Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Machines
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibit of artworks exploring the human species love of mechanical, technical, and electronic implements.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Contemporary Ceramics: SU Faculty and Students
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Works by faculty members Peter Beasecker, Margie Hughto, Jee Eun Lee, David MacDonald, and Errol Willett, and students Chelsey Albert, Nora Arrieta, Klaus Doelle, Brion Hardink, Adam Jennett, Kwan Jeong, Sunyoung Lee, and Alberto Veronica.

Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."

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2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.

Gideon Barnett: After Edith
Light Work Gallery

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

Gideon Barnett's exhibition "After Edith" brings together a collection of images that he produced by documenting vandalized photography books found in public libraries. The project began in Miami, FL, with the discovery of a copy of Emmet Gowin's Photographs in which the iconic nude portraits of Gowin's wife Edith had been defaced by prurient library visitors. Parts of the images had been cut with a razor blade and, in some instances, entirely torn out of the book. This deliberate removal of "provocative" imagery and the psychology of what may have sparked such an act fascinated Barnett, and prompted a closer look at the visual byproducts—the way in which the cuts open through to another image, for example, or how the tearing of a page can create a compelling juxtaposition of photographs. The vandalized images are unquestionably elegant and beautiful when taken out of context and framed on the wall, yet all together Barnett's photographs also point to a disconcerting fearful, destructive, or even violent intention behind them.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.

Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.

The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.

Joy, Beauty & Wonder
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A companion community exhibition to "Three Graces: Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher, and Carrie Moyer," "Joy, Beauty & Wonder" is the result of a call to photographers of all ages to share their original photographs expressing the themes of joy, beauty and wonder. Themes are drawn from the exhibition Three Graces. Participants shared their photographs on social media using the hashtags #3GracesJoy, #3GracesBeauty or #3GracesWonder. All submissions were reviewed by a panel of professional artists and a selection will be on display at the Everson Museum.

Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition represents an overview of the portraiture genre for over three centuries, examining how artists have portrayed themselves and others within different contexts and in a variety of media and styles. From 19th-century painted miniatures to contemporary color photographs, these portraits drawn from the Everson collection depict a heterogeneous cast of characters both remembered and forgotten, lauded and reviled. Stretching the conventions of the genre, the exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol, William Wegman and others as well as more traditional portrait paintings by artists such as Cecelia Beaux and Gilbert Stuart.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 42nd annual On My Own Time exhibit connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors.

On My Own Time highlights original works of visual art created by local employees in a variety of professions who are also amateur artists. Each participating company held its own on-site exhibitions this past spring. This year, 171 artists submitted 370 pieces in a wide range of media. Volunteers who work professionally in different arts fields selected 60 pieces to be included in this grand finale exhibition.

He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to be Hoary (2013)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, drew from footage obtained while shooting their award-winning movie Leviathan (2012) to create this film. The mesmerizing and haunting footage, filmed both in and from the ocean and projected at 1/50 of the speed at which it was recorded, shows the sea to be a vast and watery expanse full of slow-moving, unidentifiable forms.

Three Graces
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Three Graces were known in ancient mythology as enchanting goddesses who personified the primary attributes of creativity: Beauty, Wonder and Joy. In a recasting of this mythical triumvirate, the Everson introduces three contemporary artists from New York – Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher and Carrie Moyer – whose spectacular abstract works embody these qualities. More than just a typical exhibition, Three Graces is also a revelatory experience, as the artists have created new works inspired by pieces from the Museum's collection, which are also included. From Moyer's biomorphic paintings, to Apfelbaum's playful textiles, and Feher's magical installations, Three Graces connects the past and present through beauty, wonder, and joy.

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Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Our gallery-wide collective explores the vital role of the national pastime, baseball, in the life of our Latino communities. A stunning collection of artifacts, photography, and video relate stories about local heroes who inspire us all. The project was documented by La Casita's community outreach team, Luz Encarnacion and Herve Yves Comeau, in close collaboration with Syracuse-based photojournalist and videographer from Puerto Rico, Marilú López Fretts.

Continuum
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Continuum" tells the story of Point of Contact's journey over the last 40 years through the lens of its permanent art collection. Many of the pieces included in the exhibition have been created specifically for Point of Contact publications and exhibitions and provide a unique perspective on the evolution of the organization. Including artists such as Judy Pfaff, Nam June Paik, Liliana Porter, and Gregory Crewdson, the collection tends to blur visual and verbal, geographic and cross-cultural boundaries, evolving year-after-year, advancing an essential discussion about contemporary art. By revisiting its past, Point of Contact looks toward its future, refining its vision and turning each new encounter into an experimentation with unlimited insights.

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Lunchtime Lecture: Hard Earned -- The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Sgt. Stacy Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, author, educator, military consultant, and public speaker. Join exhibition curator Theresa Moir as she discusses Pearsall's stunning combat photographs as well as selected images from the artist's Veteran's Portrait Project.

Jazz at the Plaza: Dave Solazzo
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Gayle Ross, soprano; Phil Eisenman, bass-baritone; Gerald Zampino, clarinet; Maryna Mazhukhova, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Music of Mozart, Schubert, Strauss, Rossini, Ives, Quilter, and Verdi.

Stone Foxes, with Basket(s) and Gravina
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Mary Karr
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

The reading will be preceded by a Q&A session at 3:45 pm.

The Underpants
Syracuse Stage
Bill Fennelly, director

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

A guffaw-inducing comedy from the wild and crazy mind of the incomparable Steve Martin. Dusseldorf, 1910. A very public wardrobe malfunction (a young woman's underpants fall down at a parade—for the King!) becomes the talk of the town in this ribald update of an uproarious German farce. (Yes, there is such a thing.) Chock-full of sexual innuendo, verbal jousting, and non-stop laughter, The Underpants skewers the absurdity of instant fame. Das ist funny!

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Medea
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $25 members, $30 non-members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Set to songs, sounds and visuals of 1950s America, this bygone era brings new life to the classic Greek tragedy. In her picture-perfect neighborhood, Medea is the ideal housewife and mother. Armed with a delectable, homemade pie in one hand and a deadly kitchen knife in the other, Medea exacts revenge against her cheating husband in a most calculated and maniacal fashion.

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The Underpants
Syracuse Stage
Bill Fennelly, director

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

A guffaw-inducing comedy from the wild and crazy mind of the incomparable Steve Martin. Dusseldorf, 1910. A very public wardrobe malfunction (a young woman's underpants fall down at a parade—for the King!) becomes the talk of the town in this ribald update of an uproarious German farce. (Yes, there is such a thing.) Chock-full of sexual innuendo, verbal jousting, and non-stop laughter, The Underpants skewers the absurdity of instant fame. Das ist funny!

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Thursday, November 5, 2015

Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Drawing on Talent: Members Art Show
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

Machines
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibit of artworks exploring the human species love of mechanical, technical, and electronic implements.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Contemporary Ceramics: SU Faculty and Students
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Works by faculty members Peter Beasecker, Margie Hughto, Jee Eun Lee, David MacDonald, and Errol Willett, and students Chelsey Albert, Nora Arrieta, Klaus Doelle, Brion Hardink, Adam Jennett, Kwan Jeong, Sunyoung Lee, and Alberto Veronica.

Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."

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Gideon Barnett: After Edith
Light Work Gallery

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

Gideon Barnett's exhibition "After Edith" brings together a collection of images that he produced by documenting vandalized photography books found in public libraries. The project began in Miami, FL, with the discovery of a copy of Emmet Gowin's Photographs in which the iconic nude portraits of Gowin's wife Edith had been defaced by prurient library visitors. Parts of the images had been cut with a razor blade and, in some instances, entirely torn out of the book. This deliberate removal of "provocative" imagery and the psychology of what may have sparked such an act fascinated Barnett, and prompted a closer look at the visual byproducts—the way in which the cuts open through to another image, for example, or how the tearing of a page can create a compelling juxtaposition of photographs. The vandalized images are unquestionably elegant and beautiful when taken out of context and framed on the wall, yet all together Barnett's photographs also point to a disconcerting fearful, destructive, or even violent intention behind them.

2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.

James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.

The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.

Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.

Three Graces
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Three Graces were known in ancient mythology as enchanting goddesses who personified the primary attributes of creativity: Beauty, Wonder and Joy. In a recasting of this mythical triumvirate, the Everson introduces three contemporary artists from New York – Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher and Carrie Moyer – whose spectacular abstract works embody these qualities. More than just a typical exhibition, Three Graces is also a revelatory experience, as the artists have created new works inspired by pieces from the Museum's collection, which are also included. From Moyer's biomorphic paintings, to Apfelbaum's playful textiles, and Feher's magical installations, Three Graces connects the past and present through beauty, wonder, and joy.

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He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to be Hoary (2013)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, drew from footage obtained while shooting their award-winning movie Leviathan (2012) to create this film. The mesmerizing and haunting footage, filmed both in and from the ocean and projected at 1/50 of the speed at which it was recorded, shows the sea to be a vast and watery expanse full of slow-moving, unidentifiable forms.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 42nd annual On My Own Time exhibit connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors.

On My Own Time highlights original works of visual art created by local employees in a variety of professions who are also amateur artists. Each participating company held its own on-site exhibitions this past spring. This year, 171 artists submitted 370 pieces in a wide range of media. Volunteers who work professionally in different arts fields selected 60 pieces to be included in this grand finale exhibition.

Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition represents an overview of the portraiture genre for over three centuries, examining how artists have portrayed themselves and others within different contexts and in a variety of media and styles. From 19th-century painted miniatures to contemporary color photographs, these portraits drawn from the Everson collection depict a heterogeneous cast of characters both remembered and forgotten, lauded and reviled. Stretching the conventions of the genre, the exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol, William Wegman and others as well as more traditional portrait paintings by artists such as Cecelia Beaux and Gilbert Stuart.

Joy, Beauty & Wonder
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A companion community exhibition to "Three Graces: Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher, and Carrie Moyer," "Joy, Beauty & Wonder" is the result of a call to photographers of all ages to share their original photographs expressing the themes of joy, beauty and wonder. Themes are drawn from the exhibition Three Graces. Participants shared their photographs on social media using the hashtags #3GracesJoy, #3GracesBeauty or #3GracesWonder. All submissions were reviewed by a panel of professional artists and a selection will be on display at the Everson Museum.

Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Our gallery-wide collective explores the vital role of the national pastime, baseball, in the life of our Latino communities. A stunning collection of artifacts, photography, and video relate stories about local heroes who inspire us all. The project was documented by La Casita's community outreach team, Luz Encarnacion and Herve Yves Comeau, in close collaboration with Syracuse-based photojournalist and videographer from Puerto Rico, Marilú López Fretts.

Continuum
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Continuum" tells the story of Point of Contact's journey over the last 40 years through the lens of its permanent art collection. Many of the pieces included in the exhibition have been created specifically for Point of Contact publications and exhibitions and provide a unique perspective on the evolution of the organization. Including artists such as Judy Pfaff, Nam June Paik, Liliana Porter, and Gregory Crewdson, the collection tends to blur visual and verbal, geographic and cross-cultural boundaries, evolving year-after-year, advancing an essential discussion about contemporary art. By revisiting its past, Point of Contact looks toward its future, refining its vision and turning each new encounter into an experimentation with unlimited insights.

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Anathema
Urban Video Project

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

"Anathema" (2011), by The Otolith Group, reimagines the microscopic behavior of liquid crystals undergoing turbulence as a sentient entity that possesses the fingertips and the eyes enthralled by the LCD touch-screen. "Anathema" can be understood as an object-oriented video that isolates and recombines the magical gestures of dream factory capitalism. "Anathema" proposes itself as a prototype for a counter-spell assembled from the possible worlds of capitalist sorcery.

"What If ...?" Film Series: The Homestretch
Rosamond Gifford Foundation

Price: Free
Weiskotten Hall, SUNY Upstate
766 Irving Ave., Syracuse

November is National Youth Homelessness Month. In partnership with the Syracuse/Onondaga County Youth Bureau Department of Children and Family Services, the Gifford Foundation "What If…" Film Series presents this award-winning film about youth homelessness.

"The Homestretch" follows three homeless teens as they fight to stay in school, graduate, and build a future. Each of these resilient, inspiring teenagers will surprise and challenge audiences to rethink stereotypes of homelessness as they work to complete their education while facing the trauma of being alone and abandoned at an early age.

Through haunting images, intimate scenes, and first-person narratives, these teens take us on their journeys of struggle and triumph. As their stories unfold, the film connects us deeply with larger issues of poverty, race, juvenile justice, immigration, foster care, and LGBTQ rights.

Sean Jefferson & Gigantosaurus Rex, with Special Guest Daniel Bennett
LeMoyne College

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Come experience Sean Jefferson & Gigantosaurus Rex with special guest, saxophonist Daniel Bennett. This powerhouse band brings a two-fisted sound that blends minimalist funk with jazz while "challenging conventions by pursuing unpredictable paths, creating a body of work that ignites the senses." (JazzChill) Sean's music has been described as "a tightrope between high-brow experimentalism and metropolitan cool." (JazzTimes)

Walden, with Jason Bean
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $8 in advance, $10 at the door
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Come out for a night of local original music with Walden, featuring special guest Jason Bean. Beer, wine and other refreshments will be served.

Ensemble Series: Contemporary Music Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Stephen Ferre, conductor

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 re-directed. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Jackal, with Stone Sound, Sudden Death and Captain Munch
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Politics, Ethics, and Rhetoric of Networks: a Reading by Poets Martha Collins and Minnie Bruce Pratt
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Martha Collins's eighth book of poems, Admit One: An American Scrapbook, will be published by Pittsburgh in early 2016. She is also the author of Day Unto Day (Milkweed, 2014), White Papers (Pitt Poetry Series, 2012), and Blue Front (Graywolf, 2006). Her many awards and honors include fellowships from the NEA, the Bunting Institute, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Witter Bynner Foundation, as well as three Pushcart Prizes and the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award. She is editor-at-large for FIELD magazine and an editor for the Oberlin College Press.

