with our next meal. The harsh reality is that much of the food produced goes to waste while others still go hungry at night. For this exhibition, the artists will explore the differing ways that people choose to nourish themselves and how it is reflective of who we are as a society and as an individual. The participating artists are Cynthia Herrera, Marisa Jahn and Steve Shada, Tattfoo Tan, various artists from the Hudson Valley Seed Library, and Viviane Le Courtois.

In Conversation...
Syracuse University Belfer Audio Archive at 50
Featuring David Harrington and Alex Ross

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

David Harrington, founder and artistic director of the Kronos Quartet, and Alex Ross of The New Yorker.

For more information, visit library.syr.edu/belfer/programs/belferat50.

Outlaw Night
Kellish Hill Farm

Price: $8
Kellish Hill Farm
3192 Pompey Center Rd., Pompey

Come on out and hear some fine songs this night at the farm. Music made famous by Willy, Waylon, Johnny, Kris and more will be heard this night by some of the finest musicians in the area. Lou Sacco and his merry band, Bob Fleming and his music family and Tom Owens Clan will be coming to the Hill. Don't miss this special night. 6:00 pm jam, followed by 7:00 pm concert.

Kronos Quartet
Arts Engage

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

As part of the Belfer Audio Archive 50th anniversary weekend events, Kronos will feature the premiere of a collage-work, exploring recorded sounds and compositions from 1913-1918.

Pearl Rhein
Redhouse

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

Pearl Rhein is a New York City based singer/songwriter, composer, accompanist, and teacher. Originally from Indiana, she studied acting at Ball State University and received her M.F.A. in acting from the University of California, San Diego.

Her eclectic music can be described as classical-flavored rock with influences from jazz, country, musical theatre, and folk music. She is best know for her unique vocal style and musical virtuosity specializing in piano, violin, accordion, dulcimer, and guitar. Her performance will feature original work.

Pearl is joining us as part of our new residency program, which supports emerging artists in the creation and production of original work. Her stay will culminate in a CD recorded in SubCat Studios and a concert on the Redhouse stage.

Kronos Quartet
Syracuse University Pulse Performing Arts Series

Price: $20 regular, $10 students, faculty, and staff with SU ID
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Visit SU Arts Engage for information on reserving tickets starting September 15.

Aesop's Fables
Open Hand Theater
Puppets Inside Out by Steve Abrams

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

Some very silly puppets by Steve Abrams will turn every which way and even inside out in his version of Aesop's famous Fables. Known for his great rapport with children and his gentle performance style, Steve is a professional puppeteer who for over 25 years has given more than 4,000 performances and served twice as the President of The Puppeteers of America.

Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic tale.

Interactive Puppetry with Valdimir Vasyagin
Open Hand Theater

Price: $5
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Dead Man's Cell Phone
LeMoyne College
Boot and Buskin
Matt Chiorini, director

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

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet cafe. A stranger at a next table who has had enough. And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends. So begins this wildly imaginative new comedy from MacArther "Genius" grant winner Sarah Ruhl that poetically and whimsically examines the ways that humans connect and disconnect in a technologically obsessed world.

Read a Review!

Scorched
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

An epic mystery that has captivated and stunned audiences around the globe. After their mother's death, twins Janine and Simon, guided by letters the mother has left each, travel to the Middle East to untangle family roots entwined in a war-ravaged past. A play of raw power and poetic resonance, the Syracuse Stage production will feature original music by the world renowned Kronos Quartet. Written by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau.

Read a Review!

Killjoy
Onondaga Hillplayers

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

Killjoy is a two-act comedy about a woman named Carol who has divorced from her husband, Victor, who owns an Italian restaurant. Victor has married a new much-younger woman, Claudia. Carol is constantly fighting the urge to kill her ex-husband, often talking to an imaginary priest/confessor. When she learns that Victor is making his new wife the second-in-command of the restaurant, Carol decides that the time is right to get rid of Victor and develops a plan with Victor's lawyer, Rick, who has a mad crush on Carol. The two plot how they'll get rid of Victor while Rick is actually also having an affair with Claudia and you wonder who he is actually working FOR!

Proceeds benefit the Onondaga Free and Marcellus libraries.

Always Patsy Cline
Landmark Theatre
Featuring Lisa Layne

Price: $20-$35
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

One of America's most beloved musicals about the greatest female country superstar, Always Patsy Cline, written by Ted Swindley, follows the relationship that develops between Cline and Houston housewife Louise Seger, who fell in love with Cline's voice the first time she heard her on the radio in the late 1950s.

