Friday, September 28, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TONY: 2012: Ink Geographies
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Feels like writing, but the artist is quick to make clear that it is not. Signs, representations ... of what? A mental process, a journey, from diverse points of origin through our individual timelines, our personal twists and turns. As a script emerges, something is set free, though it leaves a mark, an imprint. The artist's essential playground is a space to explore geometric archetypes that can only be found inside one another; all are one. A sacred mandala? Images contract and expand and there is order, not chaos. No more chaotic than life emerging from the womb, contraction, expansion; a beating heart, where life is felt, contraction, expansion...an ever-expanding universe, contracts only to further expand. We don't know how to will it into action. A similar experience with ink takes form in this experiment by Oscar Garcés. It flows from a playful doodle, "el virus," he calls it. And before you know it, connects with something else, an altered state of consciousness. Everything else disappears as it takes over.

The Point of Contact Gallery presents the first solo show by Cuban-born, Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garcés, as part of The Other New York: TONY 2012, a community-wide biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 venues in Syracuse. This program also commemorates the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month at Point of Contact.

Born in Santiago, Cuba in 1987, Garcés came to the United States in 2000. During his years residing first in Florida, when he began to develop as a visual artist, Garcés received multiple recognitions, including a Golden Key Award for best portfolio by Scholastics. Later in Syracuse, Garcés won a "Best of Show" Award at the Community Folk Art Center in 2005. He has also shown his paintings at the Warehouse Gallery's Window Project and at La Casita Cultural Center Gallery.

TONY 2012: "The Other New York" seeks to highlight the work and talent of different rising artists from the Central New York area.

Phonography
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Cell phone photography, featuring works of 75 Central New York and international artists. Amazing, imaginative, creative, innovative, fun photos you'll love!

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

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

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

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

Investigations
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

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

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

Wild New York: The Photography of Chris Murray
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Play on Light
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

My Recovery Story
Community Folk Art Center

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

A month-long exhibition sponsored by Syracuse Behavioral Healthcare, "My Recovery Story" features a collection of photographs taken by community members. The photographs chronicle their recovery from substance abuse addictions. For more information about the center and their exhibition click here.

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

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

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

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

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

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

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

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

The Tall and Short of It
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit features pottery by Jim Burke and paintings by Lisa Noviasky. Jim Burke's pottery combines function and style which makes his pieces both useful and unique. Lisa Noviasky paints with colors that best reflect the essence and emotional connection to the scene she is capturing.

Fibers Expo: Wearable, Warm and Wonderful
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

To mark the expansion of its fibers collection, Imagine will present "Wearable, Warm and Wonderful," an exhibition of fiber art.

Works will be featured by:
* Luc Ends by Lucinda Snyder, of Rochester, who creates playful purses.
* Pandemonium Millinery, of Seattle, represented by its elegant faux fur hats and scarves.
* Miss Fitt Hats, of Durham, NC, which crafts hand-felted merino wool hats, scarves, mittens and other adornments.
* Maruca Design, of Boulder, CO, which designs and produces handbags, wallets and cosmetics cases, while embracing principles of the Arts & Crafts movement.
* Laurel Moranz, of Skaneateles, who creates rayon chenille scarves, shawls and snoods.
* Ginny Spina, of Jamesville, who designs scarves made from vintage kimono silk.

Susan Worsham: Bittersweet/Bloodwork
Light Work Gallery

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

When Susan Worsham was just 18, her brother took his own life after severing his spinal cord in a motorcycle accident. As a young girl she had already lost her father to a heart attack, and finally in 2004, she lost her mother as well. In the words of Worsham, "Shortly after my mother passed I came across a set of antique veterinary slides. They were some of the most interesting things that I had ever seen. I framed ninety of them in a long wooden frame resembling the shape of the slide itself. It was the first piece of art that I made after my mother died. I called the piece a watercolor because of the collection of pastel colors, but it was also a sort of poem when you got close and read the titles ... Rabbit's Lung, Fowl's Spleen, and even Human Umbilical Cord. They seemed to hold beauty and death at the same time."

Worsham went on to photograph her old childhood home as well as her oldest neighbor, Margaret Daniel. Margaret is one of the last remaining threads from Worsham's childhood and was the last person to see her brother alive. She made him her homemade bread, and he finished the whole loaf before he shot himself. The story came full circle one day when Margaret brought out her dissection kit and microscope slides. She had been a biology teacher and was holding on to the same sort of slides that fascinated Worsham. Margaret's microscope and slides have since become a metaphor for Worsham's desire to look deeper into the landscape of her childhood--from the flora and fauna to the feelings, Margaret calls it "blood work."

In addition to Worsham's touching photographs made in and around Virginia, this exhibition features a selection of Margaret's dissection tools alongside her microscope, as well as audio recordings of their various conversations about plants, life, and death. All together, the photographs and accompaniments in Bittersweet/Bloodwork speak of the poetry of childhood, nature, discovery, love, and loss.

TONY: 2012
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Other New York: 2012," featuring the photographic work of Sarah Averill, Bang-Geul Han, Mark McLoughlin, Jan Nagle, and Matthew Walker. This exhibition is part of a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaborion among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

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

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

An American Vision: East Meets West
Szozda Gallery

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

The fall season opens with new works by two popular local artists, Phil Parsons and Bob Niedzwiecki, who reveal the striking beauty between vastly different American landscapes of lush vegetation versus dry earth.

For Parsons, this show represents the latest installment of his familiar "Roadside Series," in which rural Central New York is prominent. This series of new images is done with a commitment to the realist movement, somewhat a departure for Parsons who says he is "not exclusively a traditional painter."

New works by realist painter Niedzwiecki deviate from the gentle, subtle Central New York landscapes for which he is typically known. A vacation return to the Southwest became the inspiration for capturing the beauty of landscapes that he fell in love with long before while living in Colorado and Arizona.

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

TONY: 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Other New York: 2012 (Tony: 2012) is an ambitious project that aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project offers diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

The artists included in the SUArt Galleries TONY: 2012 are Tammy Brackett, Juan Cruz, Sara Di Donato, Matthew Glaysher, Amy Greenan, Sue Huggins Leopard, Barbara Page, James Skvarch.

The SUArt Galleries is one of 14 venues participating in this citywide celebration of the visual arts. Please take the time to visit the exhibitions at the other TONY venues to see the wealth of talent that resides and works upstate.

Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is celebrating the career and life of Karl Schrag, American painter and printmaker, who would have been 100 years old this year. "Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions" is the first major examination of the artist's work since his death in 1995. The exhibition includes 70 original works of art by the influential artist, including paintings, prints and drawings.

Syracuse University has had a long and rewarding association with Karl Schrag and his family. It began in 1962 with a gift of a gouache painting titled "Coast in Autumn." Later the relationship grew with the first of numerous exhibitions, more gifts of artwork, and occasional lectures to students in the University's School of Art. Some 50 years later, S.U.'s art collection is much richer because of the 250-plus Karl Schrag artworks we maintain, and the continued support of Schrag Family.

2012 is also the centenary year of Karl Schrag's birth and gives us an opportunity to reinvestigate the talent, imagination, and sensitivity Schrag brought to his landscapes, still-life paintings, and portraits. A master of color, light, composition, and draftsmanship, Schrag captures nature and its great forces through an investigation of the lasting impressions each of us retain through experience. He engages his viewer with subtle mark making as well as with the bold calligraphic strokes so often associated with his work. His palette of almost Fauvist intensity adds dimension and passion to the landscapes he created.

Schrag's art career spanned more than 60 years and he had strong ties to the New York City art scene. After studying at the Art Students League, he joined S.W. Hayter's prestigious printmaking studio Atelier 17, working alongside artists Miró, Chagall and Jackson Pollock. Schrag was named director of the Atelier in 1950 and later began a long teaching career at Cooper Union, where he taught drawing and graphic arts from 1954-1968. Schrag had a direct impact on many of his students, including the Syracuse University-based artist Jerome Witkin. A student of Schrag at Cooper Union and a well-established contemporary artist, Witkin has commented on Schrags masterful handling of the landscape, and the evocative power of his vision.

