Monday, September 30, 2013

LeMoyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of new work by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore and Zach Dunn will be on display. The four artists are all members of LeMoyne's visual and performing arts department.

Waking Dreams: Word and Image: Works by Terry McMaster
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Terry McMaster is a social worker for Catholic Charities and teaches human services for Columbia College. His painted images manifest from the realm of the unconscious both personal and collective. His photographs take images from the built environment and from nature, and attempt to reveal a deeper reality than what is visible on the surface.

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.

Afro-Brazilian Syncretism: Works by Oscar Manjarres

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

This collection represents a natural human garden of emotions. Oscar starts making art properly after he recognizes what is reflected on the paper, finishing it with color on mixed media to obtain the desired results.

Fictional Reality and Radical Sanity: A Girl in Progress
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A solo show that celebrates the art of Syracuse-based Pop Surreal/Lowbrow painter Eugenia Mancini Horan.

"Using fingers instead of brushes, my goal is to use color, subject, and simplicity to try to tap back into the psyche we had as children. The world was bold and vibrant. We were playful, devious, and mischievous without fear. And the world was ours, just ours, for the asking. Time teaches us to color in the lines; aging expects us to act like adults. I reject that stigma in my life and in my work," says Mancini.

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

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

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

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

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Out on a Limb
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

New work by ceramist Terry Askey-Cole and painter Lisa Noviasky.

Adirondack ABCs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of original artwork from the children's book Adirondack ABCs, written by Joyce Burgess Snavlin and illustrated by Linda Davis Reed. The book introduces young readers to the alphabet through Adirondack scenes and icons, such as bears and beavers, frogs and ferns, lean-tos and loons. Original artwork from the book was exhibited this past spring at View Art Center's Eco Gallery, in Old Forge.

2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

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Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

Bachelor Mother (1939)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Garson Kanin. Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn.

A single girl (Rogers) finds herself becoming the guardian for an abandoned baby. Ginger shines in this delightful screwball comedy.

Mike Stud, with Justina, Iamg, Deven Coleman, DJ Jett
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

LeMoyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of new work by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore and Zach Dunn will be on display. The four artists are all members of LeMoyne's visual and performing arts department.

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Re-emergence
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

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

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

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

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

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

Creative Rapport
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Mary Padgett shows her pastel florals, still lifes, and landscapes reflecting her passion for color, light and texture.
Wendy Harris, a former student of Mary Padgett, exhibits her interpretations of light and texture through cloudscape and landscape pastel paintings.
Michelle DaRin exhibits enamel and mixed media jewelry.
Stephen Brucker displays his art glass forms drawing attention to the delicacy and impermanence of nature.

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

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

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

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

Read a review!

Meet the Pen Women
Gallery One Fourteen

Gallery One Fourteen
114 Helen St., Syracuse

An exhibit of the visual and literary work of members of the CNY Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

Read a review!

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their art.

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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Pops Playlist
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Chamber Orchestra and Singers

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

Join the Le Moyne College Chamber Orchestra and Singers for a memorable night of pop tunes from U2, Elton John, Journey, Neil Diamond, Aretha Franklin, and many more!

For more information and to purchase tickets, phone 315-445-4200.

Bill Horrace Trio: History of Music Guest Artist Series
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

Blithe Spirit
Syracuse Stage
Michael Barakeva, director

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

The funniest ghost story ever written. Novelist Charles Condomine enlists Madame Arcati, one of the most delightfully eccentric characters you will ever meet, to hold a séance at his home hoping to raise some ideas for a new book. Instead, she raises the ghost of his former wife, Elvira, who is determined to wreak havoc (and succeeds) on Charles' current marriage to Ruth. Recently revived on Broadway to hilarious effect, Blithe Spirit is one of Noel Coward's most sparkling comedies.

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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

LeMoyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of new work by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore and Zach Dunn will be on display. The four artists are all members of LeMoyne's visual and performing arts department.

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

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

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

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

There will be artist receptions today at 11:30 am-12:30 pm and 5:30-7:30 pm.

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

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

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

Re-emergence
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

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

Creative Rapport
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Mary Padgett shows her pastel florals, still lifes, and landscapes reflecting her passion for color, light and texture.
Wendy Harris, a former student of Mary Padgett, exhibits her interpretations of light and texture through cloudscape and landscape pastel paintings.
Michelle DaRin exhibits enamel and mixed media jewelry.
Stephen Brucker displays his art glass forms drawing attention to the delicacy and impermanence of nature.

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

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

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

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

Read a review!