Here to perform this crowd-pleasing, tour-de-force show is Lisa Layne, one of only three vocalists in the world endorsed by the Patsy Cline Foundation to represent and perform as Cline. You will be transported as though Patsy Cline herself were in the room as Layne's sweet voice dips into the low registers and swings up into the rafters!

A pre-show dinner will kick off the evening and is available for only a $20 add-on to your show ticket.

Be sure to get your tickets to this fabulous and heartfelt musical tribute for your chance to hear "Sweet Dreams", "Walkin' After Midnight", "Honky-Tonk Angel", "I Fall to Pieces" and many many more!

Tickets can be purchased by calling the Landmark Box Office at 315-475-7980 or at ticketmaster.com.

Harvey
Appleseed Productions
Roy Van Norstrand, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is the story of Elwood P. Dowd, a polite and friendly man with a very strange best friend—a six-foot, three-and-one-half-inch invisible rabbit named Harvey. Elwood's sister Veta is concerned the rabbit will interfere with her life as a socialite, so she tries to have Elwood committed at the local sanatorium.

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No Exit
Black Box Players

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

In Jean-Paul Sartre's classic, three damned souls, Garcin, Inés, and Estelle are brought to the same room in Hell by a mysterious valet. Despite their expectations of medieval torture devices as punishment, they are shocked to find just a plain room furnished in the style of the Second French Empire. None of them will admit the reason for their damnation. Will they find salvation in each other or live out Sartre's view that Hell truly is other people?

Reserve tickets at blackboxplayers.ticketleap.com/noexit.

Reservoir Dogs
Central New York Playhouse
J. Brazil, director

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

Our next screen-to-stage adaptation, adapted for the stage by J. Brazil.

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Dead Man's Cell Phone
LeMoyne College
Boot and Buskin
Matt Chiorini, director

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

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet cafe. A stranger at a next table who has had enough. And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends. So begins this wildly imaginative new comedy from MacArther "Genius" grant winner Sarah Ruhl that poetically and whimsically examines the ways that humans connect and disconnect in a technologically obsessed world.

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Vampire Lesbians of Sodom
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

One of the longest running plays in Off-Broadway history, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, by Charles Busch, tells the saga of two fatally seductive vampiresses whose paths first collide in ancient Sodom. Their bitter rivalry as bloodsuckers but more importantly, as actresses, endures for two thousand years with stops along the way in 1920s silent movie Hollywood and contemporary Las Vegas. Mature audiences (18+) only.

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Scorched
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

An epic mystery that has captivated and stunned audiences around the globe. After their mother's death, twins Janine and Simon, guided by letters the mother has left each, travel to the Middle East to untangle family roots entwined in a war-ravaged past. A play of raw power and poetic resonance, the Syracuse Stage production will feature original music by the world renowned Kronos Quartet. Written by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau.

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Sunday, November 3, 2013

The Beauty Within: A Collection of Metal and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by featured artists Donna Smith and Sallie Thompson.

All Creatures Great and Small
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

All Creatures Great and Small will feature artwork that incorporates animals into the form and/or surface of ceramic vessels and sculptures, and as subject matter of paintings, photographs and prints. Participating artists include Fredrick Bartolovic and Michelle Strader, Shanna Fliegel, Bob Gates, Steven Godfrey, Tom Huff, Ron Meyers, Hannah Niswonger, Brooke Noble, Donnalee Peden, Matt Smith, Stacy Stanhope, and Lucie Wellner.

Boughs and Branches
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Boughs and Branches" is an exhibition of paintings by cousins Joyce Burgess Snavlin and Linda Davis Reed.

For "Boughs and Branches," Reed and Snavlin have contributed small paintings by their mothers to hang above their own works. "Our mothers were the boughs, and we are the branches from them," Reed says.

Reed illustrated, and Snavlin wrote, "Adirondack ABCs," which introduces children to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited at Imagine in September.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

The Art of Video Games
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Part of a ten-city national tour, "The Art of Video Games" is one of the first major exhibitions to explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking graphics, creative storytelling, and player interactivity. The exhibition features some of the most influential artists and designers across five eras of game development, from early pioneers to contemporary designers. Video games use player participation to tell stories and engage audiences. In the same way as film, animation and performance, video games are a compelling and influential form of narrative art.

"The Art of Video Games" focuses on the interplay of graphics, technology and storytelling through some of the best games for 20 gaming systems ranging from the Atari VCS to the PlayStation 3. The exhibition features 80 video games that demonstrate the evolution of the medium. The games are presented through still images and video footage. In addition, the galleries include video interviews with developers and artists, historic game consoles and large prints of in-game screen shots.

