Friday, April 3, 2015

LeMoyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

There will be an opening reception today 5:00-6:00 pm.

Paintings, photographs, drawings, and sculpture from current students.

A Sense of Peace: Photography by Tom Dwyer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

In this photographic collection, Tom Dwyer focuses his lens and creative eye solely on images found at Baltimore Woods.

IPA Annual Exhibition
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

The Independent Potters' Association (IPA) is pleased to announce its Annual Exhibition featuring ceramics created by the group's members. The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels. Participating artists include Ed Feldman, Jen Gandee, Leslie Green Guilbault, Bobbi Lamb, Jessica Pilowa, Lindsey Scott, Tim See, Don Seymour, Millie St. John, Peter Valenti, Wes Weiss, and new IPA members David MacDonald, Christina Parker, Jeremy Randall, John Smolenski, Kylie Waltz and Jonathan Woodward.

Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

Letha Wilson is a mixed media artist who was born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado, and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her outdoor excursions amongst the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural world and its photographic image at the root of her artistic interests. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Wilson's artwork has been shown at many venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Exit Art, White Box, Platform Gallery, Fredrieke Taylor Gallery, BravinLee Programs, Partipant Inc., the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Vox Populi, and Higher Pictures. In 2009 Letha was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Wilson participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in February 2015.

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Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features recent acquisitions from 2013 Light Work Artists-in-Residence including work by Brijesh Patel, Alexandra Demenkova, George Gittoes, John D. Freyer, Jason Eskenazi, Anouk Kruithof, Dani Leventhal, Karolina Karlic, Cecil McDonald Jr., Matt Eich, Jo Ann Walters, Ofer Wolberger, and Eric Gottesman. The artists in this exhibition are also featured in Contact Sheet 177: Light Work Annual 2014.

Gallery Exhibition: Persistence of Vision: Works by Colleen Woolpert
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The exhibition, Persistence of Vision, by local artist Colleen Woolpert, presents work in photography, video, and interactive objects and installations that originated with the artist's experience working with visually impaired adults in Seattle in 2013. Questions about visualization and navigating through darkness spurned ideas related to the "the great unknown" and space exploration. When an artist residency brought Woolpert to Syracuse in January 2014, the thread continued as an investigation of early motion picture innovations of the late 1800s in Syracuse, and ultimately the invention of her own optical device. The flicker of one image displacing the next is the persistent blink of light upon darkness.

The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"The Automobile" provides a sampling of the ways in which the automobile evolved in the Syracuse area and a glimpse into the innovations of some of the most significant mid-20th-century automobile designers. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the air-cooled Franklin car, the most famous of Syracuse's automobile lines, with its remarkably flexible and durable wooden frame.

The exhibition will also include drawings, sketches, and photographs from SCRC's industrial design collections by designers Howard A. Darrin, Claude Hill, Raymond Loewy, Budd Steinhilber, and Walter Dorwin Teague. Darrin was known for his designs for exotic luxury and sports cars. Claude Hill created some important concept car designs, while Raymond Loewy's photographs document a number of striking Studebaker model designs. Budd Steinhilber was a member of the design team for the revolutionary rear-engine 1948 Tucker automobile, and Walter Dorwin Teague designed for both the Ford Motor Company and the Marmon Motor Company.

Pastel Drawings by Sue Hoyt O'Neill
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Sue Hoyt O'Neill's pastel drawings are breathtakingly realistic representations of nature, landscapes, and still lives. Her work features a very fine attention to detail and a color palette so beautiful you have to see it in person. This selection of drawings covers a wide variety of content, and there is something here for everyone.

Point of View
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Contemporary photography of Steve Pearlman, Stephen Parker, and Richard Schultz, with ceramics and jewelry from Peter and Sue Valenti of Valenti Studios.

Launched
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Launched," the second annual exhibition of application portfolio pieces from Talent Agency Teen Art Portfolio Development, will be on view.

Talent Agency is a community-based pre-college and college readiness program located in the Near Westside of Syracuse. In partnership with the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), the teen participants, who are from the City of Syracuse, are taught and mentored by Syracuse University graduate and undergraduate students. The program gives youth with talent and passion for art a chance to compete for scholarships and acceptance to the best programs for their interests and needs.

The works in "Launched" include drawings, sculptures, paintings, illustrations, photos, and digital art works from the portfolios of student artists who will be college bound this fall. The work on display has won these gifted students large scholarships to many excellent programs.

Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities
Community Folk Art Center

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

Vintage Photography from Dalton's Archives
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

Dalton's will be exhibiting vintage photography spanning the years from 1870 to 1940. The work begins with a collection of historic images of the west by William Henry Jackson and ends with portrait work by Dr. Max Thorek, a Chicago surgeon. Also exhibited are photogravures by well-known Native American photographer Edward S. Curtis. There are several Camera Work images by photographers Annie Brigman, Alice Boughton, George Seeley, Clarence White and Alfred Stieglitz. Works by several other vintage photographers will be on display as well.

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

In the 1970s, the late photographer and educator Gary Metz generated a significant body of work that was very much in the spirit of the times. Metz's "Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint" challenged the first 100 years of landscape photography, which had placed a major emphasis on depicting nature as sublime, heroic and unspoiled. Unlike previous photographers who glorified nature, Metz and his contemporaries wrenched photography out of the national parks and replaced the scenic with the vernacular of the everyday American landscape.

A number of Metz's colleagues received wide recognition for their similar investigations culminating in the seminal 1975 exhibition "The New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape" at the Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House. Metz never received the same level of acknowledgement. Now, 40 years later, his "Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint" is as powerful and relevant as ever, resonating with current interests in ecology and the everyday landscape.

Metz spent the month of August 1985 as an artist-in-residence at Light Work. Metz was the was a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder; director of Education at the International Center of Photography; and head of the photography department at the Rhode Island School of Design. He received NEA fellowships in photography in 1972 and 1980, and is represented in various collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, George Eastman House in Rochester, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester.

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Salt City Rock: The History of Rock and Roll in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will cover rock 'n' roll in Syracuse from the 1950s to today and include memorabilia from local musicians such as The Trend, The FlashCubes, The Tear Jerkers.

Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

The exhibit will feature 20 framed images along with a small selection of original archival items and artifacts. Fourteen historic images will be drawn from the extensive photographic files on the hotel maintained in the OHA's permanent collection. These range from a 1923 view of construction to the 1948 interior of the famous Rainbow Lounge, along with historic scenes of the Cavalier Room, the Persian Terrace and other locations from its heyday. Additionally, there will be a half-dozen recent interior images taken this year by professional photographer Bruce Harvey. These show that the hotel still maintains an irreplaceable majesty despite years of faded glory. The hotel, which opened in 1924, has been closed and dormant for several years but a new owner has begun a massive project to renovate it for the future while restoring its grand architecture.

Wanderlust
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Wanderlust is defined as a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about. From the beaches of Greece and the south of France to the glaciers of Iceland, this exhibition embodies the spirit of wanderlust. It features paintings, photographs, and drawings created by Central New York artists during travels to a variety of exotic locales.

Artists include Roger DeMuth, Bill Elkins, Mary Padgett, William Padgett, Lucie Wellner, and Jamie Young.

Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Barbara Morgan's legacy of observing life in relation to "dancing atoms" is forever preserved on film and on paper, providing a glimpse into her world of photography, painting, light and modern dance.

Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Women Sculpting Women is a selection of 14 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection that illustrate the achievements these artists made through their own representations of the female form.

Neither Confirmed nor Denied: MFA 2015
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 17 artists from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of traditional and multi-disciplinary media including new installations of photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and site-specific experiences.

Extra|ordinary Reflections: Works from the Robert Infarinato Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition that examines the reflective relationship between photographers, their subjects and the audience, featuring 35 photographic portraits from the collection of SU alumnus Robert M. Infarinato and curated by students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts Graduate Program in Museum Studies course Advanced Curatorship, under the guidance of Professor Edward A. Aiken.

Whether the scene is staged or candid, public or private, whether the subject is famous or unknown, portraits can reveal a person's qualities, interests, and attitudes in the click of a camera lens. In portraiture, three potential players hold power: the viewer, the subject, and artist. Power relationships are held between two or all of these players. Extra|ordinary Reflections blurs the lines between all three key players so that the viewer can actively seek out the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary.

Patrons and potential visitors are encouraged to follow Extra|ordinary Reflections on Instragram via @Extraordinaryreflections and post images using the hashtag #extraordinaryreflections for a chance to be featured.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Prendergast to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $10 non-members, $8 students/military/educators/seniors, $30 family, children under 10 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features 35 masterworks, drawn from the permanent collection of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica. Prendergast to Pollock includes important paintings by many of the leading progressive and avant-garde American artists who shaped the history of American art in the first half of the 20th century, including, Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946), Arshile Gorky (1904-48), Edward Hopper (1882-1967), George B. Luks (1866-1933), Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Jackson Pollock (1912-56), Maurice B. Prendergast (1858-1924), Theodoros Stamos (1922-97), and Mark Tobey (1890-1976). Additional works are drawn from the Everson Museum's permanent collection.

Through these paintings visitors will explore three kinds of traditional artistic subject matter: landscape, still life, and figurative work. Other works in the exhibition embody different manifestations of the mid-20th century art movement known as Abstract Expressionism—the first American art movement to receive international recognition and influence. In addition to the iconic beauty of the works in the exhibition, visitors will have an opportunity to observe how leading modern American artists depicted similar representational and abstract subject matter.

Docent-led tours are available at 2:00 pm daily at no additional cost. Check in at the Visitor Services Desk.

