Sunday, December 3, 2017

32nd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $7 regular, $5 seniors, $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Over 30 gingerbread creations made by local bakers of all ages.

Following My Bliss: Photography by Diana Whiting
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Award winning nature photographer Diana Whiting will be the December Guest Artist. Many fine art photographs resulting from her dedication and creativity will be available for viewing and purchase.

New Voices: Recent Acquisitions from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring over 4,000 works of art, the Light Work Collection consists primarily of work made by artists who have participated in the Artist-in-Residence Program and past Light Work Grant recipients. Pulled from the Light Work Collection, this exhibition highlights work by Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Takahiro Kaneyama, Sara Macel, John Mann, Zanele Muholi, Flurina Rothenberger, Hrvoje Slovenc, Pacifico Silano, Maija Tammi, and Mila Teshaieva.

John Edmonds: Anonymous
Light Work Gallery

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

In his exhibition, Anonymous, John Edmonds combines two distinct series of portraits, both of which conceal the identities of their subjects. The first series comprises striking formal studies of individuals wearing hoods on the street, photographed from behind. We can quickly read this suite of images as a statement on the unjust death of Trayvon Martin and how individuals of color face issues of racism, safety, and injustice in systemic ways. "All the work that I make is from a very personal place," says Edmonds of his process. "It starts with me." Edmonds further embeds himself in this work by photographing his subjects wearing his own hoodies and jackets. With little visual clues to guide us, we may only learn from the artist that the obscured individuals in fact vary in race, gender, and age.

In contrast to the charged public space that Edmonds considers with these pictures, a second series of portraits celebrates blackness and beauty through private and sensual pictures of men wearing du-rags. Once again, Edmonds photographs his subjects from directly behind them. We can trace the du-rag's origin to the head-wraps worn by female slaves during the antebellum period, and later used to preserve hairstyles, but today both men and women wear du-rags as a symbol asserting cultural pride. A melancholy underlies these portraits, though a majestic and spiritual quality also comes forward, calling to mind totems and religious iconography. A softness and warmth emanates from the colors and folds of the cloth. Edmonds exhibits these portraits on a larger-than-life, monumental scale, implying both nobility and strength, while also subtly undermining the grandiosity by printing on delicate, flowing silk.

Holiday Show 2017
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The exhibition will feature jewelry, up-cycled jewelry, and ornaments by Betsy Menson Sio; new ceramics by Jen Gandee, Ed Feldman, and Ron Sutterer; repurposed glass pieces by Errol Willett; paintings by Lucie Wellner and Andrea Deschambeault-Porter; photos by Elisabeth Groat and Robert Colley; and earrings by Lily Tsay.

Plowshares Craftsfair

Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

CNY's premiere multicultural crafts fair, featuring over 120 local craftspeople and community organizations.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

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

"Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Syracuse and Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. Snowy Splendor 2017-2018 marks the fifth anniversary of this popular exhibit that highlights artwork created by community artists.

The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I
Onondaga Historical Association

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

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I, Onondaga Historical Association will present an exhibit on Onondaga County's role in the Great War.

The exhibit will feature photographs, posters, uniforms, gas masks, helmets and other military accoutrements, war souvenirs, home-front conservation items, letters, diaries, and other archival material and objects. These items will illustrate the impact World War I had on Onondaga County and the world at large. The exhibit will focus on the people, places, and events at home and abroad including military personnel and units, the nurse corps, Camp Syracuse, food conservation, the Split Rock munitions explosion, and the Spanish Influenza epidemic.

In Gratitude: The Museum Project
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"In Gratitude: The Museum Project," on display in the Photography Study Gallery, examines the Museum Project, an artist collective formed by over a dozen preeminent American artists seeking a way to express their gratitude for the institutional support of, and commitment to, photography as an art form. This exhibition, curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, features a multitude of contemporary perspectives and a rich diversity of styles, concepts, and photographic materials as it explores the recent donation of artwork to the SU Art Collection.

Americans in Venice: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Americans in Venice: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Prints," curated by SUArt Galleries director Domenic Iacono, presents six prints by James McNeill Whistler from this period, placing them alongside the work of other Americans who were practicing in Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The juxtaposition of these works allows the viewer to appreciate Whistler's innovations and his effect on the artists who followed him. Artists such as Mortimer Menpes, Frank Duveneck, Otto Bacher, and Joseph Pennell owe much to Whistler's innovative style and approach and, in turn, their work had an impact on the artists who made prints of Venice during the 20th century.

Recent Acquisitions in Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting ceramics in 1916 with a purchase of 32 porcelains by preeminent Arts and Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, which ultimately built the framework for the Museum's focus on works in clay. In 2016, the Museum unveiled a new ceramics gallery and implemented a plan to actively acquire new works for the ceramics collection, which now numbers more than 5000 works dating from antiquity to the present day. This exhibition features a small and diverse selection of works acquired over the last three years through gifts and purchases. Forty-nine ceramics entered the collection during this period, ranging from functional vessels made by the South American Chavin civilization between the ninth and third centuries BCE to sculptural objects created by contemporary artists across America.

Monumental
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson's expansive exhibition spaces, designed by I.M. Pei, allow the Museum to acquire and display monumentally-sized artwork. With this opportunity comes the unique challenges of caring for and exhibiting oversized work. Monumental features rarely seen large-scale pieces by
John de Andrea, Harmony Hammond, Sadashi Inuzuka, Sol LeWitt, Dennis Oppenheim, and Arnie Zimmerman, drawn from the Everson's collection, in order to foster a community conversation about the benefits and challenges associated with displaying oversized work.

TR Ericsson: I Was Born To Bring You Into This World
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

TR Ericsson uses the story of his mother to present a searing, soft, and complex portrait of post-industrial life in America. Ericsson constructs his work using traditional art materials such as canvas, bronze, photography, and clay as well as video, found objects, and heirlooms taken from his family archives. This exhibition is a specific reinterpretation of Crackle & Drag, Ericsson's ongoing project started during the years following his mother's suicide in 2003.

"I Was Born To Bring You Into This World" begins as an intimate encounter with an artist's family archive and becomes a potent opportunity to reflect and scrutinize the trials and tribulations of our own lives.

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Suné Woods: When a heart scatter, scatter, scatter
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based in Los Angeles, Suné Woods works in multi-channel video installations, photography, and collage. Presenting intimate vignettes of couples or solitary actions of individuals in two video installations, "When a heart scatter, scatter, scatter" is a vulnerable exploration of desire, forgiveness, and resilience.

Focus
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A new exhibition series at the Everson, "FOCUS" presents a few selected works from the Museum's collection in order to spark dialogue about how objects relate to one another across time, medium, and subject matter. For its first iteration, Adelaide Alsop Robineau's Cinerary Urn is paired with 19th-century paintings.

From Funk to Punk: Left Coast Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Funk to Punk: Left Coast Ceramics" highlights the rich continuing history of California, Oregon, and Washington artists working in a wide variety of aesthetics, scale, and conceptual styles. The exhibition surveys iconic works from the Museum's collection beginning in the 1950s, to works created in today's dynamic cultural and artistic landscape, capturing the spirit and innovations synonymous with West Coast art over the last six decades.

32nd Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $8 non-members
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Celebrate the season with a visit to one of CNY's most treasured holiday events. Take in the beautiful sights, purchase items to decorate your home or office, and pick up tips for your own creations. Beautifully decorated trees, wreaths, and unique displays are donated and all items are sold to benefit the Everson. Visit the Holiday Café for lunch, find unique gifts in the Museum Shop, and enjoy live entertainment — each day will feature local musicians, performers, and dancers.

Sensory-Friendly Performance: The Nutcracker
Syracuse City Ballet

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

The performance, which will be shorter and more relaxed than usual, will last approximately one hour without intermission.

Special accommodations at the theater will include:

* Lower sound levels and avoidance of sudden loud or startling noises
* Reduced stage lighting
* Increased lighting in the theater to make movement inside the theater easier
* Materials provided to parents and children before the show so they will know what to expect at the theater and on the stage
* Permitted use of tablets or smart phones if that is a child's way of communicating
* Designated areas outside the main theater for those feeling overwhelmed and needing a few minutes to self-regulate
* Specially trained ushers, staff and volunteers

Tickets for this performance can be purchased online at syracusecityballet.com, by phone at 315-435-2121, or from the Oncenter box office at the War Memorial during business hours.

Everyone's family holiday favorite comes to life with spectacular and colorful dancing, costumes, and sets. Performed by Central New York's very own professional ballet company, this is a Nutcracker that will enchant children and adults alike and is the must-see dance performance of the holiday season.

Tickets available online at Ticketmaster.com.

The Nutcracker
Syracuse City Ballet

Price: $20-$75
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Everyone's family holiday favorite comes to life with spectacular and colorful dancing, costumes, and sets. Performed by Central New York's very own professional ballet company, this is a Nutcracker that will enchant children and adults alike and is the must-see dance performance of the holiday season.

Tickets available online at Ticketmaster.com.

Handel's Messiah
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Syracuse University Oratorio Society
G. Roberts Kolb, conductor
Featuring Julia Ebner, soprano; Katherine Weber, alto; Dann Coakwell, tenor; Stephen Bryant, baritone

Price: $30 regular, $25 seniors, $5 college students with ID, free for ages 18 and under
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Winter Concert
Liverpool Community Chorus

Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

Season of Song
Syracuse Children's Chorus

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

A perfect concert to celebrate the holiday season, including audience participation and the singing of the ?beloved carol Stille Nacht by candlelight.

Holidays at Hendricks
Hendricks Chapel

Price: Free, but seating is extremely limited -- arrive early
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Hendricks Chapel Choir under the direction of Dr. José "Peppie" Calvar with Dr. Anne Laver, University Organist, in collaboration with the Syracuse University Brass Ensemble directed by Dr. James T. Spencer, present Holidays at Hendricks annually in December. An ongoing CNY tradition, Holidays at Hendricks features guest ensembles from the Syracuse University's Setnor School of Music. Guest ensembles have included the international award-winning Syracuse University Singers, under the direction of Dr. John Warren, and Syracuse University's Vocal Jazz Ensemble, directed by Prof. Jeff Welcher, as well as the Syracuse University Women's Choir and Concert Choir, directed by Dr. Hillary Ridgley and Peppie Calvar, respectively. Holidays at Hendricks is broadcast annually on public television stations throughout Western, Central, and Northern New York. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and seating is extremely limited.

1940s Radio Hour
Central New York Playhouse
Patricia Catchouny, director

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

A different time is evoked in this marvelously theatrical and winning show, a live broadcast of a The Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade from the Hotel Astor's Algonquin Room on December 21, 1942. The spirit of that bygone era when the world was at war and pop music meant "Strike Up the Band" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" (both are in this show) is accurately captured as the harassed producer copes with a drunk lead singer, the delivery boy who wants a chance in front of the mike, the second banana who dreams of singing a ballad, and the trumpet playing sound effects man who chooses a fighter plane over Glenn Miller.

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A Charlie Brown Christmas
Open Hand Theater

Price: $12 adults, $8 children in advance, $15 adults, $10 children at the door
Open Hand Theater
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 1 (formerly Dick's entrance), Dewitt

This holiday season, Open Hand Theater will bring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the whole Peanuts gang to life in A Charlie Brown Christmas. This special performance will highlight 11 hand-crafted puppets, as well as the puppeteering and acting skills of the Open Hand performers. This heartwarming holiday show contrasts the trappings of materialism with the true meaning of Christmas.