The art selected for this exhibit will convey the artist's ability to see the landscape as if for the first time, the surprise of that special view, the recognition of his ability to feel wonder when looking at nature or figures, and the reward associated with seeing the world through his eyes.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lov U
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

The Other New York (TONY): 2012
XL Projects

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

XL Projects will present the work of seven artists selected for "The Other New York (TONY): 2012," a communitywide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition featuring artists currently living in New York State outside of the New York City metropolitan area.

The artists showing work at XL Projects -- Michael Barletta, Daniel Buckingham, Jay Carrier, Meredith Davenport, Kara Daving, Tom DeLooza, and Fernando Orellana -- are among the 63 artists selected from 235 submissions for TONY: 2012. The work that will be on view at XL includes large sculpture, video, photography, kinetic sculpture, large-scale painting, and a large window graphic across the front of the venue.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 art institutions and cultural organizations in Syracuse: ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours. For more information about TONY: 2012 and the other exhibiting artists and venues, visit everson.org.

Raw Revelations: The Reunion of Hand Tools and Production
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In recent years, the connection between process and product has slowly separated, creating a rift between the two. Consumers often do not know who is designing and constructing the products they buy. However, a rising movement is reuniting the experience of creating something by hand and the finished product. Craftspeople worldwide are continuing the tradition of working with their hands and their cherished hand tools, forging a connection with what they make.

This new exhibition illuminates the idea of this connection between history, design and craftsmanship through a sensory experience for the viewers. The show invites the public to learn about the history of hand tools and woodworking, witness part of the process of creating a wooden stool by hand and find out how to reconnect the process of creating something with the final product.

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street. For more information or to make group reservations, contact Bradley Hudson, exhibition facilitator, at bjhudson@syr.edu.

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

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Closing Reception: Project Alex

Bentley Building
227 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works by Mary Giehl and Roberto Loring.

For more information, visit the Facebook page.

TONY 2012: Karen Brummund
Urban Video Project

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

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

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

Video projection begins at dusk.

The "Oh Crap It's Less Than Two Weeks Until The Show" Show
Syracuse Improv Collective

Price: $5
The Vault
451 S. Warren St., Syracuse

This is awkward. We're doing a show and we forgot to tell you all about it. Forgive us?

7:30 pm: We'll open the doors
8:00 pm: Kirsten Kerlin will sing
8:40ish: Mouth Rocket will do improv
9:20ish: Satan's Closet will do more improv
10:00ish: Then lots of people will do more improv. Maybe we'll have some special guests.

There will be people there doing art, probably.

*CANCELLED* Rosina Parmiggiano

Price: $50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Rosina Parmiggiano is an Italian Canadian comedian who hails from Toronto. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, her comedy celebrates the trials and tribulations of everyday Italian immigrant life. The tour will also be promoting Rosina's much anticipated 2012 comedic CD, "Whena Speaka Me, Shutta Upa You."

Tickets can be purchased in person at The Oncenter Box Office, by calling 315-435-2121, or online at Ticketmaster (additional fees may apply).

eQuality Film Festival Youth Series
AIDS Community Resources

Price: $5 per film, $10 for all three
Q Center @ AIDS Community Resources
627 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

5:00 pm: Pariah
A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

6:45 pm: Tomboy
A 10-year-old girl, settling into her new neighborhood outside Paris, is mistaken for a boy and has to live up to this new identity since it's too late for the mistake to be clarified.

8:30 pm: Gun Hill Road
An ex-con returns home to the Bronx after three year in prison to discover his teenage son exploring a sexual transformation that puts the fragile bonds of family to the test.

Proceeds benefit the Q Center.

Lakeside Views Fall Ghostwalk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $10 members, $12 non-members (reservations required)
Village of Liverpool
Liverpool

Take an autumn stroll into the past to meet those spirited individuals who are a part of the history of Onondaga Lake and its picturesque lakeside village. Tours leave every 15 minutes.

For reservations, phone 315-428-1864, ext. 312.

Syracuse Opera Resident Artist Program
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Bomba and Plena Music
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Dreams and Desires: An Evening of Classical Music

United Methodist Church of Skaneateles
25 Jordan St., Skaneateles

The program will feature several familiar arias: "O Mio Babbino Caro" by Puccini, "Voi Che Sapete" from The Marriage of Figaro, and "Ach, Ich Fhls" and "Dies Bildnis" from Mozart's The Magic Flute. There also will be several art songs from the 19th and 20th centuries, "Serenade" from Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death, and Amy Beach's "I Send My Heart Up to Thee." The recital will also feature duets, and two quartets: "Non ti fidar" from Don Giovanni and "Make Our Garden Grow" from Bernstein's Candide.

The vocal artists are known in the Central New York area for their work with the Syracuse Opera and Syracuse Symphony.

Soprano Kathryn Tangretti is beginning her third season with Syracuse Opera, and she is a regular soloist with the Symphony Syracuse Pops Chorus under the direction of Lou Lemos. Her credits as soloist include Rutter's Gloria and Britten's A Ceremony of Carols. One of her most recent performances included the premiere of Z. Michael Martin's Requiem. Kathyrn also is on the faculty of West Genesee High School.

Mark Rozelle Tietjen has sung the baritone roles of Mr. Gedge in Britten's Albert Herring and Ko-ko in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, as well as performing Lieutenant Kije, Prokofiev's orchestral suite, with the Onondaga Civic Symphony. He holds a degree in Classical Voice Performance from Crane School of Music.

Phillip McMullen continues to sing with the Syracuse Opera and is slated to perform in the upcoming season's productions of Tosca, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Sweeney Todd. He currently holds the position of tenor soloist at St. Paul's Cathedral in Syracuse, as well as singing regularly for Temple Adath Yeshurun. He also can be heard in recital programs with violinist Joshua T. Diesti with "Tell the Story" Productions. Phillip is a member of Skaneateles UMC and is the Artistic Director for this recital.

Switchfoot, with Paper Route
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Real Inspector Hound
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $18 regular, $15 student/senior
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Rave reviews greeted this farce by Tom Stoppard when it was recently revived in London. Feuding theatre critics Moon and Birdfoot, the first a fusty philanderer and the second a pompous and vindictive second stringer, are swept into the whodunit they are viewing. In the hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie-like melodramas that follows, the body under the sofa proves to be the missing first-string critic.

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Merrily We Roll Along
Syracuse University Drama Department
Brian Cimmet, director

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

Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's legendary musical, Merrily We Roll Along, charts the rise of a songwriting team during the years of Sondheim's own young career. Starting in 1976 and running backward in time to 1955, this lively musical focuses on three individuals whose friendship is tested by time, events, ambition and fate. A masterly work by a master composer, Merrily We Roll Along features some of Sondheim's most brilliant and bruising songs, including "Not a Day Goes By," "Old Friends," "Our Time," and "Opening Doors."

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by George Furth based on the play Merrily We Roll Along by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

Play on Light
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

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

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

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

The Tall and Short of It
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit features pottery by Jim Burke and paintings by Lisa Noviasky. Jim Burke's pottery combines function and style which makes his pieces both useful and unique. Lisa Noviasky paints with colors that best reflect the essence and emotional connection to the scene she is capturing.

Fibers Expo: Wearable, Warm and Wonderful
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

To mark the expansion of its fibers collection, Imagine will present "Wearable, Warm and Wonderful," an exhibition of fiber art.