Women's Work: Feminist Art from the Everson's Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Feminist Art Movement emerged in the late 1960s in various cities around the globe. Proponents of the movement sought to influence cultural attitudes and build a new framework for viewing the world, one that included and validated women's experiences. This group of artists did not conform to a single style or medium; instead, they united around ideas of producing art reflective of women's lives, transforming stereotypes, and drawing attention to women's historic contributions to art and society. Drawing from the Everson's collection, this exhibit brings together works by some of the most important artists of the Feminist Art Movement.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Manifestation & Ambiguity
Gallery 4040

Price: Free
Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

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

"Manifestation & Ambiguity" features works by artists that examine and call into question the formation and perception of identity, of how we view ourselves and others. Marna Bell's black & white cinematic series, "Imperfect Memories", exists as reclaimed visions of past experiences from her childhood amnesia. Lacey McKinney's indistinct, "I Am You/Dissolution Paintings", suggest in part that time acts in opposition to the idea of a fixed or absolute self, while Juan Perdiguero's, "Loop" series utilizes large scale drawings of chimpanzees to represent humanistic concepts. This exhibition encourages the viewer to engage the work beyond a formal pictorial response.

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Darkness/Detritus/Illuminations: Works by Eduardo Lalo
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Darkness/Detritus/Illuminations" includes ink drawings, black and white photographs, and videos that explore the kinesthetic sensation of movement and of personal absence that takes place as an artist when creating works of art. Through a series of three poems and almost 100 works of art, Eduardo Lalo examines the idea of eliminating the mind from the creation process and focusing on perpetual, almost obsessive, movements of the body as it forms gestures and marks. Lalo describes this action as a fundamental expression of what it is to be human and states that "to draw is to revisit ceaselessly this discontent and this finding."

Born in Cuba in 1960 and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Eduardo Lalo is an internationally renowned novelist and poet, visual artist and educator. Lalo completed his studies at Columbia University (New York) and Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris), and is currently a Professor in the Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico. His books combine hybrids of essay and fiction, which he integrates with visual arts (drawing and photography), essays and fiction in his published work. Lalo became an internationally acclaimed literary figure in 2013 upon receiving the most prestigious award in the Hispanic-American literary world, the Rómulo Gallegos Award, for his novel Simone. A habitual columnist and literary critic in the San Juan-based 80 Grados, he is also a video artist of films including donde (2005) and La ciudad perdida (2006). Featured in dozens of exhibitions nationally and abroad, his photography and video work presents an esoteric look at urban spaces through black & white images, sounds & narrative that capture the isolation of the post industrialization era.

Cuse Comedy Showcase
Central New York Playhouse
Featuring Anna Phillips

Price: $10 in advance, $12 at the door
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Seven local comics will be competing for a cash prize which you the audience will vote on. Winner will get the cash prize and be a featured headliner in a future event. The showcase comedians are Moya Sinclair, Phil Farda, David Louis, David Prope Worley, Mikael Gregg, Zack Reimers, and Paul Landwehr. Headlining the night is Anna Phillips.

April Bank Show
Syracuse Improv Collective

The Vault
451 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Student Recital Series: Bryan Watson, guitar
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

J.S. Bach Prelude, BWV 999
J.S. Bach Sarabande, BWV 995
Heitor Villa-Lobos Suite Populaire Bresilienne
Malcolm Arnold Serenade for Guitar and Strings, Op. 50, with Yili Huo, piano
Antonio Lauro Suite Venezolana
Leo Brouwer Un Dia de Noviembre

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If lot is full or unavailable, guests will be directed to alternate lots. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Jesus Christ Superstar
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20-$30
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The annual Lenten tradition is back! The show will star Henry Wilson as Jesus, Jason Vaughn as Judas, and Cathleen O'Brein Brown as Mary Magdelene.

Tickets are available the Oncenter Box Office (760 S. State Street), charge by phone 315-435-2121, and online at Ticketmaster.

Measure for Measure
Syracuse University Drama Department
Celia Madeoy, director

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

Hypocrites, beware! Such is the matter of this profound and intriguing late comedy by Shakespeare. When Duke Vincentio of Vienna inexplicably hands over power to Lord Angelo, a man of self-professed puritanism, he lays a trap that ensnares the falsely virtuous and rewards the just and true. Like most Shakespearean comedies, the course to the truth is neither smooth nor easy, but it is filled with engaging characters and extraordinary events, and even concludes with multiple marriages—however unlikely that may sometimes seem.

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Saturday, April 4, 2015

LeMoyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

Paintings, photographs, drawings, and sculpture from current students.

Launched
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Launched," the second annual exhibition of application portfolio pieces from Talent Agency Teen Art Portfolio Development, will be on view.

Talent Agency is a community-based pre-college and college readiness program located in the Near Westside of Syracuse. In partnership with the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), the teen participants, who are from the City of Syracuse, are taught and mentored by Syracuse University graduate and undergraduate students. The program gives youth with talent and passion for art a chance to compete for scholarships and acceptance to the best programs for their interests and needs.

The works in "Launched" include drawings, sculptures, paintings, illustrations, photos, and digital art works from the portfolios of student artists who will be college bound this fall. The work on display has won these gifted students large scholarships to many excellent programs.

A Sense of Peace: Photography by Tom Dwyer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

In this photographic collection, Tom Dwyer focuses his lens and creative eye solely on images found at Baltimore Woods.

Vintage Photography from Dalton's Archives
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

Dalton's will be exhibiting vintage photography spanning the years from 1870 to 1940. The work begins with a collection of historic images of the west by William Henry Jackson and ends with portrait work by Dr. Max Thorek, a Chicago surgeon. Also exhibited are photogravures by well-known Native American photographer Edward S. Curtis. There are several Camera Work images by photographers Annie Brigman, Alice Boughton, George Seeley, Clarence White and Alfred Stieglitz. Works by several other vintage photographers will be on display as well.

Point of View
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Contemporary photography of Steve Pearlman, Stephen Parker, and Richard Schultz, with ceramics and jewelry from Peter and Sue Valenti of Valenti Studios.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Prendergast to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $10 non-members, $8 students/military/educators/seniors, $30 family, children under 10 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features 35 masterworks, drawn from the permanent collection of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica. Prendergast to Pollock includes important paintings by many of the leading progressive and avant-garde American artists who shaped the history of American art in the first half of the 20th century, including, Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946), Arshile Gorky (1904-48), Edward Hopper (1882-1967), George B. Luks (1866-1933), Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Jackson Pollock (1912-56), Maurice B. Prendergast (1858-1924), Theodoros Stamos (1922-97), and Mark Tobey (1890-1976). Additional works are drawn from the Everson Museum's permanent collection.

Through these paintings visitors will explore three kinds of traditional artistic subject matter: landscape, still life, and figurative work. Other works in the exhibition embody different manifestations of the mid-20th century art movement known as Abstract Expressionism—the first American art movement to receive international recognition and influence. In addition to the iconic beauty of the works in the exhibition, visitors will have an opportunity to observe how leading modern American artists depicted similar representational and abstract subject matter.

Docent-led tours are available at 2:00 pm daily at no additional cost. Check in at the Visitor Services Desk.

Women's Work: Feminist Art from the Everson's Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Feminist Art Movement emerged in the late 1960s in various cities around the globe. Proponents of the movement sought to influence cultural attitudes and build a new framework for viewing the world, one that included and validated women's experiences. This group of artists did not conform to a single style or medium; instead, they united around ideas of producing art reflective of women's lives, transforming stereotypes, and drawing attention to women's historic contributions to art and society. Drawing from the Everson's collection, this exhibit brings together works by some of the most important artists of the Feminist Art Movement.

Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities
Community Folk Art Center

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

Wanderlust
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Wanderlust is defined as a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about. From the beaches of Greece and the south of France to the glaciers of Iceland, this exhibition embodies the spirit of wanderlust. It features paintings, photographs, and drawings created by Central New York artists during travels to a variety of exotic locales.

Artists include Roger DeMuth, Bill Elkins, Mary Padgett, William Padgett, Lucie Wellner, and Jamie Young.

Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

The exhibit will feature 20 framed images along with a small selection of original archival items and artifacts. Fourteen historic images will be drawn from the extensive photographic files on the hotel maintained in the OHA's permanent collection. These range from a 1923 view of construction to the 1948 interior of the famous Rainbow Lounge, along with historic scenes of the Cavalier Room, the Persian Terrace and other locations from its heyday. Additionally, there will be a half-dozen recent interior images taken this year by professional photographer Bruce Harvey. These show that the hotel still maintains an irreplaceable majesty despite years of faded glory. The hotel, which opened in 1924, has been closed and dormant for several years but a new owner has begun a massive project to renovate it for the future while restoring its grand architecture.

Salt City Rock: The History of Rock and Roll in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will cover rock 'n' roll in Syracuse from the 1950s to today and include memorabilia from local musicians such as The Trend, The FlashCubes, The Tear Jerkers.

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Women Sculpting Women is a selection of 14 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection that illustrate the achievements these artists made through their own representations of the female form.

Extra|ordinary Reflections: Works from the Robert Infarinato Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition that examines the reflective relationship between photographers, their subjects and the audience, featuring 35 photographic portraits from the collection of SU alumnus Robert M. Infarinato and curated by students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts Graduate Program in Museum Studies course Advanced Curatorship, under the guidance of Professor Edward A. Aiken.

Whether the scene is staged or candid, public or private, whether the subject is famous or unknown, portraits can reveal a person's qualities, interests, and attitudes in the click of a camera lens. In portraiture, three potential players hold power: the viewer, the subject, and artist. Power relationships are held between two or all of these players. Extra|ordinary Reflections blurs the lines between all three key players so that the viewer can actively seek out the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary.

Patrons and potential visitors are encouraged to follow Extra|ordinary Reflections on Instragram via @Extraordinaryreflections and post images using the hashtag #extraordinaryreflections for a chance to be featured.

Neither Confirmed nor Denied: MFA 2015
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 17 artists from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of traditional and multi-disciplinary media including new installations of photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and site-specific experiences.

Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Barbara Morgan's legacy of observing life in relation to "dancing atoms" is forever preserved on film and on paper, providing a glimpse into her world of photography, painting, light and modern dance.

Manifestation & Ambiguity
Gallery 4040

Price: Free
Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

"Manifestation & Ambiguity" features works by artists that examine and call into question the formation and perception of identity, of how we view ourselves and others. Marna Bell's black & white cinematic series, "Imperfect Memories", exists as reclaimed visions of past experiences from her childhood amnesia. Lacey McKinney's indistinct, "I Am You/Dissolution Paintings", suggest in part that time acts in opposition to the idea of a fixed or absolute self, while Juan Perdiguero's, "Loop" series utilizes large scale drawings of chimpanzees to represent humanistic concepts. This exhibition encourages the viewer to engage the work beyond a formal pictorial response.