New technologies allow designers to create increasingly interactive and sophisticated game environments while staying grounded in traditional game types. Five featured games, one from each era, are available in the exhibition galleries for visitors to play for a few minutes, to gain some feel for the interactivity. The playable gamesPac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst and Flowershow how players interact with the virtual worlds, highlighting innovative new techniques that set the standard for many subsequent games.

Visitors to the exhibition are greeted by excerpts from selected games projected 12 feet high, accompanied by a chipmusic soundtrack by 8 Bit Weapon and ComputeHer, including "The Art of Video Games Anthem" recorded by 8 Bit Weapon specifically for the exhibition. These multimedia elements convey the excitement and complexity of the featured video games. An interior gallery includes a series of short videos showing the range of emotional responses players have while interacting with games. Excerpts from interviews with 20 influential figures in the gaming world also are presented in the galleries.

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Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

Using blood collected from a slaughterhouse as his primary medium, the artist explores ideas about transformation, death, and rebirth. Jordan Eagles encases the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin panels; mounted on the gallery walls they create a sublime environment that envelops and engages the viewer. The exhibition title, "Red Giant," refers to a luminous giant star in its final phase of stellar evolution—what our Sun will become in five billion years—while also referencing the intense, potent color of blood. The abstract patterns and forms in the works may suggest internal organs as well as cosmological phenomena like solar storms, sunspots, craters, meteorites, and supernova explosions.

Eagles' works are in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Everson Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Causey Contemporary and Krause Gallery, New York; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.He has been featured in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, L'Uomo Vogue, Architectural Digest and Wired.

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The Wisest Man Series: The Irish Language Through Time
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit featuring subtle speech and images from the Blasket Islands to Tipperary Hill by John Francis McCarthy.

For more information, call 315-445-4153. Co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Irish Literature Program.

FULL
XL Projects

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

FULL is an exhibition of work by 13 sculpture students in the Department of Art who each produced 70 sculptures.

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

Zip Fest Street Fair

Price: Free
Forman Park
East Genesee & Almond St, Syracuse

Construction is about to start for the Connective Corridor passing under Route 81 into downtown Syracuse, and the next phase will be launched with a "Zip Fest" Street Fair. The event will feature downtown's first mobile zip line, along with a Food Truck Rodeo and live entertainment and performances.

The events will be held in Forman Park and along a portion of East Genesee Street from Almond Street to Forman Avenue, which will be closed during the event to accommodate the free 200-foot zip line. Free Connective Corridor bus service will be available to the event, with close stops nearby at the Crowne Plaza Hotel and Syracuse Stage.

The mobile zip line will be free to riders on a first-come, first-served basis, supporting the corridor goals to "connect and activate" a vibrant street scene and public spaces for community members and visitors to enjoy the urban experience.

The Food Truck Rodeo will showcase local cuisine, building on the growing popularity of Syracuse's burgeoning food truck scene. It is being organized in partnership with 40 Below Syracuse and Save the Rain. A number of unique mobile eateries have already signed up, with an open round-up call out to vendors to "circle their wagons" around the park.

The festival includes multicultural activities, including performances and interactive drumming and dance sessions with Wacheva Cultural Arts, Central New York's premiere multicultural dance and drum organization. Also in the park will be live music and other entertainment, along with student clubs, such as jugglers, drummers, cultural groups, ethnic dancers and musicians, and other student performers. Among the featured performers will be Orange Bhangra, a SU South Asian folk dancing and music troupe that performs energizing presentations, such as seasonal harvest dances as a form of cultural expression.

Sunday Musicale: Anthony Joseph "Swingtet"
Fayetteville Free Library

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

Anthony Joseph "Swingtet" features Anthony Joseph, Bill Palange, Joe Ferlo, Mike Solazzo, and Jimmy Johns.

DeSantis Band Concert

Price: Free
Solvay Public Library
615 Woods Rd., Solvay

Casual Concert: Birth of the Symphony
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor

St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

We take a trip through history as we explore the development of the symphony. The first half of the program is a composite symphony, which takes one movement from various composers and shows how the symphony developed during the classical period. This informal performance concludes with Brahms masterpiece Symphony No. 4.

A reception will follow the concert.

Songwriter Woodshed Concert
Words and Music Songwriter Showcase

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

Since 2008, Central New York musicians have gathered once a month for the Words and Music Songwriter Woodshed, in which they share new and in-progress songs with fellow songwriters and help each other improve the words and music. Woodshed participants will present their first-ever group concert of original songs, hosted by John Lennon Songwriting Contest grand prize winner Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers. Featured songwriters include Van Cleary-Hammarstedt, Dana "Short Order" Cooke, Ian Doherty, Gavan Duffy, Tom Fetterman, Priyantha Fernando, Dave Goldman, Joanne Perry, Wendy Ramsay, Reyna Stagnaro, Todd Storinge, and host Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers.

