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Events for Tuesday, April 4, 2017

8:00 AM-4:30 PM Internum Opera: Selected Works by Jason Cheney SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

9:00 AM-4:00 PM The Wildlife and Nature Art of Tom Lenweaver Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950 Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM New Ground Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM George Awde: Scale Without Measure Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu) Light Work Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Rust Echoes 914Works

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM 21 Etchings and Poems Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Let's Be Dragons: Serpents Inside Point of Contact Gallery

6:00 PM 1984 National Screening Event Palace Theatre

6:30 PM 1984 ArtRage Gallery

7:00 PM Josh Turner Kellish Hill Farm

7:00 PM Brazilian Guitar Trio Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

8:00 PM Student Recital Series: Julia Tucker, organ Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Events for Wednesday, April 5, 2017

8:00 AM-4:30 PM Internum Opera: Selected Works by Jason Cheney SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

9:00 AM-4:00 PM The Wildlife and Nature Art of Tom Lenweaver Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-7:00 PM Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950 Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM New Ground Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM George Awde: Scale Without Measure Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu) Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930 Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Rust Echoes 914Works

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM 21 Etchings and Poems Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-2:00 PM Jazz at the Plaza: Dave Solazzo CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

12:00 PM-5:00 PM de.structive dis.tillation: Works by Vanessa German Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM More Real, More a Dream Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Bradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Salt City Abstraction Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Let's Be Dragons: Serpents Inside Point of Contact Gallery

12:45 PM A Celebration of the Great American Songbook Civic Morning Musicals

5:30 PM Laura Kasischke Raymond Carver Reading Series

7:30 PM How I Learned to Drive Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

7:30 PM Sonia Nazario University Lectures

8:00 PM Major Barbara Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Student Recital Series: Juan Wu, voice Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Events for Thursday, April 6, 2017

8:00 AM-4:30 PM Internum Opera: Selected Works by Jason Cheney SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

9:00 AM-4:00 PM The Wildlife and Nature Art of Tom Lenweaver Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950 Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM New Ground Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM George Awde: Scale Without Measure Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu) Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930 Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Rust Echoes 914Works

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Let’s Be Dragons: Wild Seeds Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Hindsight: Four Alumni from the College of Visual and Performing Arts Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM 21 Etchings and Poems Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Taking Flight: Richard Koppe's Works on Paper Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-8:00 PM More Real, More a Dream Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM de.structive dis.tillation: Works by Vanessa German Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Salt City Abstraction Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Bradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Let's Be Dragons: Serpents Inside Point of Contact Gallery

6:00 PM Cruel April Poetry Series Point of Contact Gallery, featuring Sarah Harwell, Chris Kennedy, Michael Burkard, Colleen Kattau

6:00 PM Student Recital Series: Jazz Vocal Studio Showcase Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

7:00 PM Low Noon Acme Mystery Company

7:30 PM *CANCELLED* Cirque D'Or Landmark Theatre

7:30 PM Spark Series: Music of Downton Abbey Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

7:30 PM How I Learned to Drive Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Major Barbara Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Ensemble Series: Chamber Ensembles Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

8:15 PM-11:00 PM Deborah Stratman: Xenoi Urban Video Project

Events for Friday, April 7, 2017

8:00 AM-8:00 PM Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show LeMoyne College

8:00 AM-4:30 PM Internum Opera: Selected Works by Jason Cheney SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

9:00 AM-4:00 PM The Wildlife and Nature Art of Tom Lenweaver Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950 Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM New Ground Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM George Awde: Scale Without Measure Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-7:00 PM Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu) Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930 Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Let’s Be Dragons: Wild Seeds Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Taking Flight: Richard Koppe's Works on Paper Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM 21 Etchings and Poems Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Hindsight: Four Alumni from the College of Visual and Performing Arts Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM de.structive dis.tillation: Works by Vanessa German Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM More Real, More a Dream Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Bradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Salt City Abstraction Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Let's Be Dragons: Serpents Inside Point of Contact Gallery

5:00 PM Student Recital Series: Kevin Varga, trumpet Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

6:00 PM-9:00 PM Jazz@Sitrus: Swing This! with Mark Hoffmann CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

7:00 PM-8:15 PM Open Improv Jam Salt City Improv Theater

8:00 PM Joe Driscoll Central New York Playhouse

8:00 PM Diana Jones Folkus Project

8:00 PM Eugene Onegin Syracuse Opera

8:00 PM How I Learned to Drive Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Major Barbara Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Student Recital Series: Libby Weber and Sarah Schriner, voice Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

8:15 PM-11:00 PM Deborah Stratman: Xenoi Urban Video Project

Events for Saturday, April 8, 2017

9:00 AM-8:00 PM Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show LeMoyne College

10:00 AM-4:00 PM The Wildlife and Nature Art of Tom Lenweaver Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM More Real, More a Dream Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM de.structive dis.tillation: Works by Vanessa German Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Salt City Abstraction Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Bradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930 Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Let’s Be Dragons: Wild Seeds Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Hindsight: Four Alumni from the College of Visual and Performing Arts Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM 21 Etchings and Poems Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Taking Flight: Richard Koppe's Works on Paper Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM Student Recital Series: Dylan Beckerman, cello Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

12:00 PM-3:00 PM Free Family Day Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Let's Be Dragons: Serpents Inside Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM Major Barbara Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

2:00 PM Student Recital Series: Sean Jordan, voice Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

3:00 PM How I Learned to Drive Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

5:00 PM Student Recital Series: Robert Dunlap, voice Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

5:30 PM Creative Conversations Skaneateles Area Arts Council (SKARTS)

6:00 PM-8:00 PM Opening: Disappearing World: New Work by Phil Parsons and Ted Neal Gandee Gallery

6:00 PM LeMoyne College Steppers Spring 2017 LeMoyne College

7:00 PM Opening: At All Costs: Photographs of American Workers by Earl Dotter ArtRage Gallery (Read a review!)

7:00 PM Salt City Magic Club Central New York Playhouse

7:00 PM BeatleCUSE 2017: 50th Anniversary of Sgt. Pepper Palace Theatre

7:30 PM Gabriel Iglesias FluffyMania World Tour: 20 Years of Comedy

7:30 PM The Cadleys with John Dancks and Perry Cleaveland Steeple Coffee House

7:30 PM Sunset Limited Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

8:00 PM How I Learned to Drive Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Major Barbara Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Student Recital Series: Anna Bosler, conducting Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

8:00 PM Benefit Concert for the WCC Westcott Community Center

8:15 PM-11:00 PM Deborah Stratman: Xenoi Urban Video Project

Events for Sunday, April 9, 2017

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu) Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM George Awde: Scale Without Measure Light Work Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Disappearing World: New Work by Phil Parsons and Ted Neal Gandee Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930 Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Let’s Be Dragons: Wild Seeds Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Taking Flight: Richard Koppe's Works on Paper Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM 21 Etchings and Poems Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Hindsight: Four Alumni from the College of Visual and Performing Arts Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM More Real, More a Dream Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM de.structive dis.tillation: Works by Vanessa German Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Bradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Salt City Abstraction Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-2:00 AM Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show LeMoyne College

2:00 PM-5:00 PM Jazz on Tap: Cookie Coogan CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

2:00 PM Live! at The Everson: 19th-Century Instruments Civic Morning Musicals

2:00 PM Origins of Jazz Series: Jumpin' Jazz from Bebop to Fusion Liverpool Public Library

2:00 PM Eugene Onegin Syracuse Opera

2:00 PM Sunset Limited Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

2:00 PM How I Learned to Drive Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

2:00 PM Major Barbara Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

5:00 PM Cabaret Series: Bobby Caldwell & The CNY Jazz Orchestra CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

7:00 PM How I Learned to Drive Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

Events for Monday, April 10, 2017

8:00 AM-2:00 AM Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show LeMoyne College

8:00 AM-4:30 PM Internum Opera: Selected Works by Jason Cheney SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

9:00 AM-4:00 PM The Wildlife and Nature Art of Tom Lenweaver Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950 Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-6:00 PM George Awde: Scale Without Measure Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu) Light Work Gallery

7:00 PM CNY Brass Bash Syracuse University Brass Ensemble

7:30 PM Can't Help Singing (1944) Syracuse Cinephile Society

Events for Tuesday, April 11, 2017

8:00 AM-2:00 AM Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show LeMoyne College

8:00 AM-4:30 PM Internum Opera: Selected Works by Jason Cheney SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

9:00 AM-4:00 PM The Wildlife and Nature Art of Tom Lenweaver Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950 Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Let's Be Dragons: Strangers in a Strange Land Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-6:00 PM George Awde: Scale Without Measure Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu) Light Work Gallery

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Let’s Be Dragons: Wild Seeds Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Hindsight: Four Alumni from the College of Visual and Performing Arts Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM 21 Etchings and Poems Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Taking Flight: Richard Koppe's Works on Paper Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Let's Be Dragons: Serpents Inside Point of Contact Gallery

7:00 PM Only Poetry Could Have Brought Me Here ArtRage Gallery

7:00 PM 20th Annual Jumpin' Jazz Jam Liverpool High School

7:30 PM The Art of the Score LeMoyne College

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Tuesday, April 4, 2017


Art
 

8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 4



Internum Opera: Selected Works by Jason Cheney
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 4



The Wildlife and Nature Art of Tom Lenweaver
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 4



Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Curated by University Archivist Meg Mason, the exhibition explores the dramatic impact of the GI Bill and the subsequent influx of veterans on the Syracuse University campus following World War II (1945-1950). From the University Archives, the materials on view document this critical period in the University's history and the associated changes to the campus landscape, social and cultural life, and academic programs.

Materials on view include:
• photographs of temporary classrooms and housing for veterans, including old barracks and trailers, which filled the campus and surrounding areas;
• cartoons of veteran student life on campus;
• aerial shots of the main and south campuses showing changes in the landscape;
• personal items from veterans who attended Syracuse University, including a cheerleading megaphone, a postcard about arriving at Syracuse, and photographs of the inside of one of the trailers used as married student housing;
• Daily Orange articles about the impact of veterans on campus.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, April 4



New Ground
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Wendy Harris exhibits a variety of media, including oil and acrylic paintings and pastel drawings.
Tom Slocum displays flowing, organic wood sculpture.
Gail Sustare shows beautifully crafted jewelry.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, April 4



George Awde: Scale Without Measure
Light Work Gallery

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

George Awde's photographic work explores themes of contemporary masculinity, the male body, homosociality, and notions of physical and psychological strength, as seen through young men with whom he identifies. The men and boys whom Awde has photographed over the last 10 years include migrants to Beirut from Syria. Many are now his close friends. Through years of contact, Awde has established close relationships allowing for an intimate portrayal of the everyday. His pictures explore the way that people interact with one another, and in them one senses a longing to belong. Awde's parents fled Lebanon in the conflicts leading to the 1970s Civil War in order to pursue their futures by coming to America. This informed Awde's perspective on the world and his place in it while growing up, and now informs his practice as an artist and teacher. As the global refugee crisis escalates, and the early executive orders of a new and contentious president attempt to aggressively block refugees from entering the United States, the themes of Awde's work are evermore present.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, April 4



Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 1999, artist Eric Gottesman began making portraits in Ethiopia of people with HIV. Because great stigma surrounds this disease, subjects did not allow him to photograph their faces. Over the next five years, Gottesman made these portraits of people with HIV anonymous by hiding and obscuring their faces and changing each sitter's name to protect their identity. A transcribed text from each sitter describing life with HIV in Ethiopia accompanies each image. In 2004, a woman with HIV allowed him to photograph her face for the first time and he knew the project was completed.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 4



Rust Echoes
914Works

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

Zeke Leonard and Katherine McGerr's "Rust Echoes" is a gallery installation and performance inspired by the sonic landscape of the New York Central Railroad. Performances will be held on March 24, 25 and 26 at 7 p.m.

For 100 years, the New York Central Railroad moved goods and people throughout the Northeast and Midwest; its connectivity helped to forge the economic and social framework of Central New York. The installation consists of five interactive sculptures made of the materials and forms that were common to the railroad. Steel and wood are given a voice, and railroad tools and hardware are used as musical instruments.