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Darkness/Detritus/Illuminations: Works by Eduardo Lalo
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Darkness/Detritus/Illuminations" includes ink drawings, black and white photographs, and videos that explore the kinesthetic sensation of movement and of personal absence that takes place as an artist when creating works of art. Through a series of three poems and almost 100 works of art, Eduardo Lalo examines the idea of eliminating the mind from the creation process and focusing on perpetual, almost obsessive, movements of the body as it forms gestures and marks. Lalo describes this action as a fundamental expression of what it is to be human and states that "to draw is to revisit ceaselessly this discontent and this finding."

Born in Cuba in 1960 and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Eduardo Lalo is an internationally renowned novelist and poet, visual artist and educator. Lalo completed his studies at Columbia University (New York) and Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris), and is currently a Professor in the Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico. His books combine hybrids of essay and fiction, which he integrates with visual arts (drawing and photography), essays and fiction in his published work. Lalo became an internationally acclaimed literary figure in 2013 upon receiving the most prestigious award in the Hispanic-American literary world, the Rómulo Gallegos Award, for his novel Simone. A habitual columnist and literary critic in the San Juan-based 80 Grados, he is also a video artist of films including donde (2005) and La ciudad perdida (2006). Featured in dozens of exhibitions nationally and abroad, his photography and video work presents an esoteric look at urban spaces through black & white images, sounds & narrative that capture the isolation of the post industrialization era.

Anniversary Improv Comedy Night
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: $25 dinner and show, $12 show only
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Syracuse's longest-running improv troupe is entering their eighth year of improv. This month we celebrate the anniversary of our first show in April 2008, with a lineup of Phil Brady, Justin Polly, Gerrit Vander Werff Jr., Dustin Czarny, and Greg Hipius.

DFtA specializes in audience interactive improv and is one of the longest-running improv troupes in Central New York. Having toured all over the area, their large stable of theatrically trained actors rotate in and out of each show, ensuring a unique experience each time. Come enjoy an evening of improv in the style of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and Drew Carey's "Improvaganza."

The performance will be preceded by dinner at 6:30 pm.

Student Recital Series: Cory Tyson, guitar
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Isaac Albéniz Asturias, arr. Andrés Segovia
Nikita Koshkin The Ballads: Suite for Solo Guitar
Francisco Tárrega Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Manuel M. Ponce Sonatina Meridional
Francisco Tárrega Pavana

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If lot is full or unavailable, guests will be directed to alternate lots. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Student Recital Series: Robin Padilla, piano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Bach Prelude and Fugue in E Major, BWV 854
Beethoven Sonata in D Major, Op. 10 No. 3
Debussy Préludes, Book 1 excerpts
Marco Giusto Valzer excerpts
Sergei Prokofiev 10 Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75 excerpts

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If lot is full or unavailable, guests will be directed to alternate lots. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Student Recital Series: Katia Dinas, piano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in D minor, K1, L366; Sonata in D minor, K9, L413; Sonata in C minor, K11, L352
Ludwig Van Beethoven Sonata no. 27 in E minor, Op. 90
Paul Constantinescu Toccata "Joc Dobrogean"
Robert Schumann Variations on the Name "Abegg," Op. 1
Grazyna Bacewicz Sonata No. 2

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If lot is full or unavailable, guests will be directed to alternate lots. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Cabinet
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

A World of Puppets TBA
Open Hand Theater

Price: $10 adults, $6 children
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

An exciting puppet performance for kids of all ages. Join us for a surprise story with all of your favorite things: puppets, music, and lively entertainment.

UP CLOSE: A Look Inside the Story
Join us at 10:00 am for a hands-on activity hour suitable for children as young as 3, with an accompanying parent, and anyone who wants a more in-depth exploration of the upcoming performance. Cost is $5 per child, free for accompanying parent.

Measure for Measure
Syracuse University Drama Department
Celia Madeoy, director

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

Hypocrites, beware! Such is the matter of this profound and intriguing late comedy by Shakespeare. When Duke Vincentio of Vienna inexplicably hands over power to Lord Angelo, a man of self-professed puritanism, he lays a trap that ensnares the falsely virtuous and rewards the just and true. Like most Shakespearean comedies, the course to the truth is neither smooth nor easy, but it is filled with engaging characters and extraordinary events, and even concludes with multiple marriages—however unlikely that may sometimes seem.

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Jesus Christ Superstar
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20-$30
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The annual Lenten tradition is back! The show will star Henry Wilson as Jesus, Jason Vaughn as Judas, and Cathleen O'Brein Brown as Mary Magdelene.

Tickets are available the Oncenter Box Office (760 S. State Street), charge by phone 315-435-2121, and online at Ticketmaster.

Measure for Measure
Syracuse University Drama Department
Celia Madeoy, director

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

Hypocrites, beware! Such is the matter of this profound and intriguing late comedy by Shakespeare. When Duke Vincentio of Vienna inexplicably hands over power to Lord Angelo, a man of self-professed puritanism, he lays a trap that ensnares the falsely virtuous and rewards the just and true. Like most Shakespearean comedies, the course to the truth is neither smooth nor easy, but it is filled with engaging characters and extraordinary events, and even concludes with multiple marriages—however unlikely that may sometimes seem.

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Sunday, April 5, 2015

Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features recent acquisitions from 2013 Light Work Artists-in-Residence including work by Brijesh Patel, Alexandra Demenkova, George Gittoes, John D. Freyer, Jason Eskenazi, Anouk Kruithof, Dani Leventhal, Karolina Karlic, Cecil McDonald Jr., Matt Eich, Jo Ann Walters, Ofer Wolberger, and Eric Gottesman. The artists in this exhibition are also featured in Contact Sheet 177: Light Work Annual 2014.

Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

Letha Wilson is a mixed media artist who was born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado, and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her outdoor excursions amongst the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural world and its photographic image at the root of her artistic interests. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Wilson's artwork has been shown at many venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Exit Art, White Box, Platform Gallery, Fredrieke Taylor Gallery, BravinLee Programs, Partipant Inc., the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Vox Populi, and Higher Pictures. In 2009 Letha was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Wilson participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in February 2015.

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Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

In the 1970s, the late photographer and educator Gary Metz generated a significant body of work that was very much in the spirit of the times. Metz's "Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint" challenged the first 100 years of landscape photography, which had placed a major emphasis on depicting nature as sublime, heroic and unspoiled. Unlike previous photographers who glorified nature, Metz and his contemporaries wrenched photography out of the national parks and replaced the scenic with the vernacular of the everyday American landscape.

A number of Metz's colleagues received wide recognition for their similar investigations culminating in the seminal 1975 exhibition "The New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape" at the Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House. Metz never received the same level of acknowledgement. Now, 40 years later, his "Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint" is as powerful and relevant as ever, resonating with current interests in ecology and the everyday landscape.

Metz spent the month of August 1985 as an artist-in-residence at Light Work. Metz was the was a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder; director of Education at the International Center of Photography; and head of the photography department at the Rhode Island School of Design. He received NEA fellowships in photography in 1972 and 1980, and is represented in various collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, George Eastman House in Rochester, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester.

Wanderlust
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Wanderlust is defined as a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about. From the beaches of Greece and the south of France to the glaciers of Iceland, this exhibition embodies the spirit of wanderlust. It features paintings, photographs, and drawings created by Central New York artists during travels to a variety of exotic locales.

Artists include Roger DeMuth, Bill Elkins, Mary Padgett, William Padgett, Lucie Wellner, and Jamie Young.

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Salt City Rock: The History of Rock and Roll in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will cover rock 'n' roll in Syracuse from the 1950s to today and include memorabilia from local musicians such as The Trend, The FlashCubes, The Tear Jerkers.

Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

The exhibit will feature 20 framed images along with a small selection of original archival items and artifacts. Fourteen historic images will be drawn from the extensive photographic files on the hotel maintained in the OHA's permanent collection. These range from a 1923 view of construction to the 1948 interior of the famous Rainbow Lounge, along with historic scenes of the Cavalier Room, the Persian Terrace and other locations from its heyday. Additionally, there will be a half-dozen recent interior images taken this year by professional photographer Bruce Harvey. These show that the hotel still maintains an irreplaceable majesty despite years of faded glory. The hotel, which opened in 1924, has been closed and dormant for several years but a new owner has begun a massive project to renovate it for the future while restoring its grand architecture.

Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Women Sculpting Women is a selection of 14 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection that illustrate the achievements these artists made through their own representations of the female form.

Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Barbara Morgan's legacy of observing life in relation to "dancing atoms" is forever preserved on film and on paper, providing a glimpse into her world of photography, painting, light and modern dance.

Neither Confirmed nor Denied: MFA 2015
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 17 artists from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of traditional and multi-disciplinary media including new installations of photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and site-specific experiences.

Extra|ordinary Reflections: Works from the Robert Infarinato Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition that examines the reflective relationship between photographers, their subjects and the audience, featuring 35 photographic portraits from the collection of SU alumnus Robert M. Infarinato and curated by students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts Graduate Program in Museum Studies course Advanced Curatorship, under the guidance of Professor Edward A. Aiken.

Whether the scene is staged or candid, public or private, whether the subject is famous or unknown, portraits can reveal a person's qualities, interests, and attitudes in the click of a camera lens. In portraiture, three potential players hold power: the viewer, the subject, and artist. Power relationships are held between two or all of these players. Extra|ordinary Reflections blurs the lines between all three key players so that the viewer can actively seek out the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary.

Patrons and potential visitors are encouraged to follow Extra|ordinary Reflections on Instragram via @Extraordinaryreflections and post images using the hashtag #extraordinaryreflections for a chance to be featured.