Meet the Pen Women
Gallery One Fourteen

Gallery One Fourteen
114 Helen St., Syracuse

An exhibit of the visual and literary work of members of the CNY Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

Read a review!

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their art.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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Advanced Painting
XL Projects

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

Advanced Painting is an exhibition of recent work by senior and graduate painting students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts Department of Art.

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

Combat Paper Redux
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, we have brought "Combat Paper" back to Syracuse! An earlier version of this exhibit featuring images on paper made out of shredded combat uniforms was our Grand Opening exhibition in October 2008. The Combat Paper project began as art therapy utilizing paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and yes...Vietnam.

While anti-war activists are portrayed as unpatriotic and focused only on the negative, the project has proven to have a positive impact on veterans, serving as a visceral statement of the long-lasting effects of combat and as a catalyst for community discussion and activism. The art comes to us from all across this country with a special nod to the work from the Combat Paper Studio in Ithaca.

A companion piece to the paper-making project is the Warrior Writers' Project where veterans are encouraged through workshops to write about their feelings since coming home. The words have been printed on hand-made combat paper and bound into books. This project provides an opportunity for veterans to come together and connect, reconcile and heal through sharing their words with each other. We will feature a Warrior Writers' event and journal making workshop with vets from Ithaca during the exhibition.

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The Golden Era of Hollywood: The Film Posters of Silvano Campeggi
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $75 for 1/$125 for 2
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

As a young artist/illustrator Silvano Campeggi was invited to Hollywood to work with the stars, creating iconic film poster images that have become a part of our culture. Now at 91, "Nano" Campeggi has himself become an
iconic legend in the film poster world.

The Syracuse International Film Festival will open its 10th Anniversary Celebration with an exhibition of 20 pieces selected from the Maestro's collection, The Golden Era of Hollywood. Honored in his home city of Florence, Maestro Campeggi will now be honored in Syracuse with the Festival's Lifelong Achievement Award, the "Sophia."

Join us at an Italian Appertivo reception (food stations and beverages) to celebrate the Maestro, the exhibition, and his life work. Your event ticket also includes a Festival 10th Anniversary wine glass and a single pass to a festival screening of your choice Oct. 3-6.

The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

Lunchtime Lecture: A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Join SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono as he tours the exhibition that includes 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian.

Bookends
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Deborah Coble, flute; Sar-Shalom Strong, piano

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

Two pieces by Italian composer Alfredo Casella enclose music with an international flair.

The Cud Life Tour 2013
Featuring Kid Cudi

Price: $40
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Big Sean and Logic will also perform. Kid Cudi is sure to perform hits off his latest release, Indicud.

Guest Artist Series: The Attacca Quartet
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

Freeway Tour Night 1: Flux Pavilion, with Cookie Monsta, Brown and Gammon, Synchronice
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Blithe Spirit
Syracuse Stage
Michael Barakeva, director

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

The funniest ghost story ever written. Novelist Charles Condomine enlists Madame Arcati, one of the most delightfully eccentric characters you will ever meet, to hold a séance at his home hoping to raise some ideas for a new book. Instead, she raises the ghost of his former wife, Elvira, who is determined to wreak havoc (and succeeds) on Charles' current marriage to Ruth. Recently revived on Broadway to hilarious effect, Blithe Spirit is one of Noel Coward's most sparkling comedies.

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Thursday, October 3, 2013

LeMoyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of new work by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore and Zach Dunn will be on display. The four artists are all members of LeMoyne's visual and performing arts department.

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

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

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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

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

Re-emergence
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

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

Creative Rapport
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Mary Padgett shows her pastel florals, still lifes, and landscapes reflecting her passion for color, light and texture.
Wendy Harris, a former student of Mary Padgett, exhibits her interpretations of light and texture through cloudscape and landscape pastel paintings.
Michelle DaRin exhibits enamel and mixed media jewelry.
Stephen Brucker displays his art glass forms drawing attention to the delicacy and impermanence of nature.

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

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

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

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

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Meet the Pen Women
Gallery One Fourteen

Gallery One Fourteen
114 Helen St., Syracuse

An exhibit of the visual and literary work of members of the CNY Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

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2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

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

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their art.

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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Advanced Painting
XL Projects

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

Advanced Painting is an exhibition of recent work by senior and graduate painting students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts Department of Art.

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

Combat Paper Redux
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, we have brought "Combat Paper" back to Syracuse! An earlier version of this exhibit featuring images on paper made out of shredded combat uniforms was our Grand Opening exhibition in October 2008. The Combat Paper project began as art therapy utilizing paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and yes...Vietnam.