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I Do! I Do! A Musical About Marriage
Redhouse

Price: $27/$32
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This intimate and nostalgic musical is the perfect love story for the holidays! Follow Michael and Agnes through 50 years of marriage — from their wedding day to the night they pass on their beloved home to the next pair of newlyweds. This Tony Award-winning musical features an unforgettable score including the classic song "My Cup Runneth Over With Love." Book and lyrics by Tom Jones, music by Harvey Schmidt.

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The Wizard of Oz
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department

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

Syracuse Stage and the Syracuse University Department of Drama team up with New York's 2 Ring Circus to create a dazzlingly acrobatic take on The Wizard of Oz. This stage adaptation contains all your favorite characters and songs from the Oscar-winning movie score, including "Over the Rainbow," "We're Off to See the Wizard (Follow the Yellow Brick Road)," and more. The cirque-like feats of 2 Ring Circus make it an Oz—and a holiday family treat—like you've never seen before. Great songs and L. Frank Baum's beloved characters make this musical a classic.

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The Wizard of Oz
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department

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

Syracuse Stage and the Syracuse University Department of Drama team up with New York's 2 Ring Circus to create a dazzlingly acrobatic take on The Wizard of Oz. This stage adaptation contains all your favorite characters and songs from the Oscar-winning movie score, including "Over the Rainbow," "We're Off to See the Wizard (Follow the Yellow Brick Road)," and more. The cirque-like feats of 2 Ring Circus make it an Oz—and a holiday family treat—like you've never seen before. Great songs and L. Frank Baum's beloved characters make this musical a classic.

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Monday, December 4, 2017

Connie Carroll: Climate Change Series
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Connie Carroll is an accomplished, dynamic illustrator. She combines humor and social commentary with vibrant color and engaging, energetic lines. This series speaks to the impact of climate change, through her commanding, urgent, and timely aesthetic.

Drawing on Talent: Member Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The World Around Us
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A massive show and sale of works from students of Sandra Sabene and The Liverpool Art Center, with over 100 paintings and drawings, plus a supplemental showing of recent 2-dimensional artworks by Baldwinsville native and Syracuse University sculpture MFA candidate Mark Zibbs.

For more information, contact Sandra Sabene, 315-234-9333.

In the Arts and Crafts Style: Woodblock Prints by Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

After getting her degree in art and spending several years as a graphic designer and commercial illustrator, Laura discovered the designs and philosophy of the Arts and Crafts movement. Inspired, she learned printmaking, and submitted her vintage-style block prints to the Roycroft Renaissance Jury. Approved, she became a Roycroft Renaissance Artisan, and was soon elevated to Master Artisan status signifying very high quality design and execution. Twenty years later, she continues to make block prints and paintings inspired by the beauty in nature, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the sweet, simple things in life.

Laura has won many awards and prestigious commissions for her work, which can be seen at shows, in many galleries and shops nationwide, and at www.laurawilder.com.

32nd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $7 regular, $5 seniors, $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Over 30 gingerbread creations made by local bakers of all ages.

Following My Bliss: Photography by Diana Whiting
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Award winning nature photographer Diana Whiting will be the December Guest Artist. Many fine art photographs resulting from her dedication and creativity will be available for viewing and purchase.

New Voices: Recent Acquisitions from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring over 4,000 works of art, the Light Work Collection consists primarily of work made by artists who have participated in the Artist-in-Residence Program and past Light Work Grant recipients. Pulled from the Light Work Collection, this exhibition highlights work by Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Takahiro Kaneyama, Sara Macel, John Mann, Zanele Muholi, Flurina Rothenberger, Hrvoje Slovenc, Pacifico Silano, Maija Tammi, and Mila Teshaieva.

John Edmonds: Anonymous
Light Work Gallery

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

In his exhibition, Anonymous, John Edmonds combines two distinct series of portraits, both of which conceal the identities of their subjects. The first series comprises striking formal studies of individuals wearing hoods on the street, photographed from behind. We can quickly read this suite of images as a statement on the unjust death of Trayvon Martin and how individuals of color face issues of racism, safety, and injustice in systemic ways. "All the work that I make is from a very personal place," says Edmonds of his process. "It starts with me." Edmonds further embeds himself in this work by photographing his subjects wearing his own hoodies and jackets. With little visual clues to guide us, we may only learn from the artist that the obscured individuals in fact vary in race, gender, and age.

In contrast to the charged public space that Edmonds considers with these pictures, a second series of portraits celebrates blackness and beauty through private and sensual pictures of men wearing du-rags. Once again, Edmonds photographs his subjects from directly behind them. We can trace the du-rag's origin to the head-wraps worn by female slaves during the antebellum period, and later used to preserve hairstyles, but today both men and women wear du-rags as a symbol asserting cultural pride. A melancholy underlies these portraits, though a majestic and spiritual quality also comes forward, calling to mind totems and religious iconography. A softness and warmth emanates from the colors and folds of the cloth. Edmonds exhibits these portraits on a larger-than-life, monumental scale, implying both nobility and strength, while also subtly undermining the grandiosity by printing on delicate, flowing silk.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

499 S. Warren St. (at the corner of E. Onondaga St.)
Syracuse

The 63rd season of this holiday market featuring unique gifts handcrafted by local artists.

Call of the Wild (1935)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: William Wellman
Cast: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie, Reginald Owen, Katherine DeMille, Sidney Toler

An exciting adventure in the Yukon, and this recent restoration includes 15 minutes of footage that was deleted for a 1940s re-release and hasn't been seen since its original 1935 release.

Holiday Pops
LeMoyne College

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

Raise a glass of holiday cheer to classics performed by the Le Moyne College Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Singers.

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Connie Carroll: Climate Change Series
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Connie Carroll is an accomplished, dynamic illustrator. She combines humor and social commentary with vibrant color and engaging, energetic lines. This series speaks to the impact of climate change, through her commanding, urgent, and timely aesthetic.

Drawing on Talent: Member Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The World Around Us
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A massive show and sale of works from students of Sandra Sabene and The Liverpool Art Center, with over 100 paintings and drawings, plus a supplemental showing of recent 2-dimensional artworks by Baldwinsville native and Syracuse University sculpture MFA candidate Mark Zibbs.

For more information, contact Sandra Sabene, 315-234-9333.

Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jan Navales: A wide variety of wall art, prints, art quilts, purses and tote bags, and funky jewelry, all created using cottons, silks, leathers, felting, metal, polymer clay, and more
Terry Askey-Cole: "Shards" mosaic "Pot in the Garden" wall art, and nature-inspired stoneware torn bowls and vases

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Phase Changes: Glimpses of the Diaspora
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Phase Changes: Gilmpses of the Diaspora" is an exhibition designed to highlight the energy and dynamism of the CFAC permanent collection. Much like phases of matter, art of the African Diaspora has evolved to reflect changing social and cultural landscapes through many generations of artists. For example, one can observe water condensing from vapor to a liquid and finally to ice, and know that the end result is still the same compound. Like water, one can note the significant differences between these works of art and recognize that each still embodies the essential components and spirit of African Diasporan art.

In the Arts and Crafts Style: Woodblock Prints by Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

After getting her degree in art and spending several years as a graphic designer and commercial illustrator, Laura discovered the designs and philosophy of the Arts and Crafts movement. Inspired, she learned printmaking, and submitted her vintage-style block prints to the Roycroft Renaissance Jury. Approved, she became a Roycroft Renaissance Artisan, and was soon elevated to Master Artisan status signifying very high quality design and execution. Twenty years later, she continues to make block prints and paintings inspired by the beauty in nature, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the sweet, simple things in life.

Laura has won many awards and prestigious commissions for her work, which can be seen at shows, in many galleries and shops nationwide, and at www.laurawilder.com.

32nd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $7 regular, $5 seniors, $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Over 30 gingerbread creations made by local bakers of all ages.

Following My Bliss: Photography by Diana Whiting
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Award winning nature photographer Diana Whiting will be the December Guest Artist. Many fine art photographs resulting from her dedication and creativity will be available for viewing and purchase.

New Voices: Recent Acquisitions from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring over 4,000 works of art, the Light Work Collection consists primarily of work made by artists who have participated in the Artist-in-Residence Program and past Light Work Grant recipients. Pulled from the Light Work Collection, this exhibition highlights work by Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Takahiro Kaneyama, Sara Macel, John Mann, Zanele Muholi, Flurina Rothenberger, Hrvoje Slovenc, Pacifico Silano, Maija Tammi, and Mila Teshaieva.

John Edmonds: Anonymous
Light Work Gallery

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

In his exhibition, Anonymous, John Edmonds combines two distinct series of portraits, both of which conceal the identities of their subjects. The first series comprises striking formal studies of individuals wearing hoods on the street, photographed from behind. We can quickly read this suite of images as a statement on the unjust death of Trayvon Martin and how individuals of color face issues of racism, safety, and injustice in systemic ways. "All the work that I make is from a very personal place," says Edmonds of his process. "It starts with me." Edmonds further embeds himself in this work by photographing his subjects wearing his own hoodies and jackets. With little visual clues to guide us, we may only learn from the artist that the obscured individuals in fact vary in race, gender, and age.

In contrast to the charged public space that Edmonds considers with these pictures, a second series of portraits celebrates blackness and beauty through private and sensual pictures of men wearing du-rags. Once again, Edmonds photographs his subjects from directly behind them. We can trace the du-rag's origin to the head-wraps worn by female slaves during the antebellum period, and later used to preserve hairstyles, but today both men and women wear du-rags as a symbol asserting cultural pride. A melancholy underlies these portraits, though a majestic and spiritual quality also comes forward, calling to mind totems and religious iconography. A softness and warmth emanates from the colors and folds of the cloth. Edmonds exhibits these portraits on a larger-than-life, monumental scale, implying both nobility and strength, while also subtly undermining the grandiosity by printing on delicate, flowing silk.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

499 S. Warren St. (at the corner of E. Onondaga St.)
Syracuse

The 63rd season of this holiday market featuring unique gifts handcrafted by local artists.

In Gratitude: The Museum Project
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"In Gratitude: The Museum Project," on display in the Photography Study Gallery, examines the Museum Project, an artist collective formed by over a dozen preeminent American artists seeking a way to express their gratitude for the institutional support of, and commitment to, photography as an art form. This exhibition, curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, features a multitude of contemporary perspectives and a rich diversity of styles, concepts, and photographic materials as it explores the recent donation of artwork to the SU Art Collection.

Americans in Venice: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Americans in Venice: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Prints," curated by SUArt Galleries director Domenic Iacono, presents six prints by James McNeill Whistler from this period, placing them alongside the work of other Americans who were practicing in Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The juxtaposition of these works allows the viewer to appreciate Whistler's innovations and his effect on the artists who followed him. Artists such as Mortimer Menpes, Frank Duveneck, Otto Bacher, and Joseph Pennell owe much to Whistler's innovative style and approach and, in turn, their work had an impact on the artists who made prints of Venice during the 20th century.

Boite-en-Valise
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Six established, mid-career, and emerging artists from England and USA, in collaboration with three curators and audiences in Portsmouth, England, are developing new work for transport and presentation in Syracuse, previously in Venice, Italy, and Portsmouth, United Kingdom.