Women's Work: Feminist Art from the Everson's Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Feminist Art Movement emerged in the late 1960s in various cities around the globe. Proponents of the movement sought to influence cultural attitudes and build a new framework for viewing the world, one that included and validated women's experiences. This group of artists did not conform to a single style or medium; instead, they united around ideas of producing art reflective of women's lives, transforming stereotypes, and drawing attention to women's historic contributions to art and society. Drawing from the Everson's collection, this exhibit brings together works by some of the most important artists of the Feminist Art Movement.

Prendergast to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $10 non-members, $8 students/military/educators/seniors, $30 family, children under 10 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features 35 masterworks, drawn from the permanent collection of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica. Prendergast to Pollock includes important paintings by many of the leading progressive and avant-garde American artists who shaped the history of American art in the first half of the 20th century, including, Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946), Arshile Gorky (1904-48), Edward Hopper (1882-1967), George B. Luks (1866-1933), Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Jackson Pollock (1912-56), Maurice B. Prendergast (1858-1924), Theodoros Stamos (1922-97), and Mark Tobey (1890-1976). Additional works are drawn from the Everson Museum's permanent collection.

Through these paintings visitors will explore three kinds of traditional artistic subject matter: landscape, still life, and figurative work. Other works in the exhibition embody different manifestations of the mid-20th century art movement known as Abstract Expressionism—the first American art movement to receive international recognition and influence. In addition to the iconic beauty of the works in the exhibition, visitors will have an opportunity to observe how leading modern American artists depicted similar representational and abstract subject matter.

Docent-led tours are available at 2:00 pm daily at no additional cost. Check in at the Visitor Services Desk.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

LeMoyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

Paintings, photographs, drawings, and sculpture from current students.

Student Recital Series: Siying Song, piano
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. If lot is full or unavailable, guests will be directed to alternate lots. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Student Recital Series: Sara Potoscny, viola
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. If lot is full or unavailable, guests will be directed to alternate lots. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Monday, April 6, 2015

LeMoyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

Paintings, photographs, drawings, and sculpture from current students.

A Sense of Peace: Photography by Tom Dwyer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

In this photographic collection, Tom Dwyer focuses his lens and creative eye solely on images found at Baltimore Woods.

Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

Letha Wilson is a mixed media artist who was born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado, and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her outdoor excursions amongst the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural world and its photographic image at the root of her artistic interests. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Wilson's artwork has been shown at many venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Exit Art, White Box, Platform Gallery, Fredrieke Taylor Gallery, BravinLee Programs, Partipant Inc., the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Vox Populi, and Higher Pictures. In 2009 Letha was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Wilson participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in February 2015.

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Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features recent acquisitions from 2013 Light Work Artists-in-Residence including work by Brijesh Patel, Alexandra Demenkova, George Gittoes, John D. Freyer, Jason Eskenazi, Anouk Kruithof, Dani Leventhal, Karolina Karlic, Cecil McDonald Jr., Matt Eich, Jo Ann Walters, Ofer Wolberger, and Eric Gottesman. The artists in this exhibition are also featured in Contact Sheet 177: Light Work Annual 2014.

Gallery Exhibition: Persistence of Vision: Works by Colleen Woolpert
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The exhibition, Persistence of Vision, by local artist Colleen Woolpert, presents work in photography, video, and interactive objects and installations that originated with the artist's experience working with visually impaired adults in Seattle in 2013. Questions about visualization and navigating through darkness spurned ideas related to the "the great unknown" and space exploration. When an artist residency brought Woolpert to Syracuse in January 2014, the thread continued as an investigation of early motion picture innovations of the late 1800s in Syracuse, and ultimately the invention of her own optical device. The flicker of one image displacing the next is the persistent blink of light upon darkness.

The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"The Automobile" provides a sampling of the ways in which the automobile evolved in the Syracuse area and a glimpse into the innovations of some of the most significant mid-20th-century automobile designers. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the air-cooled Franklin car, the most famous of Syracuse's automobile lines, with its remarkably flexible and durable wooden frame.

The exhibition will also include drawings, sketches, and photographs from SCRC's industrial design collections by designers Howard A. Darrin, Claude Hill, Raymond Loewy, Budd Steinhilber, and Walter Dorwin Teague. Darrin was known for his designs for exotic luxury and sports cars. Claude Hill created some important concept car designs, while Raymond Loewy's photographs document a number of striking Studebaker model designs. Budd Steinhilber was a member of the design team for the revolutionary rear-engine 1948 Tucker automobile, and Walter Dorwin Teague designed for both the Ford Motor Company and the Marmon Motor Company.

Pastel Drawings by Sue Hoyt O'Neill
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Sue Hoyt O'Neill's pastel drawings are breathtakingly realistic representations of nature, landscapes, and still lives. Her work features a very fine attention to detail and a color palette so beautiful you have to see it in person. This selection of drawings covers a wide variety of content, and there is something here for everyone.

Vintage Photography from Dalton's Archives
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

Dalton's will be exhibiting vintage photography spanning the years from 1870 to 1940. The work begins with a collection of historic images of the west by William Henry Jackson and ends with portrait work by Dr. Max Thorek, a Chicago surgeon. Also exhibited are photogravures by well-known Native American photographer Edward S. Curtis. There are several Camera Work images by photographers Annie Brigman, Alice Boughton, George Seeley, Clarence White and Alfred Stieglitz. Works by several other vintage photographers will be on display as well.

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

In the 1970s, the late photographer and educator Gary Metz generated a significant body of work that was very much in the spirit of the times. Metz's "Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint" challenged the first 100 years of landscape photography, which had placed a major emphasis on depicting nature as sublime, heroic and unspoiled. Unlike previous photographers who glorified nature, Metz and his contemporaries wrenched photography out of the national parks and replaced the scenic with the vernacular of the everyday American landscape.

A number of Metz's colleagues received wide recognition for their similar investigations culminating in the seminal 1975 exhibition "The New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape" at the Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House. Metz never received the same level of acknowledgement. Now, 40 years later, his "Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint" is as powerful and relevant as ever, resonating with current interests in ecology and the everyday landscape.

Metz spent the month of August 1985 as an artist-in-residence at Light Work. Metz was the was a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder; director of Education at the International Center of Photography; and head of the photography department at the Rhode Island School of Design. He received NEA fellowships in photography in 1972 and 1980, and is represented in various collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, George Eastman House in Rochester, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester.

Flashback Monday: When Harry Met Sally
Palace Theatre

Price: $5
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Week-End in Havana (1941)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Walter Lang. Cast: Alice Faye, John Payne, Carmen Miranda, Cesar Romero, Cobina Wright Jr., George Barbier, Sheldon Leonard, Leonid Kinskey.

Lavish and entertaining Technicolor musical from 20th Century-Fox. Cruise line executive Payne must show disgruntled customer Faye a good time in Havana. Miranda and Romero add to the lively and tuneful fun.

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

LeMoyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

Paintings, photographs, drawings, and sculpture from current students.

A Sense of Peace: Photography by Tom Dwyer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

In this photographic collection, Tom Dwyer focuses his lens and creative eye solely on images found at Baltimore Woods.

Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features recent acquisitions from 2013 Light Work Artists-in-Residence including work by Brijesh Patel, Alexandra Demenkova, George Gittoes, John D. Freyer, Jason Eskenazi, Anouk Kruithof, Dani Leventhal, Karolina Karlic, Cecil McDonald Jr., Matt Eich, Jo Ann Walters, Ofer Wolberger, and Eric Gottesman. The artists in this exhibition are also featured in Contact Sheet 177: Light Work Annual 2014.

Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

Letha Wilson is a mixed media artist who was born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado, and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her outdoor excursions amongst the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural world and its photographic image at the root of her artistic interests. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Wilson's artwork has been shown at many venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Exit Art, White Box, Platform Gallery, Fredrieke Taylor Gallery, BravinLee Programs, Partipant Inc., the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Vox Populi, and Higher Pictures. In 2009 Letha was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Wilson participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in February 2015.

Read a review!

Gallery Exhibition: Persistence of Vision: Works by Colleen Woolpert
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The exhibition, Persistence of Vision, by local artist Colleen Woolpert, presents work in photography, video, and interactive objects and installations that originated with the artist's experience working with visually impaired adults in Seattle in 2013. Questions about visualization and navigating through darkness spurned ideas related to the "the great unknown" and space exploration. When an artist residency brought Woolpert to Syracuse in January 2014, the thread continued as an investigation of early motion picture innovations of the late 1800s in Syracuse, and ultimately the invention of her own optical device. The flicker of one image displacing the next is the persistent blink of light upon darkness.

The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"The Automobile" provides a sampling of the ways in which the automobile evolved in the Syracuse area and a glimpse into the innovations of some of the most significant mid-20th-century automobile designers. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the air-cooled Franklin car, the most famous of Syracuse's automobile lines, with its remarkably flexible and durable wooden frame.

The exhibition will also include drawings, sketches, and photographs from SCRC's industrial design collections by designers Howard A. Darrin, Claude Hill, Raymond Loewy, Budd Steinhilber, and Walter Dorwin Teague. Darrin was known for his designs for exotic luxury and sports cars. Claude Hill created some important concept car designs, while Raymond Loewy's photographs document a number of striking Studebaker model designs. Budd Steinhilber was a member of the design team for the revolutionary rear-engine 1948 Tucker automobile, and Walter Dorwin Teague designed for both the Ford Motor Company and the Marmon Motor Company.

Pastel Drawings by Sue Hoyt O'Neill
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Sue Hoyt O'Neill's pastel drawings are breathtakingly realistic representations of nature, landscapes, and still lives. Her work features a very fine attention to detail and a color palette so beautiful you have to see it in person. This selection of drawings covers a wide variety of content, and there is something here for everyone.

Point of View
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Contemporary photography of Steve Pearlman, Stephen Parker, and Richard Schultz, with ceramics and jewelry from Peter and Sue Valenti of Valenti Studios.

Launched
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Launched," the second annual exhibition of application portfolio pieces from Talent Agency Teen Art Portfolio Development, will be on view.

Talent Agency is a community-based pre-college and college readiness program located in the Near Westside of Syracuse. In partnership with the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), the teen participants, who are from the City of Syracuse, are taught and mentored by Syracuse University graduate and undergraduate students. The program gives youth with talent and passion for art a chance to compete for scholarships and acceptance to the best programs for their interests and needs.