While anti-war activists are portrayed as unpatriotic and focused only on the negative, the project has proven to have a positive impact on veterans, serving as a visceral statement of the long-lasting effects of combat and as a catalyst for community discussion and activism. The art comes to us from all across this country with a special nod to the work from the Combat Paper Studio in Ithaca.

A companion piece to the paper-making project is the Warrior Writers' Project where veterans are encouraged through workshops to write about their feelings since coming home. The words have been printed on hand-made combat paper and bound into books. This project provides an opportunity for veterans to come together and connect, reconcile and heal through sharing their words with each other. We will feature a Warrior Writers' event and journal making workshop with vets from Ithaca during the exhibition.

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Platonic: Dani Leventhal
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Dani Leventhal's Platonic, geometric specters twirl in space; pet cats foam at the mouth; a little boy mistakes his junkie dad for a superhero; and a confused adolescent worries he has sired a centaur. Platonic references both the ancient philosopher's metaphysics of ideal Forms, which simultaneously exist outside our perceptions and yet give rise to them, and the related meaning in common parlance of non-romantic love. Leventhal trains her searching lens on the distance separating bodies, moments, and perspectives. The result is a study in the awkward gaps between appearance and reality, seeing and understanding, desire and its object. (21:33 minutes)

Wartorn: 1861-2010
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Wartorn, an HBO documentary about post-traumatic stress disorder, is the second documentary about veterans' issues that the filmmakers Jon Alpert and Ellen Goosenberg Kent and the actor James Gandolfini have collaborated on. Part of its mission is to see that its subject is taken seriously. It also has its share of quietly devastating, haunting scenes, echoes of the nightmares that veterans are bringing home with them from Iraq and Afghanistan. This screening will be followed by a discussion facilitated by Bill Cross, specializing in trauma therapy. (75 minutes)

IT: Silent Film with Live Music
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $20 for 1/$35 for 2 regular; $15 for 1/$25 for 2 AARP members. ("For 2" price only available at the door)
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Starring the beautiful Clara Bow, IT is the movie that made popular the craze for red lipstick, "bobbed" hair, and the flapper style of dress. With an orchestra of local professional musicians conducted by Travis Newton, this is an event not to be missed. The music will be world-class since Patrick Doyle's movie scores include Donnie Brasco, Carlito's Way, Harry Potter & the Golden Goblet, Brave, Hamlet, Henry V, Gosford Park, and many more. If you've never seen a silent film with live music, the time is now! (1927, 72 minutes)

There will be a post-event party at 9:00 pm, $40 for 1/$75 for 2. Includes food, beverage and complimentary 10th anniversary wine glass.

The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

Meredith Monk: A Celebration Service
Arts Engage

Plymouth Church
232 E. Onondaga St., Syracuse

Tonight's performance is only for faculty, staff and students with SU/ESF I.D. Saturday's performance is open to the general public.

A Celebration Service will be performed by the M6 Ensemble, a vocal ensemble dedicated to continuing the Meredith Monk legacy, and a cast from Syracuse University and the Syracuse community. Celebration Service combines Monk's compositions, chants and prayers from many different cultures into a celebration of community while emphasizing the search for meaning and connection through ritual.

For more information, contact Hannah Nast at SU Arts Engage at hbnast@syr.edu.

OperaWorks Masterclass Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Ann Baltz

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

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

Freeway Tour Night 2: Flux Pavilion, with Cookie Monsta, Brown and Gammon, Direktor
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Low Noon
Acme Mystery Company

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

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

Mimi Kennedy Finds Matilda Joslyn Gage

Price: $20 regular, $75 VIP (includes private reception with actress)
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mimi Kennedy, actress/activist/writer, will perform her original one woman show, Mimi Kennedy Finds Matilda Joslyn Gage. Ms. Kennedy is often remembered for her role of Dharma's "hippy mom" in the long-running television sitcom, Dharma and Gregg, and most recently for her film work including her appearance in Woody Allen's 2011 film, Midnight in Paris.

The performance explores Mimi's personal experience of discovering the life of Matilda Joslyn Gage, the visionary of women's rights and human liberation who was a leader in the political action of the 19th-century woman suffrage movement. This performance is a special fundraiser with proceeds to benefit the Girl Ambassador for Human Rights Program as well as the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation and the Everson Museum of Art.

Tickets are available online and by phone as well as at the Everson Welcome Desk on the day of the performance. To purchase tickets, call the Gage Center at 315-637-9511, or visit www.matildajoslyngage.org/mimi-kennedy-finds-matilda-joslyn-gage or www.everson.org/visit/tickets.php.