Minnie Bruce Pratt is widely acknowledged as a poet, essayist, activist, lesbian-feminist, and educator. Her many collections of poems includes the critically acclaimed Crime against Nature, winner of the 1989 Lamont Poetry award as well as the Gay and Lesbian Book Award from the American Library Association. Pratt's most recent book of poems is Inside the Money Machine (Carolina Wren Press, 2011). She is also the author of several collections of essays, including Rebellion: Essays, 1980-1991. Pratt teaches at Syracuse University, where she is Professor of Women's & Gender Studies and Writing & Rhetoric, and also serves as faculty for a developing Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Studies Program.

A Tomb With A View
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $34.75 (includes meal, show, tax and gratuities)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

The megacorporation Arrested Developments has come to the old Possum Estate, sight of the tragic mining disaster oh, so many years ago, with the desire to turn it into a shopping mall. This has caused great concern among those living on (and below) the estate. In fact, the zombie descendants of the miners trapped in the disaster have hired a lawyer and plan a class-action lawsuit. The local newspaper is going to have a field day with this one. Gather around, good townsfolk, and let the battle begin!

Medea
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $25 members, $30 non-members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Set to songs, sounds and visuals of 1950s America, this bygone era brings new life to the classic Greek tragedy. In her picture-perfect neighborhood, Medea is the ideal housewife and mother. Armed with a delectable, homemade pie in one hand and a deadly kitchen knife in the other, Medea exacts revenge against her cheating husband in a most calculated and maniacal fashion.

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The Underpants
Syracuse Stage
Bill Fennelly, director

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

A guffaw-inducing comedy from the wild and crazy mind of the incomparable Steve Martin. Dusseldorf, 1910. A very public wardrobe malfunction (a young woman's underpants fall down at a parade—for the King!) becomes the talk of the town in this ribald update of an uproarious German farce. (Yes, there is such a thing.) Chock-full of sexual innuendo, verbal jousting, and non-stop laughter, The Underpants skewers the absurdity of instant fame. Das ist funny!

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Friday, November 6, 2015

Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Drawing on Talent: Members Art Show
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

Machines
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibit of artworks exploring the human species love of mechanical, technical, and electronic implements.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Contemporary Ceramics: SU Faculty and Students
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Works by faculty members Peter Beasecker, Margie Hughto, Jee Eun Lee, David MacDonald, and Errol Willett, and students Chelsey Albert, Nora Arrieta, Klaus Doelle, Brion Hardink, Adam Jennett, Kwan Jeong, Sunyoung Lee, and Alberto Veronica.

Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."

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Mandala Paintings by Ken Nichols
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm. Ken Nichols will be on hand to discuss his mandala paintings. There will be music by Christopher Molloy and his electric blue harp. Light refreshments.

This event is held in conjunction with Skaneateles First Friday art celebration.

Ken's paintings represent Universal Energy with each color, shape, stroke and placement predicated upon the one before it. This is what you see if you go beyond electrons and quarks. His paintings paint themselves, Ken wants people to look at his paintings and see paintings within paintings within paintings. He wants positive energy to come out of looking at his work. His paintings are not planned, they happen. Ken calls his style Decorative Energist.

Gideon Barnett: After Edith
Light Work Gallery

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

Gideon Barnett's exhibition "After Edith" brings together a collection of images that he produced by documenting vandalized photography books found in public libraries. The project began in Miami, FL, with the discovery of a copy of Emmet Gowin's Photographs in which the iconic nude portraits of Gowin's wife Edith had been defaced by prurient library visitors. Parts of the images had been cut with a razor blade and, in some instances, entirely torn out of the book. This deliberate removal of "provocative" imagery and the psychology of what may have sparked such an act fascinated Barnett, and prompted a closer look at the visual byproducts—the way in which the cuts open through to another image, for example, or how the tearing of a page can create a compelling juxtaposition of photographs. The vandalized images are unquestionably elegant and beautiful when taken out of context and framed on the wall, yet all together Barnett's photographs also point to a disconcerting fearful, destructive, or even violent intention behind them.

2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.

Annual Holiday Festival of Crafts
Rochester Folk Art Guild

Price: Free
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

The Folk Art Guild has been making fine handicrafts for over 50 years, supporting locally sourced materials and makers with traditions in clay, wood and textiles. The shelves will be full of unique handmade items including turned bowls, natural fibers and clothing, folk toys and artisanal pottery. Visitors will be entertained with live music and demonstrations by the artists themselves.

The Guild artisans have been working diligently throughout the year to bring you the some of the best folk crafts. Revel in the beautiful patterns of end grain cutting boards. Hand carved kitchen wares, including spoons and salad servers will also be available over the course of the weekend. The woodworking display is enhanced by an impressive collection of oriental rugs from Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and Iran.

Peruse the new wood-fired ceramics from the Folk Art Guild potters. A true labor of love, these pots were fired for over 24 hours with locally harvested wood, and constant attention. Toasty reds and oranges dance on the surface of these wares as evidence of flame and ash. Brilliant and colorful glazes liven the teapots and berry bowls, and as always you can find the traditional leaf ware with native plants from the Finger Lakes region.

The Weavers are preparing a wardrobe to keep you warm this season, including colorful ponchos, shawls, and scarves. Weaving row by row on beautiful wooden looms, the artists work with merino wool, bamboo, alpaca, silk and cotton.

In addition to crafts, the Guild will once again present an array of books, including a variety of children's books, as well as myriad books on spirituality, art, and of course, cooking.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

61st Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 4:00-7:00 pm.

Unique art handcrafted by over 45 local artists — paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass.

For more information and complete list of artists, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.

Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.

The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.

Three Graces
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Three Graces were known in ancient mythology as enchanting goddesses who personified the primary attributes of creativity: Beauty, Wonder and Joy. In a recasting of this mythical triumvirate, the Everson introduces three contemporary artists from New York – Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher and Carrie Moyer – whose spectacular abstract works embody these qualities. More than just a typical exhibition, Three Graces is also a revelatory experience, as the artists have created new works inspired by pieces from the Museum's collection, which are also included. From Moyer's biomorphic paintings, to Apfelbaum's playful textiles, and Feher's magical installations, Three Graces connects the past and present through beauty, wonder, and joy.

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On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 42nd annual On My Own Time exhibit connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors.

On My Own Time highlights original works of visual art created by local employees in a variety of professions who are also amateur artists. Each participating company held its own on-site exhibitions this past spring. This year, 171 artists submitted 370 pieces in a wide range of media. Volunteers who work professionally in different arts fields selected 60 pieces to be included in this grand finale exhibition.

Joy, Beauty & Wonder
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A companion community exhibition to "Three Graces: Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher, and Carrie Moyer," "Joy, Beauty & Wonder" is the result of a call to photographers of all ages to share their original photographs expressing the themes of joy, beauty and wonder. Themes are drawn from the exhibition Three Graces. Participants shared their photographs on social media using the hashtags #3GracesJoy, #3GracesBeauty or #3GracesWonder. All submissions were reviewed by a panel of professional artists and a selection will be on display at the Everson Museum.

Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition represents an overview of the portraiture genre for over three centuries, examining how artists have portrayed themselves and others within different contexts and in a variety of media and styles. From 19th-century painted miniatures to contemporary color photographs, these portraits drawn from the Everson collection depict a heterogeneous cast of characters both remembered and forgotten, lauded and reviled. Stretching the conventions of the genre, the exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol, William Wegman and others as well as more traditional portrait paintings by artists such as Cecelia Beaux and Gilbert Stuart.

He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to be Hoary (2013)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, drew from footage obtained while shooting their award-winning movie Leviathan (2012) to create this film. The mesmerizing and haunting footage, filmed both in and from the ocean and projected at 1/50 of the speed at which it was recorded, shows the sea to be a vast and watery expanse full of slow-moving, unidentifiable forms.

Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Our gallery-wide collective explores the vital role of the national pastime, baseball, in the life of our Latino communities. A stunning collection of artifacts, photography, and video relate stories about local heroes who inspire us all. The project was documented by La Casita's community outreach team, Luz Encarnacion and Herve Yves Comeau, in close collaboration with Syracuse-based photojournalist and videographer from Puerto Rico, Marilú López Fretts.

Continuum
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Continuum" tells the story of Point of Contact's journey over the last 40 years through the lens of its permanent art collection. Many of the pieces included in the exhibition have been created specifically for Point of Contact publications and exhibitions and provide a unique perspective on the evolution of the organization. Including artists such as Judy Pfaff, Nam June Paik, Liliana Porter, and Gregory Crewdson, the collection tends to blur visual and verbal, geographic and cross-cultural boundaries, evolving year-after-year, advancing an essential discussion about contemporary art. By revisiting its past, Point of Contact looks toward its future, refining its vision and turning each new encounter into an experimentation with unlimited insights.

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Delavan Center Open Studios and Holiday Sale

Price: Free
Delavan Studios
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Dozens of artists and business owners at the Delavan Center open their doors for open studio event. For complete list of participating artists and more information, visit delavancenter.com.

Anathema
Urban Video Project

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

"Anathema" (2011), by The Otolith Group, reimagines the microscopic behavior of liquid crystals undergoing turbulence as a sentient entity that possesses the fingertips and the eyes enthralled by the LCD touch-screen. "Anathema" can be understood as an object-oriented video that isolates and recombines the magical gestures of dream factory capitalism. "Anathema" proposes itself as a prototype for a counter-spell assembled from the possible worlds of capitalist sorcery.

First Friday Glassblowing Demonstration
Snake Oil Glassworks

Price: Free
Snake Oil Glassworks
4251 Jordan Rd., Skaneateles

At Snake Oil Glassworks, Lorraine and her hot shop assistants will be making Christmas balls and glass fir trees in honor of the unofficial start of the holiday season. We will have some snacks and drinks for our guests, and the hot shop will be open for you to come in from the cold, browse around, and watch our crew create holiday treats in many different colors, shapes, and sizes.

This event is held in conjunction with Skaneateles First Friday art celebration.

Cuse Comedy Showcase
Central New York Playhouse
Featuring Paul Landwehr

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

The Cuse Comedy Showcase is proud to host the return of the Pink Collar Comedy Tour.

Comedian Brian Regan

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

Comedian Brian Regan announces summer and fall dates in his 10-year, non-stop theater tour.

Regan was seen in the Chris Rock movie, Top Five, and he was nominated for a 2014 American Comedy Award for Best Concert Comic. In February 2014, Regan performed two sold-out shows at the 12,500-seat EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City, and in August of 2013, Regan sold out the legendary, 8600-seat Red Rocks Amphitheater outside of Denver. One of the most respected comedians in the country, Regan has earned the praise of the press, the public, and fellow comedians.

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

NYS Baroque
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Passion Band: Featuring Kristian Stanfill
CNY Crossroads

Price: $18 general admission, $20 skip-the-line
North Syracuse Baptist Church
420 S. Main St., North Syracuse

Kristian Stanfill, coming to Syracuse to lead worship with the Passion Band, has toured with multi-Platinum selling artists, Chris Tomlin, taken the stage at Passion conferences and the Passion World Tour, reaching audiences numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Kristian felt a calling to write songs and lead worship since he was just a kid. He became involved with the Passion organization in 2005 and has since released two studio records, one of which reaching No. 64 on the Billboard 200.

Harmony of the Spheres
NYS Baroque

Price: $25 regular, $20 seniors, $10 college students, children free
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

An Exploration of the Sister Arts of Music and Astronomy

Featuring Laura Heimes, soprano; David Morris, viol and lirone; Deborah Fox and Dan Swenberg, lutes

There will be a pre-concert talk beginning at 6:45 pm.

The Young Novelists
Folkus Project

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

Through their rich but rustic sound, this Toronto roots-rock duo delivers a dose of honesty in audible form.

Simon & Garfunkel meets Johnny and June; this Canadian duo is the driving force behind the critically acclaimed Toronto folk-rock band The Young Novelists. Known for their deft songwriting and gorgeous harmonies, they have toured across Canada and the United States as a duo and with their band in support of their latest album "made us strangers." Relying on their shared passion for storytelling, the husband-and-wife duo sing songs about small towns, redemption, love, and loss.

Loudpvck, with Turnup, DG, Syndrome and Tryan x LFDJ
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Glory Denied
Syracuse Opera

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Based on a book by Tom Philpott, this opera by Tom Cipullo tells the true story of Colonel Jim Thompson, America's longest-held prisoner of war. The story deals not only with Thompson's suffering in the jungle of Southeast Asia, but also the tragic aftermath that followed his liberation. It is, above all, the story of an American family during one our nation's most turbulent eras. This powerful and engaging opera, is a timely reflection on the cost of war, both in lives lost and in lives changed forever.

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The Odd Couple
Onondaga Hillplayers

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, and gratuity
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

A female version of the show. Olive and Florence lead the girls in competitive Trivial Pursuit as cutthroat as poker.

Bill W. and Dr. Bob
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The amazing story of the two men who pioneered Alcoholics Anonymous, and of their wives. Winner 2007 Performing Arts Award, National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence. By Samuel Shem and Janet Surrey. Mature themes.

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Medea
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $25 members, $30 non-members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Set to songs, sounds and visuals of 1950s America, this bygone era brings new life to the classic Greek tragedy. In her picture-perfect neighborhood, Medea is the ideal housewife and mother. Armed with a delectable, homemade pie in one hand and a deadly kitchen knife in the other, Medea exacts revenge against her cheating husband in a most calculated and maniacal fashion.

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The Underpants
Syracuse Stage
Bill Fennelly, director

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

A guffaw-inducing comedy from the wild and crazy mind of the incomparable Steve Martin. Dusseldorf, 1910. A very public wardrobe malfunction (a young woman's underpants fall down at a parade—for the King!) becomes the talk of the town in this ribald update of an uproarious German farce. (Yes, there is such a thing.) Chock-full of sexual innuendo, verbal jousting, and non-stop laughter, The Underpants skewers the absurdity of instant fame. Das ist funny!