The works in "Launched" include drawings, sculptures, paintings, illustrations, photos, and digital art works from the portfolios of student artists who will be college bound this fall. The work on display has won these gifted students large scholarships to many excellent programs.

Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities
Community Folk Art Center

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

Vintage Photography from Dalton's Archives
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

Dalton's will be exhibiting vintage photography spanning the years from 1870 to 1940. The work begins with a collection of historic images of the west by William Henry Jackson and ends with portrait work by Dr. Max Thorek, a Chicago surgeon. Also exhibited are photogravures by well-known Native American photographer Edward S. Curtis. There are several Camera Work images by photographers Annie Brigman, Alice Boughton, George Seeley, Clarence White and Alfred Stieglitz. Works by several other vintage photographers will be on display as well.

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

In the 1970s, the late photographer and educator Gary Metz generated a significant body of work that was very much in the spirit of the times. Metz's "Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint" challenged the first 100 years of landscape photography, which had placed a major emphasis on depicting nature as sublime, heroic and unspoiled. Unlike previous photographers who glorified nature, Metz and his contemporaries wrenched photography out of the national parks and replaced the scenic with the vernacular of the everyday American landscape.

A number of Metz's colleagues received wide recognition for their similar investigations culminating in the seminal 1975 exhibition "The New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape" at the Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House. Metz never received the same level of acknowledgement. Now, 40 years later, his "Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint" is as powerful and relevant as ever, resonating with current interests in ecology and the everyday landscape.

Metz spent the month of August 1985 as an artist-in-residence at Light Work. Metz was the was a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder; director of Education at the International Center of Photography; and head of the photography department at the Rhode Island School of Design. He received NEA fellowships in photography in 1972 and 1980, and is represented in various collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, George Eastman House in Rochester, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester.

Extra|ordinary Reflections: Works from the Robert Infarinato Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition that examines the reflective relationship between photographers, their subjects and the audience, featuring 35 photographic portraits from the collection of SU alumnus Robert M. Infarinato and curated by students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts Graduate Program in Museum Studies course Advanced Curatorship, under the guidance of Professor Edward A. Aiken.

Whether the scene is staged or candid, public or private, whether the subject is famous or unknown, portraits can reveal a person's qualities, interests, and attitudes in the click of a camera lens. In portraiture, three potential players hold power: the viewer, the subject, and artist. Power relationships are held between two or all of these players. Extra|ordinary Reflections blurs the lines between all three key players so that the viewer can actively seek out the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary.

Patrons and potential visitors are encouraged to follow Extra|ordinary Reflections on Instragram via @Extraordinaryreflections and post images using the hashtag #extraordinaryreflections for a chance to be featured.

Neither Confirmed nor Denied: MFA 2015
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 17 artists from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of traditional and multi-disciplinary media including new installations of photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and site-specific experiences.

Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Barbara Morgan's legacy of observing life in relation to "dancing atoms" is forever preserved on film and on paper, providing a glimpse into her world of photography, painting, light and modern dance.

Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Women Sculpting Women is a selection of 14 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection that illustrate the achievements these artists made through their own representations of the female form.

Darkness/Detritus/Illuminations: Works by Eduardo Lalo
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Darkness/Detritus/Illuminations" includes ink drawings, black and white photographs, and videos that explore the kinesthetic sensation of movement and of personal absence that takes place as an artist when creating works of art. Through a series of three poems and almost 100 works of art, Eduardo Lalo examines the idea of eliminating the mind from the creation process and focusing on perpetual, almost obsessive, movements of the body as it forms gestures and marks. Lalo describes this action as a fundamental expression of what it is to be human and states that "to draw is to revisit ceaselessly this discontent and this finding."

Born in Cuba in 1960 and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Eduardo Lalo is an internationally renowned novelist and poet, visual artist and educator. Lalo completed his studies at Columbia University (New York) and Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris), and is currently a Professor in the Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico. His books combine hybrids of essay and fiction, which he integrates with visual arts (drawing and photography), essays and fiction in his published work. Lalo became an internationally acclaimed literary figure in 2013 upon receiving the most prestigious award in the Hispanic-American literary world, the Rómulo Gallegos Award, for his novel Simone. A habitual columnist and literary critic in the San Juan-based 80 Grados, he is also a video artist of films including donde (2005) and La ciudad perdida (2006). Featured in dozens of exhibitions nationally and abroad, his photography and video work presents an esoteric look at urban spaces through black & white images, sounds & narrative that capture the isolation of the post industrialization era.

Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Crows are well known for their mythological reputation as tricksters and harbingers of death, but less for the reality that they are creatures of remarkable intelligence who lead complex social lives. Cauleen Smith became fascinated by these misunderstood animals when she noticed the massive flock of crows roosting outside her bedroom window during her artist residency at Light Work. She learned that the native population of crows circulates between Syracuse and nearby Auburn; and that this migration is partly in response to harassment and, at times, state-sanctioned violence at the hands of a human population who view them as a nuisance.

Smith interweaves the figure of the crow through the histories of these two cities, both of which were key stations on the Underground Railroad and innovators in early cinematic and 3D optical technologies. "Crow Requiem" connects this history to recent and ongoing violence against people of color at the hands of the state. Shot on location in Central New York, and featuring selections from Onondaga Historical Association's extensive archive of 19th-century stereoscopic images.

Artist Talk: Cauleen Smith
Urban Video Project

Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artist talk held in conjunction with tonight's opening of Smith's "Crow Requiem."

Speculations: Science Fiction, Chronopolitics, and Social Change
Urban Video Project
Featuring Cauleen Smith, Rasheedah Phillips, James Gordon Williams

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

Equal parts screening, artist talk, performance, and conversation, "Speculations" is a special event celebrating the world premiere of Cauleen Smith's "Crow Requiem" at UVP Everson.

"Speculations" will explore the role that science fiction and other modes of imagining the future and re-imagining the past have to play in creating social change.

The program will include a presentation by artist, Cauleen Smith; an improvisation to "Crow Requiem" by musician, composer, and ethnomusicologist, Dr. James Gordon Williams; and a presentation by Rasheedah Phillips, science fiction author and creator of Philadelphia-based organization, The AfroFuturist Affair and founding member of the Metropolarity Speculative Fiction Collective. Rasheedah Phillips will lead "DIY Time Travel in the Afrofuture", a free creative workshop, earlier in the day at Light Work Lab.

These presentations will be followed by a round table conversation with Smith, Williams, and Phillips moderated by Anneka Herre, Director of UVP, and scholars Tiffany Barber and Jerome Dent from the University of Rochester Visual & Cultural Studies program, whose work explores afrofuturism and its critique.

Reception and special Tuesday night screening will follow on the plaza.

Ensemble Series: SU Chamber Music Ensembles
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.

Kidnap Kid, with My Nu Leng, Wayward, Nicola
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Black Butter Records North American Spring Tour 2015

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

LeMoyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

Paintings, photographs, drawings, and sculpture from current students.

A Sense of Peace: Photography by Tom Dwyer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

In this photographic collection, Tom Dwyer focuses his lens and creative eye solely on images found at Baltimore Woods.

Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

Letha Wilson is a mixed media artist who was born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado, and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her outdoor excursions amongst the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural world and its photographic image at the root of her artistic interests. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Wilson's artwork has been shown at many venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Exit Art, White Box, Platform Gallery, Fredrieke Taylor Gallery, BravinLee Programs, Partipant Inc., the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Vox Populi, and Higher Pictures. In 2009 Letha was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Wilson participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in February 2015.

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Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features recent acquisitions from 2013 Light Work Artists-in-Residence including work by Brijesh Patel, Alexandra Demenkova, George Gittoes, John D. Freyer, Jason Eskenazi, Anouk Kruithof, Dani Leventhal, Karolina Karlic, Cecil McDonald Jr., Matt Eich, Jo Ann Walters, Ofer Wolberger, and Eric Gottesman. The artists in this exhibition are also featured in Contact Sheet 177: Light Work Annual 2014.

Gallery Exhibition: Persistence of Vision: Works by Colleen Woolpert
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The exhibition, Persistence of Vision, by local artist Colleen Woolpert, presents work in photography, video, and interactive objects and installations that originated with the artist's experience working with visually impaired adults in Seattle in 2013. Questions about visualization and navigating through darkness spurned ideas related to the "the great unknown" and space exploration. When an artist residency brought Woolpert to Syracuse in January 2014, the thread continued as an investigation of early motion picture innovations of the late 1800s in Syracuse, and ultimately the invention of her own optical device. The flicker of one image displacing the next is the persistent blink of light upon darkness.

The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"The Automobile" provides a sampling of the ways in which the automobile evolved in the Syracuse area and a glimpse into the innovations of some of the most significant mid-20th-century automobile designers. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the air-cooled Franklin car, the most famous of Syracuse's automobile lines, with its remarkably flexible and durable wooden frame.

The exhibition will also include drawings, sketches, and photographs from SCRC's industrial design collections by designers Howard A. Darrin, Claude Hill, Raymond Loewy, Budd Steinhilber, and Walter Dorwin Teague. Darrin was known for his designs for exotic luxury and sports cars. Claude Hill created some important concept car designs, while Raymond Loewy's photographs document a number of striking Studebaker model designs. Budd Steinhilber was a member of the design team for the revolutionary rear-engine 1948 Tucker automobile, and Walter Dorwin Teague designed for both the Ford Motor Company and the Marmon Motor Company.

Pastel Drawings by Sue Hoyt O'Neill
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Sue Hoyt O'Neill's pastel drawings are breathtakingly realistic representations of nature, landscapes, and still lives. Her work features a very fine attention to detail and a color palette so beautiful you have to see it in person. This selection of drawings covers a wide variety of content, and there is something here for everyone.

Point of View
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Contemporary photography of Steve Pearlman, Stephen Parker, and Richard Schultz, with ceramics and jewelry from Peter and Sue Valenti of Valenti Studios.