Concert of Remembrance

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

Mozart's Requiem, performed by orchestra, organ, and the church choir.

Piano Recital
Pro Musica Divina
Featuring Jonathan Newell, piano

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors
St. Matthew's School
214 Kinne St., East Syracuse

Pianist and composer Jonathan Newell will give a piano recital of works of Beethoven, Chopin, Scarlatti, and Greig, plus original compositions.

Pianist and composer Jonathan Newell holds a BA from Ithaca College in Piano Performance and Art History and an MA from Hunter College in Piano Performance and Composition. He is a member of the piano faculty of the Diller-Quaile School of Music in Manhattan and the State University of New York (Adirondack) and is a pianist and composer with The Adirondack Repertory Dance Theater.

He performs as many as 150 times a year throughout the northeastern US as a pianist or as a pop guitarist and singer. He is also a former string bassist with the Glens Falls Symphony. He is a 2002 recipient of an individual artist grant from the New York State Council for the Arts and was recognized as a Who's Who Among America's Teachers for 2006-2007. Mr. Newell gave his New York debut in 2009 at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall.

For more information, phone 315-877-2753.

Jazz Vespers
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

The Jazz Vespers is a combination of inspirational and meditative readings, homily, and jazz played by members of the CNY Jazz Orchestra and various guest vocalists. The jazz selections are drawn from secular and sacred sources. The concert is open to all faiths.

Student Recital Series: Maggie Swartout, trumpet
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Ms. Swartout is a senior music education major. She will perform the Arutunian Trumpet Concert and the Teleman Concerto in D for Piccolo trumpet, as well as some contemporary pieces from Arthur Honegger, Bruce Broughton, and Anthony Plog.

She will be joined by Sabine Krantz, piano, and special guests Jason Kammerer, John Hylkema, Ariana Walker and Andy Wiley.

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

Love Canon
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Killjoy
Onondaga Hillplayers

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

Killjoy is a two-act comedy about a woman named Carol who has divorced from her husband, Victor, who owns an Italian restaurant. Victor has married a new much-younger woman, Claudia. Carol is constantly fighting the urge to kill her ex-husband, often talking to an imaginary priest/confessor. When she learns that Victor is making his new wife the second-in-command of the restaurant, Carol decides that the time is right to get rid of Victor and develops a plan with Victor's lawyer, Rick, who has a mad crush on Carol. The two plot how they'll get rid of Victor while Rick is actually also having an affair with Claudia and you wonder who he is actually working FOR!

Proceeds benefit the Onondaga Free and Marcellus libraries.

Harvey
Appleseed Productions
Roy Van Norstrand, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is the story of Elwood P. Dowd, a polite and friendly man with a very strange best friend—a six-foot, three-and-one-half-inch invisible rabbit named Harvey. Elwood's sister Veta is concerned the rabbit will interfere with her life as a socialite, so she tries to have Elwood committed at the local sanatorium.

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Reservoir Dogs
Central New York Playhouse
J. Brazil, director

Price: $15
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Our next screen-to-stage adaptation, adapted for the stage by J. Brazil.

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Scorched
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

An epic mystery that has captivated and stunned audiences around the globe. After their mother's death, twins Janine and Simon, guided by letters the mother has left each, travel to the Middle East to untangle family roots entwined in a war-ravaged past. A play of raw power and poetic resonance, the Syracuse Stage production will feature original music by the world renowned Kronos Quartet. Written by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau.

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Always Patsy Cline
Landmark Theatre
Featuring Lisa Layne

Price: $20-$35
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

One of America's most beloved musicals about the greatest female country superstar, Always Patsy Cline, written by Ted Swindley, follows the relationship that develops between Cline and Houston housewife Louise Seger, who fell in love with Cline's voice the first time she heard her on the radio in the late 1950s.

Here to perform this crowd-pleasing, tour-de-force show is Lisa Layne, one of only three vocalists in the world endorsed by the Patsy Cline Foundation to represent and perform as Cline. You will be transported as though Patsy Cline herself were in the room as Layne's sweet voice dips into the low registers and swings up into the rafters!

A pre-show dinner will kick off the evening and is available for only a $20 add-on to your show ticket.

Be sure to get your tickets to this fabulous and heartfelt musical tribute for your chance to hear "Sweet Dreams", "Walkin' After Midnight", "Honky-Tonk Angel", "I Fall to Pieces" and many many more!