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Preview: Agamemnon
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

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

Fire in the night signals the return of Agamemnon from 10 long years of war in Troy. Triumphant and with a captive slave, the prophetess Cassandra, in tow, the warrior king arrives home and is welcomed by Clytemnestra, wife and mother who seethes with a vengeance born of the slaughter of their daughter Iphigenia. Revenge begets revenge; fate will be fulfilled. The first great play of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy, Agamemnon delivers a visceral and haunting theatrical experience.

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Saturday, November 7, 2015

Drawing on Talent: Members Art Show
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

Contemporary Ceramics: SU Faculty and Students
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Works by faculty members Peter Beasecker, Margie Hughto, Jee Eun Lee, David MacDonald, and Errol Willett, and students Chelsey Albert, Nora Arrieta, Klaus Doelle, Brion Hardink, Adam Jennett, Kwan Jeong, Sunyoung Lee, and Alberto Veronica.

He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to be Hoary (2013)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, drew from footage obtained while shooting their award-winning movie Leviathan (2012) to create this film. The mesmerizing and haunting footage, filmed both in and from the ocean and projected at 1/50 of the speed at which it was recorded, shows the sea to be a vast and watery expanse full of slow-moving, unidentifiable forms.

Three Graces
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Three Graces were known in ancient mythology as enchanting goddesses who personified the primary attributes of creativity: Beauty, Wonder and Joy. In a recasting of this mythical triumvirate, the Everson introduces three contemporary artists from New York – Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher and Carrie Moyer – whose spectacular abstract works embody these qualities. More than just a typical exhibition, Three Graces is also a revelatory experience, as the artists have created new works inspired by pieces from the Museum's collection, which are also included. From Moyer's biomorphic paintings, to Apfelbaum's playful textiles, and Feher's magical installations, Three Graces connects the past and present through beauty, wonder, and joy.

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Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition represents an overview of the portraiture genre for over three centuries, examining how artists have portrayed themselves and others within different contexts and in a variety of media and styles. From 19th-century painted miniatures to contemporary color photographs, these portraits drawn from the Everson collection depict a heterogeneous cast of characters both remembered and forgotten, lauded and reviled. Stretching the conventions of the genre, the exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol, William Wegman and others as well as more traditional portrait paintings by artists such as Cecelia Beaux and Gilbert Stuart.

Joy, Beauty & Wonder
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A companion community exhibition to "Three Graces: Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher, and Carrie Moyer," "Joy, Beauty & Wonder" is the result of a call to photographers of all ages to share their original photographs expressing the themes of joy, beauty and wonder. Themes are drawn from the exhibition Three Graces. Participants shared their photographs on social media using the hashtags #3GracesJoy, #3GracesBeauty or #3GracesWonder. All submissions were reviewed by a panel of professional artists and a selection will be on display at the Everson Museum.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 42nd annual On My Own Time exhibit connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors.

On My Own Time highlights original works of visual art created by local employees in a variety of professions who are also amateur artists. Each participating company held its own on-site exhibitions this past spring. This year, 171 artists submitted 370 pieces in a wide range of media. Volunteers who work professionally in different arts fields selected 60 pieces to be included in this grand finale exhibition.

Mandala Paintings by Ken Nichols
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Ken's paintings represent Universal Energy with each color, shape, stroke and placement predicated upon the one before it. This is what you see if you go beyond electrons and quarks. His paintings paint themselves, Ken wants people to look at his paintings and see paintings within paintings within paintings. He wants positive energy to come out of looking at his work. His paintings are not planned, they happen. Ken calls his style Decorative Energist.

Annual Holiday Festival of Crafts
Rochester Folk Art Guild

Price: Free
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

The Folk Art Guild has been making fine handicrafts for over 50 years, supporting locally sourced materials and makers with traditions in clay, wood and textiles. The shelves will be full of unique handmade items including turned bowls, natural fibers and clothing, folk toys and artisanal pottery. Visitors will be entertained with live music and demonstrations by the artists themselves.

The Guild artisans have been working diligently throughout the year to bring you the some of the best folk crafts. Revel in the beautiful patterns of end grain cutting boards. Hand carved kitchen wares, including spoons and salad servers will also be available over the course of the weekend. The woodworking display is enhanced by an impressive collection of oriental rugs from Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and Iran.

Peruse the new wood-fired ceramics from the Folk Art Guild potters. A true labor of love, these pots were fired for over 24 hours with locally harvested wood, and constant attention. Toasty reds and oranges dance on the surface of these wares as evidence of flame and ash. Brilliant and colorful glazes liven the teapots and berry bowls, and as always you can find the traditional leaf ware with native plants from the Finger Lakes region.

The Weavers are preparing a wardrobe to keep you warm this season, including colorful ponchos, shawls, and scarves. Weaving row by row on beautiful wooden looms, the artists work with merino wool, bamboo, alpaca, silk and cotton.

In addition to crafts, the Guild will once again present an array of books, including a variety of children's books, as well as myriad books on spirituality, art, and of course, cooking.

Delavan Center Open Studios and Holiday Sale

Price: Free
Delavan Studios
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Dozens of artists and business owners at the Delavan Center open their doors for open studio event. For complete list of participating artists and more information, visit delavancenter.com.

Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."

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The Almighty Cup
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery and the Shaped Clay Society at Syracuse University are happy to present The Almighty Cup, a national juried and invitational exhibition. The show presents an eclectic mix of styles of drinking vessels made by 47 ceramic artists from all over the country.

This group exhibition features hand-crafted cups that range from functional to sculptural. Jeremy Randall, a ceramic artist who lives and works in Tully, NY was the juror and selected 100 cups from over 300 submissions. The Shaped Clay Society, a student-run club at Syracuse University, received the entry fees from the juried artists to support student activities and projects. Local business, Clayscapes, is sponsoring the prizes for the exhibition. The pieces in the show will be posted on the Gandee Gallery website and available for online purchase. Call or email to make a purchase.

61st Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Unique art handcrafted by over 45 local artists — paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass.

For more information and complete list of artists, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.

The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.

Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.

Continuum
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Continuum" tells the story of Point of Contact's journey over the last 40 years through the lens of its permanent art collection. Many of the pieces included in the exhibition have been created specifically for Point of Contact publications and exhibitions and provide a unique perspective on the evolution of the organization. Including artists such as Judy Pfaff, Nam June Paik, Liliana Porter, and Gregory Crewdson, the collection tends to blur visual and verbal, geographic and cross-cultural boundaries, evolving year-after-year, advancing an essential discussion about contemporary art. By revisiting its past, Point of Contact looks toward its future, refining its vision and turning each new encounter into an experimentation with unlimited insights.

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2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.

Dreams & Found Objects
Studio 24

Studio 24
433 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Original art work from local artist Marylou Colgin, and installations by Kathy Rabuzzi and JT Lee.

Exhibit is also open by appointment.

Anathema
Urban Video Project

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

"Anathema" (2011), by The Otolith Group, reimagines the microscopic behavior of liquid crystals undergoing turbulence as a sentient entity that possesses the fingertips and the eyes enthralled by the LCD touch-screen. "Anathema" can be understood as an object-oriented video that isolates and recombines the magical gestures of dream factory capitalism. "Anathema" proposes itself as a prototype for a counter-spell assembled from the possible worlds of capitalist sorcery.