The artists are Yvonne Buchanan (USA), Mia Delve (UK), Tom Hall (UK/USA), Mika Mollenkopf (USA), Harold Offeh (UK), Susan Stockwell (UK). The curators are Joanne Bushnell, Director of Aspex Gallery, UK; Stephanie James, Director of the School of Art, VPA; Mark Segal, the artists agency, UK.

The artists have been invited to contribute to an international project, developing networks and forums for collaboration for contemporary arts practitioners, audiences in New York State and the south of England through the international art hub of the Venice Biennale.

Boîte-en-Valise encourages transportability of practice, the nurturing of collaboration and cross-fertilization of artistic practice.

Each artist is transporting the means to generate their new work, begun by working with audiences over several days in Syracuse, in a normal sized suitcase. To be transported as luggage on a normal flight, train, or bus journey and taken from the suitcase for presentation without any fixing to walls, floors and/or ceilings of the venues.

The six artists bring together works including sculpture, performance, video, photography, and sound as well as interventions and conversations.

Syracuse University provides an international critical space for artists and curators to consider the project, while connecting back via live-streaming to the audiences engaged in the initial development and production phase in Portsmouth.

Holiday Pops
LeMoyne College

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

Raise a glass of holiday cheer to classics performed by the Le Moyne College Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Singers.

Ensemble Series: Contemporary Music Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The Contemporary Music Ensemble performs under the direction of Professors Andrew Waggoner and Nicolas Scherzinger. The ensemble is a collection of smaller ensembles assembled each semester to perform the music of our time, with programs drawing from American and international repertoires.

For most concert events in Setnor Auditorium, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot. When parking for concert events, please inform parking attendants that you are attending an event at Setnor Auditorium in Crouse College so they may direct you.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical
Landmark Theatre

Price: $20-$55
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The beloved TV classic soars off the screen and onto the Landmark Theatre stage. Come see all of your favorite characters from the special, including Santa and Mrs. Claus, Hermey the Elf, Bumble the Abominable Snow Monster, Clarice, Yukon Cornelius, and of course, Rudolph, as they come to life in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical. It's an adventure that teaches us that what makes us different can be what makes us special. Don't miss this wonderful holiday tradition that speaks to the misfit in all of us!

Based on the animated television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the stage production directed and conceived by Jeff Frank and First Stage. Script adaptation by Robert Penola. Arrangements and orchestrations by Timothy Splain.

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Connie Carroll: Climate Change Series
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Connie Carroll is an accomplished, dynamic illustrator. She combines humor and social commentary with vibrant color and engaging, energetic lines. This series speaks to the impact of climate change, through her commanding, urgent, and timely aesthetic.

Drawing on Talent: Member Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The World Around Us
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A massive show and sale of works from students of Sandra Sabene and The Liverpool Art Center, with over 100 paintings and drawings, plus a supplemental showing of recent 2-dimensional artworks by Baldwinsville native and Syracuse University sculpture MFA candidate Mark Zibbs.

For more information, contact Sandra Sabene, 315-234-9333.

Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jan Navales: A wide variety of wall art, prints, art quilts, purses and tote bags, and funky jewelry, all created using cottons, silks, leathers, felting, metal, polymer clay, and more
Terry Askey-Cole: "Shards" mosaic "Pot in the Garden" wall art, and nature-inspired stoneware torn bowls and vases

Read a review!

Phase Changes: Glimpses of the Diaspora
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Phase Changes: Gilmpses of the Diaspora" is an exhibition designed to highlight the energy and dynamism of the CFAC permanent collection. Much like phases of matter, art of the African Diaspora has evolved to reflect changing social and cultural landscapes through many generations of artists. For example, one can observe water condensing from vapor to a liquid and finally to ice, and know that the end result is still the same compound. Like water, one can note the significant differences between these works of art and recognize that each still embodies the essential components and spirit of African Diasporan art.

In the Arts and Crafts Style: Woodblock Prints by Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

After getting her degree in art and spending several years as a graphic designer and commercial illustrator, Laura discovered the designs and philosophy of the Arts and Crafts movement. Inspired, she learned printmaking, and submitted her vintage-style block prints to the Roycroft Renaissance Jury. Approved, she became a Roycroft Renaissance Artisan, and was soon elevated to Master Artisan status signifying very high quality design and execution. Twenty years later, she continues to make block prints and paintings inspired by the beauty in nature, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the sweet, simple things in life.

Laura has won many awards and prestigious commissions for her work, which can be seen at shows, in many galleries and shops nationwide, and at www.laurawilder.com.

32nd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $7 regular, $5 seniors, $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Over 30 gingerbread creations made by local bakers of all ages.

Following My Bliss: Photography by Diana Whiting
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Award winning nature photographer Diana Whiting will be the December Guest Artist. Many fine art photographs resulting from her dedication and creativity will be available for viewing and purchase.

New Voices: Recent Acquisitions from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring over 4,000 works of art, the Light Work Collection consists primarily of work made by artists who have participated in the Artist-in-Residence Program and past Light Work Grant recipients. Pulled from the Light Work Collection, this exhibition highlights work by Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Takahiro Kaneyama, Sara Macel, John Mann, Zanele Muholi, Flurina Rothenberger, Hrvoje Slovenc, Pacifico Silano, Maija Tammi, and Mila Teshaieva.

John Edmonds: Anonymous
Light Work Gallery

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

In his exhibition, Anonymous, John Edmonds combines two distinct series of portraits, both of which conceal the identities of their subjects. The first series comprises striking formal studies of individuals wearing hoods on the street, photographed from behind. We can quickly read this suite of images as a statement on the unjust death of Trayvon Martin and how individuals of color face issues of racism, safety, and injustice in systemic ways. "All the work that I make is from a very personal place," says Edmonds of his process. "It starts with me." Edmonds further embeds himself in this work by photographing his subjects wearing his own hoodies and jackets. With little visual clues to guide us, we may only learn from the artist that the obscured individuals in fact vary in race, gender, and age.

In contrast to the charged public space that Edmonds considers with these pictures, a second series of portraits celebrates blackness and beauty through private and sensual pictures of men wearing du-rags. Once again, Edmonds photographs his subjects from directly behind them. We can trace the du-rag's origin to the head-wraps worn by female slaves during the antebellum period, and later used to preserve hairstyles, but today both men and women wear du-rags as a symbol asserting cultural pride. A melancholy underlies these portraits, though a majestic and spiritual quality also comes forward, calling to mind totems and religious iconography. A softness and warmth emanates from the colors and folds of the cloth. Edmonds exhibits these portraits on a larger-than-life, monumental scale, implying both nobility and strength, while also subtly undermining the grandiosity by printing on delicate, flowing silk.

The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I
Onondaga Historical Association

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

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I, Onondaga Historical Association will present an exhibit on Onondaga County's role in the Great War.

The exhibit will feature photographs, posters, uniforms, gas masks, helmets and other military accoutrements, war souvenirs, home-front conservation items, letters, diaries, and other archival material and objects. These items will illustrate the impact World War I had on Onondaga County and the world at large. The exhibit will focus on the people, places, and events at home and abroad including military personnel and units, the nurse corps, Camp Syracuse, food conservation, the Split Rock munitions explosion, and the Spanish Influenza epidemic.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

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

"Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Syracuse and Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. Snowy Splendor 2017-2018 marks the fifth anniversary of this popular exhibit that highlights artwork created by community artists.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

499 S. Warren St. (at the corner of E. Onondaga St.)
Syracuse

The 63rd season of this holiday market featuring unique gifts handcrafted by local artists.

In Gratitude: The Museum Project
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"In Gratitude: The Museum Project," on display in the Photography Study Gallery, examines the Museum Project, an artist collective formed by over a dozen preeminent American artists seeking a way to express their gratitude for the institutional support of, and commitment to, photography as an art form. This exhibition, curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, features a multitude of contemporary perspectives and a rich diversity of styles, concepts, and photographic materials as it explores the recent donation of artwork to the SU Art Collection.

Americans in Venice: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Americans in Venice: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Prints," curated by SUArt Galleries director Domenic Iacono, presents six prints by James McNeill Whistler from this period, placing them alongside the work of other Americans who were practicing in Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The juxtaposition of these works allows the viewer to appreciate Whistler's innovations and his effect on the artists who followed him. Artists such as Mortimer Menpes, Frank Duveneck, Otto Bacher, and Joseph Pennell owe much to Whistler's innovative style and approach and, in turn, their work had an impact on the artists who made prints of Venice during the 20th century.

32nd Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $8 non-members
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Celebrate the season with a visit to one of CNY's most treasured holiday events. Take in the beautiful sights, purchase items to decorate your home or office, and pick up tips for your own creations. Beautifully decorated trees, wreaths, and unique displays are donated and all items are sold to benefit the Everson. Visit the Holiday Café for lunch, find unique gifts in the Museum Shop, and enjoy live entertainment — each day will feature local musicians, performers, and dancers.

From Funk to Punk: Left Coast Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Funk to Punk: Left Coast Ceramics" highlights the rich continuing history of California, Oregon, and Washington artists working in a wide variety of aesthetics, scale, and conceptual styles. The exhibition surveys iconic works from the Museum's collection beginning in the 1950s, to works created in today's dynamic cultural and artistic landscape, capturing the spirit and innovations synonymous with West Coast art over the last six decades.

Focus
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A new exhibition series at the Everson, "FOCUS" presents a few selected works from the Museum's collection in order to spark dialogue about how objects relate to one another across time, medium, and subject matter. For its first iteration, Adelaide Alsop Robineau's Cinerary Urn is paired with 19th-century paintings.

Suné Woods: When a heart scatter, scatter, scatter
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based in Los Angeles, Suné Woods works in multi-channel video installations, photography, and collage. Presenting intimate vignettes of couples or solitary actions of individuals in two video installations, "When a heart scatter, scatter, scatter" is a vulnerable exploration of desire, forgiveness, and resilience.

TR Ericsson: I Was Born To Bring You Into This World
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

TR Ericsson uses the story of his mother to present a searing, soft, and complex portrait of post-industrial life in America. Ericsson constructs his work using traditional art materials such as canvas, bronze, photography, and clay as well as video, found objects, and heirlooms taken from his family archives. This exhibition is a specific reinterpretation of Crackle & Drag, Ericsson's ongoing project started during the years following his mother's suicide in 2003.

"I Was Born To Bring You Into This World" begins as an intimate encounter with an artist's family archive and becomes a potent opportunity to reflect and scrutinize the trials and tribulations of our own lives.

Read a review!

Monumental
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson's expansive exhibition spaces, designed by I.M. Pei, allow the Museum to acquire and display monumentally-sized artwork. With this opportunity comes the unique challenges of caring for and exhibiting oversized work. Monumental features rarely seen large-scale pieces by
John de Andrea, Harmony Hammond, Sadashi Inuzuka, Sol LeWitt, Dennis Oppenheim, and Arnie Zimmerman, drawn from the Everson's collection, in order to foster a community conversation about the benefits and challenges associated with displaying oversized work.