This installation is part of an ongoing project, "Salt City Found-Object Instrument Works," an exploration by Leonard into resource usage and community building created through the making, distribution and playing of musical instruments.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 4



Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection" investigates how artists from the late 19th century until today have been captivated by the potential of landscape images and its ability to transport our imagination whether the locale be exotic or not. Curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, this display brings together historic albumen prints, travel albums, and contemporary black and white and color images from a variety of photographers working in the photographic medium over the past 120 years.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 4



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"21 Etchings and Poems," a landmark publication that had a profound impact on contemporary art and culture, will be presented in its entirety in the Print Study Room. Curated by Museum Studies graduate student Courtney Spencer Eppel, this exhibition presents 21 paired artists and authors to create unique works of art. The partnerships for this project included well-known artists and poets Peter Grippe and Dylan Thomas, Willem de Kooning and Harold Rosenberg, Letterio Calapai and William Carlos Williams, and Franz Kine and Frank O'Hara, among others.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 4



Let's Be Dragons: Serpents Inside
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Let's Be Dragons: Serpents Inside," part of the annual exhibition of the Master of Fine Art thesis candidates from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, features the artwork of six emerging artists Zhongwen (Lisa) Hu, Courtney Asztalos, Evan Deuitch, Todd Irwin Francis Lauther, Ssu Ya Hsiung, and Chelsea Jones. Through their presentations, a variety of themes and media including painting, photography, ceramics, video art, illustration, and site-specific installations, will be explored.

Serpents Inside brings together artists expressing and grappling with existential questions of identity and self-exploration. Each artist reframes the physical and mental, the public and private, and the performance of identity exploration.

Chelsea Jones's self-portraiture project uses her hair, common hair processing techniques, and cosmetic routines as racial signifiers to come to terms with the implications of being a biracial woman. Courtney Asztalos' installation focuses on the physical presence of women within an architectural space designed as a utopia to exploit our wildest fantasies where financial victory may be just one slot away. Todd Irwin Francis Lauther's lyrical photographs capture a young man's thoughtful response to his desire for fatherhood and a sensitive negotiation of the societal pressure placed upon men to create a family. With painting and performance Ssu Ya Hsiung and Zhongwen Hu use childhood memories, both absurd and surreal, to depict psychological loneliness, vulnerability, and physical isolation from the outside world. Evan Deuitch's investigation of the online subculture of hybrid human/animal characters known as the furry fandom brings together fantastical imagination with hedonistic pleasure. His character driven self-portraits address identity construction, obsession, and role playing.

Together, Serpents Inside, offers a palpable sense of the vulnerability, self-doubt, pleasure and pain that often accompany an inward searching.


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Film
 

6:00 PM, April 4



1984 National Screening Event
Palace Theatre

Price: $10 in advance, $12 at the door
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

On April 4, 2017, over 140 art house movie theatres across the country in 124 cities and in 41 states, plus four locations in Canada, will be participating collectively in a National Event Day screening of the 1980's movie 1984 starring John Hurt. This date was chosen because it's the day George Orwell's protagonist Winston Smith begins rebelling against his oppressive government by keeping a forbidden diary.

These theaters owners also strongly believe in supporting the National Endowment for the Arts and see any attempt to scuttle that program as an attack on free speech and creative expression through entertainment. This event provides a chance for communities around the country to show their unity and have their voices heard. The Onondaga Democratic Committee, Uplift Syracuse, and Gen X Projects are joining forces to host the event in Syracuse, and to get the word out and make this an interactive and thought-provoking event. Two Syracuse University professors from the Maxwell School will be leading the panel discussion.


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6:30 PM, April 4



1984
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $10 (limited seating; advance purchase recommended)
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

On April 4, 2017, 140 art house movie theaters across the country in 124 cities and in 41 states, plus four locations in Canada, will be participating collectively in a National Event Day screening of the 80s movie 1984 starring John Hurt. This date was chosen because it's the day George Orwell's protagonist Winston Smith begins rebelling against his oppressive government by keeping a forbidden diary. These theaters owners also strongly believe in supporting the National Endowment for the Arts and see any attempt to scuttle that program as an attack on free speech and creative expression through entertainment. This event provides a chance for communities around the country to show their unity and have their voices heard.

ArtRage Gallery is proud to be among those participating in this protest event. We will donate a portion of the proceeds to the local groups New Feminists for Justice and CNY Solidarity.


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Music
 

7:00 PM, April 4



Josh Turner
Kellish Hill Farm

Price: $5
Kellish Hill Farm
3192 Pompey Center Rd., Pompey

Kellish Hill Farm is proud to announce its opening of the Music Barn for the season, with the multi-talented Josh Turner. Josh has opened for Jim Messina at the Crown Guitar Festival and has shared the stage with members of the Backstreet Boys, legendary mandolinist Mike Marshall, and Punch Brothers' Chris Eldridge among others. He made his national TV debut in 2014 on Good Morning America, and his YouTube videos have been viewed over 25 million times. Josh lives in Brooklyn and has recently finished a new album with his folk trio, Kingdom Jasmine.


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7:00 PM, April 4



Brazilian Guitar Trio
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

A concert by three pioneers of Brazilian guitar music: Ricardo Peixoto, Rogerio Souza, and Edinho Gerber.


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8:00 PM, April 4



Student Recital Series: Julia Tucker, organ
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Julia Tucker, a graduate organ performance student, will present a recital.

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


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Wednesday, April 5, 2017


Art
 

8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 5



Internum Opera: Selected Works by Jason Cheney
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 5



The Wildlife and Nature Art of Tom Lenweaver
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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


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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, April 5



Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Curated by University Archivist Meg Mason, the exhibition explores the dramatic impact of the GI Bill and the subsequent influx of veterans on the Syracuse University campus following World War II (1945-1950). From the University Archives, the materials on view document this critical period in the University's history and the associated changes to the campus landscape, social and cultural life, and academic programs.

Materials on view include:
• photographs of temporary classrooms and housing for veterans, including old barracks and trailers, which filled the campus and surrounding areas;
• cartoons of veteran student life on campus;
• aerial shots of the main and south campuses showing changes in the landscape;
• personal items from veterans who attended Syracuse University, including a cheerleading megaphone, a postcard about arriving at Syracuse, and photographs of the inside of one of the trailers used as married student housing;
• Daily Orange articles about the impact of veterans on campus.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, April 5



New Ground
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Wendy Harris exhibits a variety of media, including oil and acrylic paintings and pastel drawings.
Tom Slocum displays flowing, organic wood sculpture.
Gail Sustare shows beautifully crafted jewelry.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, April 5



George Awde: Scale Without Measure
Light Work Gallery

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

George Awde's photographic work explores themes of contemporary masculinity, the male body, homosociality, and notions of physical and psychological strength, as seen through young men with whom he identifies. The men and boys whom Awde has photographed over the last 10 years include migrants to Beirut from Syria. Many are now his close friends. Through years of contact, Awde has established close relationships allowing for an intimate portrayal of the everyday. His pictures explore the way that people interact with one another, and in them one senses a longing to belong. Awde's parents fled Lebanon in the conflicts leading to the 1970s Civil War in order to pursue their futures by coming to America. This informed Awde's perspective on the world and his place in it while growing up, and now informs his practice as an artist and teacher. As the global refugee crisis escalates, and the early executive orders of a new and contentious president attempt to aggressively block refugees from entering the United States, the themes of Awde's work are evermore present.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, April 5



Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 1999, artist Eric Gottesman began making portraits in Ethiopia of people with HIV. Because great stigma surrounds this disease, subjects did not allow him to photograph their faces. Over the next five years, Gottesman made these portraits of people with HIV anonymous by hiding and obscuring their faces and changing each sitter's name to protect their identity. A transcribed text from each sitter describing life with HIV in Ethiopia accompanies each image. In 2004, a woman with HIV allowed him to photograph her face for the first time and he knew the project was completed.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 5



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.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 5



Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Resembling the clothing styles portrayed in the critically acclaimed PBS series, Downton Abbey, "Downton Comes Downtown" features men's, women's, and children's clothing worn by citizens of Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930.

Highlights include a maroon evening coat with a mink collar worn by Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes Hiscock to a State Dinner during the presidential administration of Herbert Hoover (1929-1933); a boy's brown wool suit with a vest and knickers purchased from the Peck-Vinney Company, a clothier located on South Salina Street, worn by young Milton Jones in the 1920s; and a black kimono with Japanese images worn by Mrs. Laura Crouse Durston aboard the Graf Zeppelin in 1930.

The exhibit is augmented by fashion accessories such as hats, shoes, and purses as well as period furniture from OHA's collection.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 5



Rust Echoes
914Works

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

Zeke Leonard and Katherine McGerr's "Rust Echoes" is a gallery installation and performance inspired by the sonic landscape of the New York Central Railroad. Performances will be held on March 24, 25 and 26 at 7 p.m.

For 100 years, the New York Central Railroad moved goods and people throughout the Northeast and Midwest; its connectivity helped to forge the economic and social framework of Central New York. The installation consists of five interactive sculptures made of the materials and forms that were common to the railroad. Steel and wood are given a voice, and railroad tools and hardware are used as musical instruments.

This installation is part of an ongoing project, "Salt City Found-Object Instrument Works," an exploration by Leonard into resource usage and community building created through the making, distribution and playing of musical instruments.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 5



Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection" investigates how artists from the late 19th century until today have been captivated by the potential of landscape images and its ability to transport our imagination whether the locale be exotic or not. Curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, this display brings together historic albumen prints, travel albums, and contemporary black and white and color images from a variety of photographers working in the photographic medium over the past 120 years.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 5



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"21 Etchings and Poems," a landmark publication that had a profound impact on contemporary art and culture, will be presented in its entirety in the Print Study Room. Curated by Museum Studies graduate student Courtney Spencer Eppel, this exhibition presents 21 paired artists and authors to create unique works of art. The partnerships for this project included well-known artists and poets Peter Grippe and Dylan Thomas, Willem de Kooning and Harold Rosenberg, Letterio Calapai and William Carlos Williams, and Franz Kine and Frank O'Hara, among others.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 5



de.structive dis.tillation: Works by Vanessa German
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Vanessa German uses paint, mixed media, sculpture, and performance to directly confront racism and violence in today's society. Based in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh, a neighborhood devastated by drugs and crime on a daily basis, German creates work in response to her life experiences.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 5



More Real, More a Dream
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Realism and abstraction are the two poles of painting in the 20th century. Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of abstract works from the 20th century to explore the wide variety of formal and compositional decisions artists make when depicting simplified forms, reductive shapes, gestural or precise lines, and selecting a color palette. Primarily comprised of paintings, a selection of sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, video, ceramics, and decorative arts objects are included to draw connections among the various media and approaches to both two and three-dimensional objects.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 5



Bradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Dorsky Museum, in partnership with the Everson, is organizing the first retrospective and catalog of American painter Bradley Walker Tomlin (1899-1953) since 1975. This exhibition, including over 40 paintings, works on paper, and printed materials, charts Tomlin's development from art nouveau illustrations of the 1920s to large-scale Abstract Expressionist paintings of the 1950s. The exhibition explores his formative years in Syracuse, early patronage by Condé Nast, and the important role played by the Woodstock art colony. The exhibition originated at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz.

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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 5



Salt City Abstraction
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Salt City Abstraction features modern and contemporary abstract artists from the Everson's collection that have lived and worked in Central New York, including Juan Cruz, Robert De Niro Sr., Darryl Hughto, Margie Hughto, James Ridlon, Susan Roth, and many others.

Inspired by the museum's concurrent retrospective of Syracuse-born Bradley Walker Tomlin, Salt City Abstraction features the work of modern and contemporary artists that have lived or worked in Central New York. Whether born in the Salt City itself, attending or teaching at a local university or college, or simply choosing to settle in the area, each of the included artists has embraced variations of abstraction while working in their own particular styles and mediums. These 2- and 3-dimensional works drawn from the Everson's collection affirm the museum's longstanding commitment to celebrating regional talent alongside that of national artists, a tradition which extends to the museum's founding more than a century ago. This focused look at abstraction highlights the significant impact that Central New York artists have made to the history of art both local and beyond.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 5



A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The first exhibition in the Everson's new ceramics gallery, "A Century of Collecting" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Museum's first purchase of ceramics for the permanent collection in 1916. From that initial purchase of 32 works by distinguished Arts & Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the Everson has amassed a premier collection of more than 5000 ceramic pieces, dating from ancient times to the present day. This exhibition presents a survey of works made by key figures in modern and contemporary studio ceramics, tracing the Everson's role as a driving force in shaping attitudes about ceramics as a fine art medium.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 5



From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Haudenosaunee, a name referring to the alliance of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations, have rich artistic traditions. This exhibition features the work of five contemporary Haudenosaunee artists represented in the Everson's collection—Tom Huff, Ada Jacques, Peter B. Jones, Tammy Tarbell-Boehning, and Steve Smith—all of whom draw upon their cultural heritage and blend traditional artistic methods with modern techniques.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 5



Let's Be Dragons: Serpents Inside
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Let's Be Dragons: Serpents Inside," part of the annual exhibition of the Master of Fine Art thesis candidates from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, features the artwork of six emerging artists Zhongwen (Lisa) Hu, Courtney Asztalos, Evan Deuitch, Todd Irwin Francis Lauther, Ssu Ya Hsiung, and Chelsea Jones. Through their presentations, a variety of themes and media including painting, photography, ceramics, video art, illustration, and site-specific installations, will be explored.