Tickets can be purchased by calling the Landmark Box Office at 315-475-7980 or at ticketmaster.com.

No Exit
Black Box Players

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

In Jean-Paul Sartre's classic, three damned souls, Garcin, Inés, and Estelle are brought to the same room in Hell by a mysterious valet. Despite their expectations of medieval torture devices as punishment, they are shocked to find just a plain room furnished in the style of the Second French Empire. None of them will admit the reason for their damnation. Will they find salvation in each other or live out Sartre's view that Hell truly is other people?

Reserve tickets at blackboxplayers.ticketleap.com/noexit.

Scorched
Syracuse Stage
Marcela Lorca, director

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

There will be an actor talkback following this evening's performance.

An epic mystery that has captivated and stunned audiences around the globe. After their mother's death, twins Janine and Simon, guided by letters the mother has left each, travel to the Middle East to untangle family roots entwined in a war-ravaged past. A play of raw power and poetic resonance, the Syracuse Stage production will feature original music by the world renowned Kronos Quartet. Written by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau.

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Monday, November 4, 2013

The Wisest Man Series: The Irish Language Through Time
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit featuring subtle speech and images from the Blasket Islands to Tipperary Hill by John Francis McCarthy.

For more information, call 315-445-4153. Co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Irish Literature Program.

Works by Dan Shanahan
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Dan's work includes cartoons and portraits drawn from life. He fills in the background of many of his drawings with imaginary action scenes or whatever comes to mind, including but not limited to robots, cars, spiders and sound effects. Dan's media of choice are pastel, ink and watercolor. His sources of inspiration are kids' book illustrations, old cartoons and comics, and vague memories from past lives.

Drawing on Talent: 5th Annual Members Group Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Group art exhibit featuring work in all media by members of the Baltimore Woods member community.

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement: My work is an attempt to illustrate transcendence. I believe that repetition is the foundation of clarity. The use of repeated patterns in my work serves the same function that a mantra does in meditation. The techniques I employ, screenprinting and non-traditional paint application, give the work the appearance of mechanical reproduction. The diminished evidence of the human hand creates a visual purity.

Kevin Mullins was born in Oklahoma and raised in New York. He received a A.A.S. in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina and completed a Master's Program in Printmaking at the Cheksea School of Art, London, England with graduate studies at Bariff School of Fine Art, Canada and the Institute Allende, Mexico. Mullins spent five years at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, leaving practice.

Mullins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship and grants from the Brandywine Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, the Wuritzer Foundation, Taos, NM and the New York State Arts Council. In 2003 he was an Artist-in-Residence at Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Japan.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Mixed media works. Listen to the stories. Become a part of the tale. Find the magic within you.

The Beauty Within: A Collection of Metal and Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Works by featured artists Donna Smith and Sallie Thompson.

Boughs and Branches
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"Boughs and Branches" is an exhibition of paintings by cousins Joyce Burgess Snavlin and Linda Davis Reed.

For "Boughs and Branches," Reed and Snavlin have contributed small paintings by their mothers to hang above their own works. "Our mothers were the boughs, and we are the branches from them," Reed says.

Reed illustrated, and Snavlin wrote, "Adirondack ABCs," which introduces children to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited at Imagine in September.

Somewhere in the 20th Century: Still Life and Landscape Watercolors by Kyle Mort
Maxwell Memorial Library

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

Between the Spaces: Works by Cecile Gray Bazelon
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Distinguished artist and alumna Cecile Gray Bazelon's work has been described as surreal, Precisionist and hard-edged, as well as elegant and dislocating. A defining aesthetic in her paintings is the stylistic manipulation of space; she often uses wide-angle perspective to delineate her many images of the New York skyline, resulting in a striking series of conceptual viewpoints.

"Between the Spaces" was developed by graduate students enrolled in the "Advanced Curatorship" course in the graduate museum studies program in VPA's Department of Design, under the guidance of Professor Edward A. Aiken. The students also acted as associate curators.

Sign Painters
Echo

Price: $7 regular, $5 students
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The recently released documentary film "Sign Painters" prominently features the mural "A Love Letter to Syracuse" by artist Steve Powers which is located on the train trestles over West and West Fayette streets in downtown Syracuse. The film is about the death and rebirth of the art of sign painting in America.

Director Faythe Levine will be in attendance and will participate in an open discussion and question-and-answer session following the film. In addition, local artist and sign painter Cayetano Valenzuela of Black Rabbit Studio will be selling a variety of original hand-painted signs.

More information about the film can be found at signpaintermovie.blogspot.com.

Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Joel McCrae, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Edmund Gwenn, Eduardo Ciannelli, Robert Benchley.