Recent Acquisitions in Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting ceramics in 1916 with a purchase of 32 porcelains by preeminent Arts and Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, which ultimately built the framework for the Museum's focus on works in clay. In 2016, the Museum unveiled a new ceramics gallery and implemented a plan to actively acquire new works for the ceramics collection, which now numbers more than 5000 works dating from antiquity to the present day. This exhibition features a small and diverse selection of works acquired over the last three years through gifts and purchases. Forty-nine ceramics entered the collection during this period, ranging from functional vessels made by the South American Chavin civilization between the ninth and third centuries BCE to sculptural objects created by contemporary artists across America.

Boite-en-Valise
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Six established, mid-career, and emerging artists from England and USA, in collaboration with three curators and audiences in Portsmouth, England, are developing new work for transport and presentation in Syracuse, previously in Venice, Italy, and Portsmouth, United Kingdom.

The artists are Yvonne Buchanan (USA), Mia Delve (UK), Tom Hall (UK/USA), Mika Mollenkopf (USA), Harold Offeh (UK), Susan Stockwell (UK). The curators are Joanne Bushnell, Director of Aspex Gallery, UK; Stephanie James, Director of the School of Art, VPA; Mark Segal, the artists agency, UK.

The artists have been invited to contribute to an international project, developing networks and forums for collaboration for contemporary arts practitioners, audiences in New York State and the south of England through the international art hub of the Venice Biennale.

Boîte-en-Valise encourages transportability of practice, the nurturing of collaboration and cross-fertilization of artistic practice.

Each artist is transporting the means to generate their new work, begun by working with audiences over several days in Syracuse, in a normal sized suitcase. To be transported as luggage on a normal flight, train, or bus journey and taken from the suitcase for presentation without any fixing to walls, floors and/or ceilings of the venues.

The six artists bring together works including sculpture, performance, video, photography, and sound as well as interventions and conversations.

Syracuse University provides an international critical space for artists and curators to consider the project, while connecting back via live-streaming to the audiences engaged in the initial development and production phase in Portsmouth.

Still the One: Douglas Lloyd Makes Portraits of Women Making Change the Old-Fashioned Way
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

For this exhibition, ArtRage sought out local elder women activists; all are 80 years or older. "Still the One" addresses urgent questions: what exactly is "activism" and where do we find it? What and who have we lost sight of? What endures? What will get us safely home again? We are seeking the wisdom of these elders in a troubled and urgent moment, going back to the source or back to the well; seeking to recognize those who persisted and endured and made a difference.

Twenty-six Central New York women were selected to be honored in this way: Arlene Abend, Pat Bergan, Carol Berrigan, Dolores Brule, Joan N. Burstyn, Marjorie Dey Carter, Ruth Johnson Colvin, Amy Doherty, Lula Donald, Jane Feld, Annette Guisbond, Geneva Hayden, Fumiyo (Miyo) Hirano, Charlotte (Chuckie) Holstein, Joyce Homan, Joyce Jones, Martha Holly Loew, Marian Miller, Nancy Sullivan Murray, Julienne Oldfield, Frances M. Parks, Dorothy (Dotty) Pearl, Margaret Rusk, Betty Bone Schiess, Ann Tiffany, and Mary Ann Zeppetello.

A photographer for 25 years, Douglas Lloyd has focused on wet plate processing since 2014. Wet plate collodion photography was invented in 1851 and widely revived in recent years for the detail and loveliness of its images. "Still the One" finds a perfect fit between method and subject; one which values age and history.

Wind Ensemble Holiday Conert
Onondaga Community College

OCC Recital Hall
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Jazz at the Plaza: Dave Solazzo
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Jazz at the Cavalier: Danielle Patrice
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover charge
Marriott Hotel Syracuse Cavalier Room
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Ensemble Series: Concert Choir and Crouse Chorale
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Concert Choir, under the director of Professor Jose Calvar, and Crouse Chorale, under the direction of Professor Hillary Ridgley, present a concert.

For most concert events in Setnor Auditorium, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot. When parking for concert events, please inform parking attendants that you are attending an event at Setnor Auditorium in Crouse College so they may direct you.

Angela Flournoy
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Jane and Daniel Present Lecturer, author of The Turner House.

The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30 pm.

The Wizard of Oz
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department

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

Syracuse Stage and the Syracuse University Department of Drama team up with New York's 2 Ring Circus to create a dazzlingly acrobatic take on The Wizard of Oz. This stage adaptation contains all your favorite characters and songs from the Oscar-winning movie score, including "Over the Rainbow," "We're Off to See the Wizard (Follow the Yellow Brick Road)," and more. The cirque-like feats of 2 Ring Circus make it an Oz—and a holiday family treat—like you've never seen before. Great songs and L. Frank Baum's beloved characters make this musical a classic.

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I Do! I Do! A Musical About Marriage
Redhouse

Price: $27/$32
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This intimate and nostalgic musical is the perfect love story for the holidays! Follow Michael and Agnes through 50 years of marriage — from their wedding day to the night they pass on their beloved home to the next pair of newlyweds. This Tony Award-winning musical features an unforgettable score including the classic song "My Cup Runneth Over With Love." Book and lyrics by Tom Jones, music by Harvey Schmidt.

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The Wizard of Oz
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department

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

Syracuse Stage and the Syracuse University Department of Drama team up with New York's 2 Ring Circus to create a dazzlingly acrobatic take on The Wizard of Oz. This stage adaptation contains all your favorite characters and songs from the Oscar-winning movie score, including "Over the Rainbow," "We're Off to See the Wizard (Follow the Yellow Brick Road)," and more. The cirque-like feats of 2 Ring Circus make it an Oz—and a holiday family treat—like you've never seen before. Great songs and L. Frank Baum's beloved characters make this musical a classic.

Read a Review!

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Connie Carroll: Climate Change Series
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Connie Carroll is an accomplished, dynamic illustrator. She combines humor and social commentary with vibrant color and engaging, energetic lines. This series speaks to the impact of climate change, through her commanding, urgent, and timely aesthetic.

Drawing on Talent: Member Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The World Around Us
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A massive show and sale of works from students of Sandra Sabene and The Liverpool Art Center, with over 100 paintings and drawings, plus a supplemental showing of recent 2-dimensional artworks by Baldwinsville native and Syracuse University sculpture MFA candidate Mark Zibbs.

For more information, contact Sandra Sabene, 315-234-9333.

Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jan Navales: A wide variety of wall art, prints, art quilts, purses and tote bags, and funky jewelry, all created using cottons, silks, leathers, felting, metal, polymer clay, and more
Terry Askey-Cole: "Shards" mosaic "Pot in the Garden" wall art, and nature-inspired stoneware torn bowls and vases

Read a review!

Phase Changes: Glimpses of the Diaspora
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Phase Changes: Gilmpses of the Diaspora" is an exhibition designed to highlight the energy and dynamism of the CFAC permanent collection. Much like phases of matter, art of the African Diaspora has evolved to reflect changing social and cultural landscapes through many generations of artists. For example, one can observe water condensing from vapor to a liquid and finally to ice, and know that the end result is still the same compound. Like water, one can note the significant differences between these works of art and recognize that each still embodies the essential components and spirit of African Diasporan art.

In the Arts and Crafts Style: Woodblock Prints by Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

After getting her degree in art and spending several years as a graphic designer and commercial illustrator, Laura discovered the designs and philosophy of the Arts and Crafts movement. Inspired, she learned printmaking, and submitted her vintage-style block prints to the Roycroft Renaissance Jury. Approved, she became a Roycroft Renaissance Artisan, and was soon elevated to Master Artisan status signifying very high quality design and execution. Twenty years later, she continues to make block prints and paintings inspired by the beauty in nature, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the sweet, simple things in life.

Laura has won many awards and prestigious commissions for her work, which can be seen at shows, in many galleries and shops nationwide, and at www.laurawilder.com.

32nd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $7 regular, $5 seniors, $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Over 30 gingerbread creations made by local bakers of all ages.

Following My Bliss: Photography by Diana Whiting
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Award winning nature photographer Diana Whiting will be the December Guest Artist. Many fine art photographs resulting from her dedication and creativity will be available for viewing and purchase.

New Voices: Recent Acquisitions from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring over 4,000 works of art, the Light Work Collection consists primarily of work made by artists who have participated in the Artist-in-Residence Program and past Light Work Grant recipients. Pulled from the Light Work Collection, this exhibition highlights work by Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Takahiro Kaneyama, Sara Macel, John Mann, Zanele Muholi, Flurina Rothenberger, Hrvoje Slovenc, Pacifico Silano, Maija Tammi, and Mila Teshaieva.

John Edmonds: Anonymous
Light Work Gallery

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

In his exhibition, Anonymous, John Edmonds combines two distinct series of portraits, both of which conceal the identities of their subjects. The first series comprises striking formal studies of individuals wearing hoods on the street, photographed from behind. We can quickly read this suite of images as a statement on the unjust death of Trayvon Martin and how individuals of color face issues of racism, safety, and injustice in systemic ways. "All the work that I make is from a very personal place," says Edmonds of his process. "It starts with me." Edmonds further embeds himself in this work by photographing his subjects wearing his own hoodies and jackets. With little visual clues to guide us, we may only learn from the artist that the obscured individuals in fact vary in race, gender, and age.

In contrast to the charged public space that Edmonds considers with these pictures, a second series of portraits celebrates blackness and beauty through private and sensual pictures of men wearing du-rags. Once again, Edmonds photographs his subjects from directly behind them. We can trace the du-rag's origin to the head-wraps worn by female slaves during the antebellum period, and later used to preserve hairstyles, but today both men and women wear du-rags as a symbol asserting cultural pride. A melancholy underlies these portraits, though a majestic and spiritual quality also comes forward, calling to mind totems and religious iconography. A softness and warmth emanates from the colors and folds of the cloth. Edmonds exhibits these portraits on a larger-than-life, monumental scale, implying both nobility and strength, while also subtly undermining the grandiosity by printing on delicate, flowing silk.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

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

"Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Syracuse and Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. Snowy Splendor 2017-2018 marks the fifth anniversary of this popular exhibit that highlights artwork created by community artists.

The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I
Onondaga Historical Association

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

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I, Onondaga Historical Association will present an exhibit on Onondaga County's role in the Great War.

The exhibit will feature photographs, posters, uniforms, gas masks, helmets and other military accoutrements, war souvenirs, home-front conservation items, letters, diaries, and other archival material and objects. These items will illustrate the impact World War I had on Onondaga County and the world at large. The exhibit will focus on the people, places, and events at home and abroad including military personnel and units, the nurse corps, Camp Syracuse, food conservation, the Split Rock munitions explosion, and the Spanish Influenza epidemic.

Holiday Show 2017
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The exhibition will feature jewelry, up-cycled jewelry, and ornaments by Betsy Menson Sio; new ceramics by Jen Gandee, Ed Feldman, and Ron Sutterer; repurposed glass pieces by Errol Willett; paintings by Lucie Wellner and Andrea Deschambeault-Porter; photos by Elisabeth Groat and Robert Colley; and earrings by Lily Tsay.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

499 S. Warren St. (at the corner of E. Onondaga St.)
Syracuse

The 63rd season of this holiday market featuring unique gifts handcrafted by local artists.

In Gratitude: The Museum Project
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"In Gratitude: The Museum Project," on display in the Photography Study Gallery, examines the Museum Project, an artist collective formed by over a dozen preeminent American artists seeking a way to express their gratitude for the institutional support of, and commitment to, photography as an art form. This exhibition, curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, features a multitude of contemporary perspectives and a rich diversity of styles, concepts, and photographic materials as it explores the recent donation of artwork to the SU Art Collection.