Serpents Inside brings together artists expressing and grappling with existential questions of identity and self-exploration. Each artist reframes the physical and mental, the public and private, and the performance of identity exploration.

Chelsea Jones's self-portraiture project uses her hair, common hair processing techniques, and cosmetic routines as racial signifiers to come to terms with the implications of being a biracial woman. Courtney Asztalos' installation focuses on the physical presence of women within an architectural space designed as a utopia to exploit our wildest fantasies where financial victory may be just one slot away. Todd Irwin Francis Lauther's lyrical photographs capture a young man's thoughtful response to his desire for fatherhood and a sensitive negotiation of the societal pressure placed upon men to create a family. With painting and performance Ssu Ya Hsiung and Zhongwen Hu use childhood memories, both absurd and surreal, to depict psychological loneliness, vulnerability, and physical isolation from the outside world. Evan Deuitch's investigation of the online subculture of hybrid human/animal characters known as the furry fandom brings together fantastical imagination with hedonistic pleasure. His character driven self-portraits address identity construction, obsession, and role playing.

Together, Serpents Inside, offers a palpable sense of the vulnerability, self-doubt, pleasure and pain that often accompany an inward searching.


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Lecture
 

7:30 PM, April 5



Sonia Nazario
University Lectures

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Sonia Nazario is an award-winning journalist, author, and prominent advocate/activist who has drawn widespread attention to such critical social issues as immigration, racial discrimination, hunger and drug addiction, as well as U.S. foreign policy.

A reporter for more than 20 years, she is best known for "Enrique's Journey," her series of reports for The Los Angeles Times following a Honduran boy's struggle to find his mother in the United States. It earned the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing and the George Polk Award for International Reporting. In book form, it later became a national bestseller.

Nazario's coverage for The New York Times of the detention of unaccompanied immigrant children at the Honduran border in 2014 garnered global attention and led to her addressing the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

She served on many boards, including the board of Kids In Need of Defense, a nonprofit launched by Microsoft and Angelina Jolie to provide pro-bono attorneys to unaccompanied immigrant children.


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Music
 

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, April 5



Jazz at the Plaza: Dave Solazzo
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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


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12:45 PM, April 5



A Celebration of the Great American Songbook
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Norma Tippett, soprano; Connie Walters, mezzo-soprano; Ken Pease, tenor; Phil Eisenman, bass; Nancy Pease, piano; and Jerry Exline, piano, perform choral medleys and solos of standards and jazz from the 1920s to 1950s.


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8:00 PM, April 5



Student Recital Series: Juan Wu, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Juan Wu, a graduate voice performance student, will present a recital.

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


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Poetry/Reading
 

5:30 PM, April 5



Laura Kasischke
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Kasischke, the Richard Elman Visiting Writer, is the author of If a Stranger Approaches You, The Life Before Her Eyes, White Bird in a Blizzard, Suspicious River.

The reading will be preceded by a Q & A from 3:45-4:30.


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, April 5



How I Learned to Drive
Syracuse Stage
Laura Kepley, director

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

Buckle up. It's going to be a bumpy ride. Li'l Bit takes us on a no-holds-barred trip back in time to her adolescence in 1960s Maryland and her complicated relationship with an older man. A deeply compassionate look at how we are shaped by the people who hurt us, How I Learned to Drive masterfully veers in and out of personal memory and deftly traverses comedy, drama, and farce. Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. By Paula Vogel.

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8:00 PM, April 5



Major Barbara
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

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

Major Barbara presents George Bernard Shaw at his provocative, powerful, and astonishingly funny best. Andrew Undershaft is a highly successful arms manufacturer. His estranged daughter Barbara has devoted her life to saving souls with the Salvation Army. When Andrew's wife and Barbara's mother, the formidable Lady Britomart, reunite father and daughter, she initiates a battle of wills and wits that has each convinced the other can be converted. Right, wrong, good, evil, moral, or immoral—it all gets turned topsy-turvy when Shaw sets his characters in motion.

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Thursday, April 6, 2017


Art
 

8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 6



Internum Opera: Selected Works by Jason Cheney
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 6



The Wildlife and Nature Art of Tom Lenweaver
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 6



Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Curated by University Archivist Meg Mason, the exhibition explores the dramatic impact of the GI Bill and the subsequent influx of veterans on the Syracuse University campus following World War II (1945-1950). From the University Archives, the materials on view document this critical period in the University's history and the associated changes to the campus landscape, social and cultural life, and academic programs.

Materials on view include:
• photographs of temporary classrooms and housing for veterans, including old barracks and trailers, which filled the campus and surrounding areas;
• cartoons of veteran student life on campus;
• aerial shots of the main and south campuses showing changes in the landscape;
• personal items from veterans who attended Syracuse University, including a cheerleading megaphone, a postcard about arriving at Syracuse, and photographs of the inside of one of the trailers used as married student housing;
• Daily Orange articles about the impact of veterans on campus.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, April 6



New Ground
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Wendy Harris exhibits a variety of media, including oil and acrylic paintings and pastel drawings.
Tom Slocum displays flowing, organic wood sculpture.
Gail Sustare shows beautifully crafted jewelry.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, April 6



George Awde: Scale Without Measure
Light Work Gallery

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

George Awde's photographic work explores themes of contemporary masculinity, the male body, homosociality, and notions of physical and psychological strength, as seen through young men with whom he identifies. The men and boys whom Awde has photographed over the last 10 years include migrants to Beirut from Syria. Many are now his close friends. Through years of contact, Awde has established close relationships allowing for an intimate portrayal of the everyday. His pictures explore the way that people interact with one another, and in them one senses a longing to belong. Awde's parents fled Lebanon in the conflicts leading to the 1970s Civil War in order to pursue their futures by coming to America. This informed Awde's perspective on the world and his place in it while growing up, and now informs his practice as an artist and teacher. As the global refugee crisis escalates, and the early executive orders of a new and contentious president attempt to aggressively block refugees from entering the United States, the themes of Awde's work are evermore present.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, April 6



Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 1999, artist Eric Gottesman began making portraits in Ethiopia of people with HIV. Because great stigma surrounds this disease, subjects did not allow him to photograph their faces. Over the next five years, Gottesman made these portraits of people with HIV anonymous by hiding and obscuring their faces and changing each sitter's name to protect their identity. A transcribed text from each sitter describing life with HIV in Ethiopia accompanies each image. In 2004, a woman with HIV allowed him to photograph her face for the first time and he knew the project was completed.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 6



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.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 6



Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Resembling the clothing styles portrayed in the critically acclaimed PBS series, Downton Abbey, "Downton Comes Downtown" features men's, women's, and children's clothing worn by citizens of Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930.

Highlights include a maroon evening coat with a mink collar worn by Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes Hiscock to a State Dinner during the presidential administration of Herbert Hoover (1929-1933); a boy's brown wool suit with a vest and knickers purchased from the Peck-Vinney Company, a clothier located on South Salina Street, worn by young Milton Jones in the 1920s; and a black kimono with Japanese images worn by Mrs. Laura Crouse Durston aboard the Graf Zeppelin in 1930.

The exhibit is augmented by fashion accessories such as hats, shoes, and purses as well as period furniture from OHA's collection.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 6



Rust Echoes
914Works

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

Zeke Leonard and Katherine McGerr's "Rust Echoes" is a gallery installation and performance inspired by the sonic landscape of the New York Central Railroad. Performances will be held on March 24, 25 and 26 at 7 p.m.

For 100 years, the New York Central Railroad moved goods and people throughout the Northeast and Midwest; its connectivity helped to forge the economic and social framework of Central New York. The installation consists of five interactive sculptures made of the materials and forms that were common to the railroad. Steel and wood are given a voice, and railroad tools and hardware are used as musical instruments.

This installation is part of an ongoing project, "Salt City Found-Object Instrument Works," an exploration by Leonard into resource usage and community building created through the making, distribution and playing of musical instruments.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, April 6



Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection" investigates how artists from the late 19th century until today have been captivated by the potential of landscape images and its ability to transport our imagination whether the locale be exotic or not. Curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, this display brings together historic albumen prints, travel albums, and contemporary black and white and color images from a variety of photographers working in the photographic medium over the past 120 years.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, April 6



Let’s Be Dragons: Wild Seeds
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Let's Be Dragons," the master of fine arts (M.F.A.) exhibition of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will be showing in four venues in Syracuse.

"Wild Seeds" features the artwork of nine emerging artists: Loren Bartnicke, Gang Chen, Owen Drysdale, Rachel Fein-Smolinski, Peter Smith, Shiwen Su, Chunlin Yang, Munjal Yagnik, and Chris Zacher. Organized by DJ Hellerman, curator of art and programs at the Everson Museum of Art, this spring marks the first campus and Syracuse city-wide celebration of the arts learned and practiced at Syracuse University.

Referencing Octavia E. Butler's 1980 science-fiction novel These Wild Seeds, the exhibition brings together a selection of artists interested in undermining or tinkering with superstructures designed to engineer social order and temper radical individuality. Altogether, the artists in "Wild Seeds" point and nudge our focus toward institutions with power and control. The works present questions about who has the agency to manipulate our subjectivity and they attempt to craft histories that open the possibility of forging against the currents of dominant culture. Decidedly, these artworks and art practices are acts of resistance and revision, often rejected or dismissed, that help us envision a future that is unlike our past.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, April 6



Hindsight: Four Alumni from the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Hindsight" examines the careers of four women who met during their time as students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University: Sarah Burda, Angela Early, Maggy Hiltner, and Jenny Kanzler.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, April 6



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"21 Etchings and Poems," a landmark publication that had a profound impact on contemporary art and culture, will be presented in its entirety in the Print Study Room. Curated by Museum Studies graduate student Courtney Spencer Eppel, this exhibition presents 21 paired artists and authors to create unique works of art. The partnerships for this project included well-known artists and poets Peter Grippe and Dylan Thomas, Willem de Kooning and Harold Rosenberg, Letterio Calapai and William Carlos Williams, and Franz Kine and Frank O'Hara, among others.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, April 6



Taking Flight: Richard Koppe's Works on Paper
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

American artist Richard Koppe's career exemplifies the interconnectedness of art, design, and engineering in the 20th and 21st centuries.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, April 6



More Real, More a Dream
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Realism and abstraction are the two poles of painting in the 20th century. Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of abstract works from the 20th century to explore the wide variety of formal and compositional decisions artists make when depicting simplified forms, reductive shapes, gestural or precise lines, and selecting a color palette. Primarily comprised of paintings, a selection of sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, video, ceramics, and decorative arts objects are included to draw connections among the various media and approaches to both two and three-dimensional objects.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, April 6



de.structive dis.tillation: Works by Vanessa German
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Vanessa German uses paint, mixed media, sculpture, and performance to directly confront racism and violence in today's society. Based in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh, a neighborhood devastated by drugs and crime on a daily basis, German creates work in response to her life experiences.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, April 6



From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Haudenosaunee, a name referring to the alliance of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations, have rich artistic traditions. This exhibition features the work of five contemporary Haudenosaunee artists represented in the Everson's collection—Tom Huff, Ada Jacques, Peter B. Jones, Tammy Tarbell-Boehning, and Steve Smith—all of whom draw upon their cultural heritage and blend traditional artistic methods with modern techniques.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, April 6



A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The first exhibition in the Everson's new ceramics gallery, "A Century of Collecting" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Museum's first purchase of ceramics for the permanent collection in 1916. From that initial purchase of 32 works by distinguished Arts & Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the Everson has amassed a premier collection of more than 5000 ceramic pieces, dating from ancient times to the present day. This exhibition presents a survey of works made by key figures in modern and contemporary studio ceramics, tracing the Everson's role as a driving force in shaping attitudes about ceramics as a fine art medium.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, April 6



Salt City Abstraction
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Salt City Abstraction features modern and contemporary abstract artists from the Everson's collection that have lived and worked in Central New York, including Juan Cruz, Robert De Niro Sr., Darryl Hughto, Margie Hughto, James Ridlon, Susan Roth, and many others.