Launched
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Launched," the second annual exhibition of application portfolio pieces from Talent Agency Teen Art Portfolio Development, will be on view.

Talent Agency is a community-based pre-college and college readiness program located in the Near Westside of Syracuse. In partnership with the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), the teen participants, who are from the City of Syracuse, are taught and mentored by Syracuse University graduate and undergraduate students. The program gives youth with talent and passion for art a chance to compete for scholarships and acceptance to the best programs for their interests and needs.

The works in "Launched" include drawings, sculptures, paintings, illustrations, photos, and digital art works from the portfolios of student artists who will be college bound this fall. The work on display has won these gifted students large scholarships to many excellent programs.

Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities
Community Folk Art Center

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

Vintage Photography from Dalton's Archives
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

Dalton's will be exhibiting vintage photography spanning the years from 1870 to 1940. The work begins with a collection of historic images of the west by William Henry Jackson and ends with portrait work by Dr. Max Thorek, a Chicago surgeon. Also exhibited are photogravures by well-known Native American photographer Edward S. Curtis. There are several Camera Work images by photographers Annie Brigman, Alice Boughton, George Seeley, Clarence White and Alfred Stieglitz. Works by several other vintage photographers will be on display as well.

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

In the 1970s, the late photographer and educator Gary Metz generated a significant body of work that was very much in the spirit of the times. Metz's "Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint" challenged the first 100 years of landscape photography, which had placed a major emphasis on depicting nature as sublime, heroic and unspoiled. Unlike previous photographers who glorified nature, Metz and his contemporaries wrenched photography out of the national parks and replaced the scenic with the vernacular of the everyday American landscape.

A number of Metz's colleagues received wide recognition for their similar investigations culminating in the seminal 1975 exhibition "The New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape" at the Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House. Metz never received the same level of acknowledgement. Now, 40 years later, his "Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint" is as powerful and relevant as ever, resonating with current interests in ecology and the everyday landscape.

Metz spent the month of August 1985 as an artist-in-residence at Light Work. Metz was the was a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder; director of Education at the International Center of Photography; and head of the photography department at the Rhode Island School of Design. He received NEA fellowships in photography in 1972 and 1980, and is represented in various collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, George Eastman House in Rochester, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester.

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

The exhibit will feature 20 framed images along with a small selection of original archival items and artifacts. Fourteen historic images will be drawn from the extensive photographic files on the hotel maintained in the OHA's permanent collection. These range from a 1923 view of construction to the 1948 interior of the famous Rainbow Lounge, along with historic scenes of the Cavalier Room, the Persian Terrace and other locations from its heyday. Additionally, there will be a half-dozen recent interior images taken this year by professional photographer Bruce Harvey. These show that the hotel still maintains an irreplaceable majesty despite years of faded glory. The hotel, which opened in 1924, has been closed and dormant for several years but a new owner has begun a massive project to renovate it for the future while restoring its grand architecture.

Salt City Rock: The History of Rock and Roll in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will cover rock 'n' roll in Syracuse from the 1950s to today and include memorabilia from local musicians such as The Trend, The FlashCubes, The Tear Jerkers.

Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Women Sculpting Women is a selection of 14 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection that illustrate the achievements these artists made through their own representations of the female form.

Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Barbara Morgan's legacy of observing life in relation to "dancing atoms" is forever preserved on film and on paper, providing a glimpse into her world of photography, painting, light and modern dance.

Neither Confirmed nor Denied: MFA 2015
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 17 artists from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of traditional and multi-disciplinary media including new installations of photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and site-specific experiences.

Extra|ordinary Reflections: Works from the Robert Infarinato Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition that examines the reflective relationship between photographers, their subjects and the audience, featuring 35 photographic portraits from the collection of SU alumnus Robert M. Infarinato and curated by students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts Graduate Program in Museum Studies course Advanced Curatorship, under the guidance of Professor Edward A. Aiken.

Whether the scene is staged or candid, public or private, whether the subject is famous or unknown, portraits can reveal a person's qualities, interests, and attitudes in the click of a camera lens. In portraiture, three potential players hold power: the viewer, the subject, and artist. Power relationships are held between two or all of these players. Extra|ordinary Reflections blurs the lines between all three key players so that the viewer can actively seek out the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary.

Patrons and potential visitors are encouraged to follow Extra|ordinary Reflections on Instragram via @Extraordinaryreflections and post images using the hashtag #extraordinaryreflections for a chance to be featured.

Women's Work: Feminist Art from the Everson's Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Feminist Art Movement emerged in the late 1960s in various cities around the globe. Proponents of the movement sought to influence cultural attitudes and build a new framework for viewing the world, one that included and validated women's experiences. This group of artists did not conform to a single style or medium; instead, they united around ideas of producing art reflective of women's lives, transforming stereotypes, and drawing attention to women's historic contributions to art and society. Drawing from the Everson's collection, this exhibit brings together works by some of the most important artists of the Feminist Art Movement.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Prendergast to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $10 non-members, $8 students/military/educators/seniors, $30 family, children under 10 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features 35 masterworks, drawn from the permanent collection of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica. Prendergast to Pollock includes important paintings by many of the leading progressive and avant-garde American artists who shaped the history of American art in the first half of the 20th century, including, Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946), Arshile Gorky (1904-48), Edward Hopper (1882-1967), George B. Luks (1866-1933), Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Jackson Pollock (1912-56), Maurice B. Prendergast (1858-1924), Theodoros Stamos (1922-97), and Mark Tobey (1890-1976). Additional works are drawn from the Everson Museum's permanent collection.

Through these paintings visitors will explore three kinds of traditional artistic subject matter: landscape, still life, and figurative work. Other works in the exhibition embody different manifestations of the mid-20th century art movement known as Abstract Expressionism—the first American art movement to receive international recognition and influence. In addition to the iconic beauty of the works in the exhibition, visitors will have an opportunity to observe how leading modern American artists depicted similar representational and abstract subject matter.

Docent-led tours are available at 2:00 pm daily at no additional cost. Check in at the Visitor Services Desk.

Manifestation & Ambiguity
Gallery 4040

Price: Free
Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

"Manifestation & Ambiguity" features works by artists that examine and call into question the formation and perception of identity, of how we view ourselves and others. Marna Bell's black & white cinematic series, "Imperfect Memories", exists as reclaimed visions of past experiences from her childhood amnesia. Lacey McKinney's indistinct, "I Am You/Dissolution Paintings", suggest in part that time acts in opposition to the idea of a fixed or absolute self, while Juan Perdiguero's, "Loop" series utilizes large scale drawings of chimpanzees to represent humanistic concepts. This exhibition encourages the viewer to engage the work beyond a formal pictorial response.

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Darkness/Detritus/Illuminations: Works by Eduardo Lalo
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Darkness/Detritus/Illuminations" includes ink drawings, black and white photographs, and videos that explore the kinesthetic sensation of movement and of personal absence that takes place as an artist when creating works of art. Through a series of three poems and almost 100 works of art, Eduardo Lalo examines the idea of eliminating the mind from the creation process and focusing on perpetual, almost obsessive, movements of the body as it forms gestures and marks. Lalo describes this action as a fundamental expression of what it is to be human and states that "to draw is to revisit ceaselessly this discontent and this finding."

Born in Cuba in 1960 and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Eduardo Lalo is an internationally renowned novelist and poet, visual artist and educator. Lalo completed his studies at Columbia University (New York) and Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris), and is currently a Professor in the Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico. His books combine hybrids of essay and fiction, which he integrates with visual arts (drawing and photography), essays and fiction in his published work. Lalo became an internationally acclaimed literary figure in 2013 upon receiving the most prestigious award in the Hispanic-American literary world, the Rómulo Gallegos Award, for his novel Simone. A habitual columnist and literary critic in the San Juan-based 80 Grados, he is also a video artist of films including donde (2005) and La ciudad perdida (2006). Featured in dozens of exhibitions nationally and abroad, his photography and video work presents an esoteric look at urban spaces through black & white images, sounds & narrative that capture the isolation of the post industrialization era.

Lunchtime Lecture: Making their Mark, Print Study Room Tour
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Jazz at the Plaza: Dave Solazzo
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
LeMoyne Plaza
1135 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

A Gilbert & Sullivan "Iolanthe" Sampler
Civic Morning Musicals
Norma Tippett, soprano; Jean Loftus, mezzo soprano; Ken Pease, tenor; Phil Eisenman, basso cantante; Nancy Pease, piano

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

Bob Halligan Jr.
Listening Room Acoustic Music Series

Price: $10 in advance, $15 at the door
Small Plates
116 Walton St., Syracuse

Bob Halligan Jr. has written over 1,100 songs, 200 of which have been recorded and released internationally, with sales of over 30 million units. Among the artists who have covered his songs are Cher, KISS, Judas Priest, Michael Bolton, Kathy Mattea, and Blue Oyster Cult. Bob has sung on records with many artists who've had No. 1 records, including Michael McDonald, Joan Jett, Felix Cavaliere of the Rascals, and Darlene Love. He has sung lead vocals on national TV and radio commercials for Folgers, M&Ms, Carefree Sugarless Gum and Miller Genuine Draft. His current recording and touring group, Ceili Rain, has been together for 19 years and has released 8 award-winning CDs. He also plays Paul McCartney in Beatlemania Stage Show. Bob is an Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University in VPA and in Newhouse.

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Student Recital Series: Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
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. If lot is full or unavailable, guests will be directed to alternate lots. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Dumpstaphunk
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Preview: Other Desert Cities
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Are there secrets that should always be kept? Jon Robin Baitz writes fearlessly about the complex dynamics of wounded families. In this smart, sharply funny, and sensitive contemporary play, he folds art, politics, and family secrets into a tumultuous drama that pits a liberal middle-aged writer against her conservative parents. Who owns a family's history? There are no easy answers in this 2012 Pulitzer Prize-nominated play where certainty shifts like sand dunes in the wind.