Works will be featured by:
* Luc Ends by Lucinda Snyder, of Rochester, who creates playful purses.
* Pandemonium Millinery, of Seattle, represented by its elegant faux fur hats and scarves.
* Miss Fitt Hats, of Durham, NC, which crafts hand-felted merino wool hats, scarves, mittens and other adornments.
* Maruca Design, of Boulder, CO, which designs and produces handbags, wallets and cosmetics cases, while embracing principles of the Arts & Crafts movement.
* Laurel Moranz, of Skaneateles, who creates rayon chenille scarves, shawls and snoods.
* Ginny Spina, of Jamesville, who designs scarves made from vintage kimono silk.

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

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

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

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

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

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

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

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

An American Vision: East Meets West
Szozda Gallery

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

The fall season opens with new works by two popular local artists, Phil Parsons and Bob Niedzwiecki, who reveal the striking beauty between vastly different American landscapes of lush vegetation versus dry earth.

For Parsons, this show represents the latest installment of his familiar "Roadside Series," in which rural Central New York is prominent. This series of new images is done with a commitment to the realist movement, somewhat a departure for Parsons who says he is "not exclusively a traditional painter."

New works by realist painter Niedzwiecki deviate from the gentle, subtle Central New York landscapes for which he is typically known. A vacation return to the Southwest became the inspiration for capturing the beauty of landscapes that he fell in love with long before while living in Colorado and Arizona.

My Recovery Story
Community Folk Art Center

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

A month-long exhibition sponsored by Syracuse Behavioral Healthcare, "My Recovery Story" features a collection of photographs taken by community members. The photographs chronicle their recovery from substance abuse addictions. For more information about the center and their exhibition click here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TONY: 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Other New York: 2012 (Tony: 2012) is an ambitious project that aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project offers diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

The artists included in the SUArt Galleries TONY: 2012 are Tammy Brackett, Juan Cruz, Sara Di Donato, Matthew Glaysher, Amy Greenan, Sue Huggins Leopard, Barbara Page, James Skvarch.

The SUArt Galleries is one of 14 venues participating in this citywide celebration of the visual arts. Please take the time to visit the exhibitions at the other TONY venues to see the wealth of talent that resides and works upstate.

Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is celebrating the career and life of Karl Schrag, American painter and printmaker, who would have been 100 years old this year. "Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions" is the first major examination of the artist's work since his death in 1995. The exhibition includes 70 original works of art by the influential artist, including paintings, prints and drawings.

Syracuse University has had a long and rewarding association with Karl Schrag and his family. It began in 1962 with a gift of a gouache painting titled "Coast in Autumn." Later the relationship grew with the first of numerous exhibitions, more gifts of artwork, and occasional lectures to students in the University's School of Art. Some 50 years later, S.U.'s art collection is much richer because of the 250-plus Karl Schrag artworks we maintain, and the continued support of Schrag Family.

2012 is also the centenary year of Karl Schrag's birth and gives us an opportunity to reinvestigate the talent, imagination, and sensitivity Schrag brought to his landscapes, still-life paintings, and portraits. A master of color, light, composition, and draftsmanship, Schrag captures nature and its great forces through an investigation of the lasting impressions each of us retain through experience. He engages his viewer with subtle mark making as well as with the bold calligraphic strokes so often associated with his work. His palette of almost Fauvist intensity adds dimension and passion to the landscapes he created.

Schrag's art career spanned more than 60 years and he had strong ties to the New York City art scene. After studying at the Art Students League, he joined S.W. Hayter's prestigious printmaking studio Atelier 17, working alongside artists Miró, Chagall and Jackson Pollock. Schrag was named director of the Atelier in 1950 and later began a long teaching career at Cooper Union, where he taught drawing and graphic arts from 1954-1968. Schrag had a direct impact on many of his students, including the Syracuse University-based artist Jerome Witkin. A student of Schrag at Cooper Union and a well-established contemporary artist, Witkin has commented on Schrags masterful handling of the landscape, and the evocative power of his vision.

The art selected for this exhibit will convey the artist's ability to see the landscape as if for the first time, the surprise of that special view, the recognition of his ability to feel wonder when looking at nature or figures, and the reward associated with seeing the world through his eyes.

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

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Lov U
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

The Other New York (TONY): 2012
XL Projects

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

XL Projects will present the work of seven artists selected for "The Other New York (TONY): 2012," a communitywide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition featuring artists currently living in New York State outside of the New York City metropolitan area.

The artists showing work at XL Projects -- Michael Barletta, Daniel Buckingham, Jay Carrier, Meredith Davenport, Kara Daving, Tom DeLooza, and Fernando Orellana -- are among the 63 artists selected from 235 submissions for TONY: 2012. The work that will be on view at XL includes large sculpture, video, photography, kinetic sculpture, large-scale painting, and a large window graphic across the front of the venue.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 art institutions and cultural organizations in Syracuse: ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours. For more information about TONY: 2012 and the other exhibiting artists and venues, visit everson.org.

life. love. time travel.
Echo

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

Group show of works by over 20 artists.

TONY 2012: Karen Brummund
Urban Video Project

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

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

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

Video projection begins at dusk.

*CANCELLED* Rosina Parmiggiano

Price: $50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Rosina Parmiggiano is an Italian Canadian comedian who hails from Toronto. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, her comedy celebrates the trials and tribulations of everyday Italian immigrant life. The tour will also be promoting Rosina's much anticipated 2012 comedic CD, "Whena Speaka Me, Shutta Upa You."

Tickets can be purchased in person at The Oncenter Box Office, by calling 315-435-2121, or online at Ticketmaster (additional fees may apply).

eQuality Film Festival
AIDS Community Resources

Price: $10 per film, or $30 for Saturday/Sunday festival pass
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

6:30 pm: August
August tells the story of two former lovers, Troy and Jonathan, who reunite after a long ago painful breakup.

8:30 pm: Pageant
A portrait of five men competing in the Miss Gay America pageant -- the pageant has more talent and drama than the Miss America, Miss USA, and Miss Universe Pageants combined.
Specialty cocktails will be served by our special guests, and there will be an appearance by Ambrosia Salad!

Proceeds benefit the Q Center.

Rome: Open City (1945)
ArtRage Gallery

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

Directed by Roberto Rossellini, with Anna Magnani and Aldo Fabrizi
Rosellini's landmark drama shows how everyday Italians turned despair to resistance in the face of Nazi oppression. Shot on the spot in wartime Rome with scant resources, Rossellini captures the consciousness of that experience with shocking authenticity. He planted his camera in the middle of real life, peppered it with gifted actors and so initiated the Italian NeoRealist film genre, "Open City" garnered awards all over the world. It transformed stage star Anna Magnani into a great screen presence, and co-scriptwriter, Federico Fellini went on to become one of the world's great film directors.

Lakeside Views Fall Ghostwalk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $10 members, $12 non-members (reservations required)
Village of Liverpool
Liverpool

Take an autumn stroll into the past to meet those spirited individuals who are a part of the history of Onondaga Lake and its picturesque lakeside village. Tours leave every 15 minutes.

For reservations, phone 315-428-1864, ext. 312.

Tokyo String Quartet
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $25 regular, $15 senior, $10 student
Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

Haydn Quartet in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4, "Sun"
Webern Five Pieces, Op. 5
Schubert Quartet in G Major, Op. 161, D. 887

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20th Anniversary Tour: Arrested Development, with F. Stokes, Sophistafunk
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Dormouse Series: Pinkalicious, The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
David Cotter, director

Price: $15 ages 13 and over, $12 ages 6-12, $10 ages 5 and under
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Pinkalicious can't stop eating pink cupcakes despite warnings from her parents. Her pink indulgence lands her at the doctor's office with Pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink, from head to toe -- a dream come true for this pink loving enthusiast. But when her hue goes too far, only Pinkalicious can figure out a way to get out of this predicament. Based on the popular children's book Pinkalicious by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann.