Inspired by the museum's concurrent retrospective of Syracuse-born Bradley Walker Tomlin, Salt City Abstraction features the work of modern and contemporary artists that have lived or worked in Central New York. Whether born in the Salt City itself, attending or teaching at a local university or college, or simply choosing to settle in the area, each of the included artists has embraced variations of abstraction while working in their own particular styles and mediums. These 2- and 3-dimensional works drawn from the Everson's collection affirm the museum's longstanding commitment to celebrating regional talent alongside that of national artists, a tradition which extends to the museum's founding more than a century ago. This focused look at abstraction highlights the significant impact that Central New York artists have made to the history of art both local and beyond.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, April 6



Bradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Dorsky Museum, in partnership with the Everson, is organizing the first retrospective and catalog of American painter Bradley Walker Tomlin (1899-1953) since 1975. This exhibition, including over 40 paintings, works on paper, and printed materials, charts Tomlin's development from art nouveau illustrations of the 1920s to large-scale Abstract Expressionist paintings of the 1950s. The exhibition explores his formative years in Syracuse, early patronage by Condé Nast, and the important role played by the Woodstock art colony. The exhibition originated at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz.

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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 6



Let's Be Dragons: Serpents Inside
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Let's Be Dragons: Serpents Inside," part of the annual exhibition of the Master of Fine Art thesis candidates from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, features the artwork of six emerging artists Zhongwen (Lisa) Hu, Courtney Asztalos, Evan Deuitch, Todd Irwin Francis Lauther, Ssu Ya Hsiung, and Chelsea Jones. Through their presentations, a variety of themes and media including painting, photography, ceramics, video art, illustration, and site-specific installations, will be explored.

Serpents Inside brings together artists expressing and grappling with existential questions of identity and self-exploration. Each artist reframes the physical and mental, the public and private, and the performance of identity exploration.

Chelsea Jones's self-portraiture project uses her hair, common hair processing techniques, and cosmetic routines as racial signifiers to come to terms with the implications of being a biracial woman. Courtney Asztalos' installation focuses on the physical presence of women within an architectural space designed as a utopia to exploit our wildest fantasies where financial victory may be just one slot away. Todd Irwin Francis Lauther's lyrical photographs capture a young man's thoughtful response to his desire for fatherhood and a sensitive negotiation of the societal pressure placed upon men to create a family. With painting and performance Ssu Ya Hsiung and Zhongwen Hu use childhood memories, both absurd and surreal, to depict psychological loneliness, vulnerability, and physical isolation from the outside world. Evan Deuitch's investigation of the online subculture of hybrid human/animal characters known as the furry fandom brings together fantastical imagination with hedonistic pleasure. His character driven self-portraits address identity construction, obsession, and role playing.

Together, Serpents Inside, offers a palpable sense of the vulnerability, self-doubt, pleasure and pain that often accompany an inward searching.


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8:15 PM - 11:00 PM, April 6



Deborah Stratman: Xenoi
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Deborah Stratman's short video Xenoi (2016), the Greek island of Syros is visited by a series of unexpected guests: immutable forms, outside of time, aloof observers of the human condition. These hovering guests are the Platonic Solids, named for the famed ancient Greek philosopher, Plato, who described them in the dialogue Timaeus as part of a higher level of reality.

Shot on location and featuring a hypnotic score, Xenoi scans the horizon of modern day Greece, a landscape at once timeless and jarringly contemporary. "Xenoi" is the plural of "xenos," an enigmatic word usually translated as "stranger" — but whether the stranger is friend or foe depends on context and interpretation. What do these geometric specters portend in a contemporary climate of consumerism and economic crisis?


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Music
 

6:00 PM, April 6



Student Recital Series: Jazz Vocal Studio Showcase
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building, Room 201
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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


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7:30 PM, April 6



Spark Series: Music of Downton Abbey
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

Marriott Hotel Syracuse
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Downton Abbey is set between 1912 and 1925, which was a period of tumultuous change and new music. Come dressed in your best from the era as music from the show and time period are performed.


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8:00 PM, April 6



Ensemble Series: Chamber Ensembles
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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


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Poetry/Reading
 

6:00 PM, April 6



Cruel April Poetry Series
Point of Contact Gallery
Featuring Sarah Harwell, Chris Kennedy, Michael Burkard, Colleen Kattau

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

Poetry readings, followed by a reception and dialogue with the poets, in commemoration of National Poetry Month. All poets are published in the newest volume of Corresponding Voices, a poetry collection published by Point of Contact that brings poets from different backgrounds together in a dialogue.

Sarah Harwell has had poems published in various publications including Poetry, TriQuarterly, the Washington Post and Dossier. She is the Associate Director of the MFA Program at Syrause University and teaches fiction and poetry to undergraduate students.

Christopher Kennedy was awarded an NEA Fellowship for Poetry in 2011. He is a professor of English at Syracuse University where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Michael Burkard has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. He has taught in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University since 1997.

Colleen Kattau is an Associate Professor of Spanish at SUNY College at Cortland. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish Language and Culture from Syracuse University.


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Theater
 

7:00 PM, April 6



Low Noon
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $29.95, plus tax and gratuity
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

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


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7:30 PM, April 6



*CANCELLED* Cirque D'Or
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Performance cancelled due to international travel issues. Refunds for tickets purchased will be made at point of sale.

With an array of the world's greatest acrobats, contortionists and aerial artists, Cirque D'Or has been entertaining fans around the world for over 12 years. Their electrifying and mesmerizing stunts have been performed live on and above the stage with breathtaking aerial performances. The show travels with a cast of 30 performers from around the world and is a thrill-a-minute spectacle.

With an all-new cast and show, this current tour is one of the most amazing shows you will ever see. The New York Times says Cirque D'Or is "breathtaking" and CBS News calls it "fantastic."


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7:30 PM, April 6



How I Learned to Drive
Syracuse Stage
Laura Kepley, director

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

Buckle up. It's going to be a bumpy ride. Li'l Bit takes us on a no-holds-barred trip back in time to her adolescence in 1960s Maryland and her complicated relationship with an older man. A deeply compassionate look at how we are shaped by the people who hurt us, How I Learned to Drive masterfully veers in and out of personal memory and deftly traverses comedy, drama, and farce. Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. By Paula Vogel.

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8:00 PM, April 6



Major Barbara
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

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

Major Barbara presents George Bernard Shaw at his provocative, powerful, and astonishingly funny best. Andrew Undershaft is a highly successful arms manufacturer. His estranged daughter Barbara has devoted her life to saving souls with the Salvation Army. When Andrew's wife and Barbara's mother, the formidable Lady Britomart, reunite father and daughter, she initiates a battle of wills and wits that has each convinced the other can be converted. Right, wrong, good, evil, moral, or immoral—it all gets turned topsy-turvy when Shaw sets his characters in motion.

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Friday, April 7, 2017


Art
 

8:00 AM - 8:00 PM, April 7



Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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

There will be an opening reception this afternoon 4:00-6:00 pm.


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8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 7



Internum Opera: Selected Works by Jason Cheney
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 7



The Wildlife and Nature Art of Tom Lenweaver
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 7



Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Curated by University Archivist Meg Mason, the exhibition explores the dramatic impact of the GI Bill and the subsequent influx of veterans on the Syracuse University campus following World War II (1945-1950). From the University Archives, the materials on view document this critical period in the University's history and the associated changes to the campus landscape, social and cultural life, and academic programs.

Materials on view include:
• photographs of temporary classrooms and housing for veterans, including old barracks and trailers, which filled the campus and surrounding areas;
• cartoons of veteran student life on campus;
• aerial shots of the main and south campuses showing changes in the landscape;
• personal items from veterans who attended Syracuse University, including a cheerleading megaphone, a postcard about arriving at Syracuse, and photographs of the inside of one of the trailers used as married student housing;
• Daily Orange articles about the impact of veterans on campus.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, April 7



New Ground
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Wendy Harris exhibits a variety of media, including oil and acrylic paintings and pastel drawings.
Tom Slocum displays flowing, organic wood sculpture.
Gail Sustare shows beautifully crafted jewelry.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, April 7



George Awde: Scale Without Measure
Light Work Gallery

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

George Awde's photographic work explores themes of contemporary masculinity, the male body, homosociality, and notions of physical and psychological strength, as seen through young men with whom he identifies. The men and boys whom Awde has photographed over the last 10 years include migrants to Beirut from Syria. Many are now his close friends. Through years of contact, Awde has established close relationships allowing for an intimate portrayal of the everyday. His pictures explore the way that people interact with one another, and in them one senses a longing to belong. Awde's parents fled Lebanon in the conflicts leading to the 1970s Civil War in order to pursue their futures by coming to America. This informed Awde's perspective on the world and his place in it while growing up, and now informs his practice as an artist and teacher. As the global refugee crisis escalates, and the early executive orders of a new and contentious president attempt to aggressively block refugees from entering the United States, the themes of Awde's work are evermore present.


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10:00 AM - 7:00 PM, April 7



Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu)
Light Work Gallery

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

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

In 1999, artist Eric Gottesman began making portraits in Ethiopia of people with HIV. Because great stigma surrounds this disease, subjects did not allow him to photograph their faces. Over the next five years, Gottesman made these portraits of people with HIV anonymous by hiding and obscuring their faces and changing each sitter's name to protect their identity. A transcribed text from each sitter describing life with HIV in Ethiopia accompanies each image. In 2004, a woman with HIV allowed him to photograph her face for the first time and he knew the project was completed.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 7



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.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 7



Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Resembling the clothing styles portrayed in the critically acclaimed PBS series, Downton Abbey, "Downton Comes Downtown" features men's, women's, and children's clothing worn by citizens of Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930.

Highlights include a maroon evening coat with a mink collar worn by Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes Hiscock to a State Dinner during the presidential administration of Herbert Hoover (1929-1933); a boy's brown wool suit with a vest and knickers purchased from the Peck-Vinney Company, a clothier located on South Salina Street, worn by young Milton Jones in the 1920s; and a black kimono with Japanese images worn by Mrs. Laura Crouse Durston aboard the Graf Zeppelin in 1930.

The exhibit is augmented by fashion accessories such as hats, shoes, and purses as well as period furniture from OHA's collection.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 7



Let’s Be Dragons: Wild Seeds
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Let's Be Dragons," the master of fine arts (M.F.A.) exhibition of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will be showing in four venues in Syracuse.

"Wild Seeds" features the artwork of nine emerging artists: Loren Bartnicke, Gang Chen, Owen Drysdale, Rachel Fein-Smolinski, Peter Smith, Shiwen Su, Chunlin Yang, Munjal Yagnik, and Chris Zacher. Organized by DJ Hellerman, curator of art and programs at the Everson Museum of Art, this spring marks the first campus and Syracuse city-wide celebration of the arts learned and practiced at Syracuse University.