Syracuse Improv Collective Fundraiser for Suicide Prevention
Syracuse Improv Collective

Price: $10 suggested donation, $5 minimum donation
The Vault
451 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Join the Collective for an evening of long-form improv, stand up, art, and music for a valuable cause. All proceeds benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Improv Comedy Night
Don't Feed the Actors

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

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

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

SOS: Lost in Space
Spirit of Syracuse Chorus
Nancy Field, conductor

Price: $20 regular, $5 students/seniors
West Genesee High School
5201 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

Join us for our most cosmic show yet! The Spirit of Syracuse blasts off in their annual showcase, with very special guests, the 2015 6th place BHS international quartet, A Mighty Wind!

Masterworks Series: New York Connections
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Featuring Orion Weiss, piano; Syracuse Children's Chorus

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

Copland Selections from Old American Songs
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra

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Mat Zo, with Lipstik, Kyero, Andy Polk, Benny Yella and Chalmy
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

New Kid
Syracuse Stage
Lauren Unbekant, director

Price: Free
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Nick just immigrated to America from a country called Homeland and is struggling with a new language and a new way of life. The kids at his new school make fun of him because of his customs and strange language. The twist is...in New Kid the Americans speak a kind of gibberish that neither Nick nor the audience understand. New Kid promotes tolerance, compassion and addresses racism, prejudice, peer pressure and conflict resolution. (One hour in length, appropriate for all ages.)

Performed in striking visual terms, New Kid offers an extraordinary opportunity to share a rich theatrical experience with young students. The director, designers, performers, and production crew are students and professionals from SU Department of Drama and Syracuse Stage.

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Medea
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $25 members, $30 non-members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Set to songs, sounds and visuals of 1950s America, this bygone era brings new life to the classic Greek tragedy. In her picture-perfect neighborhood, Medea is the ideal housewife and mother. Armed with a delectable, homemade pie in one hand and a deadly kitchen knife in the other, Medea exacts revenge against her cheating husband in a most calculated and maniacal fashion.

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The Underpants
Syracuse Stage
Bill Fennelly, director

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

A guffaw-inducing comedy from the wild and crazy mind of the incomparable Steve Martin. Dusseldorf, 1910. A very public wardrobe malfunction (a young woman's underpants fall down at a parade—for the King!) becomes the talk of the town in this ribald update of an uproarious German farce. (Yes, there is such a thing.) Chock-full of sexual innuendo, verbal jousting, and non-stop laughter, The Underpants skewers the absurdity of instant fame. Das ist funny!

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The Odd Couple
Onondaga Hillplayers

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, and gratuity
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

A female version of the show. Olive and Florence lead the girls in competitive Trivial Pursuit as cutthroat as poker.

Bill W. and Dr. Bob
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The amazing story of the two men who pioneered Alcoholics Anonymous, and of their wives. Winner 2007 Performing Arts Award, National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence. By Samuel Shem and Janet Surrey. Mature themes.

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Medea
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $25 members, $30 non-members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Set to songs, sounds and visuals of 1950s America, this bygone era brings new life to the classic Greek tragedy. In her picture-perfect neighborhood, Medea is the ideal housewife and mother. Armed with a delectable, homemade pie in one hand and a deadly kitchen knife in the other, Medea exacts revenge against her cheating husband in a most calculated and maniacal fashion.

Read a Review!

The Underpants
Syracuse Stage
Bill Fennelly, director

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

A guffaw-inducing comedy from the wild and crazy mind of the incomparable Steve Martin. Dusseldorf, 1910. A very public wardrobe malfunction (a young woman's underpants fall down at a parade—for the King!) becomes the talk of the town in this ribald update of an uproarious German farce. (Yes, there is such a thing.) Chock-full of sexual innuendo, verbal jousting, and non-stop laughter, The Underpants skewers the absurdity of instant fame. Das ist funny!

Read a Review!

Opening: Agamemnon
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

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

Fire in the night signals the return of Agamemnon from 10 long years of war in Troy. Triumphant and with a captive slave, the prophetess Cassandra, in tow, the warrior king arrives home and is welcomed by Clytemnestra, wife and mother who seethes with a vengeance born of the slaughter of their daughter Iphigenia. Revenge begets revenge; fate will be fulfilled. The first great play of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy, Agamemnon delivers a visceral and haunting theatrical experience.

Read a review!

Sunday, November 8, 2015

Mandala Paintings by Ken Nichols
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Ken's paintings represent Universal Energy with each color, shape, stroke and placement predicated upon the one before it. This is what you see if you go beyond electrons and quarks. His paintings paint themselves, Ken wants people to look at his paintings and see paintings within paintings within paintings. He wants positive energy to come out of looking at his work. His paintings are not planned, they happen. Ken calls his style Decorative Energist.

Gideon Barnett: After Edith
Light Work Gallery

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

Gideon Barnett's exhibition "After Edith" brings together a collection of images that he produced by documenting vandalized photography books found in public libraries. The project began in Miami, FL, with the discovery of a copy of Emmet Gowin's Photographs in which the iconic nude portraits of Gowin's wife Edith had been defaced by prurient library visitors. Parts of the images had been cut with a razor blade and, in some instances, entirely torn out of the book. This deliberate removal of "provocative" imagery and the psychology of what may have sparked such an act fascinated Barnett, and prompted a closer look at the visual byproducts—the way in which the cuts open through to another image, for example, or how the tearing of a page can create a compelling juxtaposition of photographs. The vandalized images are unquestionably elegant and beautiful when taken out of context and framed on the wall, yet all together Barnett's photographs also point to a disconcerting fearful, destructive, or even violent intention behind them.

The Almighty Cup
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery and the Shaped Clay Society at Syracuse University are happy to present The Almighty Cup, a national juried and invitational exhibition. The show presents an eclectic mix of styles of drinking vessels made by 47 ceramic artists from all over the country.

This group exhibition features hand-crafted cups that range from functional to sculptural. Jeremy Randall, a ceramic artist who lives and works in Tully, NY was the juror and selected 100 cups from over 300 submissions. The Shaped Clay Society, a student-run club at Syracuse University, received the entry fees from the juried artists to support student activities and projects. Local business, Clayscapes, is sponsoring the prizes for the exhibition. The pieces in the show will be posted on the Gandee Gallery website and available for online purchase. Call or email to make a purchase.

Annual Holiday Festival of Crafts
Rochester Folk Art Guild

Price: Free
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

The Folk Art Guild has been making fine handicrafts for over 50 years, supporting locally sourced materials and makers with traditions in clay, wood and textiles. The shelves will be full of unique handmade items including turned bowls, natural fibers and clothing, folk toys and artisanal pottery. Visitors will be entertained with live music and demonstrations by the artists themselves.

The Guild artisans have been working diligently throughout the year to bring you the some of the best folk crafts. Revel in the beautiful patterns of end grain cutting boards. Hand carved kitchen wares, including spoons and salad servers will also be available over the course of the weekend. The woodworking display is enhanced by an impressive collection of oriental rugs from Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and Iran.