Book and lyrics by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann; music, lyrics and orchestrations by John Gregor. Choreographed by Jodi Bova-Mele.

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The Three Little Princess Pigs
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

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

Dormouse Series: Pinkalicious, The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
David Cotter, director

Price: $15 ages 13 and over, $12 ages 6-12, $10 ages 5 and under
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Pinkalicious can't stop eating pink cupcakes despite warnings from her parents. Her pink indulgence lands her at the doctor's office with Pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink, from head to toe -- a dream come true for this pink loving enthusiast. But when her hue goes too far, only Pinkalicious can figure out a way to get out of this predicament. Based on the popular children's book Pinkalicious by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann.

Book and lyrics by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann; music, lyrics and orchestrations by John Gregor. Choreographed by Jodi Bova-Mele.

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El Camaron Encantado (The Enchanted Shrimp)
Community Folk Art Center
La Joven Guardia Del Teatro Latino
José Miguel Hernández Hurtado, director

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

José Miguel Hernández Hurtado's theatrical adaptation of the Cuban story El Camarón Encantando, featuring La Joven Guardia Del Teatro Latino, a program from the Spanish Action League.

El Camarón Encantado takes place in a village by the Baltic Sea, close to Russia, and tells the story of Loppi, a poor lumberjack who--while looking for food in order to feed himself and his wife, Masica--finds a very old shrimp, that turns out to be not an ordinary one, but a magic one. In return for his freedom, the shrimp grants him multiple wishes and richness. El Camarón Encantado was written by the French author Laboulaye, and recreated later by the Cuban poet José Martí in his book, The Golden Age of Children.

Performed entirely in Spanish.

The Real Inspector Hound
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $18 regular, $15 student/senior
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Rave reviews greeted this farce by Tom Stoppard when it was recently revived in London. Feuding theatre critics Moon and Birdfoot, the first a fusty philanderer and the second a pompous and vindictive second stringer, are swept into the whodunit they are viewing. In the hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie-like melodramas that follows, the body under the sofa proves to be the missing first-string critic.

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Merrily We Roll Along
Syracuse University Drama Department
Brian Cimmet, director

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

Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's legendary musical, Merrily We Roll Along, charts the rise of a songwriting team during the years of Sondheim's own young career. Starting in 1976 and running backward in time to 1955, this lively musical focuses on three individuals whose friendship is tested by time, events, ambition and fate. A masterly work by a master composer, Merrily We Roll Along features some of Sondheim's most brilliant and bruising songs, including "Not a Day Goes By," "Old Friends," "Our Time," and "Opening Doors."

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by George Furth based on the play Merrily We Roll Along by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

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

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

Susan Worsham: Bittersweet/Bloodwork
Light Work Gallery

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

When Susan Worsham was just 18, her brother took his own life after severing his spinal cord in a motorcycle accident. As a young girl she had already lost her father to a heart attack, and finally in 2004, she lost her mother as well. In the words of Worsham, "Shortly after my mother passed I came across a set of antique veterinary slides. They were some of the most interesting things that I had ever seen. I framed ninety of them in a long wooden frame resembling the shape of the slide itself. It was the first piece of art that I made after my mother died. I called the piece a watercolor because of the collection of pastel colors, but it was also a sort of poem when you got close and read the titles ... Rabbit's Lung, Fowl's Spleen, and even Human Umbilical Cord. They seemed to hold beauty and death at the same time."

Worsham went on to photograph her old childhood home as well as her oldest neighbor, Margaret Daniel. Margaret is one of the last remaining threads from Worsham's childhood and was the last person to see her brother alive. She made him her homemade bread, and he finished the whole loaf before he shot himself. The story came full circle one day when Margaret brought out her dissection kit and microscope slides. She had been a biology teacher and was holding on to the same sort of slides that fascinated Worsham. Margaret's microscope and slides have since become a metaphor for Worsham's desire to look deeper into the landscape of her childhood--from the flora and fauna to the feelings, Margaret calls it "blood work."

In addition to Worsham's touching photographs made in and around Virginia, this exhibition features a selection of Margaret's dissection tools alongside her microscope, as well as audio recordings of their various conversations about plants, life, and death. All together, the photographs and accompaniments in Bittersweet/Bloodwork speak of the poetry of childhood, nature, discovery, love, and loss.

TONY: 2012
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Other New York: 2012," featuring the photographic work of Sarah Averill, Bang-Geul Han, Mark McLoughlin, Jan Nagle, and Matthew Walker. This exhibition is part of a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaborion among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

An American Vision: East Meets West
Szozda Gallery

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

The fall season opens with new works by two popular local artists, Phil Parsons and Bob Niedzwiecki, who reveal the striking beauty between vastly different American landscapes of lush vegetation versus dry earth.

For Parsons, this show represents the latest installment of his familiar "Roadside Series," in which rural Central New York is prominent. This series of new images is done with a commitment to the realist movement, somewhat a departure for Parsons who says he is "not exclusively a traditional painter."

New works by realist painter Niedzwiecki deviate from the gentle, subtle Central New York landscapes for which he is typically known. A vacation return to the Southwest became the inspiration for capturing the beauty of landscapes that he fell in love with long before while living in Colorado and Arizona.

The Tall and Short of It
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit features pottery by Jim Burke and paintings by Lisa Noviasky. Jim Burke's pottery combines function and style which makes his pieces both useful and unique. Lisa Noviasky paints with colors that best reflect the essence and emotional connection to the scene she is capturing.

Fibers Expo: Wearable, Warm and Wonderful
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

To mark the expansion of its fibers collection, Imagine will present "Wearable, Warm and Wonderful," an exhibition of fiber art.

Works will be featured by:
* Luc Ends by Lucinda Snyder, of Rochester, who creates playful purses.
* Pandemonium Millinery, of Seattle, represented by its elegant faux fur hats and scarves.
* Miss Fitt Hats, of Durham, NC, which crafts hand-felted merino wool hats, scarves, mittens and other adornments.
* Maruca Design, of Boulder, CO, which designs and produces handbags, wallets and cosmetics cases, while embracing principles of the Arts & Crafts movement.
* Laurel Moranz, of Skaneateles, who creates rayon chenille scarves, shawls and snoods.
* Ginny Spina, of Jamesville, who designs scarves made from vintage kimono silk.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TONY: 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Other New York: 2012 (Tony: 2012) is an ambitious project that aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project offers diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

The artists included in the SUArt Galleries TONY: 2012 are Tammy Brackett, Juan Cruz, Sara Di Donato, Matthew Glaysher, Amy Greenan, Sue Huggins Leopard, Barbara Page, James Skvarch.

The SUArt Galleries is one of 14 venues participating in this citywide celebration of the visual arts. Please take the time to visit the exhibitions at the other TONY venues to see the wealth of talent that resides and works upstate.

Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is celebrating the career and life of Karl Schrag, American painter and printmaker, who would have been 100 years old this year. "Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions" is the first major examination of the artist's work since his death in 1995. The exhibition includes 70 original works of art by the influential artist, including paintings, prints and drawings.

Syracuse University has had a long and rewarding association with Karl Schrag and his family. It began in 1962 with a gift of a gouache painting titled "Coast in Autumn." Later the relationship grew with the first of numerous exhibitions, more gifts of artwork, and occasional lectures to students in the University's School of Art. Some 50 years later, S.U.'s art collection is much richer because of the 250-plus Karl Schrag artworks we maintain, and the continued support of Schrag Family.

2012 is also the centenary year of Karl Schrag's birth and gives us an opportunity to reinvestigate the talent, imagination, and sensitivity Schrag brought to his landscapes, still-life paintings, and portraits. A master of color, light, composition, and draftsmanship, Schrag captures nature and its great forces through an investigation of the lasting impressions each of us retain through experience. He engages his viewer with subtle mark making as well as with the bold calligraphic strokes so often associated with his work. His palette of almost Fauvist intensity adds dimension and passion to the landscapes he created.