Referencing Octavia E. Butler's 1980 science-fiction novel These Wild Seeds, the exhibition brings together a selection of artists interested in undermining or tinkering with superstructures designed to engineer social order and temper radical individuality. Altogether, the artists in "Wild Seeds" point and nudge our focus toward institutions with power and control. The works present questions about who has the agency to manipulate our subjectivity and they attempt to craft histories that open the possibility of forging against the currents of dominant culture. Decidedly, these artworks and art practices are acts of resistance and revision, often rejected or dismissed, that help us envision a future that is unlike our past.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 7



Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection" investigates how artists from the late 19th century until today have been captivated by the potential of landscape images and its ability to transport our imagination whether the locale be exotic or not. Curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, this display brings together historic albumen prints, travel albums, and contemporary black and white and color images from a variety of photographers working in the photographic medium over the past 120 years.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 7



Taking Flight: Richard Koppe's Works on Paper
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

American artist Richard Koppe's career exemplifies the interconnectedness of art, design, and engineering in the 20th and 21st centuries.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 7



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"21 Etchings and Poems," a landmark publication that had a profound impact on contemporary art and culture, will be presented in its entirety in the Print Study Room. Curated by Museum Studies graduate student Courtney Spencer Eppel, this exhibition presents 21 paired artists and authors to create unique works of art. The partnerships for this project included well-known artists and poets Peter Grippe and Dylan Thomas, Willem de Kooning and Harold Rosenberg, Letterio Calapai and William Carlos Williams, and Franz Kine and Frank O'Hara, among others.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 7



Hindsight: Four Alumni from the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Hindsight" examines the careers of four women who met during their time as students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University: Sarah Burda, Angela Early, Maggy Hiltner, and Jenny Kanzler.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 7



de.structive dis.tillation: Works by Vanessa German
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Vanessa German uses paint, mixed media, sculpture, and performance to directly confront racism and violence in today's society. Based in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh, a neighborhood devastated by drugs and crime on a daily basis, German creates work in response to her life experiences.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 7



More Real, More a Dream
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Realism and abstraction are the two poles of painting in the 20th century. Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of abstract works from the 20th century to explore the wide variety of formal and compositional decisions artists make when depicting simplified forms, reductive shapes, gestural or precise lines, and selecting a color palette. Primarily comprised of paintings, a selection of sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, video, ceramics, and decorative arts objects are included to draw connections among the various media and approaches to both two and three-dimensional objects.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 7



Bradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Dorsky Museum, in partnership with the Everson, is organizing the first retrospective and catalog of American painter Bradley Walker Tomlin (1899-1953) since 1975. This exhibition, including over 40 paintings, works on paper, and printed materials, charts Tomlin's development from art nouveau illustrations of the 1920s to large-scale Abstract Expressionist paintings of the 1950s. The exhibition explores his formative years in Syracuse, early patronage by Condé Nast, and the important role played by the Woodstock art colony. The exhibition originated at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz.

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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 7



Salt City Abstraction
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Salt City Abstraction features modern and contemporary abstract artists from the Everson's collection that have lived and worked in Central New York, including Juan Cruz, Robert De Niro Sr., Darryl Hughto, Margie Hughto, James Ridlon, Susan Roth, and many others.

Inspired by the museum's concurrent retrospective of Syracuse-born Bradley Walker Tomlin, Salt City Abstraction features the work of modern and contemporary artists that have lived or worked in Central New York. Whether born in the Salt City itself, attending or teaching at a local university or college, or simply choosing to settle in the area, each of the included artists has embraced variations of abstraction while working in their own particular styles and mediums. These 2- and 3-dimensional works drawn from the Everson's collection affirm the museum's longstanding commitment to celebrating regional talent alongside that of national artists, a tradition which extends to the museum's founding more than a century ago. This focused look at abstraction highlights the significant impact that Central New York artists have made to the history of art both local and beyond.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 7



A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The first exhibition in the Everson's new ceramics gallery, "A Century of Collecting" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Museum's first purchase of ceramics for the permanent collection in 1916. From that initial purchase of 32 works by distinguished Arts & Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the Everson has amassed a premier collection of more than 5000 ceramic pieces, dating from ancient times to the present day. This exhibition presents a survey of works made by key figures in modern and contemporary studio ceramics, tracing the Everson's role as a driving force in shaping attitudes about ceramics as a fine art medium.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 7



From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Haudenosaunee, a name referring to the alliance of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations, have rich artistic traditions. This exhibition features the work of five contemporary Haudenosaunee artists represented in the Everson's collection—Tom Huff, Ada Jacques, Peter B. Jones, Tammy Tarbell-Boehning, and Steve Smith—all of whom draw upon their cultural heritage and blend traditional artistic methods with modern techniques.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, April 7



Let's Be Dragons: Serpents Inside
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

"Let's Be Dragons: Serpents Inside," part of the annual exhibition of the Master of Fine Art thesis candidates from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, features the artwork of six emerging artists Zhongwen (Lisa) Hu, Courtney Asztalos, Evan Deuitch, Todd Irwin Francis Lauther, Ssu Ya Hsiung, and Chelsea Jones. Through their presentations, a variety of themes and media including painting, photography, ceramics, video art, illustration, and site-specific installations, will be explored.

Serpents Inside brings together artists expressing and grappling with existential questions of identity and self-exploration. Each artist reframes the physical and mental, the public and private, and the performance of identity exploration.

Chelsea Jones's self-portraiture project uses her hair, common hair processing techniques, and cosmetic routines as racial signifiers to come to terms with the implications of being a biracial woman. Courtney Asztalos' installation focuses on the physical presence of women within an architectural space designed as a utopia to exploit our wildest fantasies where financial victory may be just one slot away. Todd Irwin Francis Lauther's lyrical photographs capture a young man's thoughtful response to his desire for fatherhood and a sensitive negotiation of the societal pressure placed upon men to create a family. With painting and performance Ssu Ya Hsiung and Zhongwen Hu use childhood memories, both absurd and surreal, to depict psychological loneliness, vulnerability, and physical isolation from the outside world. Evan Deuitch's investigation of the online subculture of hybrid human/animal characters known as the furry fandom brings together fantastical imagination with hedonistic pleasure. His character driven self-portraits address identity construction, obsession, and role playing.

Together, Serpents Inside, offers a palpable sense of the vulnerability, self-doubt, pleasure and pain that often accompany an inward searching.


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8:15 PM - 11:00 PM, April 7



Deborah Stratman: Xenoi
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Deborah Stratman's short video Xenoi (2016), the Greek island of Syros is visited by a series of unexpected guests: immutable forms, outside of time, aloof observers of the human condition. These hovering guests are the Platonic Solids, named for the famed ancient Greek philosopher, Plato, who described them in the dialogue Timaeus as part of a higher level of reality.

Shot on location and featuring a hypnotic score, Xenoi scans the horizon of modern day Greece, a landscape at once timeless and jarringly contemporary. "Xenoi" is the plural of "xenos," an enigmatic word usually translated as "stranger" — but whether the stranger is friend or foe depends on context and interpretation. What do these geometric specters portend in a contemporary climate of consumerism and economic crisis?


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Comedy
 

7:00 PM - 8:15 PM, April 7



Open Improv Jam
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: Pay what you want
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

Open to any and all, beginners and experienced players. Come and watch, or sign up to play. Long-form, short-form, any form ... or no form. Experiment with something new, or run your old favorites. We'll end with "Dog-pile!" (What's that? Come find out.) We don't stop until everyone has had a chance to play.


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Music
 

5:00 PM, April 7



Student Recital Series: Kevin Varga, trumpet
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Kevin Varga, a junior music education major, will present a recital.

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


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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, April 7



Jazz@Sitrus: Swing This! with Mark Hoffmann
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover
Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse


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8:00 PM, April 7



Joe Driscoll
Central New York Playhouse

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

An innovator of the live looping beatbox sound, Joe Driscoll has been touring steadily for years, spreading his unique fusion of folk and hip-hop. The modern day take on the one-man band, he uses live loops to create soundscapes full of beatbox, guitar, harmonica, percussion, harmonica, and just about anything else he can make use of. After 11 years living in England and France, Joe has moved back to his native city, Syracuse. Driscoll has performed his groundbreaking solo show at the famed Glastonbury Festival, Electric Picnic in Ireland, Rift Valley Fest in Kenya, and hundreds of major stages all over the world.


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8:00 PM, April 7



Diana Jones
Folkus Project

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

Singer/songwriter Diana Jones' country music is far from the mainstream brand. She performs the kind of literary, progressive, yet historically rich music evocative of old-time mountain music, featuring Appalachian string band-style instrumentation combined with Jones' character-driven portraits. She is frequently compared to other distinct voices in Americana music such as Gillian Welch, Iris Dement and Allison Krauss.


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8:00 PM, April 7



Student Recital Series: Libby Weber and Sarah Schriner, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Libby Weber and Sarah Schriner, junior music industry majors, will present a voice recital.

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


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Opera
 

8:00 PM, April 7



Eugene Onegin
Syracuse Opera

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

Tchaikovsky's lyric opera Eugene Onegin is based on Pushkin's novel. Handsome and callus, Onegin brings heartbreak to those around him. Young Tatianna is humiliated by his recklessness and his best friend Lensky finds himself reaching for the dueling pistols. Tchaikovsky's passionate score holds nothing back.

Sung in Russian with English subtitles.

All attendees are invited to attend a free conductor pre-talk one hour prior to the performance.


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Theater
 

8:00 PM, April 7



How I Learned to Drive
Syracuse Stage
Laura Kepley, director

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

Buckle up. It's going to be a bumpy ride. Li'l Bit takes us on a no-holds-barred trip back in time to her adolescence in 1960s Maryland and her complicated relationship with an older man. A deeply compassionate look at how we are shaped by the people who hurt us, How I Learned to Drive masterfully veers in and out of personal memory and deftly traverses comedy, drama, and farce. Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. By Paula Vogel.

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8:00 PM, April 7



Major Barbara
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

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

Major Barbara presents George Bernard Shaw at his provocative, powerful, and astonishingly funny best. Andrew Undershaft is a highly successful arms manufacturer. His estranged daughter Barbara has devoted her life to saving souls with the Salvation Army. When Andrew's wife and Barbara's mother, the formidable Lady Britomart, reunite father and daughter, she initiates a battle of wills and wits that has each convinced the other can be converted. Right, wrong, good, evil, moral, or immoral—it all gets turned topsy-turvy when Shaw sets his characters in motion.

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Saturday, April 8, 2017


Art
 

9:00 AM - 8:00 PM, April 8



Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 8



The Wildlife and Nature Art of Tom Lenweaver
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 8



More Real, More a Dream
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Realism and abstraction are the two poles of painting in the 20th century. Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of abstract works from the 20th century to explore the wide variety of formal and compositional decisions artists make when depicting simplified forms, reductive shapes, gestural or precise lines, and selecting a color palette. Primarily comprised of paintings, a selection of sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, video, ceramics, and decorative arts objects are included to draw connections among the various media and approaches to both two and three-dimensional objects.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 8



de.structive dis.tillation: Works by Vanessa German
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Vanessa German uses paint, mixed media, sculpture, and performance to directly confront racism and violence in today's society. Based in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh, a neighborhood devastated by drugs and crime on a daily basis, German creates work in response to her life experiences.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 8



From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Haudenosaunee, a name referring to the alliance of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations, have rich artistic traditions. This exhibition features the work of five contemporary Haudenosaunee artists represented in the Everson's collection—Tom Huff, Ada Jacques, Peter B. Jones, Tammy Tarbell-Boehning, and Steve Smith—all of whom draw upon their cultural heritage and blend traditional artistic methods with modern techniques.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 8



A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The first exhibition in the Everson's new ceramics gallery, "A Century of Collecting" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Museum's first purchase of ceramics for the permanent collection in 1916. From that initial purchase of 32 works by distinguished Arts & Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the Everson has amassed a premier collection of more than 5000 ceramic pieces, dating from ancient times to the present day. This exhibition presents a survey of works made by key figures in modern and contemporary studio ceramics, tracing the Everson's role as a driving force in shaping attitudes about ceramics as a fine art medium.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 8



Salt City Abstraction
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Salt City Abstraction features modern and contemporary abstract artists from the Everson's collection that have lived and worked in Central New York, including Juan Cruz, Robert De Niro Sr., Darryl Hughto, Margie Hughto, James Ridlon, Susan Roth, and many others.

Inspired by the museum's concurrent retrospective of Syracuse-born Bradley Walker Tomlin, Salt City Abstraction features the work of modern and contemporary artists that have lived or worked in Central New York. Whether born in the Salt City itself, attending or teaching at a local university or college, or simply choosing to settle in the area, each of the included artists has embraced variations of abstraction while working in their own particular styles and mediums. These 2- and 3-dimensional works drawn from the Everson's collection affirm the museum's longstanding commitment to celebrating regional talent alongside that of national artists, a tradition which extends to the museum's founding more than a century ago. This focused look at abstraction highlights the significant impact that Central New York artists have made to the history of art both local and beyond.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 8



Bradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Dorsky Museum, in partnership with the Everson, is organizing the first retrospective and catalog of American painter Bradley Walker Tomlin (1899-1953) since 1975. This exhibition, including over 40 paintings, works on paper, and printed materials, charts Tomlin's development from art nouveau illustrations of the 1920s to large-scale Abstract Expressionist paintings of the 1950s. The exhibition explores his formative years in Syracuse, early patronage by Condé Nast, and the important role played by the Woodstock art colony. The exhibition originated at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz.