Blithe Spirit
Syracuse Stage
Michael Barakeva, director

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

The funniest ghost story ever written. Novelist Charles Condomine enlists Madame Arcati, one of the most delightfully eccentric characters you will ever meet, to hold a séance at his home hoping to raise some ideas for a new book. Instead, she raises the ghost of his former wife, Elvira, who is determined to wreak havoc (and succeeds) on Charles' current marriage to Ruth. Recently revived on Broadway to hilarious effect, Blithe Spirit is one of Noel Coward's most sparkling comedies.

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Punchlines
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A new comedy written and directed by student Joe Bates.

Preview: Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

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

This rock and roll musical tells the story of America's first political maverick. A.J. kicked British butt, shafted the Indians and smacked down the Spaniards all in the name of these United States—who cares if he didn't have permission? Music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, book by Alex Timbers.

There will be a talk-back session following the performance with director Stephen Svoboda and the cast.

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Friday, October 4, 2013

LeMoyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of new work by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore and Zach Dunn will be on display. The four artists are all members of LeMoyne's visual and performing arts department.

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

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

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Gallery Exhibit: Kevin Mullins, Primary Concerns
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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

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

Re-emergence
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wanderings: Works by Rachael Ikins
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

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

Creative Rapport
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Mary Padgett shows her pastel florals, still lifes, and landscapes reflecting her passion for color, light and texture.
Wendy Harris, a former student of Mary Padgett, exhibits her interpretations of light and texture through cloudscape and landscape pastel paintings.
Michelle DaRin exhibits enamel and mixed media jewelry.
Stephen Brucker displays his art glass forms drawing attention to the delicacy and impermanence of nature.

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

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

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

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

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Meet the Pen Women
Gallery One Fourteen

Gallery One Fourteen
114 Helen St., Syracuse

An exhibit of the visual and literary work of members of the CNY Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

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Opening: Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

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

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

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their art.

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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Advanced Painting
XL Projects

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

Advanced Painting is an exhibition of recent work by senior and graduate painting students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts Department of Art.

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

Combat Paper Redux
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, we have brought "Combat Paper" back to Syracuse! An earlier version of this exhibit featuring images on paper made out of shredded combat uniforms was our Grand Opening exhibition in October 2008. The Combat Paper project began as art therapy utilizing paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and yes...Vietnam.

While anti-war activists are portrayed as unpatriotic and focused only on the negative, the project has proven to have a positive impact on veterans, serving as a visceral statement of the long-lasting effects of combat and as a catalyst for community discussion and activism. The art comes to us from all across this country with a special nod to the work from the Combat Paper Studio in Ithaca.

A companion piece to the paper-making project is the Warrior Writers' Project where veterans are encouraged through workshops to write about their feelings since coming home. The words have been printed on hand-made combat paper and bound into books. This project provides an opportunity for veterans to come together and connect, reconcile and heal through sharing their words with each other. We will feature a Warrior Writers' event and journal making workshop with vets from Ithaca during the exhibition.

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

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

Platonic: Dani Leventhal
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Dani Leventhal's Platonic, geometric specters twirl in space; pet cats foam at the mouth; a little boy mistakes his junkie dad for a superhero; and a confused adolescent worries he has sired a centaur. Platonic references both the ancient philosopher's metaphysics of ideal Forms, which simultaneously exist outside our perceptions and yet give rise to them, and the related meaning in common parlance of non-romantic love. Leventhal trains her searching lens on the distance separating bodies, moments, and perspectives. The result is a study in the awkward gaps between appearance and reality, seeing and understanding, desire and its object. (21:33 minutes)

Bank Show
Syracuse Improv Collective

Price: $5
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The Syracuse Improv Collective brings their monthly "Bank Show" to the CNY Playhouse. The Collective specializes in bringing a show like no other combining long form improv with musical acts and stand up comedy. You never know what the SIC has in store.

Director Joel Schumacher: Falling Down
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 for 1/$25 for 2 ("For 2" price only available at the door)
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Falling Down starring Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, and Barbara Hershey. Meet Hollywood director Joel Schumacher and hear him talk about his films. The director of St. Elmo's Fire, The Lost Boys, Flatliners, and Phantom of the Opera, among others, will show one of his favorite films. Schumacher has been a major director/writer/producer/sound and costume designer since 1972. He will receive the Festival's award for Filmmaking Achievement, the Sophia, as a part of this event. His many awards and nominations include the Palme d'Or at Cannes, the Golden Bear at Berlin, the Golden Globe, and the Oscar.