Peruse the new wood-fired ceramics from the Folk Art Guild potters. A true labor of love, these pots were fired for over 24 hours with locally harvested wood, and constant attention. Toasty reds and oranges dance on the surface of these wares as evidence of flame and ash. Brilliant and colorful glazes liven the teapots and berry bowls, and as always you can find the traditional leaf ware with native plants from the Finger Lakes region.

The Weavers are preparing a wardrobe to keep you warm this season, including colorful ponchos, shawls, and scarves. Weaving row by row on beautiful wooden looms, the artists work with merino wool, bamboo, alpaca, silk and cotton.

In addition to crafts, the Guild will once again present an array of books, including a variety of children's books, as well as myriad books on spirituality, art, and of course, cooking.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.

The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.

James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.

Three Graces
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Three Graces were known in ancient mythology as enchanting goddesses who personified the primary attributes of creativity: Beauty, Wonder and Joy. In a recasting of this mythical triumvirate, the Everson introduces three contemporary artists from New York – Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher and Carrie Moyer – whose spectacular abstract works embody these qualities. More than just a typical exhibition, Three Graces is also a revelatory experience, as the artists have created new works inspired by pieces from the Museum's collection, which are also included. From Moyer's biomorphic paintings, to Apfelbaum's playful textiles, and Feher's magical installations, Three Graces connects the past and present through beauty, wonder, and joy.

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On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 42nd annual On My Own Time exhibit connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors.

On My Own Time highlights original works of visual art created by local employees in a variety of professions who are also amateur artists. Each participating company held its own on-site exhibitions this past spring. This year, 171 artists submitted 370 pieces in a wide range of media. Volunteers who work professionally in different arts fields selected 60 pieces to be included in this grand finale exhibition.

Joy, Beauty & Wonder
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A companion community exhibition to "Three Graces: Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher, and Carrie Moyer," "Joy, Beauty & Wonder" is the result of a call to photographers of all ages to share their original photographs expressing the themes of joy, beauty and wonder. Themes are drawn from the exhibition Three Graces. Participants shared their photographs on social media using the hashtags #3GracesJoy, #3GracesBeauty or #3GracesWonder. All submissions were reviewed by a panel of professional artists and a selection will be on display at the Everson Museum.

Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition represents an overview of the portraiture genre for over three centuries, examining how artists have portrayed themselves and others within different contexts and in a variety of media and styles. From 19th-century painted miniatures to contemporary color photographs, these portraits drawn from the Everson collection depict a heterogeneous cast of characters both remembered and forgotten, lauded and reviled. Stretching the conventions of the genre, the exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol, William Wegman and others as well as more traditional portrait paintings by artists such as Cecelia Beaux and Gilbert Stuart.

2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.

Student Recital Series: Jenna Stango, flute
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Jenna Stango, a senior in the Setnor School of Music, is a student of Kelly Covert. She will perform with Sabine Kranz, piano and harpsichord, and Brian Savage, cello.

Paul Taffanel Andante Pastoral et Scherzettino
Johann Sebastian Bach Sonata IV in C Major
Otar Taktakishvili Sonata for Flute and Piano
Johann Nepomuk Hummel Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano, Op. 78
Katherine Hoover Winter Spirits
Paul-Agricole Génin Theme and Variations on the Carnival of Venice

Parking is available in the Lehman Lot or University Avenue Garage. If these are full or unavailable, guests will be re-directed. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315.443.2191 for current information.

A Celebration in Honor of Trombonist Bill Harris
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Bones East, the Crane Trombone Ensemble, and Eastman Trombone Choir

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

Three trombone ensembles from central and northern New York will be featured in a concert honoring longtime faculty member Bill Harris.

Local ensemble Bones East, with Mark Anderson, director, and James Tapia, conductor, will perform works by Smith, Albam and Haydn. Under the direction of Mark Hartman, the Crane Trombone Ensemble of SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music will perform selections by Bizet, Bach, Coots, Michel and Bart. The Eastman Trombone Choir of the Eastman School of music will perform works by Ewazen, Grieg, Edelman, Massaino and Davern under co-directors Mark Kellogg and Larry Zalkind.

Harris has served as the trombone instructor at the Setnor School of Music since 1971. He is also a professor emeritus of music at Onondaga Community College. He retired in 2009 as principal trombonist with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra after 48 years. He joined the orchestra as a charter member in 1961, while he was an undergraduate music student at Syracuse University.

Harris is an active performer and clinician. As a jazz performer he regularly performs with the Central New York Jazz Orchestra, Salt City Jazz Collective, the Stan Colella Orchestra and Gap Mangione. He is a member of the International Trombone Association, the International Tuba and Euphonium Association, the International Association of Jazz Educators and the American Federation of Musicians, Local 78, where he serves as vice president.

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 or for more information about the concert.

Networked Arts
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors, $30 family, free for ages 12 and under, S.U. students & faculty free with valid I.D.
Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3
Syracuse University, Syracuse

New music with dance, ink painting, and real-time visuals, linked live with Beijing and Cornell, featuring guest composer Neil Rolnick; guest ensemble Eastman Broadband; Rob Auler, piano; John Friedrichs, clarinet; Blagomira Lipari, violin; and dancer Alaina Olivieri.

Music by Neil Rolnick, Ping Jin, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, and Kevin Ernste; sound-reactive visuals by Lorne Covington; ink projection performance in Beijing by Cindy Ng Sio Ieng.

Presented in conjunction with the 2015 Syracuse Symposium, "Networks."

Student Recital Series: Demetri Papadopoulos, tuba
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Demetri Papadopoulos, a senior music education major, is a student of Professor Michael Coldren. He will perform with Robbie Padilla, piano.

Johann Ernst Galliard Galliard Suite
Ralph Vaughn Williams Six Studies in English Folk Song
Andrea Catozzi Beelzebub Air Varié
Sergei Rachmaninoff Vocalise
Gustav Holst Second Suite in F

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 re-directed. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315.443.2191 for current information.

Glory Denied
Syracuse Opera

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Based on a book by Tom Philpott, this opera by Tom Cipullo tells the true story of Colonel Jim Thompson, America's longest-held prisoner of war. The story deals not only with Thompson's suffering in the jungle of Southeast Asia, but also the tragic aftermath that followed his liberation. It is, above all, the story of an American family during one our nation's most turbulent eras. This powerful and engaging opera, is a timely reflection on the cost of war, both in lives lost and in lives changed forever.

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The Odd Couple
Onondaga Hillplayers

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, and gratuity
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

A female version of the show. Olive and Florence lead the girls in competitive Trivial Pursuit as cutthroat as poker.

The Underpants
Syracuse Stage
Bill Fennelly, director

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

A guffaw-inducing comedy from the wild and crazy mind of the incomparable Steve Martin. Dusseldorf, 1910. A very public wardrobe malfunction (a young woman's underpants fall down at a parade—for the King!) becomes the talk of the town in this ribald update of an uproarious German farce. (Yes, there is such a thing.) Chock-full of sexual innuendo, verbal jousting, and non-stop laughter, The Underpants skewers the absurdity of instant fame. Das ist funny!