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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 8



Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Resembling the clothing styles portrayed in the critically acclaimed PBS series, Downton Abbey, "Downton Comes Downtown" features men's, women's, and children's clothing worn by citizens of Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930.

Highlights include a maroon evening coat with a mink collar worn by Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes Hiscock to a State Dinner during the presidential administration of Herbert Hoover (1929-1933); a boy's brown wool suit with a vest and knickers purchased from the Peck-Vinney Company, a clothier located on South Salina Street, worn by young Milton Jones in the 1920s; and a black kimono with Japanese images worn by Mrs. Laura Crouse Durston aboard the Graf Zeppelin in 1930.

The exhibit is augmented by fashion accessories such as hats, shoes, and purses as well as period furniture from OHA's collection.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 8



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.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 8



Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection" investigates how artists from the late 19th century until today have been captivated by the potential of landscape images and its ability to transport our imagination whether the locale be exotic or not. Curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, this display brings together historic albumen prints, travel albums, and contemporary black and white and color images from a variety of photographers working in the photographic medium over the past 120 years.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 8



Let’s Be Dragons: Wild Seeds
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Let's Be Dragons," the master of fine arts (M.F.A.) exhibition of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will be showing in four venues in Syracuse.

"Wild Seeds" features the artwork of nine emerging artists: Loren Bartnicke, Gang Chen, Owen Drysdale, Rachel Fein-Smolinski, Peter Smith, Shiwen Su, Chunlin Yang, Munjal Yagnik, and Chris Zacher. Organized by DJ Hellerman, curator of art and programs at the Everson Museum of Art, this spring marks the first campus and Syracuse city-wide celebration of the arts learned and practiced at Syracuse University.

Referencing Octavia E. Butler's 1980 science-fiction novel These Wild Seeds, the exhibition brings together a selection of artists interested in undermining or tinkering with superstructures designed to engineer social order and temper radical individuality. Altogether, the artists in "Wild Seeds" point and nudge our focus toward institutions with power and control. The works present questions about who has the agency to manipulate our subjectivity and they attempt to craft histories that open the possibility of forging against the currents of dominant culture. Decidedly, these artworks and art practices are acts of resistance and revision, often rejected or dismissed, that help us envision a future that is unlike our past.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 8



Hindsight: Four Alumni from the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Hindsight" examines the careers of four women who met during their time as students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University: Sarah Burda, Angela Early, Maggy Hiltner, and Jenny Kanzler.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 8



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"21 Etchings and Poems," a landmark publication that had a profound impact on contemporary art and culture, will be presented in its entirety in the Print Study Room. Curated by Museum Studies graduate student Courtney Spencer Eppel, this exhibition presents 21 paired artists and authors to create unique works of art. The partnerships for this project included well-known artists and poets Peter Grippe and Dylan Thomas, Willem de Kooning and Harold Rosenberg, Letterio Calapai and William Carlos Williams, and Franz Kine and Frank O'Hara, among others.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 8



Taking Flight: Richard Koppe's Works on Paper
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

American artist Richard Koppe's career exemplifies the interconnectedness of art, design, and engineering in the 20th and 21st centuries.


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12:00 PM - 3:00 PM, April 8



Free Family Day
Everson Museum of Art

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

Explore the galleries and join in art-making for the entire family! Use colorful paint to create a yarn print inspired by the abstract paintings in "Bradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective." Build your own power figure inspired by Vanessa German's installation in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court using wood, beads, raffia, and more. Grab a brush and join in two collaborative murals: a paint-by-numbers scene and a giant action painting.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 8



Let's Be Dragons: Serpents Inside
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Let's Be Dragons: Serpents Inside," part of the annual exhibition of the Master of Fine Art thesis candidates from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, features the artwork of six emerging artists Zhongwen (Lisa) Hu, Courtney Asztalos, Evan Deuitch, Todd Irwin Francis Lauther, Ssu Ya Hsiung, and Chelsea Jones. Through their presentations, a variety of themes and media including painting, photography, ceramics, video art, illustration, and site-specific installations, will be explored.

Serpents Inside brings together artists expressing and grappling with existential questions of identity and self-exploration. Each artist reframes the physical and mental, the public and private, and the performance of identity exploration.

Chelsea Jones's self-portraiture project uses her hair, common hair processing techniques, and cosmetic routines as racial signifiers to come to terms with the implications of being a biracial woman. Courtney Asztalos' installation focuses on the physical presence of women within an architectural space designed as a utopia to exploit our wildest fantasies where financial victory may be just one slot away. Todd Irwin Francis Lauther's lyrical photographs capture a young man's thoughtful response to his desire for fatherhood and a sensitive negotiation of the societal pressure placed upon men to create a family. With painting and performance Ssu Ya Hsiung and Zhongwen Hu use childhood memories, both absurd and surreal, to depict psychological loneliness, vulnerability, and physical isolation from the outside world. Evan Deuitch's investigation of the online subculture of hybrid human/animal characters known as the furry fandom brings together fantastical imagination with hedonistic pleasure. His character driven self-portraits address identity construction, obsession, and role playing.

Together, Serpents Inside, offers a palpable sense of the vulnerability, self-doubt, pleasure and pain that often accompany an inward searching.


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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, April 8



Opening: Disappearing World: New Work by Phil Parsons and Ted Neal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

The exhibition features work by Syracuse-area painter Phil Parsons and ceramics by Ted Neal of Muncie, IN. Parsons's work explores the decay in landscapes as a metaphor of the shifting of values in contemporary rural culture. Neal creates functional ceramic forms which imitate industrial objects in order to comment on consumer culture and its impact on the environment. "Disappearing World" encourages the viewer to meditate on the places we pass by and the objects we use and discard and what these say about the society for which we all are responsible.


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7:00 PM, April 8



Opening: At All Costs: Photographs of American Workers by Earl Dotter
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening beginning at 7:00 pm.

Earl Dotter has been photographing American workers on the job for over 40 years. Beginning in the Appalachian coalfields in the early 1970s and continuing to the present, he has put a human face on those who labor, often in dangerous and unhealthy conditions. In 2007, Dotter's Coal Mining Series was added to the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, in Washington, DC. The Occupational Health Clinical Center of Syracuse is the primary collaborator on this exhibition, and much of the work in the exhibition comes from their private collection.

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8:15 PM - 11:00 PM, April 8



Deborah Stratman: Xenoi
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Deborah Stratman's short video Xenoi (2016), the Greek island of Syros is visited by a series of unexpected guests: immutable forms, outside of time, aloof observers of the human condition. These hovering guests are the Platonic Solids, named for the famed ancient Greek philosopher, Plato, who described them in the dialogue Timaeus as part of a higher level of reality.

Shot on location and featuring a hypnotic score, Xenoi scans the horizon of modern day Greece, a landscape at once timeless and jarringly contemporary. "Xenoi" is the plural of "xenos," an enigmatic word usually translated as "stranger" — but whether the stranger is friend or foe depends on context and interpretation. What do these geometric specters portend in a contemporary climate of consumerism and economic crisis?


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Comedy
 

7:30 PM, April 8



Gabriel Iglesias FluffyMania World Tour: 20 Years of Comedy

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

Celebrating his 20th year in standup comedy Gabriel Iglesias launches a new world comedy tour, which will include brand new material.

Gabriel Iglesias is one of America's most successful stand-up comedians performing to sold-out concerts around the world. Wrapping up his current #FluffyBreaksEven World Tour, the comedian has had the distinct honor of being one of the few to headline and sell-out Madison Square Garden and The Microsoft Theater. In the feature film arena Iglesias co-starred in both Magic Mike films and starred in the standup comedy concert film The Fluffy Movie. Iglesias has been cast in the upcoming 2017 animated films Smurfs: The Lost Village (Sony Animation), voicing the character "Jokey" and Ferdinand (20th Century Fox) voicing the character "Cuatro." He will also be reprising his role of "Jimmy" in the animated film The Nut Job 2 along with Will Arnett and Maya Rudolph.

Tickets available online at TicketMaster.


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Dance
 

6:00 PM, April 8



LeMoyne College Steppers Spring 2017
LeMoyne College

Price: $5
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Steppers use various creative mediums, including step routines, to help bring about a greater understanding and appreciation for diversity on campus and the surrounding community.


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Film
 

7:00 PM, April 8



BeatleCUSE 2017: 50th Anniversary of Sgt. Pepper
Palace Theatre

Price: $45
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Featuring the 50th anniversary performance of the entire Sgt. Ppepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, with the 30 piece "Summer of Love Orchestra" and "The Inner Light Indian Music Ensemble"

Special guests include Joey Molland of Badfinger and Mary Ramsey of 10,000 Maniacs.

Among the featured performers are SAMMY Hall of Famers Gary Frenay, Bob Halligan Jr., Ronnie Leigh, Doug Moncrief, Dave Novak, Dave Porter, and Fritz's Polka Band

For complete information, visit BeatleCUSE.com.


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Lecture
 

5:30 PM, April 8



Creative Conversations
Skaneateles Area Arts Council (SKARTS)
Featuring Frank Malfitano

Price: $30 (seating is limited)
Sherwood Inn
26 W. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Frank Malfitano, founder and executive producer of Syracuse Jazz Fest, will preview the upcoming season and discuss his inspirations, joys, and challenges at the festival's helm. The program starts with a reception featuring hors d'oeuvres and a complimentary glass of wine or beer. NewsChannel 9's Carrie Lazarus will moderate the discussion and take questions from the audience.

Tickets can be purchased at skarts.org. Attendance is limited; seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.


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Music
 

11:00 AM, April 8



Student Recital Series: Dylan Beckerman, cello
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Dylan Beckerman, a senior string performance major, will present a recital.

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


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2:00 PM, April 8



Student Recital Series: Sean Jordan, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Sean Jordan, a senior voice performance major, will present a recital.

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


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5:00 PM, April 8



Student Recital Series: Robert Dunlap, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Robert Dunlap, a graduate voice pedagogy student, will present a recital.

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


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7:30 PM, April 8



The Cadleys with John Dancks and Perry Cleaveland
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $15 suggested donation covers entertainment, dessert, coffee/tea
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

New acoustic/traditional roots.


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8:00 PM, April 8



Student Recital Series: Anna Bosler, conducting
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Anna Bosler, a graduate conducting student, will conduct a recital.

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


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8:00 PM, April 8



Benefit Concert for the WCC
Westcott Community Center

Price: $10
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Performers include Dana "Short Order" Cooke with Jeff and Judy Stanton, Larry Hoyt, and more.


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, April 8



Major Barbara
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

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

Major Barbara presents George Bernard Shaw at his provocative, powerful, and astonishingly funny best. Andrew Undershaft is a highly successful arms manufacturer. His estranged daughter Barbara has devoted her life to saving souls with the Salvation Army. When Andrew's wife and Barbara's mother, the formidable Lady Britomart, reunite father and daughter, she initiates a battle of wills and wits that has each convinced the other can be converted. Right, wrong, good, evil, moral, or immoral—it all gets turned topsy-turvy when Shaw sets his characters in motion.

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3:00 PM, April 8



How I Learned to Drive
Syracuse Stage
Laura Kepley, director

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

Buckle up. It's going to be a bumpy ride. Li'l Bit takes us on a no-holds-barred trip back in time to her adolescence in 1960s Maryland and her complicated relationship with an older man. A deeply compassionate look at how we are shaped by the people who hurt us, How I Learned to Drive masterfully veers in and out of personal memory and deftly traverses comedy, drama, and farce. Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. By Paula Vogel.

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7:00 PM, April 8



Salt City Magic Club
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $10 adults, $5 children under 10
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Our annual visit from the Salt City Magic Club.