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Measure for Measure
Syracuse University Drama Department
Celia Madeoy, director

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

Hypocrites, beware! Such is the matter of this profound and intriguing late comedy by Shakespeare. When Duke Vincentio of Vienna inexplicably hands over power to Lord Angelo, a man of self-professed puritanism, he lays a trap that ensnares the falsely virtuous and rewards the just and true. Like most Shakespearean comedies, the course to the truth is neither smooth nor easy, but it is filled with engaging characters and extraordinary events, and even concludes with multiple marriages—however unlikely that may sometimes seem.

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Thursday, April 9, 2015

LeMoyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

Paintings, photographs, drawings, and sculpture from current students.

A Sense of Peace: Photography by Tom Dwyer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

In this photographic collection, Tom Dwyer focuses his lens and creative eye solely on images found at Baltimore Woods.

Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

Letha Wilson is a mixed media artist who was born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado, and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her outdoor excursions amongst the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural world and its photographic image at the root of her artistic interests. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Wilson's artwork has been shown at many venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Exit Art, White Box, Platform Gallery, Fredrieke Taylor Gallery, BravinLee Programs, Partipant Inc., the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Vox Populi, and Higher Pictures. In 2009 Letha was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Wilson participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in February 2015.

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Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features recent acquisitions from 2013 Light Work Artists-in-Residence including work by Brijesh Patel, Alexandra Demenkova, George Gittoes, John D. Freyer, Jason Eskenazi, Anouk Kruithof, Dani Leventhal, Karolina Karlic, Cecil McDonald Jr., Matt Eich, Jo Ann Walters, Ofer Wolberger, and Eric Gottesman. The artists in this exhibition are also featured in Contact Sheet 177: Light Work Annual 2014.

Gallery Exhibition: Persistence of Vision: Works by Colleen Woolpert
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The exhibition, Persistence of Vision, by local artist Colleen Woolpert, presents work in photography, video, and interactive objects and installations that originated with the artist's experience working with visually impaired adults in Seattle in 2013. Questions about visualization and navigating through darkness spurned ideas related to the "the great unknown" and space exploration. When an artist residency brought Woolpert to Syracuse in January 2014, the thread continued as an investigation of early motion picture innovations of the late 1800s in Syracuse, and ultimately the invention of her own optical device. The flicker of one image displacing the next is the persistent blink of light upon darkness.

The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"The Automobile" provides a sampling of the ways in which the automobile evolved in the Syracuse area and a glimpse into the innovations of some of the most significant mid-20th-century automobile designers. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the air-cooled Franklin car, the most famous of Syracuse's automobile lines, with its remarkably flexible and durable wooden frame.

The exhibition will also include drawings, sketches, and photographs from SCRC's industrial design collections by designers Howard A. Darrin, Claude Hill, Raymond Loewy, Budd Steinhilber, and Walter Dorwin Teague. Darrin was known for his designs for exotic luxury and sports cars. Claude Hill created some important concept car designs, while Raymond Loewy's photographs document a number of striking Studebaker model designs. Budd Steinhilber was a member of the design team for the revolutionary rear-engine 1948 Tucker automobile, and Walter Dorwin Teague designed for both the Ford Motor Company and the Marmon Motor Company.

Pastel Drawings by Sue Hoyt O'Neill
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Sue Hoyt O'Neill's pastel drawings are breathtakingly realistic representations of nature, landscapes, and still lives. Her work features a very fine attention to detail and a color palette so beautiful you have to see it in person. This selection of drawings covers a wide variety of content, and there is something here for everyone.

Point of View
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Contemporary photography of Steve Pearlman, Stephen Parker, and Richard Schultz, with ceramics and jewelry from Peter and Sue Valenti of Valenti Studios.

Launched
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Launched," the second annual exhibition of application portfolio pieces from Talent Agency Teen Art Portfolio Development, will be on view.

Talent Agency is a community-based pre-college and college readiness program located in the Near Westside of Syracuse. In partnership with the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), the teen participants, who are from the City of Syracuse, are taught and mentored by Syracuse University graduate and undergraduate students. The program gives youth with talent and passion for art a chance to compete for scholarships and acceptance to the best programs for their interests and needs.

The works in "Launched" include drawings, sculptures, paintings, illustrations, photos, and digital art works from the portfolios of student artists who will be college bound this fall. The work on display has won these gifted students large scholarships to many excellent programs.

Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities
Community Folk Art Center

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

Vintage Photography from Dalton's Archives
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

Dalton's will be exhibiting vintage photography spanning the years from 1870 to 1940. The work begins with a collection of historic images of the west by William Henry Jackson and ends with portrait work by Dr. Max Thorek, a Chicago surgeon. Also exhibited are photogravures by well-known Native American photographer Edward S. Curtis. There are several Camera Work images by photographers Annie Brigman, Alice Boughton, George Seeley, Clarence White and Alfred Stieglitz. Works by several other vintage photographers will be on display as well.

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

In the 1970s, the late photographer and educator Gary Metz generated a significant body of work that was very much in the spirit of the times. Metz's "Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint" challenged the first 100 years of landscape photography, which had placed a major emphasis on depicting nature as sublime, heroic and unspoiled. Unlike previous photographers who glorified nature, Metz and his contemporaries wrenched photography out of the national parks and replaced the scenic with the vernacular of the everyday American landscape.

A number of Metz's colleagues received wide recognition for their similar investigations culminating in the seminal 1975 exhibition "The New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape" at the Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House. Metz never received the same level of acknowledgement. Now, 40 years later, his "Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint" is as powerful and relevant as ever, resonating with current interests in ecology and the everyday landscape.

Metz spent the month of August 1985 as an artist-in-residence at Light Work. Metz was the was a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder; director of Education at the International Center of Photography; and head of the photography department at the Rhode Island School of Design. He received NEA fellowships in photography in 1972 and 1980, and is represented in various collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, George Eastman House in Rochester, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester.

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Salt City Rock: The History of Rock and Roll in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will cover rock 'n' roll in Syracuse from the 1950s to today and include memorabilia from local musicians such as The Trend, The FlashCubes, The Tear Jerkers.

Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

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

The exhibit will feature 20 framed images along with a small selection of original archival items and artifacts. Fourteen historic images will be drawn from the extensive photographic files on the hotel maintained in the OHA's permanent collection. These range from a 1923 view of construction to the 1948 interior of the famous Rainbow Lounge, along with historic scenes of the Cavalier Room, the Persian Terrace and other locations from its heyday. Additionally, there will be a half-dozen recent interior images taken this year by professional photographer Bruce Harvey. These show that the hotel still maintains an irreplaceable majesty despite years of faded glory. The hotel, which opened in 1924, has been closed and dormant for several years but a new owner has begun a massive project to renovate it for the future while restoring its grand architecture.

Wanderlust
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Wanderlust is defined as a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about. From the beaches of Greece and the south of France to the glaciers of Iceland, this exhibition embodies the spirit of wanderlust. It features paintings, photographs, and drawings created by Central New York artists during travels to a variety of exotic locales.

Artists include Roger DeMuth, Bill Elkins, Mary Padgett, William Padgett, Lucie Wellner, and Jamie Young.

Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Barbara Morgan's legacy of observing life in relation to "dancing atoms" is forever preserved on film and on paper, providing a glimpse into her world of photography, painting, light and modern dance.

Women Sculpting Women
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Women Sculpting Women is a selection of 14 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection that illustrate the achievements these artists made through their own representations of the female form.

Extra|ordinary Reflections: Works from the Robert Infarinato Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

An exhibition that examines the reflective relationship between photographers, their subjects and the audience, featuring 35 photographic portraits from the collection of SU alumnus Robert M. Infarinato and curated by students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts Graduate Program in Museum Studies course Advanced Curatorship, under the guidance of Professor Edward A. Aiken.

Whether the scene is staged or candid, public or private, whether the subject is famous or unknown, portraits can reveal a person's qualities, interests, and attitudes in the click of a camera lens. In portraiture, three potential players hold power: the viewer, the subject, and artist. Power relationships are held between two or all of these players. Extra|ordinary Reflections blurs the lines between all three key players so that the viewer can actively seek out the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary.

Patrons and potential visitors are encouraged to follow Extra|ordinary Reflections on Instragram via @Extraordinaryreflections and post images using the hashtag #extraordinaryreflections for a chance to be featured.

Neither Confirmed nor Denied: MFA 2015
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 17 artists from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of traditional and multi-disciplinary media including new installations of photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and site-specific experiences.

Women's Work: Feminist Art from the Everson's Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Feminist Art Movement emerged in the late 1960s in various cities around the globe. Proponents of the movement sought to influence cultural attitudes and build a new framework for viewing the world, one that included and validated women's experiences. This group of artists did not conform to a single style or medium; instead, they united around ideas of producing art reflective of women's lives, transforming stereotypes, and drawing attention to women's historic contributions to art and society. Drawing from the Everson's collection, this exhibit brings together works by some of the most important artists of the Feminist Art Movement.

Prendergast to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $10 non-members, $8 students/military/educators/seniors, $30 family, children under 10 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features 35 masterworks, drawn from the permanent collection of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica. Prendergast to Pollock includes important paintings by many of the leading progressive and avant-garde American artists who shaped the history of American art in the first half of the 20th century, including, Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946), Arshile Gorky (1904-48), Edward Hopper (1882-1967), George B. Luks (1866-1933), Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Jackson Pollock (1912-56), Maurice B. Prendergast (1858-1924), Theodoros Stamos (1922-97), and Mark Tobey (1890-1976). Additional works are drawn from the Everson Museum's permanent collection.

Through these paintings visitors will explore three kinds of traditional artistic subject matter: landscape, still life, and figurative work. Other works in the exhibition embody different manifestations of the mid-20th century art movement known as Abstract Expressionism—the first American art movement to receive international recognition and influence. In addition to the iconic beauty of the works in the exhibition, visitors will have an opportunity to observe how leading modern American artists depicted similar representational and abstract subject matter.