Schrag's art career spanned more than 60 years and he had strong ties to the New York City art scene. After studying at the Art Students League, he joined S.W. Hayter's prestigious printmaking studio Atelier 17, working alongside artists Miró, Chagall and Jackson Pollock. Schrag was named director of the Atelier in 1950 and later began a long teaching career at Cooper Union, where he taught drawing and graphic arts from 1954-1968. Schrag had a direct impact on many of his students, including the Syracuse University-based artist Jerome Witkin. A student of Schrag at Cooper Union and a well-established contemporary artist, Witkin has commented on Schrags masterful handling of the landscape, and the evocative power of his vision.

The art selected for this exhibit will convey the artist's ability to see the landscape as if for the first time, the surprise of that special view, the recognition of his ability to feel wonder when looking at nature or figures, and the reward associated with seeing the world through his eyes.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

The Other New York (TONY): 2012
XL Projects

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

XL Projects will present the work of seven artists selected for "The Other New York (TONY): 2012," a communitywide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition featuring artists currently living in New York State outside of the New York City metropolitan area.

The artists showing work at XL Projects -- Michael Barletta, Daniel Buckingham, Jay Carrier, Meredith Davenport, Kara Daving, Tom DeLooza, and Fernando Orellana -- are among the 63 artists selected from 235 submissions for TONY: 2012. The work that will be on view at XL includes large sculpture, video, photography, kinetic sculpture, large-scale painting, and a large window graphic across the front of the venue.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 art institutions and cultural organizations in Syracuse: ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours. For more information about TONY: 2012 and the other exhibiting artists and venues, visit everson.org.

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

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

There will be an artist reception this afternoon 2:00-4:00 pm.

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

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

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

eQuality Film Festival
AIDS Community Resources

Price: $10 per film, or $30 for Saturday/Sunday festival pass
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

2:00 pm: Outrage
A searing indictment of the hypocrisy of closeted elected officials who vote for anti-gay legislation. A talk back with local lawmakers will follow the film.

4:00 pm: Loose Cannons
The youngest son of a large, traditional southern Italian family decides to tell his parents the truth about himself.

(Followed by our "Coming Out" pasta dinner, $10)

7:30 pm: Beginners
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover. (Academy Award for Christopher Plummer)

Proceeds benefit the Q Center.

Sunday Musicale: The Loren Barrigar & Mark Mazengarb Duo
Fayetteville Free Library

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

Join us for to hear acoustic guitarist Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazengarb.

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

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

For more information, phone the Setnor School at 315-443-2191.

Free and accessible parking is available on campus in the Q1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in the Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

John Ledwon
Syracuse Wurlitzer

Price: $15 adults, $2 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

John Ledwon, a native Californian, has been playing the organ since he was 12 years old. His parents purchased him a three manual Wurlitzer when he was 15, and this sparked a lifelong interest in the theatre pipe organ.

John has toured the United States, Australia, and Europe on several occasions as a concert artist. In the past several years he has released eight recordings from his personally-designed 4-manual 52-rank Wurlitzer theatre organ formally installed in his Agoura, CA, home. John has since donated his home instrument to the Nethercutt Collection, and moved to Henderson, NV, a southern suburb of Las Vegas.

His latest recording, "MAGIC! The Music of the Mouse," includes many of the Disney selections that John uses in his position as staff organist at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, CA. Most recently, John is celebrating 10 years on the staff at Disney's El Capitan Theatre where he plays the former San Francisco Fox 4/37 Wurlitzer. While he plays music from all periods, he favors music that has been composed in the past 30 years. Come out and join us for a fun-filled evening!

Dormouse Series: Pinkalicious, The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
David Cotter, director

Price: $15 ages 13 and over, $12 ages 6-12, $10 ages 5 and under
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Pinkalicious can't stop eating pink cupcakes despite warnings from her parents. Her pink indulgence lands her at the doctor's office with Pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink, from head to toe -- a dream come true for this pink loving enthusiast. But when her hue goes too far, only Pinkalicious can figure out a way to get out of this predicament. Based on the popular children's book Pinkalicious by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann.

Book and lyrics by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann; music, lyrics and orchestrations by John Gregor. Choreographed by Jodi Bova-Mele.

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Merrily We Roll Along
Syracuse University Drama Department
Brian Cimmet, director

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

Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's legendary musical, Merrily We Roll Along, charts the rise of a songwriting team during the years of Sondheim's own young career. Starting in 1976 and running backward in time to 1955, this lively musical focuses on three individuals whose friendship is tested by time, events, ambition and fate. A masterly work by a master composer, Merrily We Roll Along features some of Sondheim's most brilliant and bruising songs, including "Not a Day Goes By," "Old Friends," "Our Time," and "Opening Doors."

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by George Furth based on the play Merrily We Roll Along by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

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Dormouse Series: Pinkalicious, The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
David Cotter, director

Price: $15 ages 13 and over, $12 ages 6-12, $10 ages 5 and under
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Pinkalicious can't stop eating pink cupcakes despite warnings from her parents. Her pink indulgence lands her at the doctor's office with Pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink, from head to toe -- a dream come true for this pink loving enthusiast. But when her hue goes too far, only Pinkalicious can figure out a way to get out of this predicament. Based on the popular children's book Pinkalicious by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann.

Book and lyrics by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann; music, lyrics and orchestrations by John Gregor. Choreographed by Jodi Bova-Mele.

Read a review!

Monday, October 1, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TONY: 2012: Ink Geographies
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Feels like writing, but the artist is quick to make clear that it is not. Signs, representations ... of what? A mental process, a journey, from diverse points of origin through our individual timelines, our personal twists and turns. As a script emerges, something is set free, though it leaves a mark, an imprint. The artist's essential playground is a space to explore geometric archetypes that can only be found inside one another; all are one. A sacred mandala? Images contract and expand and there is order, not chaos. No more chaotic than life emerging from the womb, contraction, expansion; a beating heart, where life is felt, contraction, expansion...an ever-expanding universe, contracts only to further expand. We don't know how to will it into action. A similar experience with ink takes form in this experiment by Oscar Garcés. It flows from a playful doodle, "el virus," he calls it. And before you know it, connects with something else, an altered state of consciousness. Everything else disappears as it takes over.

The Point of Contact Gallery presents the first solo show by Cuban-born, Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garcés, as part of The Other New York: TONY 2012, a community-wide biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 venues in Syracuse. This program also commemorates the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month at Point of Contact.

Born in Santiago, Cuba in 1987, Garcés came to the United States in 2000. During his years residing first in Florida, when he began to develop as a visual artist, Garcés received multiple recognitions, including a Golden Key Award for best portfolio by Scholastics. Later in Syracuse, Garcés won a "Best of Show" Award at the Community Folk Art Center in 2005. He has also shown his paintings at the Warehouse Gallery's Window Project and at La Casita Cultural Center Gallery.

TONY 2012: "The Other New York" seeks to highlight the work and talent of different rising artists from the Central New York area.

Phonography
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Cell phone photography, featuring works of 75 Central New York and international artists. Amazing, imaginative, creative, innovative, fun photos you'll love!

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

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

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

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

Investigations
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

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

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

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

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

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

Susan Worsham: Bittersweet/Bloodwork
Light Work Gallery

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

When Susan Worsham was just 18, her brother took his own life after severing his spinal cord in a motorcycle accident. As a young girl she had already lost her father to a heart attack, and finally in 2004, she lost her mother as well. In the words of Worsham, "Shortly after my mother passed I came across a set of antique veterinary slides. They were some of the most interesting things that I had ever seen. I framed ninety of them in a long wooden frame resembling the shape of the slide itself. It was the first piece of art that I made after my mother died. I called the piece a watercolor because of the collection of pastel colors, but it was also a sort of poem when you got close and read the titles ... Rabbit's Lung, Fowl's Spleen, and even Human Umbilical Cord. They seemed to hold beauty and death at the same time."