Pre-event Happy Hour: 5:00pm, $10 at the door. Glass of wine or beer, snacks and cash bar beverages available.

Rediscovering World Cinema: Orson Welles, Citizen Kane
ArtRage Gallery

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

We are proud to present this film tribute to the legendary Orson Welles even as Eastman House premieres a lost Welles film made in 1937.

After an aged publishing tycoon dies, reporters rush to uncover the meaning of the mysterious last word he uttered. So begins Orson Welles' first and undeniably most significant film. When Hollywood beckoned, Welles was a boy wonder on Broadway and Golden-Age radio. He brought to film a clever sense of sound, bravura showmanship, and NYC acting colleagues. Welles boldly based Kane on real-life media baron William Randolph Hearst. The result: a sensational work that dramatized myths of American capitalism, explored new film angles, and gave us "the biggest cinematic landmark since pictures started moving" (Total Film). (1941, 119 minutes)

FilmTalks: Heroes of Horror
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 for 1/$25 for 2 ("For 2" price only available at the door)
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Meet Joe Lynch and Adam Green in a show-and-tell program about their work in the horror film genre. Lynch is a Syracuse University BFA film alum and Green is a graduate from Hofstra. This program is also the 2013-2014 kick off for the very popular FilmTalks series, sponsored by LeMoyne College. This late night program will include the screening Lynch's Wrong Turn 2, Green's Frozen, and an episode from their TV series Holliston.

The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

Syracuse Opera Resident Artist Program
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Pops Series: From Symphoria With Love--The Music of James Bond
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Sean O'Loughlin, conductor
Featuring Kate Shindle, vocalist

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

Join Symphoria as it takes us on an adventure with the music of James Bond, Mission: Impossible, The Man from UNCLE, Peter Gunn, The Pink Panther, Austin Powers, and more.

Due to illness, Karen Mason will not be able to join us for our opening Pops concert. She has been replaced by Miss America 1998 and Broadway star Kate Shindle. Ms. Shindle has starred in Jekyll & Hyde, Cabaret, Legally Blonde, and Wonderland. She is also a former correspondant for NBC's Today, and had numerous appearances in film and TV, including The Stepford Wives, Capote, White Collar, and Gossip Girl.

The Barn Birds: Jonathan Byrd & Chris Kokesh
Folkus Project

Price: $15 regular, $12 members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Barn Birds are Jonathan Byrd & Chris Kokesh, two of the most exciting and original musicians on the folk scene today. Byrd is well known to Folkus, having appeared in our series regularly over the past decade or so. He's been called "one of the top 50 songwriters of the last 50 years," by Rich Warren of WFMT. He blends traditional styles and modern sensibilities as he spins his tales of love, life, and death in America. Recently, Jonathan won a 2011 SESAC Americana Music Award beside Bob Dylan, Seth Avett, Hayes Carll, and Jim Lauderdale. "This rootsy North Carolinian may be the most buzzed-about new songwriter in folkdom," said Scott Alarik, Boston Globe. "He displays John Prine's gift for stark little songs that tell big, complex stories, Guy Clark's lean melodicism, Lyle Lovett's wry mischief, and Bill Morrissey's knack for the revealing image." He's joined now by Kokesh, who has spent 14 years with the all woman quartet Misty River. Her stunning songwriting, crystalline vocals, tasty fiddle and solid guitar distinguish her as a stand-alone talent. Their voices meld together into the magical new voice of a well-realized duet, folk and country, with an old timey sound.

AJ Croce and Jen Chapin

Price: $31
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Dopapod, with Minority Report, Sassafras Jenkins
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Poet Keith Flynn
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Keith Flynn is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Colony Collapse Disorder (Wings Press, 2013), and a collection of essays, entitled The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz and Memory: How To Make Your Poetry Swing (Writer's Digest Books, 2007). He has been awarded the Sandburg Prize for poetry, the ASCAP Emerging Songwriter Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Award and was twice named the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for North Carolina. He is also founder and managing editor of The Asheville Poetry Review.

Any Number Can Die
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

There's a mystery afoot! Set in the 1920s, this comedy/mystery from the pen of Fred Carmichael includes all the elements of the csassic mysteries: The dark and stormy night ... the Last Will read at midnight ... robed figures and Secret passageways. The two elderly detectives will have their hands full solving these murders!

For more information, call the ticket number at 315-877-8465.

Punchlines
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A new comedy written and directed by student Joe Bates.