Docent-led tours are available at 2:00 pm daily at no additional cost. Check in at the Visitor Services Desk.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Manifestation & Ambiguity
Gallery 4040

Price: Free
Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

"Manifestation & Ambiguity" features works by artists that examine and call into question the formation and perception of identity, of how we view ourselves and others. Marna Bell's black & white cinematic series, "Imperfect Memories", exists as reclaimed visions of past experiences from her childhood amnesia. Lacey McKinney's indistinct, "I Am You/Dissolution Paintings", suggest in part that time acts in opposition to the idea of a fixed or absolute self, while Juan Perdiguero's, "Loop" series utilizes large scale drawings of chimpanzees to represent humanistic concepts. This exhibition encourages the viewer to engage the work beyond a formal pictorial response.

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Darkness/Detritus/Illuminations: Works by Eduardo Lalo
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Darkness/Detritus/Illuminations" includes ink drawings, black and white photographs, and videos that explore the kinesthetic sensation of movement and of personal absence that takes place as an artist when creating works of art. Through a series of three poems and almost 100 works of art, Eduardo Lalo examines the idea of eliminating the mind from the creation process and focusing on perpetual, almost obsessive, movements of the body as it forms gestures and marks. Lalo describes this action as a fundamental expression of what it is to be human and states that "to draw is to revisit ceaselessly this discontent and this finding."

Born in Cuba in 1960 and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Eduardo Lalo is an internationally renowned novelist and poet, visual artist and educator. Lalo completed his studies at Columbia University (New York) and Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris), and is currently a Professor in the Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico. His books combine hybrids of essay and fiction, which he integrates with visual arts (drawing and photography), essays and fiction in his published work. Lalo became an internationally acclaimed literary figure in 2013 upon receiving the most prestigious award in the Hispanic-American literary world, the Rómulo Gallegos Award, for his novel Simone. A habitual columnist and literary critic in the San Juan-based 80 Grados, he is also a video artist of films including donde (2005) and La ciudad perdida (2006). Featured in dozens of exhibitions nationally and abroad, his photography and video work presents an esoteric look at urban spaces through black & white images, sounds & narrative that capture the isolation of the post industrialization era.

Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Crows are well known for their mythological reputation as tricksters and harbingers of death, but less for the reality that they are creatures of remarkable intelligence who lead complex social lives. Cauleen Smith became fascinated by these misunderstood animals when she noticed the massive flock of crows roosting outside her bedroom window during her artist residency at Light Work. She learned that the native population of crows circulates between Syracuse and nearby Auburn; and that this migration is partly in response to harassment and, at times, state-sanctioned violence at the hands of a human population who view them as a nuisance.

Smith interweaves the figure of the crow through the histories of these two cities, both of which were key stations on the Underground Railroad and innovators in early cinematic and 3D optical technologies. "Crow Requiem" connects this history to recent and ongoing violence against people of color at the hands of the state. Shot on location in Central New York, and featuring selections from Onondaga Historical Association's extensive archive of 19th-century stereoscopic images.

Helvetica
Echo

Price: Free
745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Echo and AIGA Upstate New York will be hosting a screening of Helvetica, the Gary Hustwit film about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.

Interviewees in Helvetica include some of the most illustrious and innovative names in the design world, including Erik Spiekermann, Matthew Carter, Massimo Vignelli, Wim Crouwel, Hermann Zapf, Neville Brody, Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Bierut, David Carson, Paula Scher, Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Experimental Jetset, Michael C. Place, Norm, Alfred Hoffmann, Mike Parker, Bruno Steinert, Otmar Hoefer, Leslie Savan, Rick Poynor, and Lars Müller.

Picturing Motion: How Movies Began in Syracuse
Onondaga Community College
Featuring Colleen Woolpert

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Colleen Woolpert had a fascination with the pre-cinema device known as the Mutoscope (1894) before she moved to Syracuse and rented a photography studio at the Gear Factory on the Near Westside. One day she discovered that the Mutoscope was invented in Syracuse, in fact on the site where her studio was located. Incredulous, she researched the facts and uncovered an inspiring story of four creative minds that made Syracuse a part of film history lore, fighting the odds (and Thomas Edison) to bring pictures to life.

Popa Chubby
NYS Blues Festival

Price: $25 at the door, $20 in advance
Upstairs at the Dino
246 W. Willow St., Syracuse

Larger than life blues figure Popa Chubby, a powerful force in the blues scene with his unique brand of hard hitting, face melting, blues rock n' funky soul is coming for a NYS Blues Festival fundraiser. Tickets are available online at www.NYSBluesFest.com or behind the bar at the Dino.

Ensemble Series: Windjammer Vocal Jazz
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.

Tink
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Cruel April Poetry Readings
Point of Contact Gallery
Featuring Emerging Voices (Syracuse University MFA Creative Writing Students)

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

A new offering in the Cruel April series, this event will showcase students from Syracuse University's MFA Creative Writing Program. Guest poets Anna Mazhirov, Simone Richmond, and Becca Glaser will read from their works in poetry and fiction. The reading will begin at 6 pm and will follow with a reception and informal dialogue with the poets.

A Wee Bit O' Murder
Acme Mystery Company

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

Holy St. Patrick on a stick! Someone has stolen the pot of gold and now you and all the other leprechauns of Clover Union Local Number 7 have your little tails in a spin. The president of your local, Jimmy Jack Daniels O'Toole, is demanding that you get your wee bottoms over to the pub as fast as your little feet can go. If the International Fellowship of Little Knickers finds out about this, you'll all be turned into garden gnomes!

Preview: Other Desert Cities
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Are there secrets that should always be kept? Jon Robin Baitz writes fearlessly about the complex dynamics of wounded families. In this smart, sharply funny, and sensitive contemporary play, he folds art, politics, and family secrets into a tumultuous drama that pits a liberal middle-aged writer against her conservative parents. Who owns a family's history? There are no easy answers in this 2012 Pulitzer Prize-nominated play where certainty shifts like sand dunes in the wind.

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The Addams Family
First Year Players

Price: $7 regular, $4 student
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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Measure for Measure
Syracuse University Drama Department
Celia Madeoy, director

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

Hypocrites, beware! Such is the matter of this profound and intriguing late comedy by Shakespeare. When Duke Vincentio of Vienna inexplicably hands over power to Lord Angelo, a man of self-professed puritanism, he lays a trap that ensnares the falsely virtuous and rewards the just and true. Like most Shakespearean comedies, the course to the truth is neither smooth nor easy, but it is filled with engaging characters and extraordinary events, and even concludes with multiple marriages—however unlikely that may sometimes seem.

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Friday, April 10, 2015

LeMoyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

Paintings, photographs, drawings, and sculpture from current students.

A Sense of Peace: Photography by Tom Dwyer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

In this photographic collection, Tom Dwyer focuses his lens and creative eye solely on images found at Baltimore Woods.

Letha Wilson: Sight Specific
Light Work Gallery

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

Letha Wilson is a mixed media artist who was born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado, and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her outdoor excursions amongst the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural world and its photographic image at the root of her artistic interests. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Wilson's artwork has been shown at many venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Exit Art, White Box, Platform Gallery, Fredrieke Taylor Gallery, BravinLee Programs, Partipant Inc., the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Vox Populi, and Higher Pictures. In 2009 Letha was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Wilson participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in February 2015.

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Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features recent acquisitions from 2013 Light Work Artists-in-Residence including work by Brijesh Patel, Alexandra Demenkova, George Gittoes, John D. Freyer, Jason Eskenazi, Anouk Kruithof, Dani Leventhal, Karolina Karlic, Cecil McDonald Jr., Matt Eich, Jo Ann Walters, Ofer Wolberger, and Eric Gottesman. The artists in this exhibition are also featured in Contact Sheet 177: Light Work Annual 2014.

Gallery Exhibition: Persistence of Vision: Works by Colleen Woolpert
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The exhibition, Persistence of Vision, by local artist Colleen Woolpert, presents work in photography, video, and interactive objects and installations that originated with the artist's experience working with visually impaired adults in Seattle in 2013. Questions about visualization and navigating through darkness spurned ideas related to the "the great unknown" and space exploration. When an artist residency brought Woolpert to Syracuse in January 2014, the thread continued as an investigation of early motion picture innovations of the late 1800s in Syracuse, and ultimately the invention of her own optical device. The flicker of one image displacing the next is the persistent blink of light upon darkness.

The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"The Automobile" provides a sampling of the ways in which the automobile evolved in the Syracuse area and a glimpse into the innovations of some of the most significant mid-20th-century automobile designers. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the air-cooled Franklin car, the most famous of Syracuse's automobile lines, with its remarkably flexible and durable wooden frame.

The exhibition will also include drawings, sketches, and photographs from SCRC's industrial design collections by designers Howard A. Darrin, Claude Hill, Raymond Loewy, Budd Steinhilber, and Walter Dorwin Teague. Darrin was known for his designs for exotic luxury and sports cars. Claude Hill created some important concept car designs, while Raymond Loewy's photographs document a number of striking Studebaker model designs. Budd Steinhilber was a member of the design team for the revolutionary rear-engine 1948 Tucker automobile, and Walter Dorwin Teague designed for both the Ford Motor Company and the Marmon Motor Company.

Pastel Drawings by Sue Hoyt O'Neill
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Sue Hoyt O'Neill's pastel drawings are breathtakingly realistic representations of nature, landscapes, and still lives. Her work features a very fine attention to detail and a color palette so beautiful you have to see it in person. This selection of drawings covers a wide variety of content, and there is something here for everyone.

Point of View
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Contemporary photography of Steve Pearlman, Stephen Parker, and Richard Schultz, with ceramics and jewelry from Peter and Sue Valenti of Valenti Studios.

Launched
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Launched," the second annual exhibition of application portfolio pieces from Talent Agency Teen Art Portfolio Development, will be on view.

Talent Agency is a community-based pre-college and college readiness program located in the Near Westside of Syracuse. In partnership with the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), the teen participants, who are from the City of Syracuse, are taught and mentored by Syracuse University graduate and undergraduate students. The program gives youth with talent and passion for art a chance to compete for scholarships and acceptance to the best programs for their interests and needs.

The works in "Launched" include drawings, sculptures, paintings, illustrations, photos, and digital art works from the portfolios of student artists who will be college bound this fall. The work on display has won these gifted students large scholarships to many excellent programs.

Post Basquiat: North-South Contemporaneities
Community Folk Art Center