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7:30 PM, April 8



Sunset Limited
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Tony Brown, director

Price: $20 premium, $15 regular, $12 students/seniors, $10 SU students/faculty/staff/alum
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Two souls of different color struggle to understand the meaning of life, death, and the battles that rage within each of us. This compelling new drama by Cormac McCarthy explores our limits and how unlimited we are when we act on our instincts. You will find the twists will turn you and the turns will twist you as you consider what can happen when something unexpected happens... How would you react?


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8:00 PM, April 8



How I Learned to Drive
Syracuse Stage
Laura Kepley, director

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

Buckle up. It's going to be a bumpy ride. Li'l Bit takes us on a no-holds-barred trip back in time to her adolescence in 1960s Maryland and her complicated relationship with an older man. A deeply compassionate look at how we are shaped by the people who hurt us, How I Learned to Drive masterfully veers in and out of personal memory and deftly traverses comedy, drama, and farce. Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. By Paula Vogel.

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8:00 PM, April 8



Major Barbara
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

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

Major Barbara presents George Bernard Shaw at his provocative, powerful, and astonishingly funny best. Andrew Undershaft is a highly successful arms manufacturer. His estranged daughter Barbara has devoted her life to saving souls with the Salvation Army. When Andrew's wife and Barbara's mother, the formidable Lady Britomart, reunite father and daughter, she initiates a battle of wills and wits that has each convinced the other can be converted. Right, wrong, good, evil, moral, or immoral—it all gets turned topsy-turvy when Shaw sets his characters in motion.

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Sunday, April 9, 2017


Art
 

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, April 9



Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 1999, artist Eric Gottesman began making portraits in Ethiopia of people with HIV. Because great stigma surrounds this disease, subjects did not allow him to photograph their faces. Over the next five years, Gottesman made these portraits of people with HIV anonymous by hiding and obscuring their faces and changing each sitter's name to protect their identity. A transcribed text from each sitter describing life with HIV in Ethiopia accompanies each image. In 2004, a woman with HIV allowed him to photograph her face for the first time and he knew the project was completed.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, April 9



George Awde: Scale Without Measure
Light Work Gallery

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

George Awde's photographic work explores themes of contemporary masculinity, the male body, homosociality, and notions of physical and psychological strength, as seen through young men with whom he identifies. The men and boys whom Awde has photographed over the last 10 years include migrants to Beirut from Syria. Many are now his close friends. Through years of contact, Awde has established close relationships allowing for an intimate portrayal of the everyday. His pictures explore the way that people interact with one another, and in them one senses a longing to belong. Awde's parents fled Lebanon in the conflicts leading to the 1970s Civil War in order to pursue their futures by coming to America. This informed Awde's perspective on the world and his place in it while growing up, and now informs his practice as an artist and teacher. As the global refugee crisis escalates, and the early executive orders of a new and contentious president attempt to aggressively block refugees from entering the United States, the themes of Awde's work are evermore present.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 9



Disappearing World: New Work by Phil Parsons and Ted Neal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The exhibition features work by Syracuse-area painter Phil Parsons and ceramics by Ted Neal of Muncie, IN. Parsons's work explores the decay in landscapes as a metaphor of the shifting of values in contemporary rural culture. Neal creates functional ceramic forms which imitate industrial objects in order to comment on consumer culture and its impact on the environment. "Disappearing World" encourages the viewer to meditate on the places we pass by and the objects we use and discard and what these say about the society for which we all are responsible.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 9



Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Resembling the clothing styles portrayed in the critically acclaimed PBS series, Downton Abbey, "Downton Comes Downtown" features men's, women's, and children's clothing worn by citizens of Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930.

Highlights include a maroon evening coat with a mink collar worn by Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes Hiscock to a State Dinner during the presidential administration of Herbert Hoover (1929-1933); a boy's brown wool suit with a vest and knickers purchased from the Peck-Vinney Company, a clothier located on South Salina Street, worn by young Milton Jones in the 1920s; and a black kimono with Japanese images worn by Mrs. Laura Crouse Durston aboard the Graf Zeppelin in 1930.

The exhibit is augmented by fashion accessories such as hats, shoes, and purses as well as period furniture from OHA's collection.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 9



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.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 9



Let’s Be Dragons: Wild Seeds
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Let's Be Dragons," the master of fine arts (M.F.A.) exhibition of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will be showing in four venues in Syracuse.

"Wild Seeds" features the artwork of nine emerging artists: Loren Bartnicke, Gang Chen, Owen Drysdale, Rachel Fein-Smolinski, Peter Smith, Shiwen Su, Chunlin Yang, Munjal Yagnik, and Chris Zacher. Organized by DJ Hellerman, curator of art and programs at the Everson Museum of Art, this spring marks the first campus and Syracuse city-wide celebration of the arts learned and practiced at Syracuse University.

Referencing Octavia E. Butler's 1980 science-fiction novel These Wild Seeds, the exhibition brings together a selection of artists interested in undermining or tinkering with superstructures designed to engineer social order and temper radical individuality. Altogether, the artists in "Wild Seeds" point and nudge our focus toward institutions with power and control. The works present questions about who has the agency to manipulate our subjectivity and they attempt to craft histories that open the possibility of forging against the currents of dominant culture. Decidedly, these artworks and art practices are acts of resistance and revision, often rejected or dismissed, that help us envision a future that is unlike our past.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 9



Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection" investigates how artists from the late 19th century until today have been captivated by the potential of landscape images and its ability to transport our imagination whether the locale be exotic or not. Curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, this display brings together historic albumen prints, travel albums, and contemporary black and white and color images from a variety of photographers working in the photographic medium over the past 120 years.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 9



Taking Flight: Richard Koppe's Works on Paper
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

American artist Richard Koppe's career exemplifies the interconnectedness of art, design, and engineering in the 20th and 21st centuries.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 9



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"21 Etchings and Poems," a landmark publication that had a profound impact on contemporary art and culture, will be presented in its entirety in the Print Study Room. Curated by Museum Studies graduate student Courtney Spencer Eppel, this exhibition presents 21 paired artists and authors to create unique works of art. The partnerships for this project included well-known artists and poets Peter Grippe and Dylan Thomas, Willem de Kooning and Harold Rosenberg, Letterio Calapai and William Carlos Williams, and Franz Kine and Frank O'Hara, among others.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 9



Hindsight: Four Alumni from the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Hindsight" examines the careers of four women who met during their time as students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University: Sarah Burda, Angela Early, Maggy Hiltner, and Jenny Kanzler.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 9



More Real, More a Dream
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Realism and abstraction are the two poles of painting in the 20th century. Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of abstract works from the 20th century to explore the wide variety of formal and compositional decisions artists make when depicting simplified forms, reductive shapes, gestural or precise lines, and selecting a color palette. Primarily comprised of paintings, a selection of sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, video, ceramics, and decorative arts objects are included to draw connections among the various media and approaches to both two and three-dimensional objects.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 9



de.structive dis.tillation: Works by Vanessa German
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Vanessa German uses paint, mixed media, sculpture, and performance to directly confront racism and violence in today's society. Based in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh, a neighborhood devastated by drugs and crime on a daily basis, German creates work in response to her life experiences.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 9



Bradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Dorsky Museum, in partnership with the Everson, is organizing the first retrospective and catalog of American painter Bradley Walker Tomlin (1899-1953) since 1975. This exhibition, including over 40 paintings, works on paper, and printed materials, charts Tomlin's development from art nouveau illustrations of the 1920s to large-scale Abstract Expressionist paintings of the 1950s. The exhibition explores his formative years in Syracuse, early patronage by Condé Nast, and the important role played by the Woodstock art colony. The exhibition originated at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz.

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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 9



Salt City Abstraction
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Salt City Abstraction features modern and contemporary abstract artists from the Everson's collection that have lived and worked in Central New York, including Juan Cruz, Robert De Niro Sr., Darryl Hughto, Margie Hughto, James Ridlon, Susan Roth, and many others.

Inspired by the museum's concurrent retrospective of Syracuse-born Bradley Walker Tomlin, Salt City Abstraction features the work of modern and contemporary artists that have lived or worked in Central New York. Whether born in the Salt City itself, attending or teaching at a local university or college, or simply choosing to settle in the area, each of the included artists has embraced variations of abstraction while working in their own particular styles and mediums. These 2- and 3-dimensional works drawn from the Everson's collection affirm the museum's longstanding commitment to celebrating regional talent alongside that of national artists, a tradition which extends to the museum's founding more than a century ago. This focused look at abstraction highlights the significant impact that Central New York artists have made to the history of art both local and beyond.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 9



A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The first exhibition in the Everson's new ceramics gallery, "A Century of Collecting" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Museum's first purchase of ceramics for the permanent collection in 1916. From that initial purchase of 32 works by distinguished Arts & Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the Everson has amassed a premier collection of more than 5000 ceramic pieces, dating from ancient times to the present day. This exhibition presents a survey of works made by key figures in modern and contemporary studio ceramics, tracing the Everson's role as a driving force in shaping attitudes about ceramics as a fine art medium.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 9



From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Haudenosaunee, a name referring to the alliance of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations, have rich artistic traditions. This exhibition features the work of five contemporary Haudenosaunee artists represented in the Everson's collection—Tom Huff, Ada Jacques, Peter B. Jones, Tammy Tarbell-Boehning, and Steve Smith—all of whom draw upon their cultural heritage and blend traditional artistic methods with modern techniques.


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12:00 PM - 2:00 AM, April 9



Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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


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Music
 

2:00 PM, April 9



Live! at The Everson: 19th-Century Instruments
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: $20 regular, students free with ID
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

David Kim, fortepiano, and Lauren Basney, violin, perform a program using 19th-century instruments, with music by Clara Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, and Robert Schumann.

OnCenter garage parking is $2.50 with CMM stamped ticket.


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2:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 9



Jazz on Tap: Cookie Coogan
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover
Finger Lakes On Tap
35 Fennell St., Skaneateles


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2:00 PM, April 9



Origins of Jazz Series: Jumpin' Jazz from Bebop to Fusion
Liverpool Public Library

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

Modern Jazz, with E.S.P.Jazz Trio (Matthew Vacanti, bass; John Magnante, guitar; Bill D'Agostino, drums)


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5:00 PM, April 9



Cabaret Series: Bobby Caldwell & The CNY Jazz Orchestra
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $30
Sheraton Syracuse University Grand Ballroom
801 University Ave., Syracuse

Bobby Caldwell, acclaimed song stylist and in-demand pop and RnB songwriter for Chicago, Boz Scaggs, Neil Diamond, Al Jarreau, Boyz II Men, Cee-Lo Green, and others, will be appear with the 16-piece CNY Jazz Orchestra.


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Opera
 

2:00 PM, April 9



Eugene Onegin
Syracuse Opera

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

Tchaikovsky's lyric opera Eugene Onegin is based on Pushkin's novel. Handsome and callus, Onegin brings heartbreak to those around him. Young Tatianna is humiliated by his recklessness and his best friend Lensky finds himself reaching for the dueling pistols. Tchaikovsky's passionate score holds nothing back.

Sung in Russian with English subtitles.

All attendees are invited to attend a free conductor pre-talk one hour prior to the performance.


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, April 9



Sunset Limited
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Tony Brown, director

Price: $20 premium, $15 regular, $12 students/seniors, $10 SU students/faculty/staff/alum
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Two souls of different color struggle to understand the meaning of life, death, and the battles that rage within each of us. This compelling new drama by Cormac McCarthy explores our limits and how unlimited we are when we act on our instincts. You will find the twists will turn you and the turns will twist you as you consider what can happen when something unexpected happens... How would you react?


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2:00 PM, April 9



How I Learned to Drive
Syracuse Stage
Laura Kepley, director

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

Buckle up. It's going to be a bumpy ride. Li'l Bit takes us on a no-holds-barred trip back in time to her adolescence in 1960s Maryland and her complicated relationship with an older man. A deeply compassionate look at how we are shaped by the people who hurt us, How I Learned to Drive masterfully veers in and out of personal memory and deftly traverses comedy, drama, and farce. Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. By Paula Vogel.

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2:00 PM, April 9



Major Barbara
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

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

Major Barbara presents George Bernard Shaw at his provocative, powerful, and astonishingly funny best. Andrew Undershaft is a highly successful arms manufacturer. His estranged daughter Barbara has devoted her life to saving souls with the Salvation Army. When Andrew's wife and Barbara's mother, the formidable Lady Britomart, reunite father and daughter, she initiates a battle of wills and wits that has each convinced the other can be converted. Right, wrong, good, evil, moral, or immoral—it all gets turned topsy-turvy when Shaw sets his characters in motion.