Worsham went on to photograph her old childhood home as well as her oldest neighbor, Margaret Daniel. Margaret is one of the last remaining threads from Worsham's childhood and was the last person to see her brother alive. She made him her homemade bread, and he finished the whole loaf before he shot himself. The story came full circle one day when Margaret brought out her dissection kit and microscope slides. She had been a biology teacher and was holding on to the same sort of slides that fascinated Worsham. Margaret's microscope and slides have since become a metaphor for Worsham's desire to look deeper into the landscape of her childhood--from the flora and fauna to the feelings, Margaret calls it "blood work."

In addition to Worsham's touching photographs made in and around Virginia, this exhibition features a selection of Margaret's dissection tools alongside her microscope, as well as audio recordings of their various conversations about plants, life, and death. All together, the photographs and accompaniments in Bittersweet/Bloodwork speak of the poetry of childhood, nature, discovery, love, and loss.

TONY: 2012
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Other New York: 2012," featuring the photographic work of Sarah Averill, Bang-Geul Han, Mark McLoughlin, Jan Nagle, and Matthew Walker. This exhibition is part of a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaborion among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

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

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

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Raw Revelations: The Reunion of Hand Tools and Production
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In recent years, the connection between process and product has slowly separated, creating a rift between the two. Consumers often do not know who is designing and constructing the products they buy. However, a rising movement is reuniting the experience of creating something by hand and the finished product. Craftspeople worldwide are continuing the tradition of working with their hands and their cherished hand tools, forging a connection with what they make.

This new exhibition illuminates the idea of this connection between history, design and craftsmanship through a sensory experience for the viewers. The show invites the public to learn about the history of hand tools and woodworking, witness part of the process of creating a wooden stool by hand and find out how to reconnect the process of creating something with the final product.

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street. For more information or to make group reservations, contact Bradley Hudson, exhibition facilitator, at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Gospel Celebration
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne College Chamber Orchestra and Singers

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

Join the Le Moyne College Chamber Orchestra and Singers in a celebration of Gospel Music! The concert will also feature the Syracuse Chapter of the Gospel Music Workshop of America, and will include stirring renditions of Gospel music favorites.

For more information, phone 315-445-4523.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TONY: 2012: Ink Geographies
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Feels like writing, but the artist is quick to make clear that it is not. Signs, representations ... of what? A mental process, a journey, from diverse points of origin through our individual timelines, our personal twists and turns. As a script emerges, something is set free, though it leaves a mark, an imprint. The artist's essential playground is a space to explore geometric archetypes that can only be found inside one another; all are one. A sacred mandala? Images contract and expand and there is order, not chaos. No more chaotic than life emerging from the womb, contraction, expansion; a beating heart, where life is felt, contraction, expansion...an ever-expanding universe, contracts only to further expand. We don't know how to will it into action. A similar experience with ink takes form in this experiment by Oscar Garcés. It flows from a playful doodle, "el virus," he calls it. And before you know it, connects with something else, an altered state of consciousness. Everything else disappears as it takes over.

The Point of Contact Gallery presents the first solo show by Cuban-born, Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garcés, as part of The Other New York: TONY 2012, a community-wide biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 venues in Syracuse. This program also commemorates the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month at Point of Contact.

Born in Santiago, Cuba in 1987, Garcés came to the United States in 2000. During his years residing first in Florida, when he began to develop as a visual artist, Garcés received multiple recognitions, including a Golden Key Award for best portfolio by Scholastics. Later in Syracuse, Garcés won a "Best of Show" Award at the Community Folk Art Center in 2005. He has also shown his paintings at the Warehouse Gallery's Window Project and at La Casita Cultural Center Gallery.

TONY 2012: "The Other New York" seeks to highlight the work and talent of different rising artists from the Central New York area.

Phonography
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Cell phone photography, featuring works of 75 Central New York and international artists. Amazing, imaginative, creative, innovative, fun photos you'll love!

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

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

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

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

Investigations
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

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

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

Play on Light
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

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

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

Susan Worsham: Bittersweet/Bloodwork
Light Work Gallery

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

When Susan Worsham was just 18, her brother took his own life after severing his spinal cord in a motorcycle accident. As a young girl she had already lost her father to a heart attack, and finally in 2004, she lost her mother as well. In the words of Worsham, "Shortly after my mother passed I came across a set of antique veterinary slides. They were some of the most interesting things that I had ever seen. I framed ninety of them in a long wooden frame resembling the shape of the slide itself. It was the first piece of art that I made after my mother died. I called the piece a watercolor because of the collection of pastel colors, but it was also a sort of poem when you got close and read the titles ... Rabbit's Lung, Fowl's Spleen, and even Human Umbilical Cord. They seemed to hold beauty and death at the same time."

Worsham went on to photograph her old childhood home as well as her oldest neighbor, Margaret Daniel. Margaret is one of the last remaining threads from Worsham's childhood and was the last person to see her brother alive. She made him her homemade bread, and he finished the whole loaf before he shot himself. The story came full circle one day when Margaret brought out her dissection kit and microscope slides. She had been a biology teacher and was holding on to the same sort of slides that fascinated Worsham. Margaret's microscope and slides have since become a metaphor for Worsham's desire to look deeper into the landscape of her childhood--from the flora and fauna to the feelings, Margaret calls it "blood work."

In addition to Worsham's touching photographs made in and around Virginia, this exhibition features a selection of Margaret's dissection tools alongside her microscope, as well as audio recordings of their various conversations about plants, life, and death. All together, the photographs and accompaniments in Bittersweet/Bloodwork speak of the poetry of childhood, nature, discovery, love, and loss.

TONY: 2012
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Other New York: 2012," featuring the photographic work of Sarah Averill, Bang-Geul Han, Mark McLoughlin, Jan Nagle, and Matthew Walker. This exhibition is part of a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaborion among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

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

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

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is celebrating the career and life of Karl Schrag, American painter and printmaker, who would have been 100 years old this year. "Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions" is the first major examination of the artist's work since his death in 1995. The exhibition includes 70 original works of art by the influential artist, including paintings, prints and drawings.

Syracuse University has had a long and rewarding association with Karl Schrag and his family. It began in 1962 with a gift of a gouache painting titled "Coast in Autumn." Later the relationship grew with the first of numerous exhibitions, more gifts of artwork, and occasional lectures to students in the University's School of Art. Some 50 years later, S.U.'s art collection is much richer because of the 250-plus Karl Schrag artworks we maintain, and the continued support of Schrag Family.

2012 is also the centenary year of Karl Schrag's birth and gives us an opportunity to reinvestigate the talent, imagination, and sensitivity Schrag brought to his landscapes, still-life paintings, and portraits. A master of color, light, composition, and draftsmanship, Schrag captures nature and its great forces through an investigation of the lasting impressions each of us retain through experience. He engages his viewer with subtle mark making as well as with the bold calligraphic strokes so often associated with his work. His palette of almost Fauvist intensity adds dimension and passion to the landscapes he created.

Schrag's art career spanned more than 60 years and he had strong ties to the New York City art scene. After studying at the Art Students League, he joined S.W. Hayter's prestigious printmaking studio Atelier 17, working alongside artists Miró, Chagall and Jackson Pollock. Schrag was named director of the Atelier in 1950 and later began a long teaching career at Cooper Union, where he taught drawing and graphic arts from 1954-1968. Schrag had a direct impact on many of his students, including the Syracuse University-based artist Jerome Witkin. A student of Schrag at Cooper Union and a well-established contemporary artist, Witkin has commented on Schrags masterful handling of the landscape, and the evocative power of his vision.