The Drowsy Chaperone
TheaterFirst Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $30 regular, $28 seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

If you like La Cage then you're going to LOVE The Drowsy Chaperone, the five-time Tony Award winner that's a hilarious tribute to everything we love about the good old-fashioned musical. Music & Lyrics by Lisa Lambert & Greg Morrison and Book by Bob Martin & Don McKellar.

For tickets, call the box office at 315-703-3333.

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Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

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

This rock and roll musical tells the story of America's first political maverick. A.J. kicked British butt, shafted the Indians and smacked down the Spaniards all in the name of these United States—who cares if he didn't have permission? Music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, book by Alex Timbers.

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Blithe Spirit
Syracuse Stage
Michael Barakeva, director

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

The funniest ghost story ever written. Novelist Charles Condomine enlists Madame Arcati, one of the most delightfully eccentric characters you will ever meet, to hold a séance at his home hoping to raise some ideas for a new book. Instead, she raises the ghost of his former wife, Elvira, who is determined to wreak havoc (and succeeds) on Charles' current marriage to Ruth. Recently revived on Broadway to hilarious effect, Blithe Spirit is one of Noel Coward's most sparkling comedies.

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Saturday, October 5, 2013

Don Seymour Gallery Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Works of Louise Woodard
Onondaga County Central Library

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

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

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Lake Effect
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features paintings and drawings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic by two Skaneateles artists, Rachel Harms and Barbara Delmonico.

Creative Rapport
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Mary Padgett shows her pastel florals, still lifes, and landscapes reflecting her passion for color, light and texture.
Wendy Harris, a former student of Mary Padgett, exhibits her interpretations of light and texture through cloudscape and landscape pastel paintings.
Michelle DaRin exhibits enamel and mixed media jewelry.
Stephen Brucker displays his art glass forms drawing attention to the delicacy and impermanence of nature.

Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

Meet the Pen Women
Gallery One Fourteen

Gallery One Fourteen
114 Helen St., Syracuse

An exhibit of the visual and literary work of members of the CNY Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.

Poster Project Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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All Creatures Great and Small
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their art.

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Combat Paper Redux
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, we have brought "Combat Paper" back to Syracuse! An earlier version of this exhibit featuring images on paper made out of shredded combat uniforms was our Grand Opening exhibition in October 2008. The Combat Paper project began as art therapy utilizing paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and yes...Vietnam.

While anti-war activists are portrayed as unpatriotic and focused only on the negative, the project has proven to have a positive impact on veterans, serving as a visceral statement of the long-lasting effects of combat and as a catalyst for community discussion and activism. The art comes to us from all across this country with a special nod to the work from the Combat Paper Studio in Ithaca.

A companion piece to the paper-making project is the Warrior Writers' Project where veterans are encouraged through workshops to write about their feelings since coming home. The words have been printed on hand-made combat paper and bound into books. This project provides an opportunity for veterans to come together and connect, reconcile and heal through sharing their words with each other. We will feature a Warrior Writers' event and journal making workshop with vets from Ithaca during the exhibition.

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Advanced Painting
XL Projects

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

Advanced Painting is an exhibition of recent work by senior and graduate painting students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts Department of Art.

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

Platonic: Dani Leventhal
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Dani Leventhal's Platonic, geometric specters twirl in space; pet cats foam at the mouth; a little boy mistakes his junkie dad for a superhero; and a confused adolescent worries he has sired a centaur. Platonic references both the ancient philosopher's metaphysics of ideal Forms, which simultaneously exist outside our perceptions and yet give rise to them, and the related meaning in common parlance of non-romantic love. Leventhal trains her searching lens on the distance separating bodies, moments, and perspectives. The result is a study in the awkward gaps between appearance and reality, seeing and understanding, desire and its object. (21:33 minutes)

Nourish: An Exploration of Consumption
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 8:00-10:00 pm in conjunction with the Imagining America Conference.

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

Cuse Comedy Showcase
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $5
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Anna Phillips brings together the best of local comedians for their big chance at headlining a comedic showcase.

The Carol North Schmuckler New Filmmakers Showcase
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $5 regular; free for SU and LeMoyne students
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

This showcase shows the best and most recent work of students in the Filmmaking Program, Department of Transmedia, College of Visual & Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Kingdom of Silence (2013, 14:30 minutes)
La Doble Imagen (2013, 18:36 minutes)
The Mother in Me (2013, 19:23 minutes)
Passer-By (2013, 19 minutes)
Strong Hold (2013, 17:30 minutes)
Fallen Hero (2013, 30 minutes)

Imaging Disability in Film
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular; free for SU and LeMoyne students
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

This showcase is sponsored by The School of Education at Syracuse University and explores the many ways that film around the world looks at disability/ability.