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Agamemnon
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

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

Fire in the night signals the return of Agamemnon from 10 long years of war in Troy. Triumphant and with a captive slave, the prophetess Cassandra, in tow, the warrior king arrives home and is welcomed by Clytemnestra, wife and mother who seethes with a vengeance born of the slaughter of their daughter Iphigenia. Revenge begets revenge; fate will be fulfilled. The first great play of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy, Agamemnon delivers a visceral and haunting theatrical experience.

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Monday, November 9, 2015

Drawing on Talent: Members Art Show
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

Machines
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibit of artworks exploring the human species love of mechanical, technical, and electronic implements.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mandala Paintings by Ken Nichols
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Ken's paintings represent Universal Energy with each color, shape, stroke and placement predicated upon the one before it. This is what you see if you go beyond electrons and quarks. His paintings paint themselves, Ken wants people to look at his paintings and see paintings within paintings within paintings. He wants positive energy to come out of looking at his work. His paintings are not planned, they happen. Ken calls his style Decorative Energist.

Gideon Barnett: After Edith
Light Work Gallery

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

Gideon Barnett's exhibition "After Edith" brings together a collection of images that he produced by documenting vandalized photography books found in public libraries. The project began in Miami, FL, with the discovery of a copy of Emmet Gowin's Photographs in which the iconic nude portraits of Gowin's wife Edith had been defaced by prurient library visitors. Parts of the images had been cut with a razor blade and, in some instances, entirely torn out of the book. This deliberate removal of "provocative" imagery and the psychology of what may have sparked such an act fascinated Barnett, and prompted a closer look at the visual byproducts—the way in which the cuts open through to another image, for example, or how the tearing of a page can create a compelling juxtaposition of photographs. The vandalized images are unquestionably elegant and beautiful when taken out of context and framed on the wall, yet all together Barnett's photographs also point to a disconcerting fearful, destructive, or even violent intention behind them.

2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.

61st Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Unique art handcrafted by over 45 local artists — paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass.

For more information and complete list of artists, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Our gallery-wide collective explores the vital role of the national pastime, baseball, in the life of our Latino communities. A stunning collection of artifacts, photography, and video relate stories about local heroes who inspire us all. The project was documented by La Casita's community outreach team, Luz Encarnacion and Herve Yves Comeau, in close collaboration with Syracuse-based photojournalist and videographer from Puerto Rico, Marilú López Fretts.

This is the Army (1943)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: George Murphy, Lt. Ronald Reagan, Joan Leslie, Alan Hale, Irving Berlin, Kate Smith, Frances Langford, Sgt. Joe Louis, Rosemary DeCamp, Charles Butterworth and a talented company of performing soldiers

In observance of Veterans Day, we are proud to present this beautifully restored version of Warner Brothers' hit WWII-era musical. You will be seeing the complete and uncut roadshow production of this entertaining and morale-boosting film ... now with excellent color and in pristine condition!

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Drawing on Talent: Members Art Show
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

Machines
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibit of artworks exploring the human species love of mechanical, technical, and electronic implements.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Contemporary Ceramics: SU Faculty and Students
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Works by faculty members Peter Beasecker, Margie Hughto, Jee Eun Lee, David MacDonald, and Errol Willett, and students Chelsey Albert, Nora Arrieta, Klaus Doelle, Brion Hardink, Adam Jennett, Kwan Jeong, Sunyoung Lee, and Alberto Veronica.

Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."

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Mandala Paintings by Ken Nichols
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Ken's paintings represent Universal Energy with each color, shape, stroke and placement predicated upon the one before it. This is what you see if you go beyond electrons and quarks. His paintings paint themselves, Ken wants people to look at his paintings and see paintings within paintings within paintings. He wants positive energy to come out of looking at his work. His paintings are not planned, they happen. Ken calls his style Decorative Energist.

2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.

Gideon Barnett: After Edith
Light Work Gallery

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

Gideon Barnett's exhibition "After Edith" brings together a collection of images that he produced by documenting vandalized photography books found in public libraries. The project began in Miami, FL, with the discovery of a copy of Emmet Gowin's Photographs in which the iconic nude portraits of Gowin's wife Edith had been defaced by prurient library visitors. Parts of the images had been cut with a razor blade and, in some instances, entirely torn out of the book. This deliberate removal of "provocative" imagery and the psychology of what may have sparked such an act fascinated Barnett, and prompted a closer look at the visual byproducts—the way in which the cuts open through to another image, for example, or how the tearing of a page can create a compelling juxtaposition of photographs. The vandalized images are unquestionably elegant and beautiful when taken out of context and framed on the wall, yet all together Barnett's photographs also point to a disconcerting fearful, destructive, or even violent intention behind them.

61st Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Unique art handcrafted by over 45 local artists — paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass.

For more information and complete list of artists, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.

The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.

Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.

Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Our gallery-wide collective explores the vital role of the national pastime, baseball, in the life of our Latino communities. A stunning collection of artifacts, photography, and video relate stories about local heroes who inspire us all. The project was documented by La Casita's community outreach team, Luz Encarnacion and Herve Yves Comeau, in close collaboration with Syracuse-based photojournalist and videographer from Puerto Rico, Marilú López Fretts.

Continuum
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Continuum" tells the story of Point of Contact's journey over the last 40 years through the lens of its permanent art collection. Many of the pieces included in the exhibition have been created specifically for Point of Contact publications and exhibitions and provide a unique perspective on the evolution of the organization. Including artists such as Judy Pfaff, Nam June Paik, Liliana Porter, and Gregory Crewdson, the collection tends to blur visual and verbal, geographic and cross-cultural boundaries, evolving year-after-year, advancing an essential discussion about contemporary art. By revisiting its past, Point of Contact looks toward its future, refining its vision and turning each new encounter into an experimentation with unlimited insights.

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War & Peace (1942-1954)
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Film screening followed by discussion.

Part of the first major documentary series to chronicle the rich history and experiences of Latinos in the United States over the last 500+ years. The film will be discussed by U.S. veterans Paco Valle, Minority Veterans Program Coordinator; and Juanita Perez Williams, Commissioner's Central Region Representative at the NY Dept. of Labor.

Ensemble Series: Samba Laranja
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Samba Laranja, Syracuse University's Brazilian ensemble, will perform. The ensemble combines voice and percussion to perform several styles of Brazilian music, with an emphasis on samba (from Rio de Janeiro's Carnaval); samba-reggae (from Salvador, Bahia); forró (from Brazil's northeast); bossa nova; the music of Capoeira; and MPB (Brazilian popular music).

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 re-directed. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315.443.2191 for current information.

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Drawing on Talent: Members Art Show
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.

Machines
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibit of artworks exploring the human species love of mechanical, technical, and electronic implements.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Contemporary Ceramics: SU Faculty and Students
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Works by faculty members Peter Beasecker, Margie Hughto, Jee Eun Lee, David MacDonald, and Errol Willett, and students Chelsey Albert, Nora Arrieta, Klaus Doelle, Brion Hardink, Adam Jennett, Kwan Jeong, Sunyoung Lee, and Alberto Veronica.

Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."

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Mandala Paintings by Ken Nichols
Gallery 54