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7:00 PM, April 9



How I Learned to Drive
Syracuse Stage
Laura Kepley, director

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

Buckle up. It's going to be a bumpy ride. Li'l Bit takes us on a no-holds-barred trip back in time to her adolescence in 1960s Maryland and her complicated relationship with an older man. A deeply compassionate look at how we are shaped by the people who hurt us, How I Learned to Drive masterfully veers in and out of personal memory and deftly traverses comedy, drama, and farce. Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. By Paula Vogel.

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Monday, April 10, 2017


Art
 

8:00 AM - 2:00 AM, April 10



Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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


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8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 10



Internum Opera: Selected Works by Jason Cheney
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 10



The Wildlife and Nature Art of Tom Lenweaver
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 10



Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Curated by University Archivist Meg Mason, the exhibition explores the dramatic impact of the GI Bill and the subsequent influx of veterans on the Syracuse University campus following World War II (1945-1950). From the University Archives, the materials on view document this critical period in the University's history and the associated changes to the campus landscape, social and cultural life, and academic programs.

Materials on view include:
• photographs of temporary classrooms and housing for veterans, including old barracks and trailers, which filled the campus and surrounding areas;
• cartoons of veteran student life on campus;
• aerial shots of the main and south campuses showing changes in the landscape;
• personal items from veterans who attended Syracuse University, including a cheerleading megaphone, a postcard about arriving at Syracuse, and photographs of the inside of one of the trailers used as married student housing;
• Daily Orange articles about the impact of veterans on campus.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, April 10



George Awde: Scale Without Measure
Light Work Gallery

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

George Awde's photographic work explores themes of contemporary masculinity, the male body, homosociality, and notions of physical and psychological strength, as seen through young men with whom he identifies. The men and boys whom Awde has photographed over the last 10 years include migrants to Beirut from Syria. Many are now his close friends. Through years of contact, Awde has established close relationships allowing for an intimate portrayal of the everyday. His pictures explore the way that people interact with one another, and in them one senses a longing to belong. Awde's parents fled Lebanon in the conflicts leading to the 1970s Civil War in order to pursue their futures by coming to America. This informed Awde's perspective on the world and his place in it while growing up, and now informs his practice as an artist and teacher. As the global refugee crisis escalates, and the early executive orders of a new and contentious president attempt to aggressively block refugees from entering the United States, the themes of Awde's work are evermore present.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, April 10



Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 1999, artist Eric Gottesman began making portraits in Ethiopia of people with HIV. Because great stigma surrounds this disease, subjects did not allow him to photograph their faces. Over the next five years, Gottesman made these portraits of people with HIV anonymous by hiding and obscuring their faces and changing each sitter's name to protect their identity. A transcribed text from each sitter describing life with HIV in Ethiopia accompanies each image. In 2004, a woman with HIV allowed him to photograph her face for the first time and he knew the project was completed.


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Film
 

7:30 PM, April 10



Can't Help Singing (1944)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Frank Ryan
Cast: Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, David Bruce, Ray Collins, Akim Tamiroff, Leonid Kinskey, Thomas Gomez

Deanna's only Technicolor film is a fun musical set in the days of the California Gold Rush, featuring stunning cinematography and a tuneful score by Jerome Kern and E.Y. Harburg.


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Music
 

7:00 PM, April 10



CNY Brass Bash
Syracuse University Brass Ensemble
James T. Spencer, conductor

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SUBE will perform alongside other area scholastic and collegiate ensembles.


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Tuesday, April 11, 2017


Art
 

8:00 AM - 2:00 AM, April 11



Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

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


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8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 11



Internum Opera: Selected Works by Jason Cheney
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 11



The Wildlife and Nature Art of Tom Lenweaver
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 11



Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Curated by University Archivist Meg Mason, the exhibition explores the dramatic impact of the GI Bill and the subsequent influx of veterans on the Syracuse University campus following World War II (1945-1950). From the University Archives, the materials on view document this critical period in the University's history and the associated changes to the campus landscape, social and cultural life, and academic programs.

Materials on view include:
• photographs of temporary classrooms and housing for veterans, including old barracks and trailers, which filled the campus and surrounding areas;
• cartoons of veteran student life on campus;
• aerial shots of the main and south campuses showing changes in the landscape;
• personal items from veterans who attended Syracuse University, including a cheerleading megaphone, a postcard about arriving at Syracuse, and photographs of the inside of one of the trailers used as married student housing;
• Daily Orange articles about the impact of veterans on campus.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 11



Let's Be Dragons: Strangers in a Strange Land
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Let's Be Dragons," the master of fine arts (M.F.A.) exhibition of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will be showing in four venues in Syracuse.

"Let's Be Dragons: Strangers in a Strange Land" will be an experiment in diverse environments. Each artist will create immersive artworks through different mediums that include prints, sculpture and film. Artists exhibiting are Justin Hill, Maria Spiess, Landon Perkins, Taro Takizawa, Adam Devkota, Ioana Turcan, and Dontato Rossi.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, April 11



George Awde: Scale Without Measure
Light Work Gallery

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

George Awde's photographic work explores themes of contemporary masculinity, the male body, homosociality, and notions of physical and psychological strength, as seen through young men with whom he identifies. The men and boys whom Awde has photographed over the last 10 years include migrants to Beirut from Syria. Many are now his close friends. Through years of contact, Awde has established close relationships allowing for an intimate portrayal of the everyday. His pictures explore the way that people interact with one another, and in them one senses a longing to belong. Awde's parents fled Lebanon in the conflicts leading to the 1970s Civil War in order to pursue their futures by coming to America. This informed Awde's perspective on the world and his place in it while growing up, and now informs his practice as an artist and teacher. As the global refugee crisis escalates, and the early executive orders of a new and contentious president attempt to aggressively block refugees from entering the United States, the themes of Awde's work are evermore present.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, April 11



Eric Gottesman: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food (Ka Fitfitu Feetu)
Light Work Gallery

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

In 1999, artist Eric Gottesman began making portraits in Ethiopia of people with HIV. Because great stigma surrounds this disease, subjects did not allow him to photograph their faces. Over the next five years, Gottesman made these portraits of people with HIV anonymous by hiding and obscuring their faces and changing each sitter's name to protect their identity. A transcribed text from each sitter describing life with HIV in Ethiopia accompanies each image. In 2004, a woman with HIV allowed him to photograph her face for the first time and he knew the project was completed.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 11



Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection" investigates how artists from the late 19th century until today have been captivated by the potential of landscape images and its ability to transport our imagination whether the locale be exotic or not. Curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, this display brings together historic albumen prints, travel albums, and contemporary black and white and color images from a variety of photographers working in the photographic medium over the past 120 years.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 11



Let’s Be Dragons: Wild Seeds
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Let's Be Dragons," the master of fine arts (M.F.A.) exhibition of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will be showing in four venues in Syracuse.

"Wild Seeds" features the artwork of nine emerging artists: Loren Bartnicke, Gang Chen, Owen Drysdale, Rachel Fein-Smolinski, Peter Smith, Shiwen Su, Chunlin Yang, Munjal Yagnik, and Chris Zacher. Organized by DJ Hellerman, curator of art and programs at the Everson Museum of Art, this spring marks the first campus and Syracuse city-wide celebration of the arts learned and practiced at Syracuse University.

Referencing Octavia E. Butler's 1980 science-fiction novel These Wild Seeds, the exhibition brings together a selection of artists interested in undermining or tinkering with superstructures designed to engineer social order and temper radical individuality. Altogether, the artists in "Wild Seeds" point and nudge our focus toward institutions with power and control. The works present questions about who has the agency to manipulate our subjectivity and they attempt to craft histories that open the possibility of forging against the currents of dominant culture. Decidedly, these artworks and art practices are acts of resistance and revision, often rejected or dismissed, that help us envision a future that is unlike our past.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 11



Hindsight: Four Alumni from the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Hindsight" examines the careers of four women who met during their time as students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University: Sarah Burda, Angela Early, Maggy Hiltner, and Jenny Kanzler.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 11



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"21 Etchings and Poems," a landmark publication that had a profound impact on contemporary art and culture, will be presented in its entirety in the Print Study Room. Curated by Museum Studies graduate student Courtney Spencer Eppel, this exhibition presents 21 paired artists and authors to create unique works of art. The partnerships for this project included well-known artists and poets Peter Grippe and Dylan Thomas, Willem de Kooning and Harold Rosenberg, Letterio Calapai and William Carlos Williams, and Franz Kine and Frank O'Hara, among others.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, April 11



Taking Flight: Richard Koppe's Works on Paper
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

American artist Richard Koppe's career exemplifies the interconnectedness of art, design, and engineering in the 20th and 21st centuries.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 11



Let's Be Dragons: Serpents Inside
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Let's Be Dragons: Serpents Inside," part of the annual exhibition of the Master of Fine Art thesis candidates from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, features the artwork of six emerging artists Zhongwen (Lisa) Hu, Courtney Asztalos, Evan Deuitch, Todd Irwin Francis Lauther, Ssu Ya Hsiung, and Chelsea Jones. Through their presentations, a variety of themes and media including painting, photography, ceramics, video art, illustration, and site-specific installations, will be explored.

Serpents Inside brings together artists expressing and grappling with existential questions of identity and self-exploration. Each artist reframes the physical and mental, the public and private, and the performance of identity exploration.

Chelsea Jones's self-portraiture project uses her hair, common hair processing techniques, and cosmetic routines as racial signifiers to come to terms with the implications of being a biracial woman. Courtney Asztalos' installation focuses on the physical presence of women within an architectural space designed as a utopia to exploit our wildest fantasies where financial victory may be just one slot away. Todd Irwin Francis Lauther's lyrical photographs capture a young man's thoughtful response to his desire for fatherhood and a sensitive negotiation of the societal pressure placed upon men to create a family. With painting and performance Ssu Ya Hsiung and Zhongwen Hu use childhood memories, both absurd and surreal, to depict psychological loneliness, vulnerability, and physical isolation from the outside world. Evan Deuitch's investigation of the online subculture of hybrid human/animal characters known as the furry fandom brings together fantastical imagination with hedonistic pleasure. His character driven self-portraits address identity construction, obsession, and role playing.

Together, Serpents Inside, offers a palpable sense of the vulnerability, self-doubt, pleasure and pain that often accompany an inward searching.


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Lecture
 

7:30 PM, April 11



The Art of the Score
LeMoyne College

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

Described by film critic Leonard Maltin as "The Top of the line of film pianists," veteran silent film composer Donald Sosin will be joined by vocalist Joanna Seaton for an evening of silent film and live music.

The evening will include a screening of Buster Keaton's One Week with live music, opportunities for audience interaction, and a Q&A with the artists.


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Music
 

7:00 PM, April 11



20th Annual Jumpin' Jazz Jam
Liverpool High School
Featuring Sherrie Maricle & the DIVA Jazz Orchestra

Price: $10
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

The Liverpool Honors Middle School Jazz Band, LHS Stage Band, and LHS Jazz Ensemble will also perform.

The Jumpin' Jazz Jam promises to be an exciting evening of music making and jazz at a great cost. Food and drink will be available. Help us celebrate our 20th Anniversary with a night of great jazz!

Tickets available here.


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Poetry/Reading
 

7:00 PM, April 11



Only Poetry Could Have Brought Me Here
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $10
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Featuring Signature MiMi and special guests Marco Soulo, Maxx Hill and Sean Delpha, "Only Poetry Could Have Brought Me Here" is a collection of original "peaces" written by Signature MiMi. Self-released in 2014, the poetic project is ever-evolving and still reflects on truths relevant to the creative expressionista's life then and now. MiMi speaks about adversity, perseverance, self-exploration, and the beauty found within. She shares about loss and feeling nomadic. She confronts a green antagonist and challenges the perception of enforced societal standards. Her cadence and soulful presence ignites voices to speak up and provokes Beings to cultivate action. Join MiMi and guest poets as they bring "Only Poetry Could Have Brought Me Here" to life for a special 3-year anniversary show and poetic offering.


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