Check Out (10:20 minutes)
I Am in Here (2012, 30 minutes)
Petra's Poem (2012, 4:11 minutes)
Bulletproof (2012, 35 minutes)

Willow Creek
Syracuse International Film Festival
Featuring Bobcat Goldthwait

Price: $15 for 1/$25 for 2 ("For 2" price only available at the door)
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Bob Goldthwait, a native of Syracuse (Bishop Grimes High School), brings his new film, Willow Creek, to the Festival. His films are loved by Sundance and just keep getting better and better. Bobcat will also be honored that night with a special award. (2013, 78 minutes)

Shakes the Clown: Bobcat Goldthwait
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 for 1/$25 for 2 ("For 2" price only available at the door)
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Bob Goldthwait will screen the short, Goldthwait Home Movies, he made with Tom Kenny, followed by a screening of his first feature, Shakes the Clown. (1991, 87 minutes)

The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

Meredith Monk: A Celebration Service
Arts Engage

Price: $10, free with SU/ESF ID
Plymouth Church
232 E. Onondaga St., Syracuse

A Celebration Service will be performed by the M6 Ensemble, a vocal ensemble dedicated to continuing the Meredith Monk legacy, and a cast from Syracuse University and the Syracuse community. Celebration Service combines Monk's compositions, chants and prayers from many different cultures into a celebration of community while emphasizing the search for meaning and connection through ritual.

For more information, contact Hannah Nast at SU Arts Engage at hbnast@syr.edu.

Tickets are available online at artsengage.syr.edu, and will be available at the door.

The Firebird
Open Hand Theater
The Puppet People

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

Wonderful marionettes from The Puppet People open our new season with a performance of this fantastic Russian tale. The mythical Firebird comes to life with the magic of Stravinski's ballet, as Ivan and Princess Yelena team up to break the enchantment placed over their kingdom.

The Puppet People have toured nationally and performed throughout New York State, Massachusetts and Vermont, and at Lincoln Center.

Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic tale.

Interactive Puppetry with Valdimir Vasyagin
Open Hand Theater

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

Blithe Spirit
Syracuse Stage
Michael Barakeva, director

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

The funniest ghost story ever written. Novelist Charles Condomine enlists Madame Arcati, one of the most delightfully eccentric characters you will ever meet, to hold a séance at his home hoping to raise some ideas for a new book. Instead, she raises the ghost of his former wife, Elvira, who is determined to wreak havoc (and succeeds) on Charles' current marriage to Ruth. Recently revived on Broadway to hilarious effect, Blithe Spirit is one of Noel Coward's most sparkling comedies.

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Any Number Can Die
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

There's a mystery afoot! Set in the 1920s, this comedy/mystery from the pen of Fred Carmichael includes all the elements of the csassic mysteries: The dark and stormy night ... the Last Will read at midnight ... robed figures and Secret passageways. The two elderly detectives will have their hands full solving these murders!

For more information, call the ticket number at 315-877-8465.

Punchlines
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A new comedy written and directed by student Joe Bates.

The Drowsy Chaperone
TheaterFirst Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $30 regular, $28 seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

If you like La Cage then you're going to LOVE The Drowsy Chaperone, the five-time Tony Award winner that's a hilarious tribute to everything we love about the good old-fashioned musical. Music & Lyrics by Lisa Lambert & Greg Morrison and Book by Bob Martin & Don McKellar.

For tickets, call the box office at 315-703-3333.

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Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

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

This rock and roll musical tells the story of America's first political maverick. A.J. kicked British butt, shafted the Indians and smacked down the Spaniards all in the name of these United States—who cares if he didn't have permission? Music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, book by Alex Timbers.

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Blithe Spirit
Syracuse Stage
Michael Barakeva, director

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

The funniest ghost story ever written. Novelist Charles Condomine enlists Madame Arcati, one of the most delightfully eccentric characters you will ever meet, to hold a séance at his home hoping to raise some ideas for a new book. Instead, she raises the ghost of his former wife, Elvira, who is determined to wreak havoc (and succeeds) on Charles' current marriage to Ruth. Recently revived on Broadway to hilarious effect, Blithe Spirit is one of Noel Coward's most sparkling comedies.

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Sunday, October 6, 2013

40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary with the opening of the exhibition 40 Artists/40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few.