Americans in Venice: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Americans in Venice: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Prints," curated by SUArt Galleries director Domenic Iacono, presents six prints by James McNeill Whistler from this period, placing them alongside the work of other Americans who were practicing in Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The juxtaposition of these works allows the viewer to appreciate Whistler's innovations and his effect on the artists who followed him. Artists such as Mortimer Menpes, Frank Duveneck, Otto Bacher, and Joseph Pennell owe much to Whistler's innovative style and approach and, in turn, their work had an impact on the artists who made prints of Venice during the 20th century.

Recent Acquisitions in Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting ceramics in 1916 with a purchase of 32 porcelains by preeminent Arts and Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, which ultimately built the framework for the Museum's focus on works in clay. In 2016, the Museum unveiled a new ceramics gallery and implemented a plan to actively acquire new works for the ceramics collection, which now numbers more than 5000 works dating from antiquity to the present day. This exhibition features a small and diverse selection of works acquired over the last three years through gifts and purchases. Forty-nine ceramics entered the collection during this period, ranging from functional vessels made by the South American Chavin civilization between the ninth and third centuries BCE to sculptural objects created by contemporary artists across America.

Monumental
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson's expansive exhibition spaces, designed by I.M. Pei, allow the Museum to acquire and display monumentally-sized artwork. With this opportunity comes the unique challenges of caring for and exhibiting oversized work. Monumental features rarely seen large-scale pieces by
John de Andrea, Harmony Hammond, Sadashi Inuzuka, Sol LeWitt, Dennis Oppenheim, and Arnie Zimmerman, drawn from the Everson's collection, in order to foster a community conversation about the benefits and challenges associated with displaying oversized work.

TR Ericsson: I Was Born To Bring You Into This World
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

TR Ericsson uses the story of his mother to present a searing, soft, and complex portrait of post-industrial life in America. Ericsson constructs his work using traditional art materials such as canvas, bronze, photography, and clay as well as video, found objects, and heirlooms taken from his family archives. This exhibition is a specific reinterpretation of Crackle & Drag, Ericsson's ongoing project started during the years following his mother's suicide in 2003.

"I Was Born To Bring You Into This World" begins as an intimate encounter with an artist's family archive and becomes a potent opportunity to reflect and scrutinize the trials and tribulations of our own lives.

Read a review!

Suné Woods: When a heart scatter, scatter, scatter
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based in Los Angeles, Suné Woods works in multi-channel video installations, photography, and collage. Presenting intimate vignettes of couples or solitary actions of individuals in two video installations, "When a heart scatter, scatter, scatter" is a vulnerable exploration of desire, forgiveness, and resilience.

Focus
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A new exhibition series at the Everson, "FOCUS" presents a few selected works from the Museum's collection in order to spark dialogue about how objects relate to one another across time, medium, and subject matter. For its first iteration, Adelaide Alsop Robineau's Cinerary Urn is paired with 19th-century paintings.

From Funk to Punk: Left Coast Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Funk to Punk: Left Coast Ceramics" highlights the rich continuing history of California, Oregon, and Washington artists working in a wide variety of aesthetics, scale, and conceptual styles. The exhibition surveys iconic works from the Museum's collection beginning in the 1950s, to works created in today's dynamic cultural and artistic landscape, capturing the spirit and innovations synonymous with West Coast art over the last six decades.

32nd Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $8 non-members
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Celebrate the season with a visit to one of CNY's most treasured holiday events. Take in the beautiful sights, purchase items to decorate your home or office, and pick up tips for your own creations. Beautifully decorated trees, wreaths, and unique displays are donated and all items are sold to benefit the Everson. Visit the Holiday Café for lunch, find unique gifts in the Museum Shop, and enjoy live entertainment — each day will feature local musicians, performers, and dancers.

Boite-en-Valise
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Six established, mid-career, and emerging artists from England and USA, in collaboration with three curators and audiences in Portsmouth, England, are developing new work for transport and presentation in Syracuse, previously in Venice, Italy, and Portsmouth, United Kingdom.

The artists are Yvonne Buchanan (USA), Mia Delve (UK), Tom Hall (UK/USA), Mika Mollenkopf (USA), Harold Offeh (UK), Susan Stockwell (UK). The curators are Joanne Bushnell, Director of Aspex Gallery, UK; Stephanie James, Director of the School of Art, VPA; Mark Segal, the artists agency, UK.

The artists have been invited to contribute to an international project, developing networks and forums for collaboration for contemporary arts practitioners, audiences in New York State and the south of England through the international art hub of the Venice Biennale.

Boîte-en-Valise encourages transportability of practice, the nurturing of collaboration and cross-fertilization of artistic practice.

Each artist is transporting the means to generate their new work, begun by working with audiences over several days in Syracuse, in a normal sized suitcase. To be transported as luggage on a normal flight, train, or bus journey and taken from the suitcase for presentation without any fixing to walls, floors and/or ceilings of the venues.

The six artists bring together works including sculpture, performance, video, photography, and sound as well as interventions and conversations.

Syracuse University provides an international critical space for artists and curators to consider the project, while connecting back via live-streaming to the audiences engaged in the initial development and production phase in Portsmouth.

Still the One: Douglas Lloyd Makes Portraits of Women Making Change the Old-Fashioned Way
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

For this exhibition, ArtRage sought out local elder women activists; all are 80 years or older. "Still the One" addresses urgent questions: what exactly is "activism" and where do we find it? What and who have we lost sight of? What endures? What will get us safely home again? We are seeking the wisdom of these elders in a troubled and urgent moment, going back to the source or back to the well; seeking to recognize those who persisted and endured and made a difference.

Twenty-six Central New York women were selected to be honored in this way: Arlene Abend, Pat Bergan, Carol Berrigan, Dolores Brule, Joan N. Burstyn, Marjorie Dey Carter, Ruth Johnson Colvin, Amy Doherty, Lula Donald, Jane Feld, Annette Guisbond, Geneva Hayden, Fumiyo (Miyo) Hirano, Charlotte (Chuckie) Holstein, Joyce Homan, Joyce Jones, Martha Holly Loew, Marian Miller, Nancy Sullivan Murray, Julienne Oldfield, Frances M. Parks, Dorothy (Dotty) Pearl, Margaret Rusk, Betty Bone Schiess, Ann Tiffany, and Mary Ann Zeppetello.

A photographer for 25 years, Douglas Lloyd has focused on wet plate processing since 2014. Wet plate collodion photography was invented in 1851 and widely revived in recent years for the detail and loveliness of its images. "Still the One" finds a perfect fit between method and subject; one which values age and history.

Kevin Jerome Everson: Grand Finale
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

An exhibition of work by celebrated filmmaker, Kevin Jerome Everson. The short pieces "Act One: Betty and the Candle" and "Grand Finale" will be on view.

"Act One: Betty and the Candle" is a film based on two Gerhard Richter paintings and concentration. It is one of several single-take vignettes appearing in the feature film Erie, filmed during a residency at Hallwalls in Buffalo. (2010, 11:25 minutes, 16mm transferred to digital, b&w)

"Grand Finale" is the end of a lovely July 4th evening in Detroit. (2015, 4:41 minutes, HD video, color)

Opening: Live to Make: Recent Work by Todd Conover and Ann Clarke
914Works

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-9:00 pm.

Recent work by artists Todd Conover and Ann Clarke will be exhibited. Conover and Clarke are both faculty members at VPA. The exhibition is designed by Jeffrey Mayer, also a faculty member.

Conover and Clarke share a passion—arguably obsession—for their respective materials, metal and fibers, as well as the practice of studio work itself. Both artists are also inspired by nature and memory inclusive of references to the history of the materials and techniques they use.

Engaging Neighbors
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $8 non-members, $5 members
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spend a festive evening dedicated to new residents of the US and members of the Syracuse community. Enjoy entertainment, light refreshments, and docent tours of the various galleries.

Entertainment Schedule
6:00 pm: The Keyna Hora Klezmer Band
6:45 pm: Seema Sureshkumar Dance Troupe
7:15 pm: Bhutanese Community In Syracuse Dance Troupe

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas
Landmark Theatre

Price: $39-$75
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas has been America's favorite holiday tradition for over 30 years! Grammy Award winner Chip Davis has created a show that features Mannheim Steamroller Christmas classics along with a selection of compositions from Chip's groundbreaking Fresh Aire series, which introduced the distinctive Mannheim sound to all of America. The program celebrates the group's recent anniversary of 30 years since the first Christmas album and 40 years since the first Fresh Aire album and includes dazzling multimedia effects performed in an intimate setting. Experience the magic as the spirit of the season comes alive with the signature sound of Mannheim Steamroller. Their holiday CDs have become synonymous with Christmas and continue to occupy top spots on Billboard's Seasonal Charts every year!

Tickets available online at Ticketmaster.com.

Swing Into the Holidays
LeMoyne College

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

Join Joe Carello and the Le Moyne College Jazz Ensemble as they play classic and contemporary big band selections and sounds of the season.

Solstice at the Cathedral

Price: $30 general admission, $40 preferred seating in advance; $40 general, $50 preferred at the door
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

A concert of music and light.
This 10th annual concert includes a mix of pop, jazz, blues, Celtic, and original compositions from popular CNY performing artists including Loren Barrigar, Donna Colton, Joe Davoli, Bob Halligan, Jr., Brian Scherer, Jeff Stockham, and Joe Whiting, combined with creative lighting.

For tickets and more information, visit www.solsticeatthecathedral.com.

Student Recital Series: Geofrey Cua, violin
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Geofrey Cua, a graduate string performance student in the Setnor School of Music, will present a violin recital.

For most concert events in Setnor Auditorium, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot. When parking for concert events, please inform parking attendants that you are attending an event at Setnor Auditorium in Crouse College so they may direct you.

A Dickens of a Death
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

It's been several years since the ghosts came to visit Scrooge and he is a changed man. He is making up for all that he has missed in life and we're not just talking charity work. He is living large, baby, with expensive wine, fast women, and way too much song! Huzzah! Bob Cratchit and the rest of the Scrooge gravy train have to stop him soon or they are all headed for the Poor House. Join us for Scrooge's Third Annual Holiday Bash and raise a glass to old Fezziwig (just make sure you know what's in it). Cheers!

I Do! I Do! A Musical About Marriage
Redhouse

Price: $27/$32
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This intimate and nostalgic musical is the perfect love story for the holidays! Follow Michael and Agnes through 50 years of marriage — from their wedding day to the night they pass on their beloved home to the next pair of newlyweds. This Tony Award-winning musical features an unforgettable score including the classic song "My Cup Runneth Over With Love." Book and lyrics by Tom Jones, music by Harvey Schmidt.

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The Wizard of Oz
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department

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

Syracuse Stage and the Syracuse University Department of Drama team up with New York's 2 Ring Circus to create a dazzlingly acrobatic take on The Wizard of Oz. This stage adaptation contains all your favorite characters and songs from the Oscar-winning movie score, including "Over the Rainbow," "We're Off to See the Wizard (Follow the Yellow Brick Road)," and more. The cirque-like feats of 2 Ring Circus make it an Oz—and a holiday family treat—like you've never seen before. Great songs and L. Frank Baum's beloved characters make this musical a classic.