The art selected for this exhibit will convey the artist's ability to see the landscape as if for the first time, the surprise of that special view, the recognition of his ability to feel wonder when looking at nature or figures, and the reward associated with seeing the world through his eyes.

TONY: 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Other New York: 2012 (Tony: 2012) is an ambitious project that aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project offers diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

The artists included in the SUArt Galleries TONY: 2012 are Tammy Brackett, Juan Cruz, Sara Di Donato, Matthew Glaysher, Amy Greenan, Sue Huggins Leopard, Barbara Page, James Skvarch.

The SUArt Galleries is one of 14 venues participating in this citywide celebration of the visual arts. Please take the time to visit the exhibitions at the other TONY venues to see the wealth of talent that resides and works upstate.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lov U
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

life. love. time travel.
Echo

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

Group show of works by over 20 artists.

Raw Revelations: The Reunion of Hand Tools and Production
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In recent years, the connection between process and product has slowly separated, creating a rift between the two. Consumers often do not know who is designing and constructing the products they buy. However, a rising movement is reuniting the experience of creating something by hand and the finished product. Craftspeople worldwide are continuing the tradition of working with their hands and their cherished hand tools, forging a connection with what they make.

This new exhibition illuminates the idea of this connection between history, design and craftsmanship through a sensory experience for the viewers. The show invites the public to learn about the history of hand tools and woodworking, witness part of the process of creating a wooden stool by hand and find out how to reconnect the process of creating something with the final product.

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street. For more information or to make group reservations, contact Bradley Hudson, exhibition facilitator, at bjhudson@syr.edu.

TONY 2012: Karen Brummund
Urban Video Project

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

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

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

Video projection begins at dusk.

Refugee Film Series: Welcome to Shelbyville
Onondaga Citizens League

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

The film will be followed by a moderated discussion.

Parking is available behind the building. For information, visit the OCL website, email ocl@syr.edu, or call 315-443-4846.

Larry Rosen, music entrepreneur
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Legendary music entrepreneur Larry Rosen, co-founder of the contemporary jazz label GRP Records, will discuss music entrepreneurship.

Rosen's visit coincides with the 30th anniversary of GRP Records, which he founded with award-winning pianist/composer Dave Grusin, and with the fifth anniversary of Rosen's "Jazz Roots," which Quincy Jones calls the "most important new concert and educational jazz series in America."

A musician, producer, and music entrepreneur, Rosen is chair of Larry Rosen Productions Inc. and ROBA Interactive. Also, he is co-founder and past chair of N2K; creator and producer of the PBS television series "Legends of Jazz;" and creator and producer of the multimedia television series "RECORDING: The History of Recorded Music," co-hosted by Jones and Phil Ramone.

Rosen has served as producer or executive producer of more than 350 albums, of which 80 have been nominated for GrammyAwards and 33 have won. He also has produced numerous award-winning film/video productions and television specials.

Local Code / Real Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Nicholas de Monchaux

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Nicholas de Monchaux is assistant professor of architecture and urban design, University of California, Berkeley, and an architect and urbanist whose work explores the intersections between nature, technology, and the city. The work of de Monchaux's design studio is currently being featured in the U.S. Pavilion of the 13th Venice Biennale.

Artist Talk: Karen Brummund
Urban Video Project

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

UVP TONY:2012 artist, Karen Brummund, will give an artist talk. A special Tuesday night screening of her site-specific piece celebrating the Everson's architecture, "401 Harrison Street," will follow the talk on the Everson Community Plaza.

Syracuse Opera Resident Artists in Concert
Temple Society of Concord

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Performance of opera and show tunes by some of America's most talented young singers.

Violinist James Ehnes
LeMoyne College

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $5 students
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Grammy winning violinist James Ehnes and pianist Andrew Russo will present a recital featuring Bach Partita in D minor for solo violin, Prokofiev Sonata No. 2 in D major, and Paul Schoenfield's Four Souvenirs.

For more information, call 315-445-4523.

*POSTPONED* College Invasion Tour 2012
Tiesto

Price: $45, $102
OnCenter Convention Center
800 South State St., Syracuse

Due to an injury, the performance has been rescheduled to Feb. 19, 2013. Tickets purchased for Oct. 2 will be honored for the February concert.

Dada Life, originally scheduled to play with Tiësto, will still be playing in Syracuse on 10/2 at 10:00 pm at The Westcott Theater.

Steve Gorn, bamboo flute
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Steve Gorn has performed Indian Classical Music and new American Music on the bansuri bamboo flute in concerts and festivals throughout the world. His gurus are the late bansuri master Sri Gour Goswami, of Kolkata, and Pandit Raghunath Seth of Mumbai, who he has often accompanies in concert. He has also studied with the late Ustad Z. M. Dagar. During the past decade Steve has often performed in India, appearing at Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal, Triveni Hall in New Delhi, The Sangeet Research Academy in Kolkata, NCPA, and The Nehru Center in Mumbai, and numerous other venues. His performance with Pandit Ravi Shankar's disciple, Barun Kumar Pal, at Kolkata's Rama Krishna Mission, was televised throughout India. His numerous recordings include Luminous Ragas, the landmark Indian-Jazz fusion recording, Asian Journal, Pranam a jugalbandi with Barun Kumar Pal playing hansaveena, and Samir Chatterjee, tabla. His latest recording is Rasika, with tabla by Samir Chatterjee.

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.

Dada Life
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Black and Banned: A Community-wide Read-Out

Price: Free
Beauchamp Public Library
Corner S. Salina & Colvin Sts., Syracuse

Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Toni Morrison and Alice Walker and internationally renowned author and humanitarian Maya Angelou share a common bond -- their books have been banned, challenged or rejected in public schools and libraries across the United States.

"Black and Banned: A Community Read-Out" will feature contemporary and historical African-American authors whose works have been censored.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TONY: 2012: Ink Geographies
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Feels like writing, but the artist is quick to make clear that it is not. Signs, representations ... of what? A mental process, a journey, from diverse points of origin through our individual timelines, our personal twists and turns. As a script emerges, something is set free, though it leaves a mark, an imprint. The artist's essential playground is a space to explore geometric archetypes that can only be found inside one another; all are one. A sacred mandala? Images contract and expand and there is order, not chaos. No more chaotic than life emerging from the womb, contraction, expansion; a beating heart, where life is felt, contraction, expansion...an ever-expanding universe, contracts only to further expand. We don't know how to will it into action. A similar experience with ink takes form in this experiment by Oscar Garcés. It flows from a playful doodle, "el virus," he calls it. And before you know it, connects with something else, an altered state of consciousness. Everything else disappears as it takes over.

The Point of Contact Gallery presents the first solo show by Cuban-born, Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garcés, as part of The Other New York: TONY 2012, a community-wide biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 venues in Syracuse. This program also commemorates the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month at Point of Contact.

Born in Santiago, Cuba in 1987, Garcés came to the United States in 2000. During his years residing first in Florida, when he began to develop as a visual artist, Garcés received multiple recognitions, including a Golden Key Award for best portfolio by Scholastics. Later in Syracuse, Garcés won a "Best of Show" Award at the Community Folk Art Center in 2005. He has also shown his paintings at the Warehouse Gallery's Window Project and at La Casita Cultural Center Gallery.

TONY 2012: "The Other New York" seeks to highlight the work and talent of different rising artists from the Central New York area.

Phonography
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Cell phone photography, featuring works of 75 Central New York and international artists. Amazing, imaginative, creative, innovative, fun photos you'll love!