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2013 Light Work Grants: Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, Janice Levy
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce that the recipients for the 39th annual Light Work Grants in Photography are Laura Heyman, Jared Landberg, and Janice Levy. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work, and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

Marna Bell: Imperfect Memories
Light Work Gallery

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

With "Imperfect Memories" Marna Bell returns to some of the familiar themes of her Hudson Past/Perfect series. "In both projects," Bell explains, "my subjects are put into a motion blur, not only to allude to the passage of time, but more so, to the fading of memories. In addition, the motion gives the work a more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting quality."

While the windows of the train create the parameters in the Hudson series, in "Imperfect Memories," the camera is set up before a flickering screen. In both cases, the camera captures pieces of information sometimes unseen by the human eye. Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events. The figures are familiar and foreboding — even nightmarish.

These images represent narratives that are both true and half true; some dimly recalled and some totally forgotten. Bell writes, "My work reminds us that memories morph and change over time and that we are limited in how much of the past we can retain, retrieve or understand."

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

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring works by artists Fred Weisskopf and Lauren Ritchie.

All Creatures Great and Small
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

A World Apart: Art from the Samuel T. Pees Collection of Ethnographic Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition highlights artwork gifted to the University Art Collection by collector Samuel T. Pees. Curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, the exhibition will present 30 pieces of original artwork featuring a breadth of media from oil to printmaking to dye batiks. The exhibition highlights over 20 artists, with nationalities as diverse as Haitian, Paraguayan, Indonesian, Thai, Grand Cayman, and Malaysian. This is the first exhibition to examine artwork in the Pees Collection since 1989.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In 2012, the SU Art Galleries was chosen as a repository for the Maryknoll Collection, a gift from the Maryknoll Sisters of over 170 original works of art by 22 Tanzanian artists, including prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture and textiles. The collection contains artwork created at Nyumba ya Sanaa ("House of Art" in Swahili), a cultural center and art workshop located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This exhibit, curated by SUArt Galleries Director Domenic J. Iacono, will present 90 pieces of artwork created in the last quarter of the 20th century featuring a breadth of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, and highlighting over a dozen artists.

Henninger Art Class: Voices Heard and Celebrated
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition of artwork by Henninger High School students in the Syracuse City School district was inspired by the exhibition Nyumba ya Sanaa: Works from the Maryknoll Collection. This display of 18 works of student art is the result of community collaboration between SUArt Galleries Director Domenic Iacono, Henninger High School Art Teacher Lori Lizzio, and Stephen Mahan of the Photography and Literacy (P.A.L.) Project.

This past spring P.A.L Project partnered with SUArt Galleries and Lori Lizzio's art class from Henninger High School to create artwork that could be used in an exhibition. The Maryknoll Collection, housed in the University Art Collection, inspired the students' artwork. This collection, recently acquired from Nyumba ya Sanaa (School of Art) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, served as a creative springboard and inspiration to document what they felt were distinctive moments from their daily lives. Using simple point and shoot cameras and basic Photoshop skills, the students highlighted personally meaningful moments, scenes or people of their daily lives; much as the Tanzanian artists had done when making their art.

Combat Paper Redux
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, we have brought "Combat Paper" back to Syracuse! An earlier version of this exhibit featuring images on paper made out of shredded combat uniforms was our Grand Opening exhibition in October 2008. The Combat Paper project began as art therapy utilizing paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and yes...Vietnam.

While anti-war activists are portrayed as unpatriotic and focused only on the negative, the project has proven to have a positive impact on veterans, serving as a visceral statement of the long-lasting effects of combat and as a catalyst for community discussion and activism. The art comes to us from all across this country with a special nod to the work from the Combat Paper Studio in Ithaca.

A companion piece to the paper-making project is the Warrior Writers' Project where veterans are encouraged through workshops to write about their feelings since coming home. The words have been printed on hand-made combat paper and bound into books. This project provides an opportunity for veterans to come together and connect, reconcile and heal through sharing their words with each other. We will feature a Warrior Writers' event and journal making workshop with vets from Ithaca during the exhibition.

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Jordan Eagles: Red Giant
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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Advanced Painting
XL Projects

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

Advanced Painting is an exhibition of recent work by senior and graduate painting students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts Department of Art.

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

87th Annual Juried Members' Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

The Peace & Social Justice Showcase
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular, $5 AARP members, free for SU and Le Moyne students
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This year the showcase focuses on the films of George Gittoes: Miscreants of Taliwood, Love City Jalalabad, Snow Monkey. Gittoes is an Australian poet, photo-journalist, writer, filmmaker, painter and activist whose career has focused on documenting civil unrest and social turmoil around the world, exploring the ever optimistic human spirit in the face of the dangers and chaos of war. The award winning short Asad (2012, 18 minutes) by Bryan Buckley will also be screened.