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Mannheim Steamroller Christmas
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $39-$75
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The ultimate holiday tradition! Mannheim Steamroller Christmas by Chip Davis has been America's favorite holiday tradition for over 30 years. Grammy Award winner Chip Davis has created a show that features Mannheim Steamroller Christmas classics along with a selection of compositions from Chip's groundbreaking Fresh Aire series which introduced the distinctive Mannheim sound to all of America. The program celebrates the group's recent anniversary of 30 years since the first Christmas album and 40 years since the first Fresh Aire album and includes dazzling multimedia effects performed in an intimate setting. Experience the magic as the spirit of the season comes alive with the signature sound of Mannheim Steamroller. Their holiday CDs have become synonymous with Christmas and continue to occupy top spots on Billboard's Seasonal Charts every year!

1940s Radio Hour
Central New York Playhouse
Patricia Catchouny, director

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

A different time is evoked in this marvelously theatrical and winning show, a live broadcast of a The Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade from the Hotel Astor's Algonquin Room on December 21, 1942. The spirit of that bygone era when the world was at war and pop music meant "Strike Up the Band" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" (both are in this show) is accurately captured as the harassed producer copes with a drunk lead singer, the delivery boy who wants a chance in front of the mike, the second banana who dreams of singing a ballad, and the trumpet playing sound effects man who chooses a fighter plane over Glenn Miller.

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Friday, December 8, 2017

Connie Carroll: Climate Change Series
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Connie Carroll is an accomplished, dynamic illustrator. She combines humor and social commentary with vibrant color and engaging, energetic lines. This series speaks to the impact of climate change, through her commanding, urgent, and timely aesthetic.

Drawing on Talent: Member Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The World Around Us
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A massive show and sale of works from students of Sandra Sabene and The Liverpool Art Center, with over 100 paintings and drawings, plus a supplemental showing of recent 2-dimensional artworks by Baldwinsville native and Syracuse University sculpture MFA candidate Mark Zibbs.

For more information, contact Sandra Sabene, 315-234-9333.

Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jan Navales: A wide variety of wall art, prints, art quilts, purses and tote bags, and funky jewelry, all created using cottons, silks, leathers, felting, metal, polymer clay, and more
Terry Askey-Cole: "Shards" mosaic "Pot in the Garden" wall art, and nature-inspired stoneware torn bowls and vases

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Phase Changes: Glimpses of the Diaspora
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Phase Changes: Gilmpses of the Diaspora" is an exhibition designed to highlight the energy and dynamism of the CFAC permanent collection. Much like phases of matter, art of the African Diaspora has evolved to reflect changing social and cultural landscapes through many generations of artists. For example, one can observe water condensing from vapor to a liquid and finally to ice, and know that the end result is still the same compound. Like water, one can note the significant differences between these works of art and recognize that each still embodies the essential components and spirit of African Diasporan art.

In the Arts and Crafts Style: Woodblock Prints by Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

After getting her degree in art and spending several years as a graphic designer and commercial illustrator, Laura discovered the designs and philosophy of the Arts and Crafts movement. Inspired, she learned printmaking, and submitted her vintage-style block prints to the Roycroft Renaissance Jury. Approved, she became a Roycroft Renaissance Artisan, and was soon elevated to Master Artisan status signifying very high quality design and execution. Twenty years later, she continues to make block prints and paintings inspired by the beauty in nature, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the sweet, simple things in life.

Laura has won many awards and prestigious commissions for her work, which can be seen at shows, in many galleries and shops nationwide, and at www.laurawilder.com.

32nd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $7 regular, $5 seniors, $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Over 30 gingerbread creations made by local bakers of all ages.

Following My Bliss: Photography by Diana Whiting
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Award winning nature photographer Diana Whiting will be the December Guest Artist. Many fine art photographs resulting from her dedication and creativity will be available for viewing and purchase.

New Voices: Recent Acquisitions from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring over 4,000 works of art, the Light Work Collection consists primarily of work made by artists who have participated in the Artist-in-Residence Program and past Light Work Grant recipients. Pulled from the Light Work Collection, this exhibition highlights work by Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Takahiro Kaneyama, Sara Macel, John Mann, Zanele Muholi, Flurina Rothenberger, Hrvoje Slovenc, Pacifico Silano, Maija Tammi, and Mila Teshaieva.

John Edmonds: Anonymous
Light Work Gallery

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

In his exhibition, Anonymous, John Edmonds combines two distinct series of portraits, both of which conceal the identities of their subjects. The first series comprises striking formal studies of individuals wearing hoods on the street, photographed from behind. We can quickly read this suite of images as a statement on the unjust death of Trayvon Martin and how individuals of color face issues of racism, safety, and injustice in systemic ways. "All the work that I make is from a very personal place," says Edmonds of his process. "It starts with me." Edmonds further embeds himself in this work by photographing his subjects wearing his own hoodies and jackets. With little visual clues to guide us, we may only learn from the artist that the obscured individuals in fact vary in race, gender, and age.

In contrast to the charged public space that Edmonds considers with these pictures, a second series of portraits celebrates blackness and beauty through private and sensual pictures of men wearing du-rags. Once again, Edmonds photographs his subjects from directly behind them. We can trace the du-rag's origin to the head-wraps worn by female slaves during the antebellum period, and later used to preserve hairstyles, but today both men and women wear du-rags as a symbol asserting cultural pride. A melancholy underlies these portraits, though a majestic and spiritual quality also comes forward, calling to mind totems and religious iconography. A softness and warmth emanates from the colors and folds of the cloth. Edmonds exhibits these portraits on a larger-than-life, monumental scale, implying both nobility and strength, while also subtly undermining the grandiosity by printing on delicate, flowing silk.

The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I
Onondaga Historical Association

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

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I, Onondaga Historical Association will present an exhibit on Onondaga County's role in the Great War.

The exhibit will feature photographs, posters, uniforms, gas masks, helmets and other military accoutrements, war souvenirs, home-front conservation items, letters, diaries, and other archival material and objects. These items will illustrate the impact World War I had on Onondaga County and the world at large. The exhibit will focus on the people, places, and events at home and abroad including military personnel and units, the nurse corps, Camp Syracuse, food conservation, the Split Rock munitions explosion, and the Spanish Influenza epidemic.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

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

"Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Syracuse and Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. Snowy Splendor 2017-2018 marks the fifth anniversary of this popular exhibit that highlights artwork created by community artists.

Live to Make: Recent Work by Todd Conover and Ann Clarke
914Works

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

Recent work by artists Todd Conover and Ann Clarke will be exhibited. Conover and Clarke are both faculty members at VPA. The exhibition is designed by Jeffrey Mayer, also a faculty member.

Conover and Clarke share a passion—arguably obsession—for their respective materials, metal and fibers, as well as the practice of studio work itself. Both artists are also inspired by nature and memory inclusive of references to the history of the materials and techniques they use.

Holiday Show 2017
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The exhibition will feature jewelry, up-cycled jewelry, and ornaments by Betsy Menson Sio; new ceramics by Jen Gandee, Ed Feldman, and Ron Sutterer; repurposed glass pieces by Errol Willett; paintings by Lucie Wellner and Andrea Deschambeault-Porter; photos by Elisabeth Groat and Robert Colley; and earrings by Lily Tsay.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

499 S. Warren St. (at the corner of E. Onondaga St.)
Syracuse

The 63rd season of this holiday market featuring unique gifts handcrafted by local artists.

In Gratitude: The Museum Project
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"In Gratitude: The Museum Project," on display in the Photography Study Gallery, examines the Museum Project, an artist collective formed by over a dozen preeminent American artists seeking a way to express their gratitude for the institutional support of, and commitment to, photography as an art form. This exhibition, curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, features a multitude of contemporary perspectives and a rich diversity of styles, concepts, and photographic materials as it explores the recent donation of artwork to the SU Art Collection.

Americans in Venice: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Americans in Venice: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Prints," curated by SUArt Galleries director Domenic Iacono, presents six prints by James McNeill Whistler from this period, placing them alongside the work of other Americans who were practicing in Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The juxtaposition of these works allows the viewer to appreciate Whistler's innovations and his effect on the artists who followed him. Artists such as Mortimer Menpes, Frank Duveneck, Otto Bacher, and Joseph Pennell owe much to Whistler's innovative style and approach and, in turn, their work had an impact on the artists who made prints of Venice during the 20th century.

32nd Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $8 non-members
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Celebrate the season with a visit to one of CNY's most treasured holiday events. Take in the beautiful sights, purchase items to decorate your home or office, and pick up tips for your own creations. Beautifully decorated trees, wreaths, and unique displays are donated and all items are sold to benefit the Everson. Visit the Holiday Café for lunch, find unique gifts in the Museum Shop, and enjoy live entertainment — each day will feature local musicians, performers, and dancers.

From Funk to Punk: Left Coast Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Funk to Punk: Left Coast Ceramics" highlights the rich continuing history of California, Oregon, and Washington artists working in a wide variety of aesthetics, scale, and conceptual styles. The exhibition surveys iconic works from the Museum's collection beginning in the 1950s, to works created in today's dynamic cultural and artistic landscape, capturing the spirit and innovations synonymous with West Coast art over the last six decades.

Focus
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A new exhibition series at the Everson, "FOCUS" presents a few selected works from the Museum's collection in order to spark dialogue about how objects relate to one another across time, medium, and subject matter. For its first iteration, Adelaide Alsop Robineau's Cinerary Urn is paired with 19th-century paintings.

Suné Woods: When a heart scatter, scatter, scatter
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based in Los Angeles, Suné Woods works in multi-channel video installations, photography, and collage. Presenting intimate vignettes of couples or solitary actions of individuals in two video installations, "When a heart scatter, scatter, scatter" is a vulnerable exploration of desire, forgiveness, and resilience.

TR Ericsson: I Was Born To Bring You Into This World
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

TR Ericsson uses the story of his mother to present a searing, soft, and complex portrait of post-industrial life in America. Ericsson constructs his work using traditional art materials such as canvas, bronze, photography, and clay as well as video, found objects, and heirlooms taken from his family archives. This exhibition is a specific reinterpretation of Crackle & Drag, Ericsson's ongoing project started during the years following his mother's suicide in 2003.

"I Was Born To Bring You Into This World" begins as an intimate encounter with an artist's family archive and becomes a potent opportunity to reflect and scrutinize the trials and tribulations of our own lives.

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Monumental
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson's expansive exhibition spaces, designed by I.M. Pei, allow the Museum to acquire and display monumentally-sized artwork. With this opportunity comes the unique challenges of caring for and exhibiting oversized work. Monumental features rarely seen large-scale pieces by
John de Andrea, Harmony Hammond, Sadashi Inuzuka, Sol LeWitt, Dennis Oppenheim, and Arnie Zimmerman, drawn from the Everson's collection, in order to foster a community conversation about the benefits and challenges associated with displaying oversized work.