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

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

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

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

Investigations
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

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

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

Play on Light
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

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

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

Susan Worsham: Bittersweet/Bloodwork
Light Work Gallery

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

When Susan Worsham was just 18, her brother took his own life after severing his spinal cord in a motorcycle accident. As a young girl she had already lost her father to a heart attack, and finally in 2004, she lost her mother as well. In the words of Worsham, "Shortly after my mother passed I came across a set of antique veterinary slides. They were some of the most interesting things that I had ever seen. I framed ninety of them in a long wooden frame resembling the shape of the slide itself. It was the first piece of art that I made after my mother died. I called the piece a watercolor because of the collection of pastel colors, but it was also a sort of poem when you got close and read the titles ... Rabbit's Lung, Fowl's Spleen, and even Human Umbilical Cord. They seemed to hold beauty and death at the same time."

Worsham went on to photograph her old childhood home as well as her oldest neighbor, Margaret Daniel. Margaret is one of the last remaining threads from Worsham's childhood and was the last person to see her brother alive. She made him her homemade bread, and he finished the whole loaf before he shot himself. The story came full circle one day when Margaret brought out her dissection kit and microscope slides. She had been a biology teacher and was holding on to the same sort of slides that fascinated Worsham. Margaret's microscope and slides have since become a metaphor for Worsham's desire to look deeper into the landscape of her childhood--from the flora and fauna to the feelings, Margaret calls it "blood work."

In addition to Worsham's touching photographs made in and around Virginia, this exhibition features a selection of Margaret's dissection tools alongside her microscope, as well as audio recordings of their various conversations about plants, life, and death. All together, the photographs and accompaniments in Bittersweet/Bloodwork speak of the poetry of childhood, nature, discovery, love, and loss.

TONY: 2012
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Other New York: 2012," featuring the photographic work of Sarah Averill, Bang-Geul Han, Mark McLoughlin, Jan Nagle, and Matthew Walker. This exhibition is part of a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaborion among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

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

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

An American Vision: East Meets West
Szozda Gallery

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

The fall season opens with new works by two popular local artists, Phil Parsons and Bob Niedzwiecki, who reveal the striking beauty between vastly different American landscapes of lush vegetation versus dry earth.

For Parsons, this show represents the latest installment of his familiar "Roadside Series," in which rural Central New York is prominent. This series of new images is done with a commitment to the realist movement, somewhat a departure for Parsons who says he is "not exclusively a traditional painter."

New works by realist painter Niedzwiecki deviate from the gentle, subtle Central New York landscapes for which he is typically known. A vacation return to the Southwest became the inspiration for capturing the beauty of landscapes that he fell in love with long before while living in Colorado and Arizona.

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is celebrating the career and life of Karl Schrag, American painter and printmaker, who would have been 100 years old this year. "Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions" is the first major examination of the artist's work since his death in 1995. The exhibition includes 70 original works of art by the influential artist, including paintings, prints and drawings.

Syracuse University has had a long and rewarding association with Karl Schrag and his family. It began in 1962 with a gift of a gouache painting titled "Coast in Autumn." Later the relationship grew with the first of numerous exhibitions, more gifts of artwork, and occasional lectures to students in the University's School of Art. Some 50 years later, S.U.'s art collection is much richer because of the 250-plus Karl Schrag artworks we maintain, and the continued support of Schrag Family.

2012 is also the centenary year of Karl Schrag's birth and gives us an opportunity to reinvestigate the talent, imagination, and sensitivity Schrag brought to his landscapes, still-life paintings, and portraits. A master of color, light, composition, and draftsmanship, Schrag captures nature and its great forces through an investigation of the lasting impressions each of us retain through experience. He engages his viewer with subtle mark making as well as with the bold calligraphic strokes so often associated with his work. His palette of almost Fauvist intensity adds dimension and passion to the landscapes he created.

Schrag's art career spanned more than 60 years and he had strong ties to the New York City art scene. After studying at the Art Students League, he joined S.W. Hayter's prestigious printmaking studio Atelier 17, working alongside artists Miró, Chagall and Jackson Pollock. Schrag was named director of the Atelier in 1950 and later began a long teaching career at Cooper Union, where he taught drawing and graphic arts from 1954-1968. Schrag had a direct impact on many of his students, including the Syracuse University-based artist Jerome Witkin. A student of Schrag at Cooper Union and a well-established contemporary artist, Witkin has commented on Schrags masterful handling of the landscape, and the evocative power of his vision.

The art selected for this exhibit will convey the artist's ability to see the landscape as if for the first time, the surprise of that special view, the recognition of his ability to feel wonder when looking at nature or figures, and the reward associated with seeing the world through his eyes.

TONY: 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Other New York: 2012 (Tony: 2012) is an ambitious project that aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project offers diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

The artists included in the SUArt Galleries TONY: 2012 are Tammy Brackett, Juan Cruz, Sara Di Donato, Matthew Glaysher, Amy Greenan, Sue Huggins Leopard, Barbara Page, James Skvarch.

The SUArt Galleries is one of 14 venues participating in this citywide celebration of the visual arts. Please take the time to visit the exhibitions at the other TONY venues to see the wealth of talent that resides and works upstate.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lov U
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

The Other New York (TONY): 2012
XL Projects

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

XL Projects will present the work of seven artists selected for "The Other New York (TONY): 2012," a communitywide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition featuring artists currently living in New York State outside of the New York City metropolitan area.

The artists showing work at XL Projects -- Michael Barletta, Daniel Buckingham, Jay Carrier, Meredith Davenport, Kara Daving, Tom DeLooza, and Fernando Orellana -- are among the 63 artists selected from 235 submissions for TONY: 2012. The work that will be on view at XL includes large sculpture, video, photography, kinetic sculpture, large-scale painting, and a large window graphic across the front of the venue.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 art institutions and cultural organizations in Syracuse: ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours. For more information about TONY: 2012 and the other exhibiting artists and venues, visit everson.org.

life. love. time travel.
Echo

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

Group show of works by over 20 artists.

Raw Revelations: The Reunion of Hand Tools and Production
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In recent years, the connection between process and product has slowly separated, creating a rift between the two. Consumers often do not know who is designing and constructing the products they buy. However, a rising movement is reuniting the experience of creating something by hand and the finished product. Craftspeople worldwide are continuing the tradition of working with their hands and their cherished hand tools, forging a connection with what they make.

This new exhibition illuminates the idea of this connection between history, design and craftsmanship through a sensory experience for the viewers. The show invites the public to learn about the history of hand tools and woodworking, witness part of the process of creating a wooden stool by hand and find out how to reconnect the process of creating something with the final product.

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street. For more information or to make group reservations, contact Bradley Hudson, exhibition facilitator, at bjhudson@syr.edu.

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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

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Isabel Wilkerson
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

Price: $25
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Isabel Wilkerson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and the author of The New York Times’ bestseller, The Warmth of Other Suns which won seven awards including the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times in 1994, making her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African American to win for individual reporting.  She speaks on topics such as migration, social injustice, urban affairs and 20th Century history. Wilkerson also won the George Polk Award, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named the Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists.

Postcard from Home
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Allison Adams, saxophone; Liz Ames, piano

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

New Ithaca College faculty members perform music by Karl Husa, Ronald Caravan, Dana Wilson, Nicolas Scherzinger, and Gregory Wanamaker.

This recital is presented in collaboration with The Other New York (TONY: 2012) art exhibits.

*CANCELLED* The Firepower Tour: Datsik, with Griz, Rekoil
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Cancelled due to ceiling problems at the theater.

All tickets previously purchased for the Oct. 3, 201, show will be honored at this show.

Merrily We Roll Along
Syracuse University Drama Department
Brian Cimmet, director

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

Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's legendary musical, Merrily We Roll Along, charts the rise of a songwriting team during the years of Sondheim's own young career. Starting in 1976 and running backward in time to 1955, this lively musical focuses on three individuals whose friendship is tested by time, events, ambition and fate. A masterly work by a master composer, Merrily We Roll Along features some of Sondheim's most brilliant and bruising songs, including "Not a Day Goes By," "Old Friends," "Our Time," and "Opening Doors."

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by George Furth based on the play Merrily We Roll Along by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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