Recent Acquisitions in Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting ceramics in 1916 with a purchase of 32 porcelains by preeminent Arts and Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, which ultimately built the framework for the Museum's focus on works in clay. In 2016, the Museum unveiled a new ceramics gallery and implemented a plan to actively acquire new works for the ceramics collection, which now numbers more than 5000 works dating from antiquity to the present day. This exhibition features a small and diverse selection of works acquired over the last three years through gifts and purchases. Forty-nine ceramics entered the collection during this period, ranging from functional vessels made by the South American Chavin civilization between the ninth and third centuries BCE to sculptural objects created by contemporary artists across America.

Boite-en-Valise
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Six established, mid-career, and emerging artists from England and USA, in collaboration with three curators and audiences in Portsmouth, England, are developing new work for transport and presentation in Syracuse, previously in Venice, Italy, and Portsmouth, United Kingdom.

The artists are Yvonne Buchanan (USA), Mia Delve (UK), Tom Hall (UK/USA), Mika Mollenkopf (USA), Harold Offeh (UK), Susan Stockwell (UK). The curators are Joanne Bushnell, Director of Aspex Gallery, UK; Stephanie James, Director of the School of Art, VPA; Mark Segal, the artists agency, UK.

The artists have been invited to contribute to an international project, developing networks and forums for collaboration for contemporary arts practitioners, audiences in New York State and the south of England through the international art hub of the Venice Biennale.

Boîte-en-Valise encourages transportability of practice, the nurturing of collaboration and cross-fertilization of artistic practice.

Each artist is transporting the means to generate their new work, begun by working with audiences over several days in Syracuse, in a normal sized suitcase. To be transported as luggage on a normal flight, train, or bus journey and taken from the suitcase for presentation without any fixing to walls, floors and/or ceilings of the venues.

The six artists bring together works including sculpture, performance, video, photography, and sound as well as interventions and conversations.

Syracuse University provides an international critical space for artists and curators to consider the project, while connecting back via live-streaming to the audiences engaged in the initial development and production phase in Portsmouth.

Still the One: Douglas Lloyd Makes Portraits of Women Making Change the Old-Fashioned Way
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

For this exhibition, ArtRage sought out local elder women activists; all are 80 years or older. "Still the One" addresses urgent questions: what exactly is "activism" and where do we find it? What and who have we lost sight of? What endures? What will get us safely home again? We are seeking the wisdom of these elders in a troubled and urgent moment, going back to the source or back to the well; seeking to recognize those who persisted and endured and made a difference.

Twenty-six Central New York women were selected to be honored in this way: Arlene Abend, Pat Bergan, Carol Berrigan, Dolores Brule, Joan N. Burstyn, Marjorie Dey Carter, Ruth Johnson Colvin, Amy Doherty, Lula Donald, Jane Feld, Annette Guisbond, Geneva Hayden, Fumiyo (Miyo) Hirano, Charlotte (Chuckie) Holstein, Joyce Homan, Joyce Jones, Martha Holly Loew, Marian Miller, Nancy Sullivan Murray, Julienne Oldfield, Frances M. Parks, Dorothy (Dotty) Pearl, Margaret Rusk, Betty Bone Schiess, Ann Tiffany, and Mary Ann Zeppetello.

A photographer for 25 years, Douglas Lloyd has focused on wet plate processing since 2014. Wet plate collodion photography was invented in 1851 and widely revived in recent years for the detail and loveliness of its images. "Still the One" finds a perfect fit between method and subject; one which values age and history.

7th Annual Fair Trade Holiday Sale
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Come to the ArtRage Gallery for your holiday shopping and help craftspeople from all over the world.

This year's Fair Trade offerings include ¡Qué Colores!; Guatemalan items through Mayan Hands; holiday gifts from SERRV, a nonprofit, fair trade organization dedicated to lifting artisans, farmers, and their families out of poverty; candles and baskets from Africa; textiles from India and Turkey; and Fair Trade coffee and chocolate.

Kevin Jerome Everson: Grand Finale
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

An exhibition of work by celebrated filmmaker, Kevin Jerome Everson. The short pieces "Act One: Betty and the Candle" and "Grand Finale" will be on view.

"Act One: Betty and the Candle" is a film based on two Gerhard Richter paintings and concentration. It is one of several single-take vignettes appearing in the feature film Erie, filmed during a residency at Hallwalls in Buffalo. (2010, 11:25 minutes, 16mm transferred to digital, b&w)

"Grand Finale" is the end of a lovely July 4th evening in Detroit. (2015, 4:41 minutes, HD video, color)

Trevor Noah
Landmark Theatre

Price: $39-$210
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Trevor Noah is the most successful comedian in Africa and is the host of the Emmy- and Peabody-Award-winning "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central. This year "The Daily Show" has been nominated for a Writers Guild Award (Comedy/Variety Series). Noah joined "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" in 2014 as a contributor.

Noah debuted his 9th new comedy special "Afraid of the Dark" in February 2017 on Netflix. The special was shot before a packed house in New York City at the Beacon Theatre on November 5, 2016. Last year, Noah debuted his one-hour stand-up special, Trevor Noah: Lost in Translation, on Comedy Central. Noah was the subject of David Paul Meyer's award-winning documentary film You Laugh But It's True which tells the story of his remarkable career in post-apartheid South Africa. His Showtime comedy special, Trevor Noah: African American premiered in 2013. He was nominated for "Personality of the Year" at the 2014 and 2015 MTV Africa Music Awards and won the award in 2015. Trevor's success has also spanned to sold out shows over 5 continents.

Tickets available online at Ticketmaster.com.

Solstice at the Cathedral

Price: $30 general admission, $40 preferred seating in advance; $40 general, $50 preferred at the door
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

A concert of music and light.
This 10th annual concert includes a mix of pop, jazz, blues, Celtic, and original compositions from popular CNY performing artists including Loren Barrigar, Donna Colton, Joe Davoli, Bob Halligan, Jr., Brian Scherer, Jeff Stockham, and Joe Whiting, combined with creative lighting.

For tickets and more information, visit www.solsticeatthecathedral.com.

Ensemble Series: SU Vocal Jazz and Schiff Jazz Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The SU Vocal Jazz and Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble will perform. The Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble provides both music majors and non-music majors the opportunity to perform traditional, modern, jazz, pop, and contemporary compositions throughout the year. The ensemble performs under the direction of Professor John Coggiola.

1940s Radio Hour
Central New York Playhouse
Patricia Catchouny, director

Price: $28
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

A different time is evoked in this marvelously theatrical and winning show, a live broadcast of a The Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade from the Hotel Astor's Algonquin Room on December 21, 1942. The spirit of that bygone era when the world was at war and pop music meant "Strike Up the Band" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" (both are in this show) is accurately captured as the harassed producer copes with a drunk lead singer, the delivery boy who wants a chance in front of the mike, the second banana who dreams of singing a ballad, and the trumpet playing sound effects man who chooses a fighter plane over Glenn Miller.

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I Do! I Do! A Musical About Marriage
Redhouse

Price: $27/$32
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This intimate and nostalgic musical is the perfect love story for the holidays! Follow Michael and Agnes through 50 years of marriage — from their wedding day to the night they pass on their beloved home to the next pair of newlyweds. This Tony Award-winning musical features an unforgettable score including the classic song "My Cup Runneth Over With Love." Book and lyrics by Tom Jones, music by Harvey Schmidt.

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The Wizard of Oz
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department

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

Syracuse Stage and the Syracuse University Department of Drama team up with New York's 2 Ring Circus to create a dazzlingly acrobatic take on The Wizard of Oz. This stage adaptation contains all your favorite characters and songs from the Oscar-winning movie score, including "Over the Rainbow," "We're Off to See the Wizard (Follow the Yellow Brick Road)," and more. The cirque-like feats of 2 Ring Circus make it an Oz—and a holiday family treat—like you've never seen before. Great songs and L. Frank Baum's beloved characters make this musical a classic.

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Saturday, December 9, 2017

7th Annual Fair Trade Holiday Sale
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Come to the ArtRage Gallery for your holiday shopping and help craftspeople from all over the world.

This year's Fair Trade offerings include ¡Qué Colores!; Guatemalan items through Mayan Hands; holiday gifts from SERRV, a nonprofit, fair trade organization dedicated to lifting artisans, farmers, and their families out of poverty; candles and baskets from Africa; textiles from India and Turkey; and Fair Trade coffee and chocolate.

Drawing on Talent: Member Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

In the Arts and Crafts Style: Woodblock Prints by Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

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

After getting her degree in art and spending several years as a graphic designer and commercial illustrator, Laura discovered the designs and philosophy of the Arts and Crafts movement. Inspired, she learned printmaking, and submitted her vintage-style block prints to the Roycroft Renaissance Jury. Approved, she became a Roycroft Renaissance Artisan, and was soon elevated to Master Artisan status signifying very high quality design and execution. Twenty years later, she continues to make block prints and paintings inspired by the beauty in nature, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the sweet, simple things in life.

Laura has won many awards and prestigious commissions for her work, which can be seen at shows, in many galleries and shops nationwide, and at www.laurawilder.com.

Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jan Navales: A wide variety of wall art, prints, art quilts, purses and tote bags, and funky jewelry, all created using cottons, silks, leathers, felting, metal, polymer clay, and more
Terry Askey-Cole: "Shards" mosaic "Pot in the Garden" wall art, and nature-inspired stoneware torn bowls and vases

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32nd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $7 regular, $5 seniors, $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Over 30 gingerbread creations made by local bakers of all ages.

Recent Acquisitions in Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting ceramics in 1916 with a purchase of 32 porcelains by preeminent Arts and Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, which ultimately built the framework for the Museum's focus on works in clay. In 2016, the Museum unveiled a new ceramics gallery and implemented a plan to actively acquire new works for the ceramics collection, which now numbers more than 5000 works dating from antiquity to the present day. This exhibition features a small and diverse selection of works acquired over the last three years through gifts and purchases. Forty-nine ceramics entered the collection during this period, ranging from functional vessels made by the South American Chavin civilization between the ninth and third centuries BCE to sculptural objects created by contemporary artists across America.

Monumental
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson's expansive exhibition spaces, designed by I.M. Pei, allow the Museum to acquire and display monumentally-sized artwork. With this opportunity comes the unique challenges of caring for and exhibiting oversized work. Monumental features rarely seen large-scale pieces by
John de Andrea, Harmony Hammond, Sadashi Inuzuka, Sol LeWitt, Dennis Oppenheim, and Arnie Zimmerman, drawn from the Everson's collection, in order to foster a community conversation about the benefits and challenges associated with displaying oversized work.

TR Ericsson: I Was Born To Bring You Into This World
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

TR Ericsson uses the story of his mother to present a searing, soft, and complex portrait of post-industrial life in America. Ericsson constructs his work using traditional art materials such as canvas, bronze, photography, and clay as well as video, found objects, and heirlooms taken from his family archives. This exhibition is a specific reinterpretation of Crackle & Drag, Ericsson's ongoing project started during the years following his mother's suicide in 2003.

"I Was Born To Bring You Into This World" begins as an intimate encounter with an artist's family archive and becomes a potent opportunity to reflect and scrutinize the trials and tribulations of our own lives.

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Suné Woods: When a heart scatter, scatter, scatter
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based in Los Angeles, Suné Woods works in multi-channel video installations, photography, and collage. Presenting intimate vignettes of couples or solitary actions of individuals in two video installations, "When a heart scatter, scatter, scatter" is a vulnerable exploration of desire, forgiveness, and resilience.

Focus
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A new exhibition series at the Everson, "FOCUS" presents a few selected works from the Museum's collection in order to spark dialogue about how objects relate to one another across time, medium, and subject matter. For its first iteration, Adelaide Alsop Robineau's Cinerary Urn is paired with 19th-century paintings.

From Funk to Punk: Left Coast Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Funk to Punk: Left Coast Ceramics" highlights the rich continuing history of California, Oregon, and Washington artists working in a wide variety of aesthetics, scale, and conceptual styles. The exhibition surveys iconic works from the Museum's collection beginning in the 1950s, to works created in today's dynamic cultural and artistic landscape, capturing the spirit and innovations synonymous with West Coast art over the last six decades.

32nd Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $8 non-members
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Celebrate the season with a visit to one of CNY's most treasured holiday events. Take in the beautiful sights, purchase items to decorate your home or office, and pick up tips for your own creations. Beautifully decorated trees, wreaths, and unique displays are donated and all items are sold to benefit the Everson. Visit the Holiday Café for lunch, find unique gifts in the Museum Shop, and enjoy live entertainment — each day will feature local musicians, performers, and dancers.

Following My Bliss: Photography by Diana Whiting
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Award winning nature photographer Diana Whiting will be the December Guest Artist. Many fine art photographs resulting from her dedication and creativity will be available for viewing and purchase.

Artisans Against Hunger

Price: $2 suggested donation
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

More than 20 artisans. Donations benefit the local food bank and Humane CNY. Use rear entrance.

Live to Make: Recent Work by Todd Conover and Ann Clarke
914Works

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

Recent work by artists Todd Conover and Ann Clarke will be exhibited. Conover and Clarke are both faculty members at VPA. The exhibition is designed by Jeffrey Mayer, also a faculty member.

Conover and Clarke share a passion—arguably obsession—for their respective materials, metal and fibers, as well as the practice of studio work itself. Both artists are also inspired by nature and memory inclusive of references to the history of the materials and techniques they use.

Phase Changes: Glimpses of the Diaspora
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Phase Changes: Gilmpses of the Diaspora" is an exhibition designed to highlight the energy and dynamism of the CFAC permanent collection. Much like phases of matter, art of the African Diaspora has evolved to reflect changing social and cultural landscapes through many generations of artists. For example, one can observe water condensing from vapor to a liquid and finally to ice, and know that the end result is still the same compound. Like water, one can note the significant differences between these works of art and recognize that each still embodies the essential components and spirit of African Diasporan art.

Holiday Show 2017
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The exhibition will feature jewelry, up-cycled jewelry, and ornaments by Betsy Menson Sio; new ceramics by Jen Gandee, Ed Feldman, and Ron Sutterer; repurposed glass pieces by Errol Willett; paintings by Lucie Wellner and Andrea Deschambeault-Porter; photos by Elisabeth Groat and Robert Colley; and earrings by Lily Tsay.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

499 S. Warren St. (at the corner of E. Onondaga St.)
Syracuse

The 63rd season of this holiday market featuring unique gifts handcrafted by local artists.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

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

"Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Syracuse and Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. Snowy Splendor 2017-2018 marks the fifth anniversary of this popular exhibit that highlights artwork created by community artists.

The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I
Onondaga Historical Association

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

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I, Onondaga Historical Association will present an exhibit on Onondaga County's role in the Great War.

The exhibit will feature photographs, posters, uniforms, gas masks, helmets and other military accoutrements, war souvenirs, home-front conservation items, letters, diaries, and other archival material and objects. These items will illustrate the impact World War I had on Onondaga County and the world at large. The exhibit will focus on the people, places, and events at home and abroad including military personnel and units, the nurse corps, Camp Syracuse, food conservation, the Split Rock munitions explosion, and the Spanish Influenza epidemic.

In Gratitude: The Museum Project
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"In Gratitude: The Museum Project," on display in the Photography Study Gallery, examines the Museum Project, an artist collective formed by over a dozen preeminent American artists seeking a way to express their gratitude for the institutional support of, and commitment to, photography as an art form. This exhibition, curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, features a multitude of contemporary perspectives and a rich diversity of styles, concepts, and photographic materials as it explores the recent donation of artwork to the SU Art Collection.

Americans in Venice: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Americans in Venice: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Prints," curated by SUArt Galleries director Domenic Iacono, presents six prints by James McNeill Whistler from this period, placing them alongside the work of other Americans who were practicing in Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The juxtaposition of these works allows the viewer to appreciate Whistler's innovations and his effect on the artists who followed him. Artists such as Mortimer Menpes, Frank Duveneck, Otto Bacher, and Joseph Pennell owe much to Whistler's innovative style and approach and, in turn, their work had an impact on the artists who made prints of Venice during the 20th century.

Still the One: Douglas Lloyd Makes Portraits of Women Making Change the Old-Fashioned Way
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

For this exhibition, ArtRage sought out local elder women activists; all are 80 years or older. "Still the One" addresses urgent questions: what exactly is "activism" and where do we find it? What and who have we lost sight of? What endures? What will get us safely home again? We are seeking the wisdom of these elders in a troubled and urgent moment, going back to the source or back to the well; seeking to recognize those who persisted and endured and made a difference.

Twenty-six Central New York women were selected to be honored in this way: Arlene Abend, Pat Bergan, Carol Berrigan, Dolores Brule, Joan N. Burstyn, Marjorie Dey Carter, Ruth Johnson Colvin, Amy Doherty, Lula Donald, Jane Feld, Annette Guisbond, Geneva Hayden, Fumiyo (Miyo) Hirano, Charlotte (Chuckie) Holstein, Joyce Homan, Joyce Jones, Martha Holly Loew, Marian Miller, Nancy Sullivan Murray, Julienne Oldfield, Frances M. Parks, Dorothy (Dotty) Pearl, Margaret Rusk, Betty Bone Schiess, Ann Tiffany, and Mary Ann Zeppetello.

A photographer for 25 years, Douglas Lloyd has focused on wet plate processing since 2014. Wet plate collodion photography was invented in 1851 and widely revived in recent years for the detail and loveliness of its images. "Still the One" finds a perfect fit between method and subject; one which values age and history.

Limited Edition
Dowling Art Center

Dowling Art Center
1632 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Limited Edition", curated by John Dowling, is a collection of signed and numbered lithographs, etchings, silkscreens, aquatints, and other works of fine art on paper. Like a time capsule, this collection has not been seen by the public since the early 1990s. Included are prints from a heyday of printmaking, 1970-1990, featuring limited edition fine artwork prints by masters such as Joan Miro, Henri Matisse, Arthur Secunda, Tetsuro Sawada, Robert Hoppe, Patrick Nagel, and many others.

The exhibit offers the public a chance to experience these quality prints up close, to learn about the variety of forms of printmaking that these artists used, and to discover a treasure to bring home at below market prices.

Boite-en-Valise
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Six established, mid-career, and emerging artists from England and USA, in collaboration with three curators and audiences in Portsmouth, England, are developing new work for transport and presentation in Syracuse, previously in Venice, Italy, and Portsmouth, United Kingdom.

The artists are Yvonne Buchanan (USA), Mia Delve (UK), Tom Hall (UK/USA), Mika Mollenkopf (USA), Harold Offeh (UK), Susan Stockwell (UK). The curators are Joanne Bushnell, Director of Aspex Gallery, UK; Stephanie James, Director of the School of Art, VPA; Mark Segal, the artists agency, UK.

The artists have been invited to contribute to an international project, developing networks and forums for collaboration for contemporary arts practitioners, audiences in New York State and the south of England through the international art hub of the Venice Biennale.

Boîte-en-Valise encourages transportability of practice, the nurturing of collaboration and cross-fertilization of artistic practice.

Each artist is transporting the means to generate their new work, begun by working with audiences over several days in Syracuse, in a normal sized suitcase. To be transported as luggage on a normal flight, train, or bus journey and taken from the suitcase for presentation without any fixing to walls, floors and/or ceilings of the venues.

The six artists bring together works including sculpture, performance, video, photography, and sound as well as interventions and conversations.

Syracuse University provides an international critical space for artists and curators to consider the project, while connecting back via live-streaming to the audiences engaged in the initial development and production phase in Portsmouth.

Kevin Jerome Everson: Grand Finale
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

An exhibition of work by celebrated filmmaker, Kevin Jerome Everson. The short pieces "Act One: Betty and the Candle" and "Grand Finale" will be on view.

"Act One: Betty and the Candle" is a film based on two Gerhard Richter paintings and concentration. It is one of several single-take vignettes appearing in the feature film Erie, filmed during a residency at Hallwalls in Buffalo. (2010, 11:25 minutes, 16mm transferred to digital, b&w)

"Grand Finale" is the end of a lovely July 4th evening in Detroit. (2015, 4:41 minutes, HD video, color)

Dasher's Magical Gift
CNY Arts, with Dance Centre North

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

It's a few days before the big day. Everyone in Santa's workshop is buzzing with excitement about the biggest Christmas ever! Presents are being made, Santa is checking his list, and the reindeer are getting ready for the big flight. Plus, with more kids on the Nice List than ever before, Santa has announced that he is going to choose an extra reindeer to help pull the sleigh. But the biggest excitement of all is the arrival of Dasher, leader of Santa's sleigh team and fastest of them all! Everyone is excited to see him and no one more so than his number one reindeer fan, Peppermint (her friends call her Pepper), who is hoping to get his autograph.

Unfortunately, Dasher has a secret problem. It seems that amidst all of the glamour of being a holiday celebrity, Dasher has lost his ability to fly! As Christmas approaches and everyone is counting on him to lead the way, it looks like he doesn't have enough Christmas spirit to guide the sleigh. Christmas may be cancelled, but with the help of Pepper and a couple of very lost penguins, Dasher will remember what the holiday season is all about and the Spirit of Christmas will prevail.

Vocal Jazz & Broadway Favorites
LeMoyne College

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

Two of Le Moyne College's vocal ensembles team up to present jazz classics (with the Jazzuits) and Broadway favorites (with the LMC Singers).

Syracuse Children's Chorus

Price: Free
Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

The two younger choruses perform a selection of pieces from recent concerts.

Solstice at the Cathedral

Price: $30 general admission, $40 preferred seating in advance; $40 general, $50 preferred at the door
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

A concert of music and light.
This 10th annual concert includes a mix of pop, jazz, blues, Celtic, and original compositions from popular CNY performing artists including Loren Barrigar, Donna Colton, Joe Davoli, Bob Halligan, Jr., Brian Scherer, Jeff Stockham, and Joe Whiting, combined with creative lighting.

For tickets and more information, visit www.solsticeatthecathedral.com.

Vocal Jazz & Broadway Favorites
LeMoyne College

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

Two of Le Moyne College's vocal ensembles team up to present jazz classics (with the Jazzuits) and Broadway favorites (with the LMC Singers).

Solstice at the Cathedral

Price: $30 general admission, $40 preferred seating in advance; $40 general, $50 preferred at the door
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

A concert of music and light.
This 10th annual concert includes a mix of pop, jazz, blues, Celtic, and original compositions from popular CNY performing artists including Loren Barrigar, Donna Colton, Joe Davoli, Bob Halligan, Jr., Brian Scherer, Jeff Stockham, and Joe Whiting, combined with creative lighting.

For tickets and more information, visit www.solsticeatthecathedral.com.